| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | - | - | - | $188,058,969 | 1,506 | $229,242,989 | Jun 8 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 2 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | - | - | - | $166,629,396 | 1,687 | $179,870,271 | May 23 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 3 | Gremlins | - | - | - | $135,682,419 | 1,537 | $148,168,459 | Jun 8 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 4 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | - | - | - | $76,471,046 | 1,966 | $76,471,046 | Jun 1 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 5 | The Karate Kid | - | - | - | $68,445,439 | 1,111 | $90,815,558 | Jun 22 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 6 | The Natural | - | - | - | $47,951,979 | 1,012 | $47,951,979 | May 11 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 7 | Purple Rain | - | - | - | $44,425,144 | 1,022 | $68,392,977 | Jul 27 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 8 | Breakin' | - | - | - | $38,682,707 | 1,121 | $38,682,707 | May 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 9 | Bachelor Party | - | - | - | $38,435,947 | 1,276 | $38,435,947 | Jun 29 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 10 | Romancing the Stone | - | - | - | $38,173,263 | 1,110 | $76,572,238 | Mar 30 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 11 | Conan the Destroyer | - | - | - | $31,042,035 | 1,249 | $31,042,035 | Jun 29 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 12 | The Last Starfighter | - | - | - | $28,733,290 | 1,287 | $28,733,290 | Jul 13 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 13 | Red Dawn | - | - | - | $28,632,496 | 1,822 | $38,376,497 | Aug 10 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 14 | Tightrope | - | - | - | $28,431,502 | 1,535 | $48,143,579 | Aug 17 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 15 | Cannonball Run II | - | - | - | $28,078,073 | 1,845 | $28,078,073 | Jun 29 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 16 | Revenge of the Nerds | - | - | - | $27,571,362 | 989 | $40,874,452 | Jul 20 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 17 | Police Academy | - | - | - | $26,187,652 | 1,587 | $81,198,894 | Mar 23 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 18 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | - | - | - | $25,534,703 | 1,261 | $25,534,703 | Jul 13 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 19 | Sixteen Candles | - | - | - | $23,686,027 | 1,245 | $23,686,027 | May 4 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 20 | The Jungle Book 1984 Re-release | - | - | - | $23,456,945 | 1,463 | $23,456,945 | Jul 27 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 21 | Rhinestone | - | - | - | $21,435,321 | 1,630 | $21,435,321 | Jun 22 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 22 | Top Secret! | - | - | - | $20,458,340 | 1,100 | $20,458,340 | Jun 22 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 23 | The NeverEnding Story | - | - | - | $20,158,808 | 950 | $20,158,808 | Jul 20 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 24 | Best Defense | - | - | - | $19,265,302 | 1,425 | $19,265,302 | Jul 20 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 25 | Firestarter | - | - | - | $17,080,167 | 1,374 | $17,080,167 | May 11 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 26 | Splash | - | - | - | $16,624,372 | 1,186 | $69,821,334 | Mar 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 27 | Beat Street | - | - | - | $16,595,791 | 1,380 | $16,595,791 | Jun 8 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 28 | Footloose | - | - | - | $15,566,005 | 1,384 | $80,035,402 | Feb 17 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 29 | The Woman in Red | - | - | - | $12,503,729 | 1,069 | $25,308,147 | Aug 17 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 30 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | - | - | - | $12,454,556 | 1,175 | $45,858,563 | Mar 30 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 31 | Cloak and Dagger | - | - | - | $9,719,952 | 1,147 | $9,719,952 | Aug 10 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 32 | The Bounty | - | - | - | $8,613,462 | 986 | $8,613,462 | May 4 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 33 | Dreamscape | - | - | - | $8,495,849 | 816 | $12,145,169 | Aug 17 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 34 | Moscow on the Hudson | - | - | - | $8,487,088 | 721 | $25,068,724 | Apr 6 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 35 | Streets of Fire | - | - | - | $8,089,290 | 1,150 | $8,089,290 | Jun 1 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 36 | Hardbodies | - | - | - | $7,121,719 | 1,594 | $7,121,719 | May 4 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 37 | The Pope of Greenwich Village | - | - | - | $6,836,201 | 677 | $6,836,201 | Jun 22 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 38 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | - | - | - | $6,541,307 | 1,600 | $32,980,880 | Apr 13 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 39 | The Philadelphia Experiment | - | - | - | $5,808,016 | 490 | $8,103,330 | Aug 3 | New World Pictures | false |
| 40 | Sheena | - | - | - | $5,778,353 | 1,496 | $5,778,353 | Aug 17 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 41 | Terms of Endearment | - | - | - | $5,595,810 | 1,259 | $108,423,489 | Nov 23 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 42 | Meatballs Part II | - | - | - | $5,410,972 | 1,252 | $5,410,972 | Jul 27 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 43 | Once Upon a Time in America | - | - | - | $5,321,508 | 894 | $5,321,508 | Jun 1 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 44 | Alphabet City | - | - | - | $5,293,430 | 321 | $7,035,585 | May 4 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | false |
| 45 | Oxford Blues | - | - | - | $5,155,139 | 1,075 | $8,793,152 | Aug 24 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 46 | Grandview, U.S.A. | - | - | - | $4,743,119 | 1,069 | $4,743,119 | Aug 3 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 47 | Making the Grade | - | - | - | $4,561,346 | 1,197 | $4,561,346 | May 18 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 48 | Joy of Sex | - | - | - | $4,463,841 | 804 | $4,463,841 | Aug 3 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 49 | Weekend Pass | - | - | - | $3,828,651 | 475 | $21,058,033 | Feb 3 | Crown | false |
| 50 | Cheech & Chong's: The Corsican Brothers | - | - | - | $3,772,785 | 868 | $3,772,785 | Jul 27 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 51 | Bolero | - | - | - | $2,978,132 | 1,015 | $8,914,881 | Aug 31 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 52 | Under the Volcano | - | - | - | $2,556,800 | 1 | $2,556,800 | Jun 15 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 53 | Electric Dreams | - | - | - | $2,193,612 | 920 | $2,193,612 | Jul 20 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 54 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | - | - | - | $2,088,570 | 236 | $6,254,148 | Aug 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 55 | This Is Spinal Tap | - | - | - | $1,931,825 | 206 | $4,491,645 | Mar 2 | Embassy Pictures | false |
| 56 | Purple Hearts | - | - | - | $1,931,686 | 370 | $2,075,282 | Mar 30 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 57 | Children of the Corn | - | - | - | $1,736,514 | 653 | $14,568,989 | Mar 9 | New World Pictures | false |
| 58 | Finders Keepers | - | - | - | $1,467,396 | 753 | $1,467,396 | May 18 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 59 | Flashpoint | - | - | - | $1,320,292 | 1,022 | $3,854,833 | Aug 31 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 60 | C.H.U.D. | - | - | - | $1,149,880 | 310 | $4,654,423 | Aug 31 | New World Pictures | false |
| 61 | Iceman | - | - | - | $589,032 | 671 | $7,343,032 | Apr 13 | Universal Pictures | false |
