Box-OfficeTop 100 Films of All-Time. (Adjusted for inflation)

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Box-OfficeTop 100 Films of All-Time.

(Adjusted for inflation)

Based upon theatrical box office receipts.

1. GoneWith the Wind (1939)
2. StarWars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
3.The Sound of Music (1965)
4. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
5.Titanic (1997)
6.The Ten Commandments (1956)
7. Jaws (1975)
8.Doctor Zhivago (1965)
9.The Exorcist (1973)
10. SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
11.Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
12.101 Dalmatians (1961)
13.Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
14. Ben-Hur (1959)
15.Avatar (2009)
16.Avengers: Endgame (2019)
17.Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
18.JurassicPark (1993)
19.StarWars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
20.The Lion King (1994)
21.The Sting (1973)
22.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
23. The Graduate (1967)
24. Fantasia (1940)
25. The Godfather (1972)
26.Forrest Gump (1994)
27.Mary Poppins (1964)
28.Grease (1978)
29.Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
30.JurassicWorld (2015)
31.Black Panther (2018)
32.Thunderball (1965)
33.The Dark Knight (2008)
34.The Jungle Book (1967)
35.Sleeping Beauty (1959)
36.Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
37.Ghostbusters (1984)
38.Shrek 2 (2004)
39.Spider-Man (2002)
40.Butch Cassidy andthe Sundance Kid (1969)
41.Love Story (1970)
42.Independence Day (1996)
43.Home Alone (1990)
44.Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
45.Pinocchio (1940)
46.Cleopatra (1963)
47.Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
48.Goldfinger (1964)
49.Incredibles 2 (2018)
50.Airport (1970)
51.American Graffiti (1973)
52.The Robe (1953)
53.Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
54.Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
55.Bambi (1942)
56.Blazing Saddles (1974)
57.Batman (1989)
58.The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
59.The Lord of the Rings: The Return ofthe King (2003)
60.Finding Nemo (2003)
61.The Towering Inferno (1974)
62.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
63.The Lion King (2019)
64.Cinderella (1950)
65.Spider-Man 2 (2004)
66.My Fair Lady (1964)
67.The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
68.National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
69.The Passion of the Christ (2004)
70.Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge ofthe Sith (2005)
71.Back to the Future (1985)
72.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
73.TheDark Knight Rises (2012)
74.The Sixth Sense (1999)
75.Superman (1978)
76.Tootsie (1982)
77.Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
78.Beauty and the Beast (2017)
79.Finding Dory (2016)
80.HarryPotter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
81. WestSide Story (1961)
82.Close Encountersof the Third Kind (1977/1980)
83.Lady and the Tramp (1955)
84. Lawrenceof Arabia (1962)
85.The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
86.Rocky (1976)
87. TheBest Years of Our Lives (1946)
88.The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
89.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowshipof the Ring (2001)
90.Twister (1996)
91.Men in Black (1997)
92. TheBridge On The River Kwai (1957)
93.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
94.It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
95.Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
96. OneFlew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
97.M*A*S*H (1970)
98.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
99.StarWars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
100.Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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1. Out of all of these movies, I believe I seen almost half of these movies.

2. I find it quite interesting to see which movies had the biggest box office success when you adjust for inflation.

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1. Most people would be shocked to find out that "Gone With the Wind" is the number 1 movie of all-time in box office receipts when adjusted for inflation.

2. I personally have never seen "Gone With The Wind"

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Going through there are about 25 which I have never seen (this includes all Star Wars, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings)
There are 15 which I have only partly watched or am unsure about.

The others I've viewed, some multiple times.

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Surprised not to find any Alfred Hitchcock films there.

I've watched Gone With The Wind a few times, but only on the home-screen (television).

I saw The Poseidon Adventure either Christmas Day '72 or New Year's Day of '73. It was at the Hylan Cinema.

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@Sturgis,

I have seen all of the original Star Wars movies back in the late 1970s through the early 1980s.

I also seen one of the newer Star Wars movies

That included:

StarWars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

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@Sturgis,

I've seen" The Poseidon Adventure" several times on television in the 1970s.

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@Sturgis,

1. The biggest surprise to me is that the 1o top grossing films of all-time are between 37 to 82 year old movies.

2. The movie Titanic being the only exception being it was released in 1997 making the movie titanic 22 years old.

3. The top 10 grossing films of all-time adjusted for inflation are very old movies. That surprise me.

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Star Wars A New Hope 1977 Trailer

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What's really interesting to me is The Lion King and Avengers: Endgame are on this list, and they both came out this year. That's a helluva lotta tickets sold.

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@jespah,

jespah wrote:

What's really interesting to me is The Lion King and Avengers: Endgame are on this list, and they both came out this year. That's a helluva lotta tickets sold.

The reason why they're there ... is not the number of tickets sold but ticket prices of the ones sold.

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@tsarstepan,

Then why is the list adjusted for inflation?

Lion King (2019) is 11th on the unadjusted list and 20th on the adjusted one.

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Lots of old movies have been viewed many times by the same audiences, who bring their younger relatives in to watch also. My mother used to tell me of watching people line up around the block to get in to some theaters. I no longer recall which films she meant, except for Snow White by Disney.

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@edgarblythe,

When I was a kid we had to queue up to get to the cinema. Then again I was a kid, it was the summer holidays and if you wanted to see a Disney cartoon you had to go to the cinema.

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@izzythepush,

I was able to go to drive in movies with my parents and on Saturdays got in free to the Kiddie Matinee, because I was a school crossing guard. Kiddie matinees offered hours of cartoons, Three Stooges, Little Rascals, westerns and random films, such as Mickey Rooney as Huck Finn and Young Tom Edison.

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@edgarblythe,

We never had drive in movies over here, although my father told me that mobile cinemas used to tour the villages, setting up in a field every few weeks or so.

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@izzythepush,

Long after I thought all drive ins were vanished, they set up a new one on the other side of Tomball. I don't go because I don't want heat and insects in summer, nor freezing in winter.

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@edgarblythe,

I always thought they sounded cool. I would have loved to have gone to one.

I saw this as a support film years ago. The film within the film is really good, every disaster film ever made rolled into one.

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Wow — I've seen fourteen of them!

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@hightor,

1. I seen approximately 40 of the movies on the list.

2. Also there are an additional 10 movies on the list I might have seen, but not completely sure.

3. That leaves approximately 50 of the movies on this list that I never seen.

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