| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | - | - | - | $86,687,801 | 2,377 | $135,265,915 | Mar 30 | New Line Cinema | false |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | - | - | - | $58,924,829 | 1,811 | $178,406,268 | Mar 23 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 3 | The Hunt for Red October | - | - | - | $25,940,436 | 1,817 | $122,012,643 | Mar 2 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 4 | Ernest Goes to Jail | - | - | - | $18,725,649 | 1,956 | $25,029,569 | Apr 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 5 | The First Power | - | - | - | $17,423,883 | 1,336 | $22,424,195 | Apr 6 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 6 | Driving Miss Daisy | - | - | - | $17,012,316 | 1,668 | $106,593,296 | Dec 15 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 7 | I Love You to Death | - | - | - | $12,247,643 | 1,095 | $16,186,793 | Apr 6 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 8 | Opportunity Knocks | - | - | - | $10,127,839 | 1,275 | $11,359,129 | Mar 30 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 9 | Henry V | - | - | - | $9,953,550 | 134 | $10,161,099 | Nov 8 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
| 10 | Crazy People | - | - | - | $9,585,363 | 1,389 | $13,236,513 | Apr 13 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 11 | House Party | - | - | - | $9,444,796 | 700 | $26,385,627 | Mar 9 | New Line Cinema | false |
| 12 | Cry-Baby | - | - | - | $8,266,343 | 1,236 | $8,266,343 | Apr 6 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 13 | Nuns on the Run | - | - | - | $8,091,652 | 702 | $10,959,015 | Mar 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 14 | The Gods Must Be Crazy II | - | - | - | $6,291,444 | 323 | $6,291,444 | Apr 13 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 15 | My Left Foot | - | - | - | $5,171,040 | 510 | $14,743,391 | Nov 10 | Miramax | false |
| 16 | Miami Blues | - | - | - | $5,084,499 | 833 | $9,888,167 | Apr 20 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 17 | Joe Versus the Volcano | - | - | - | $4,900,770 | 1,802 | $39,404,261 | Mar 9 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 18 | Lisa | - | - | - | $4,347,648 | 287 | $4,347,648 | Apr 20 | United Artists | false |
| 19 | Lord of the Flies | - | - | - | $4,331,797 | 919 | $13,985,225 | Mar 16 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 20 | The Guardian | - | - | - | $4,038,964 | 1,736 | $17,037,887 | Apr 27 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 21 | Born on the Fourth of July | - | - | - | $3,709,999 | 1,434 | $70,001,698 | Dec 22 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 22 | Spaced Invaders | - | - | - | $3,043,664 | 1,845 | $15,369,573 | Apr 27 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 23 | Glory | - | - | - | $3,005,303 | 811 | $26,828,365 | Dec 14 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 24 | Impulse | - | - | - | $2,544,504 | 155 | $2,544,504 | Apr 6 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 25 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | - | - | - | $2,283,484 | 239 | $7,724,701 | Apr 6 | Miramax | false |
| 26 | Q&A | - | - | - | $2,141,636 | 923 | $11,207,891 | Apr 27 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 27 | Wild Orchid | - | - | - | $2,083,792 | 822 | $11,060,485 | Apr 27 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 28 | Bad Influence | - | - | - | $1,880,340 | 1,300 | $12,626,043 | Mar 9 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 29 | Blue Steel | - | - | - | $1,735,318 | 1,307 | $8,217,997 | Mar 16 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 30 | Cinema Paradiso | - | - | - | $1,683,950 | 124 | $11,990,401 | Feb 2 | Miramax | false |
| 31 | Streets | - | - | - | $1,423,345 | 77 | $1,510,053 | Jan 19 | Concorde Pictures | false |
| 32 | Vital Signs | - | - | - | $1,224,605 | 275 | $1,224,605 | Apr 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 33 | Chattahoochee | - | - | - | $259,486 | 2 | $259,486 | Apr 20 | Hemdale | false |
| 34 | Martians Go Home | - | - | - | $129,778 | 155 | $129,778 | Apr 20 | Taurus Entertainment Company | false |
| 35 | Why Me? | - | - | - | $83,882 | 113 | $83,882 | Apr 20 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 36 | The Fourth War | - | - | - | $73,602 | 1,005 | $1,305,887 | Mar 23 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 37 | Monsieur Hire | - | - | - | $48,119 | 26 | $1,417,030 | Apr 20 | Orion Classics | false |
