| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $11,676,295 | $7,143,280 | 61.2% | $4,533,015 | 38.8% | 1,706 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Killing Fields | $4,411,975 | $3,019,640 | 68.4% | $1,392,335 | 31.6% | 657 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | A Passage to India | $4,134,121 | $2,522,842 | 61% | $1,611,279 | 39% | 639 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Falcon and the Snowman | $3,127,668 | $1,775,498 | 56.8% | $1,352,170 | 43.2% | 265 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Micki + Maude | $2,162,873 | $1,426,927 | 66% | $735,946 | 34% | 806 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Tuff Turf | $2,152,965 | $1,828,406 | 84.9% | $324,559 | 15.1% | 653 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Flamingo Kid | $1,833,186 | $1,214,077 | 66.2% | $619,109 | 33.8% | 698 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Starman | $1,636,602 | $1,047,979 | 64% | $588,623 | 36% | 614 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Protocol | $1,544,918 | $967,101 | 62.6% | $577,817 | 37.4% | 673 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Heavenly Bodies | $1,503,251 | $1,114,635 | 74.2% | $388,616 | 25.8% | 1,504 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | The Cotton Club | $1,299,321 | $688,853 | 53% | $610,468 | 47% | 490 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The River | $356,888 | $824,765 | 231.1% | $-467,877 | - | 812 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Amadeus | - | $1,296,953 | - | - | - | 514 | 20 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Birdy | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | That's Dancing! | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Soldier's Story | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Johnny Dangerously | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | A Nightmare on Elm Street | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Places in the Heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | City Heat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Tomboy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Crown | - | false |
