| 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 | $9,369,035 | $7,812,507 | 83.4% | $1,556,528 | 16.6% | 2,820 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | The Silence of the Lambs | $6,276,994 | $4,760,714 | 75.8% | $1,516,280 | 24.2% | 1,627 | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves | $5,310,493 | $4,014,945 | 75.6% | $1,295,548 | 24.4% | 1,636 | 22 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Marrying Man | $5,237,877 | $4,030,749 | 77% | $1,207,128 | 23% | 1,340 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Defending Your Life | $4,223,797 | $3,287,408 | 77.8% | $936,389 | 22.2% | 689 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | New Jack City | $3,775,351 | $2,851,174 | 75.5% | $924,177 | 24.5% | 872 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $3,372,218 | $2,531,544 | 75.1% | $840,674 | 24.9% | 1,510 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Class Action | $2,641,303 | $2,042,383 | 77.3% | $598,920 | 22.7% | 1,109 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Home Alone | $2,503,251 | $1,954,348 | 78.1% | $548,903 | 21.9% | 1,588 | 21 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Career Opportunities | $2,350,015 | $1,892,880 | 80.6% | $457,135 | 19.4% | 1,434 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Five Heartbeats | $1,678,822 | $1,270,040 | 75.6% | $408,782 | 24.4% | 846 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Hard Way | $1,610,660 | $1,212,200 | 75.3% | $398,460 | 24.7% | 1,102 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Kindergarten Cop | $810,870 | $647,085 | 79.8% | $163,785 | 20.2% | 537 | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Nasty Girl | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | 24 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Iron & Silk | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Long Walk Home | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Perfect Weapon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Guilty by Suspicion | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Doors | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Awakenings | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
