Every year brings its own set of pop culture obsessions. Looking at the most popular movie from each year can tell you a lot about what people were talking about at the time, and how people's tastes have changed. It's fun to look at the most popular one from when you were born and see what everyone was obsessed with.
The best way to tell the most popular movie is by looking at box office figures. In the past few years, Disney has been dominant, with movies like "Beauty and the Beast" and its "Star Wars" and "Marvel" franchises.
To make this list, we looked at the highest-grossing movies from each year using Box Office Mojo and The Numbers. We adjusted the numbers for inflation, and used international box office figures where they became available (starting in 1975). A few years in the 1930s are missing because of a lack of data.
Read on to find out the most popular movie released the year you were born:
Tanza Loudenback and Jason Guerrasio contributed to an original version of this story.
1930: "Tom Sawyer"
Adjusted gross: $159 million
Unadjusted gross: $11 million
What it's about: An adaptation of the classic Mark Twain novel, Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, become pirates, attend their own funerals, and escape from a vengeful murderer.
1931: "Frankenstein"
Adjusted gross: $190 million
Unadjusted gross: $12 million
What it's about: Universal's original "Frankenstein" adaptation put a permanent mark on how we see the character in pop culture. After Dr. Henry Frankenstein makes the dead walk again, his monster needs to learn how to live.
1933: "King Kong"
Adjusted gross: $185 million
Unadjusted gross: $10 million
What it's about: "King Kong," one of the first mass spectacles of cinema, has been remade plenty of times. But the original one possesses a rare emotional power — of a romance between an actress and a prehistoric ape — that's hard to top.
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