| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | $7,746,241 | $5,726,495 | 73.9% | $2,019,746 | 26.1% | 806 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Color Purple | $5,575,228 | $4,219,418 | 75.7% | $1,355,810 | 24.3% | 561 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Youngblood | $5,246,866 | $4,183,292 | 79.7% | $1,063,574 | 20.3% | 1,354 | 1 | United Artists | - | false |
| 4 | Out of Africa | $4,290,395 | $3,300,070 | 76.9% | $990,325 | 23.1% | 997 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Iron Eagle | $3,394,277 | $2,824,277 | 83.2% | $570,000 | 16.8% | 1,129 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Best of Times | $2,951,720 | $2,419,800 | 82% | $531,920 | 18% | 872 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Jewel of the Nile | $2,439,031 | $1,951,659 | 80% | $487,372 | 20% | 1,179 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Power | $2,345,176 | $1,854,200 | 79.1% | $490,976 | 20.9% | 770 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Eliminators | $1,987,072 | $1,987,072 | 100% | $0 | - | 993 | 1 | Empire Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Rocky IV | $1,684,142 | $1,342,935 | 79.7% | $341,207 | 20.3% | 925 | 11 | United Artists | - | false |
| 11 | Spies Like Us | $1,366,991 | $1,103,035 | 80.7% | $263,956 | 19.3% | 842 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Back to the Future | $773,600 | $610,600 | 78.9% | $163,000 | 21.1% | 444 | 32 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Stripper | $20,221 | $14,155 | 70% | $6,066 | 30% | 1 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Murphy's Romance | - | $4,195,468 | - | - | - | 1,046 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Kiss of the Spider Woman | - | - | - | - | - | 50 | 28 | Island Alive | - | false |
| - | Ran | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 19 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Fool for Love | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | My Chauffeur | - | $270,000 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Crown | - | false |
| - | Twice in a Lifetime | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Bud Yorkin Productions | - | false |
| - | White Nights | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Runaway Train | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1985 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
