| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | - | - | - | $77,455,497 | 2,006 | $234,760,478 | Dec 5 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 2 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | - | - | - | $25,950,517 | 1,213 | $40,400,657 | Dec 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 3 | City Heat | - | - | - | $24,729,430 | 1,655 | $38,348,988 | Dec 7 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 4 | Dune | - | - | - | $19,015,391 | 975 | $30,925,690 | Dec 14 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 5 | Starman | - | - | - | $12,526,716 | 1,271 | $28,744,356 | Dec 14 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 6 | Pinocchio 1984 Re-release | - | - | - | $12,029,979 | 1,309 | $26,414,038 | Dec 21 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 7 | The Cotton Club | - | - | - | $11,848,246 | 809 | $25,928,721 | Dec 14 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 8 | Protocol | - | - | - | $9,325,006 | 904 | $26,186,631 | Dec 21 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 9 | Micki + Maude | - | - | - | $7,583,242 | 876 | $26,080,861 | Dec 21 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 10 | Johnny Dangerously | - | - | - | $7,350,435 | 1,106 | $17,124,395 | Dec 21 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 11 | The Terminator | - | - | - | $7,332,053 | 1,112 | $38,371,200 | Oct 26 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 12 | Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo | - | - | - | $6,763,636 | 908 | $15,101,131 | Dec 21 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 13 | The Flamingo Kid | - | - | - | $6,193,155 | 753 | $23,859,382 | Dec 21 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 14 | Missing in Action | - | - | - | $5,918,579 | 1,209 | $22,812,411 | Nov 16 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 15 | Falling in Love | - | - | - | $5,273,592 | 807 | $11,129,057 | Nov 21 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 16 | Supergirl | - | - | - | $4,558,338 | 1,620 | $14,296,438 | Nov 21 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 17 | Night of the Comet | - | - | - | $3,834,783 | 1,098 | $14,418,922 | Nov 16 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | false |
| 18 | Runaway | - | - | - | $3,417,738 | 720 | $6,770,587 | Dec 14 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 19 | Oh, God! You Devil | - | - | - | $2,931,798 | 1,384 | $21,538,850 | Nov 9 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 20 | Amadeus | - | - | - | $2,775,206 | 802 | $51,564,280 | Sep 21 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 21 | Ghostbusters | - | - | - | $2,563,997 | 1,506 | $229,242,989 | Jun 8 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 22 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | - | - | - | $2,016,870 | 380 | $25,504,513 | Nov 9 | New Line Cinema | false |
| 23 | Just the Way You Are | - | - | - | $1,849,088 | 1,190 | $7,889,694 | Nov 16 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 24 | Places in the Heart | - | - | - | $1,750,874 | 868 | $34,901,614 | Sep 21 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 25 | A Christmas Story 1984 Re-release | - | - | - | $1,034,851 | 602 | $1,311,065 | Nov 21 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 26 | A Soldier's Story | - | - | - | $974,526 | 581 | $21,821,347 | Sep 14 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 27 | A Passage to India | - | - | - | $789,005 | 650 | $27,187,653 | Dec 14 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 28 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | - | - | - | $583,961 | 236 | $6,254,148 | Aug 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 29 | The Killing Fields | - | - | - | $236,609 | 663 | $34,700,291 | Nov 2 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 30 | The River | - | - | - | $85,246 | 1,001 | $11,489,982 | Dec 21 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 31 | Birdy | - | - | - | $73,617 | 18 | $1,455,045 | Dec 21 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 32 | Mrs. Soffel | - | - | - | $72,524 | 801 | $4,385,312 | Dec 28 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 33 | 1984 | - | - | - | $44,735 | 295 | $8,430,492 | Dec 14 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
