| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Missing in Action | $9,215,326 | $6,101,460 | 66.2% | $3,113,866 | 33.8% | 1,150 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 2 | Oh, God! You Devil | $5,512,815 | $4,033,986 | 73.2% | $1,478,829 | 26.8% | 1,384 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Night of the Comet | $5,344,146 | $3,580,578 | 67% | $1,763,568 | 33% | 1,098 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 4 | The Terminator | $5,208,881 | $2,848,258 | 54.7% | $2,360,623 | 45.3% | 1,016 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Just the Way You Are | $3,330,985 | $2,291,803 | 68.8% | $1,039,182 | 31.2% | 1,190 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 6 | Amadeus | $2,047,370 | $1,358,236 | 66.3% | $689,134 | 33.7% | 407 | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Supergirl | $2,010,143 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,819,000 | $1,634,000 | 89.8% | $185,000 | 10.2% | 274 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | No Small Affair | $1,748,775 | $1,294,800 | 74% | $453,975 | 26% | 1,226 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Places in the Heart | $1,719,916 | $1,729,216 | 100.5% | $-9,300 | - | 850 | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | A Soldier's Story | $1,697,189 | $1,178,201 | 69.4% | $518,988 | 30.6% | 510 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | All of Me | $1,188,044 | $807,300 | 68% | $380,744 | 32% | 598 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ghostbusters | $1,081,972 | $730,480 | 67.5% | $351,492 | 32.5% | 566 | 24 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Falling in Love | $814,042 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Silent Night, Deadly Night | $782,600 | $782,600 | 100% | $0 | - | 364 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $379,966 | $230,832 | 60.8% | $149,134 | 39.2% | 105 | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 17 | The Killing Fields | $149,930 | $90,794 | 60.6% | $59,136 | 39.4% | 3 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | A Christmas Story 1984 Re-release | $22,524 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Country | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Body Double | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Teachers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Still of the Night | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Firstborn | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Razorback | - | $89,331 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
