100 Top Grossing Movies

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RANK FILM TITLE RELEASE DATE DOMESTIC GROSS
1 Titanic 12/19/97 $600,743,440

2 Star Wars 5/25/77 $460,935,655*

3 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 6/11/82 $434,949,459*

4 Star Wars: Episode I 5/19/99 $431,065,444

5 Spider-Man 5/3/02 $403,706,375

6 Jurassic Park 6/11/93 $356,763,175

7 LOTR: The Two Towers 12/18/02 339,734,454

8 Finding Nemo 5/30/03 $335,258,448

9 Forrest Gump 7/6/94 $329,452,287

10 The Lion King 6/15/94 $328,423,001

11 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 11/16/01 $317,557,891

12 LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring 12/19/01 13,364,114

13 Star Wars: Episode II 5/16/02 $310,675,583

14 Return of the Jedi 5/25/83 $309,064,373*

15 Independence Day 7/3/96 $306,200,000

16 The Sixth Sense 8/6/99 $293,501,675

17 Pirates of the Caribbean 7/9/03 $292,495,912

18 The Empire Strikes Back 5/21/80 $290,158,751*

19 Home Alone 11/16/90 $285,761,243

20 The Matrix Reloaded 5/15/03 $280,872,150

21 Shrek 5/18/01 $267,652,016

22 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 11/15/02 61,970,615

23 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 11/17/00 $260,031,035

24 Jaws 6/20/75 $260,000,000

25 Monsters, Inc. 11/2/01 $255,870,172

26 Batman 6/23/89 $251,188,924

27 Men in Black 7/2/97 $250,147,615

28 Toy Story 2 11/24/99 $245,823,397

29 Raiders of the Lost Ark 6/12/81 $242,374,454

30 Bruce Almighty 5/23/03 $241,976,935

31 Twister 5/10/96 $241,700,000

32 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 4/19/02 $241,437,427

33 Ghostbusters 7/8/84 $238,600,000

34 Beverly Hills Cop 12/5/84 $234,760,478

35 Cast Away 12/22/00 $233,630,478

36 The Lost World 5/22/97 $229,074,000

37 Signs 8/2/02 $227,965,690

38 Rush Hour 2 8/3/01 $226,138,454

39 Mrs. Doubtfire 11/24/93 $219,195,051

40 Ghost 7/13/90 $217,631,306

41 Aladdin 11/11/92 $216,967,404

42 Saving Private Ryan 7/24/98 $216,119,491

43 Mission: Impossible 2 5/24/00 $215,397,307

44 X2: X-Men United 5/2/03 $214,948,780

45 Austin Powers in Goldmember 7/26/02 $213,079,163

46 Back to the Future 7/3/85 $210,609,762

47 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 6/11/99 $205,399,422

48 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 7/3/91 $204,843,345

49 The Exorcist 12/26/73 $204,565,000*

50 The Mummy Returns 5/4/01 $202,007,640

51 Armageddon 7/1/98 $201,600,000

52 Gone With the Wind 1939 $198,655,278*

53 Pearl Harbor 5/25/01 $198,539,855

54 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 5/24/89 $197,171,806

55 Toy Story 11/22/95 $191,773,000

56 Men in Black II 7/3/02 $190,418,803

57 Gladiator 5/4/00 $187,670,866

58 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 $184,925,485*

59 Dances With Wolves 11/9/90 $184,208,842

60 Batman Forever 6/16/95 $184,031,000

61 The Fugitive 8/6/93 $183,752,965

62 Ocean's 11 12/7/01 $183,349,128

63 What Women Want 12/17/00 $182,805,123

64 The Perfect Storm 6/30/00 $182,618,434

65 Liar Liar 3/21/97 $181,395,000

66 Grease 6/16/78 $181,360,000

67 Jurassic Park III 7/18/01 $181,166,115

68 Mission: Impossible 5/22/96 $180,965,237

69 Planet of the Apes 7/27/01 $180,011,740

70 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 5/23/84 $179,870,271

71 Pretty Woman 3/23/90 $178,406,268

72 Tootsie 12/17/82 $177,200,000

73 Top Gun 5/16/86 $176,781,728

74 There's Something About Mary 7/15/98 $176,483,808

75 Ice Age 3/15/02 $176,387,405

76 Crocodile Dundee 9/26/86 $174,634,806

77 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 11/20/92 $173,600,000

78 Air Force One 7/27/97 $172,888,056

79 Rain Man 12/16/88 $172,825,435

80 Apollo 13 6/30/95 $172,100,000

81 The Matrix 4/2/99 $171,383,253

82 Beauty and the Beast 11/13/91 $171,301,428*

83 Tarzan 7/13/99 $171,085,177

84 A Beautiful Mind 12/21/01 $170,708,996

85 Chicago 12/27/02 $170,684,505

86 3 Men and a Baby 11/25/87 $167,780,960

87 Meet the Parents 10/6/00 $166,225,040

88 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 6/14/91 $165,493,908

89 Hannibal 2/9/01 $165,091,464

90 Catch Me if You Can 12/25/02 $164,435,221

91 Big Daddy 6/15/99 $163,479,795

92 The Sound of Music 1965 $163,214,286

93 Batman Returns 6/19/92 $162,831,698

94 A Bug's Life 11/25/98 $162,792,677

95 The Waterboy 11/6/98 $161,487,252

96 Die Another Day 11/22/02 $160,201,106

97 The Sting 12/25/73 $159,600,000

98 The Firm 6/30/93 $158,348,367

99 X-Men 7/14/00 $157,175,311

100 Scary Movie 7/7/00 $156,997,084
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Holy dearth-of-blockbusters-in-da-house, Batman. I only own fourteen, and ten of them are Disney and/or Pixar flicks that really belong to my daughter.

Wow. I can't believe how many of these movies I don't have--and how many of them I should have.
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Don't feel too badly, there's five of them I haven't even SEEN.

In my own defense tho, one of them was Perfect Storm, which I thought might be too depressing and one of the others was a Bond film, which I don't enjoy. I'm not a really "Finding Nemo" kinda girl and I meant to see "A Beautiful Mind" but didn't get around to it.

In fact a lot of the so called "Kid" movies I've only seen on DVD and not in the theater at all.

Some trends I noticed however....

Very few of the movies are rated above PG-13, "Pirates of the Caribbean" really jumped up fast, Gone with the Wind is still in the top 100 which is awesome considering it was made in 1939.

I also liked seeing a few indie films in there like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". Yay!



Wow I kept loosing count, but I think I have 31 of the 100 so Polite how many do you own.
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Out of a possible 95 of those (Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Matrix: Reloaded, Bruce Almighty and X2: X-Men United are not yet available for sale), I own only 31 (and I have over 1,500 movies on DVD, LD or VHS). But of the others on the list I don't own, most I wouldn't take into my house if they were free. An awful lot of crap makes an awful lot of money.
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21 and proud of it.
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Only for the weak
Sadly I can probably name off 20-30 that me and/or my family owns.

Too bad not many of those movies are actually very good :\

About the only ones really worth owning are the Indiana Jones ones, A Beautiful Mind, LOTR, and Jaws.
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I own 29 of those movies, I think, I dont think I miscounted or anything.



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I currently own 15.

I will own 31 more.

I did have some others before, but gave or sold them.

And there are some I will NEVER buy.

So, out of the 100 there are only 46 I want.

My tastes and the public in general don't always coincide.



I am having a nervous breakdance
I only own 6 of those and I take pride in that, even if there are a lot in there that is great fun but that I wouldn't waste money on.
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now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.



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I can't help it; I'm drawn to "bad" movies. I liked "Hudson Hawk". I need help.



A novel adaptation.
Hey, when we start admitting that Hudson Hawk was bad is when we add merit to their detractions from it.

Stand strong.
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There are a few pearls but there are also quite a few dog turds in there too.

Titanic?? A lot of people have some bad taste if that's the highest earner.

As for me I've got three of the films on DVD, while including DVD and VHS store/recorded, I own a total of 12.
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Originally Posted by jrs
I own 77 of them............a few of them on VHS.
Woo, that's almost the entire list.



I am having a nervous breakdance
Originally Posted by politesuccubus
I can't help it; I'm drawn to "bad" movies. I liked "Hudson Hawk". I need help.
Yes, I believe you do.



10................

I just feel so inadequate............
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I am having a nervous breakdance
Originally Posted by Nikki
10................

I just feel so inadequate............
Oh, don't worry. I'm sure you have other qualities.