List of 1975 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films, which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1975, per Variety . The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

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Number-one films

#Week endingFilmGrossNotesRef
1January 1, 1975 The Godfather Part II $1,872,700 [1]
2January 8, 1975$1,473,000 [2]
3January 15, 1975 The Towering Inferno $1,158,400The Towering Inferno reached number one in its fourth week on the chart [3]
4January 22, 1975 Murder on the Orient Express $1,011,700Murder on the Orient Express reached number one in its eighth week on the chart [4]
5January 29, 1975$1,133,300 [5]
6February 5, 1975 Young Frankenstein $1,130,440Young Frankenstein reached number one in its seventh week on the chart [6]
7February 12, 1975The Towering Inferno$1,171,579The Towering Inferno returned to number one in its eighth week on the chart [7]
8February 19, 1975$1,580,114 [8]
9February 26, 1975$1,112,071 [9]
10March 5, 1975$964,550 [10]
11March 12, 1975$1,003,132 [11]
12March 19, 1975 Funny Lady $1,072,254Funny Lady grossed $2,254,3851 in its first five days nationally [12] [13]
13March 26, 1975The Godfather Part II$1,357,143The Godfather Part II returned to number one in its 15th week of release [14]
14April 2, 1975$1,509,856 [15]
15April 9, 1975$1,184,325 [16]
16April 16, 1975$1,161,950 [17]
17April 23, 1975$792,400 [18]
18April 30, 1975 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore $713,250Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore reached number one in its 14th week on the chart [19]
19May 7, 1975$668,700 [20]
20May 14, 1975 The Happy Hooker $475,000 [21]
21May 21, 1975$321,500 [22]
22May 28, 1975 Breakout $1,701,796Breakout grossed $8.2 million in its first six days nationally [23] [24]
23June 4, 1975$1,263,016Breakout grossed $12,711,224 in its first two weeks nationally [25] [26]
24June 11, 1975 Shampoo $575,500Shampoo reached number one in its 17th week on the chart [27]
25June 18, 1975 The Return of the Pink Panther $889,200The Return of the Pink Panther reached number one in its fourth week of release [28]
26June 25, 1975 Jaws $2,590,531Jaws grossed $7,061,513 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended June 22, setting the opening weekend record [29] [30] [31] [32]
27July 2, 1975$4,317,542Jaws grossed $6,810,584 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended June 29 [33] [34] [31]
28July 9, 1975$4,029,365Jaws grossed $6,443,138 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended July 6 [35] [36] [31]
29July 16, 1975$3,818,556Jaws grossed $5,954,787 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended July 13 [37] [38] [31]
30July 23, 1975$3,078,793Jaws grossed $5,229,811 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended July 20 [39] [40]
31July 30, 1975$2,687,163Jaws grossed $6,150,000 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended July 27 [41] [42] [31]
32August 6, 1975$2,225,509 [43]
33August 13, 1975$2,260,793 [44]
34August 20, 1975$1,968,605 [45]
35August 27, 1975$1,913,651 [46]
36September 3, 1975$1,626,685 [47]
37September 10, 1975$1,422,753 [48]
38September 17, 1975$972,589 [49]
39September 24, 1975$729,993 [50]
40October 1, 1975 Love and Death $588,300Love and Death reached number one in its 16th week on the chart [51]
41October 8, 1975 The Master Gunfighter $606,350 [52]
42October 15, 1975 Hard Times $1,141,605 [53]
43October 22, 1975 Three Days of the Condor $1,071,168Three Days of the Condor reached number one in its fourth week on the chart [54]
44October 29, 1975$963,633 [55]
45November 5, 1975$847,609 [56]
46November 12, 1975 Let's Do It Again $726,010Let's Do It Again reached number one in its fifth week on the chart [57]
47November 19, 1975Three Days of the Condor$635,425Three Days of the Condor returned to number one in its eighth week on the chart [58]
48November 26, 1975Let's Do It Again$938,044Let's Do It Again returned to number one in its seventh week on the chart [58]
49December 3, 1975$1,154,700 [59]
50December 10, 1975$614,200 [60]
51December 17, 1975$391,300 [61]
52December 24, 1975 The Killer Elite $849,000 [62]
53December 31, 1975 Dog Day Afternoon $1,931,500Dog Day Afternoon reached number one in its 14th week on the chart [63]

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