| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $7,901,946 | $6,026,722 | 76.3% | $1,875,224 | 23.7% | 1,666 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Witness | $6,273,231 | $4,539,990 | 72.4% | $1,733,241 | 27.6% | 876 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Killing Fields | $4,086,319 | $3,075,802 | 75.3% | $1,010,517 | 24.7% | 663 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | A Passage to India | $3,403,102 | $2,626,286 | 77.2% | $776,816 | 22.8% | 650 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Falcon and the Snowman | $3,329,042 | $2,460,324 | 73.9% | $868,718 | 26.1% | 914 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Mischief | $3,311,688 | $2,618,460 | 79.1% | $693,228 | 20.9% | 1,221 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Heaven Help Us | $2,726,084 | $2,235,687 | 82% | $490,397 | 18% | 1,003 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Amadeus | $1,966,061 | $1,509,004 | 76.8% | $457,057 | 23.2% | 501 | 21 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Tuff Turf | $1,472,084 | $1,166,862 | 79.3% | $305,222 | 20.7% | 528 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Fantasia 1985 Re-release | $1,250,237 | $980,798 | 78.4% | $269,439 | 21.6% | 169 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Micki + Maude | $1,011,596 | $855,470 | 84.6% | $156,126 | 15.4% | 628 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | A Soldier's Story | $843,117 | $598,255 | 71% | $244,862 | 29% | 531 | 22 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mrs. Soffel | - | $1,550,034 | - | - | - | 801 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Birdy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Starman | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The River | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Cotton Club | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Flamingo Kid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Heavenly Bodies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Protocol | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
