| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs | $10,341,020 | $7,656,361 | 74% | $2,684,659 | 26% | 1,600 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | New Jack City | $7,777,155 | $5,840,035 | 75.1% | $1,937,120 | 24.9% | 887 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $6,283,923 | $4,711,855 | 75% | $1,572,068 | 25% | 1,545 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Class Action | $5,543,919 | $4,207,923 | 75.9% | $1,335,996 | 24.1% | 778 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | The Hard Way | $5,222,670 | $4,010,555 | 76.8% | $1,212,115 | 23.2% | 1,627 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Perfect Weapon | $5,101,332 | $3,934,572 | 77.1% | $1,166,760 | 22.9% | 1,229 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Doors | $4,510,164 | $3,265,512 | 72.4% | $1,244,652 | 27.6% | 1,236 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Dances with Wolves | $4,107,112 | $2,816,640 | 68.6% | $1,290,472 | 31.4% | 1,545 | 19 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Home Alone | $3,458,952 | $2,731,894 | 79% | $727,058 | 21% | 1,413 | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Guilty by Suspicion | $3,140,980 | $2,278,290 | 72.5% | $862,690 | 27.5% | 817 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | If Looks Could Kill | $2,844,190 | $2,246,819 | 79% | $597,371 | 21% | 838 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | King Ralph | $2,406,325 | $1,920,600 | 79.8% | $485,725 | 20.2% | 1,455 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Shipwrecked | $2,374,444 | $1,919,066 | 80.8% | $455,378 | 19.2% | 1,311 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Kindergarten Cop | $1,006,483 | $810,028 | 80.5% | $196,455 | 19.5% | 545 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | True Colors | $88,780 | $59,517 | 67% | $29,263 | 33% | 6 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Comfort of Strangers | $21,723 | $14,537 | 66.9% | $7,186 | 33.1% | 1 | 1 | Skouras Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Shadow of China | $21,206 | $15,719 | 74.1% | $5,487 | 25.9% | 4 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Ghost | - | - | - | - | - | 258 | 36 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | La Femme Nikita | - | - | - | - | - | 118 | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Long Walk Home | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Closet Land | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | He Said, She Said | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | L.A. Story | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
