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The Most Popular Movie the Year You Were Born

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March 11, 2021 at 4:27 PM

The Most Popular Movie the Year You Were Born

1970: M*A*S*H

1971: Diamonds Are Forever

1972: The Godfather

1973: The Sting

1974: Blazing Saddles

1975: Jaws

1976: Rocky

1977: Saturday Night Fever

1978: Superman

1979: Apocalypse Now

1980: The Shining

1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982: E.T. the Extra Terrestrial

1983: Scarface

1984: Ghostbusters

1985: Back to the Future

1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1987: Lost Boys

1988: Die Hard

1989: Batman

1990: Home Alone

1991: Silence of the Lambs

1992: Basic Instinct

1993: Jurassic Park

1994: Pulp Fiction

1995: Braveheart

1996: Fargo

1997: Titanic

1998: Saving Private Ryan

1999: Fight Club

2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2002: Catch Me if You Can

2003: Kill Bill: Volume 1

2004: The Bourne Supremacy

2005: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

2006: The Departed

2007: Into the Wild

2008: Taken

2010: Black Swan

2011: The Hangover Part II

2012: The Dark Knight Rises

2013: The Wolf of Wall Street

2014: Interstellar

2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2016: Sully

2017: Get Out

2018: Crazy Rich Asians

2019: Avengers: Endgame

The Most Popular Movie the Year You Were Born

Every year, babies are born. And in those same years, movies are released. Coincidence? I think not. But what do the movies released on your birth year say about you? The answer is nothing—but that doesn't mean it's not fun to know what was buzzing when your diet exclusively consisted of formula. From Academy Award-winning movies to fan-obsessed franchises, these are the biggest movies to hit theaters in the past five decades.

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These are the Hollywood blockbusters everyone was talking about when all you knew how to do was cry, eat, and ruin a diaper.

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