| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | $26,728,908 | $20,030,473 | 74.9% | $6,698,435 | 25.1% | 2,868 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | The Silence of the Lambs | $9,767,863 | $6,687,991 | 68.5% | $3,079,872 | 31.5% | 1,608 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves | $6,545,293 | $3,750,142 | 57.3% | $2,795,151 | 42.7% | 1,538 | 20 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | New Jack City | $6,339,163 | $4,447,635 | 70.2% | $1,891,528 | 29.8% | 905 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Class Action | $5,702,141 | $4,273,745 | 75% | $1,428,396 | 25% | 1,108 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $5,692,044 | $4,004,366 | 70.4% | $1,687,678 | 29.6% | 1,517 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | The Hard Way | $4,132,360 | $3,005,505 | 72.7% | $1,126,855 | 27.3% | 1,629 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Home Alone | $4,059,636 | $2,776,368 | 68.4% | $1,283,268 | 31.6% | 1,757 | 19 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Doors | $3,348,078 | $2,277,120 | 68% | $1,070,958 | 32% | 1,186 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Perfect Weapon | $3,194,888 | $2,235,959 | 70% | $958,929 | 30% | 1,229 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Guilty by Suspicion | $2,502,420 | $1,816,495 | 72.6% | $685,925 | 27.4% | 817 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | If Looks Could Kill | $2,061,453 | $1,428,196 | 69.3% | $633,257 | 30.7% | 838 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | The Long Walk Home | $1,410,426 | $1,038,960 | 73.7% | $371,466 | 26.3% | 270 | 14 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Kindergarten Cop | $975,050 | $649,620 | 66.6% | $325,430 | 33.4% | 548 | 14 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Ghost | $342,736 | $200,329 | 58.4% | $142,407 | 41.6% | 205 | 37 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Defending Your Life | $137,751 | $92,622 | 67.2% | $45,129 | 32.8% | 3 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Mister Johnson | $15,705 | $11,051 | 70.4% | $4,654 | 29.6% | 1 | 1 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| 18 | Scissors | $2,368 | $2,368 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 1 | DDM Film Corporation | - | false |
| - | Awakenings | - | $669,726 | - | - | - | 496 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Goodfellas | - | $216,991 | - | - | - | 118 | 28 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Godfather Part III | - | $108,600 | - | - | - | 75 | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Field | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | 14 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | Shadow of China | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | King Ralph | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Shipwrecked | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
