| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Oh, God! You Devil | $7,139,841 | $5,560,001 | 77.9% | $1,579,840 | 22.1% | 1,384 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | The Terminator | $4,764,277 | $3,191,628 | 67% | $1,572,649 | 33% | 960 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | No Small Affair | $2,791,438 | $2,273,469 | 81.4% | $517,969 | 18.6% | 1,247 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Places in the Heart | $2,542,499 | $2,228,864 | 87.7% | $313,635 | 12.3% | 868 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | A Soldier's Story | $2,179,806 | $1,724,727 | 79.1% | $455,079 | 20.9% | 581 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Amadeus | $2,130,199 | $1,546,556 | 72.6% | $583,643 | 27.4% | 420 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Teachers | $1,835,704 | $1,446,376 | 78.8% | $389,328 | 21.2% | 860 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Silent Night, Deadly Night | $1,708,860 | $1,432,800 | 83.8% | $276,060 | 16.2% | 398 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | All of Me | $1,605,724 | $1,321,494 | 82.3% | $284,230 | 17.7% | 771 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Body Double | $1,581,498 | $1,194,948 | 75.6% | $386,550 | 24.4% | 674 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Ghostbusters | $1,429,283 | $1,106,531 | 77.4% | $322,752 | 22.6% | 675 | 23 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Firstborn | $1,320,862 | $1,128,103 | 85.4% | $192,759 | 14.6% | 682 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,271,000 | $1,271,000 | 100% | $0 | - | 165 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 14 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $278,608 | $210,415 | 75.5% | $68,193 | 24.5% | 94 | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Killing Fields | $50,463 | $33,948 | 67.3% | $16,515 | 32.7% | 1 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Country | - | $1,051,370 | - | - | - | 488 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | American Dreamer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Thief of Hearts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | White Dog | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Terror in the Aisles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Little Drummer Girl | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
