| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Terminator | $5,560,930 | $4,020,663 | 72.3% | $1,540,267 | 27.7% | 1,005 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Terror in the Aisles | $4,957,000 | $4,009,866 | 80.9% | $947,134 | 19.1% | 1,127 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Body Double | $3,661,286 | $2,837,978 | 77.5% | $823,308 | 22.5% | 1,428 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Places in the Heart | $3,123,653 | $2,788,330 | 89.3% | $335,323 | 10.7% | 790 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Thief of Hearts | $2,584,166 | $2,009,585 | 77.8% | $574,581 | 22.2% | 1,200 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Teachers | $2,190,574 | $1,730,224 | 79% | $460,350 | 21% | 1,005 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Firstborn | $2,017,306 | $1,606,214 | 79.6% | $411,092 | 20.4% | 800 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | American Dreamer | $2,002,848 | $1,580,990 | 78.9% | $421,858 | 21.1% | 801 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Little Drummer Girl | $1,948,597 | $1,515,759 | 77.8% | $432,838 | 22.2% | 810 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | A Soldier's Story | $1,693,450 | $1,319,685 | 77.9% | $373,765 | 22.1% | 316 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | All of Me | $1,640,101 | $1,418,700 | 86.5% | $221,401 | 13.5% | 785 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Razor's Edge | $1,595,261 | $1,250,962 | 78.4% | $344,299 | 21.6% | 1,029 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ghostbusters | $1,392,185 | $1,058,105 | 76% | $334,080 | 24% | 753 | 21 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Amadeus | $1,273,974 | $866,772 | 68% | $407,202 | 32% | 110 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $178,480 | $134,784 | 75.5% | $43,696 | 24.5% | 61 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Stop Making Sense | - | - | - | - | - | 41 | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Irreconcilable Differences | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Crimes of Passion | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Purple Rain | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Ninja III: The Domination | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | The Karate Kid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
