| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | $5,131,132 | $4,052,568 | 79% | $1,078,564 | 21% | 1,613 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Moving Violations | $4,320,140 | $3,469,488 | 80.3% | $850,652 | 19.7% | 1,322 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Ladyhawke | $4,038,234 | $3,120,903 | 77.3% | $917,331 | 22.7% | 1,055 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Mask | $3,708,441 | $2,779,527 | 75% | $928,914 | 25% | 1,002 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Desperately Seeking Susan | $3,564,327 | $2,691,952 | 75.5% | $872,375 | 24.5% | 1,108 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Company of Wolves | $2,875,884 | $2,234,776 | 77.7% | $641,108 | 22.3% | 995 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 7 | Cat's Eye | $2,720,752 | $2,099,003 | 77.2% | $621,749 | 22.8% | 1,492 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Beverly Hills Cop | $2,541,916 | $1,975,685 | 77.7% | $566,231 | 22.3% | 893 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Last Dragon | $2,222,781 | $1,710,981 | 77% | $511,800 | 23% | 853 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Witness | $1,834,341 | $1,370,496 | 74.7% | $463,845 | 25.3% | 686 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Care Bears Movie | $1,623,603 | $1,421,689 | 87.6% | $201,914 | 12.4% | 1,003 | 4 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 12 | Amadeus | $1,379,619 | $991,391 | 71.9% | $388,228 | 28.1% | 564 | 31 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Breakfast Club | $1,342,391 | $1,012,648 | 75.4% | $329,743 | 24.6% | 559 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Girls Just Want to Have Fun | $1,164,595 | $899,632 | 77.2% | $264,963 | 22.8% | 572 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Purple Rose of Cairo | - | - | - | - | - | 419 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lost in America | - | $1,203,034 | - | - | - | 305 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | A Passage to India | - | - | - | - | - | 157 | 19 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Porky's Revenge | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 1985 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Fraternity Vacation | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | La Traviata | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
