| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 22 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | - | - | - | $4,958,320 | 2,495 | $204,843,345 | Jul 3 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 1 | The Addams Family | - | - | - | $42,022,069 | 2,411 | $113,502,426 | Nov 22 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 14 | My Girl | - | - | - | $8,902,368 | 2,089 | $59,489,799 | Nov 27 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 5 | Beauty and the Beast | - | - | - | $18,209,843 | 1,960 | $145,863,363 | Nov 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 4 | The People Under the Stairs | - | - | - | $19,051,496 | 1,850 | $24,204,154 | Nov 1 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 24 | Ernest Scared Stupid | - | - | - | $3,701,408 | 1,787 | $14,143,280 | Oct 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 2 | Cape Fear | - | - | - | $32,472,137 | 1,707 | $79,091,969 | Nov 15 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 19 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | - | - | - | $5,852,192 | 1,698 | $22,166,041 | Nov 22 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 20 | Necessary Roughness | - | - | - | $5,181,867 | 1,695 | $26,255,594 | Sep 27 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 3 | Curly Sue | - | - | - | $21,193,010 | 1,634 | $33,691,313 | Oct 25 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 23 | Ricochet | - | - | - | $3,778,056 | 1,560 | $21,756,163 | Oct 4 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 12 | The Fisher King | - | - | - | $10,166,506 | 1,551 | $41,895,491 | Sep 20 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 9 | All I Want for Christmas | - | - | - | $11,399,604 | 1,507 | $14,812,144 | Nov 8 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 25 | For the Boys | - | - | - | $3,050,874 | 1,308 | $17,860,280 | Nov 22 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 27 | Shattered | - | - | - | $2,752,220 | 1,288 | $11,511,031 | Oct 11 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 10 | Other People's Money | - | - | - | $11,304,460 | 1,249 | $25,682,090 | Oct 18 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 18 | Deceived | - | - | - | $6,016,872 | 1,201 | $28,738,096 | Sep 27 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 11 | House Party 2 | - | - | - | $11,173,351 | 1,185 | $19,438,638 | Oct 25 | New Line Cinema | false |
| 6 | Billy Bathgate | - | - | - | $15,565,363 | 1,177 | $15,565,363 | Nov 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 13 | Frankie and Johnny | - | - | - | $8,932,572 | 1,150 | $22,773,535 | Oct 11 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 8 | Little Man Tate | - | - | - | $13,563,514 | 1,012 | $25,010,896 | Oct 11 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 7 | Highlander II: The Quickening | - | - | - | $15,556,340 | 1,009 | $15,556,340 | Nov 1 | - | false |
| 21 | Paradise | - | - | - | $5,097,117 | 918 | $18,634,643 | Sep 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 15 | Strictly Business | - | - | - | $7,683,267 | 881 | $7,683,267 | Nov 8 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 16 | The Butcher's Wife | - | - | - | $6,513,187 | 800 | $9,689,816 | Oct 25 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 32 | Year of the Gun | - | - | - | $1,182,273 | 739 | $1,182,273 | Nov 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 26 | The Hitman | - | - | - | $2,933,992 | 551 | $4,654,288 | Oct 25 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 35 | Cool as Ice | - | - | - | $196,472 | 393 | $1,193,062 | Oct 18 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 31 | Black Robe | - | - | - | $1,193,844 | 308 | $8,211,952 | Oct 4 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
| 29 | Homicide | - | - | - | $1,463,581 | 257 | $2,971,661 | Oct 11 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 28 | 29th Street | - | - | - | $2,120,564 | 131 | $2,120,564 | Nov 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 33 | Prospero's Books | - | - | - | $286,165 | 126 | $1,750,301 | Nov 15 | Miramax | false |
| 17 | My Own Private Idaho | - | - | - | $6,205,954 | 98 | $6,401,336 | Sep 27 | Fine Line Features | false |
| 30 | City of Hope | - | - | - | $1,220,520 | 84 | $1,345,015 | Oct 11 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
| 34 | Meeting Venus | - | - | - | $202,882 | 32 | $1,000,348 | Nov 15 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 39 | Kafka | - | - | - | $4,784 | 32 | $1,059,071 | Dec 4 | Miramax | false |
| 38 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | - | - | - | $26,229 | 28 | $1,318,449 | Nov 27 | Triton Pictures | false |
| 36 | Twenty-One | - | - | - | $189,654 | 24 | $256,521 | Oct 4 | Triton Pictures | false |
| 37 | The Double Life of Véronique | - | - | - | $32,259 | 22 | $1,999,955 | Nov 22 | Miramax | false |
| 40 | Young Soul Rebels | - | - | - | $4,531 | 8 | $225,664 | Nov 20 | Miramax | false |
| 42 | Paper Mask | - | - | - | $2,282 | 3 | $7,991 | Nov 27 | Castle Hill Productions | false |
| 41 | Cheap Shots | - | - | - | $2,323 | 2 | $2,323 | Nov 15 | Hemdale | false |
