| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | - | - | - | $21,233,740 | 1,506 | $229,242,989 | Jun 8 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 2 | Tightrope | - | - | - | $20,027,041 | 1,535 | $48,143,579 | Aug 17 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 3 | Purple Rain | - | - | - | $14,942,362 | 1,022 | $68,392,977 | Jul 27 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 4 | The Karate Kid | - | - | - | $12,918,063 | 1,111 | $90,815,558 | Jun 22 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 5 | The Woman in Red | - | - | - | $12,013,609 | 1,069 | $25,308,147 | Aug 17 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 6 | Revenge of the Nerds | - | - | - | $11,434,818 | 989 | $40,874,452 | Jul 20 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 7 | All of Me | - | - | - | $10,355,746 | 1,200 | $36,403,064 | Sep 21 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 8 | Gremlins | - | - | - | $8,701,810 | 1,537 | $148,168,459 | Jun 8 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 9 | Bolero | - | - | - | $8,170,344 | 1,015 | $8,914,881 | Aug 31 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 10 | Red Dawn | - | - | - | $8,081,355 | 1,822 | $38,376,497 | Aug 10 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 11 | The Evil That Men Do | - | - | - | $7,428,579 | 1,464 | $13,102,025 | Sep 21 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 12 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | - | - | - | $5,092,590 | 1,687 | $179,870,271 | May 23 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 13 | Oxford Blues | - | - | - | $4,685,963 | 1,075 | $8,793,152 | Aug 24 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 14 | Dreamscape | - | - | - | $4,376,551 | 816 | $12,145,169 | Aug 17 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 15 | C.H.U.D. | - | - | - | $4,366,952 | 310 | $4,654,423 | Aug 31 | New World Pictures | false |
| 16 | Exterminator 2 | - | - | - | $3,739,406 | 535 | $3,739,406 | Sep 14 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 17 | Flashpoint | - | - | - | $3,524,757 | 1,022 | $3,854,833 | Aug 31 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 18 | Ninja III: The Domination | - | - | - | $3,152,651 | 530 | $7,610,785 | Sep 14 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 19 | Until September | - | - | - | $3,123,667 | 1,114 | $4,239,154 | Sep 21 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 20 | The Warrior and the Sorceress | - | - | - | $2,886,225 | 238 | $2,886,225 | Sep 7 | New World Pictures | false |
| 21 | The Wild Life | - | - | - | $2,062,251 | 1,142 | $11,020,375 | Sep 28 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 22 | Irreconcilable Differences | - | - | - | $1,643,523 | 902 | $12,414,210 | Sep 28 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 23 | Amadeus | - | - | - | $1,270,350 | 802 | $51,564,280 | Sep 21 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 24 | The River Rat | - | - | - | $1,142,944 | 316 | $1,142,944 | Sep 21 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 25 | The Philadelphia Experiment | - | - | - | $899,754 | 490 | $8,103,330 | Aug 3 | New World Pictures | false |
| 26 | A Soldier's Story | - | - | - | $761,700 | 581 | $21,821,347 | Sep 14 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 27 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | - | - | - | $760,304 | 236 | $6,254,148 | Aug 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 28 | The Bear | - | - | - | $660,951 | 750 | $2,687,148 | Sep 28 | Embassy Pictures | false |
| 29 | Impulse | - | - | - | $567,666 | 376 | $2,773,433 | Sep 28 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 30 | Places in the Heart | - | - | - | $549,755 | 868 | $34,901,614 | Sep 21 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 31 | Body Rock | - | - | - | $350,391 | 240 | $1,689,501 | Sep 28 | New World Pictures | false |
| 32 | Windy City | - | - | - | $343,890 | 28 | $343,890 | Sep 21 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 33 | Country | - | - | - | $20,220 | 488 | $9,640,000 | Sep 28 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
