| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Addams Family | - | - | - | $93,846,706 | 2,411 | $113,502,426 | Nov 22 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 2 | Beauty and the Beast | - | - | - | $73,666,063 | 1,960 | $145,863,363 | Nov 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 3 | Hook | - | - | - | $70,595,385 | 2,254 | $119,654,823 | Dec 11 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 4 | Cape Fear | - | - | - | $62,113,272 | 1,707 | $79,091,969 | Nov 15 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 5 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | - | - | - | $55,862,004 | 2,147 | $74,888,996 | Dec 6 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 6 | My Girl | - | - | - | $44,967,374 | 2,089 | $59,489,799 | Nov 27 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 7 | The Last Boy Scout | - | - | - | $36,729,858 | 1,823 | $59,509,925 | Dec 13 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 8 | Father of the Bride | - | - | - | $34,192,464 | 1,712 | $89,325,780 | Dec 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 9 | Curly Sue | - | - | - | $27,773,958 | 1,634 | $33,691,313 | Oct 25 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 10 | The People Under the Stairs | - | - | - | $24,204,154 | 1,850 | $24,204,154 | Nov 1 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 11 | JFK | - | - | - | $24,031,889 | 1,395 | $70,405,498 | Dec 20 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 12 | The Prince of Tides | - | - | - | $22,783,915 | 1,546 | $74,787,599 | Dec 27 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 13 | Bugsy | - | - | - | $19,947,312 | 1,253 | $49,114,016 | Dec 13 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 14 | Little Man Tate | - | - | - | $18,397,214 | 1,012 | $25,010,896 | Oct 11 | Orion Pictures | false |
| 15 | For the Boys | - | - | - | $17,860,280 | 1,308 | $17,860,280 | Nov 22 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 16 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | - | - | - | $16,398,225 | 1,698 | $22,166,041 | Nov 22 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 17 | Billy Bathgate | - | - | - | $15,565,363 | 1,177 | $15,565,363 | Nov 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 18 | Highlander II: The Quickening | - | - | - | $15,556,340 | 1,009 | $15,556,340 | Nov 1 | - | false |
| 19 | All I Want for Christmas | - | - | - | $14,812,144 | 1,507 | $14,812,144 | Nov 8 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 20 | Other People's Money | - | - | - | $13,791,840 | 1,249 | $25,682,090 | Oct 18 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 21 | House Party 2 | - | - | - | $11,173,351 | 1,185 | $19,438,638 | Oct 25 | New Line Cinema | false |
| 22 | The Fisher King | - | - | - | $10,166,506 | 1,551 | $41,895,491 | Sep 20 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 23 | Frankie and Johnny | - | - | - | $8,932,572 | 1,150 | $22,773,535 | Oct 11 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 24 | Strictly Business | - | - | - | $7,683,267 | 881 | $7,683,267 | Nov 8 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 25 | The Butcher's Wife | - | - | - | $6,513,187 | 800 | $9,689,816 | Oct 25 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 26 | My Own Private Idaho | - | - | - | $6,205,954 | 98 | $6,401,336 | Sep 27 | Fine Line Features | false |
| 27 | Deceived | - | - | - | $6,016,872 | 1,201 | $28,738,096 | Sep 27 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 28 | Black Robe | - | - | - | $5,411,142 | 308 | $8,211,952 | Oct 4 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
| 29 | Necessary Roughness | - | - | - | $5,181,867 | 1,695 | $26,255,594 | Sep 27 | Paramount Pictures | false |
| 30 | Paradise | - | - | - | $5,097,117 | 918 | $18,634,643 | Sep 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 31 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | - | - | - | $4,958,320 | 2,495 | $204,843,345 | Jul 3 | TriStar Pictures | false |
| 32 | Ricochet | - | - | - | $3,778,056 | 1,560 | $21,756,163 | Oct 4 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 33 | Ernest Scared Stupid | - | - | - | $3,701,408 | 1,787 | $14,143,280 | Oct 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false |
| 34 | The Hitman | - | - | - | $2,933,992 | 551 | $4,654,288 | Oct 25 | Cannon Film Distributors | false |
| 35 | Shattered | - | - | - | $2,752,220 | 1,288 | $11,511,031 | Oct 11 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 36 | The Man in the Moon | - | - | - | $2,544,917 | 121 | $2,853,801 | Oct 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 37 | 29th Street | - | - | - | $2,120,564 | 131 | $2,120,564 | Nov 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 38 | Prospero's Books | - | - | - | $1,750,301 | 126 | $1,750,301 | Nov 15 | Miramax | false |
| 39 | Homicide | - | - | - | $1,463,581 | 257 | $2,971,661 | Oct 11 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 40 | City of Hope | - | - | - | $1,220,520 | 84 | $1,345,015 | Oct 11 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
| 41 | Year of the Gun | - | - | - | $1,182,273 | 739 | $1,182,273 | Nov 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false |
| 42 | Madame Bovary | - | - | - | $536,114 | 53 | $1,942,423 | Dec 27 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false |
| 43 | High Heels | - | - | - | $394,231 | 22 | $1,710,057 | Dec 20 | Miramax | false |
| 44 | Rush | - | - | - | $372,622 | 664 | $7,241,350 | Dec 20 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false |
| 45 | Fried Green Tomatoes | - | - | - | $268,730 | 1,331 | $82,418,501 | Dec 27 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 46 | The National Film Board of Canada's Animation Festival | - | - | - | $236,067 | 11 | $249,167 | Dec 26 | Expanded Entertainment | false |
| 47 | Young Soul Rebels | - | - | - | $225,664 | 8 | $225,664 | Nov 20 | Miramax | false |
| 48 | Meeting Venus | - | - | - | $202,882 | 32 | $1,000,348 | Nov 15 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 49 | Cool as Ice | - | - | - | $196,472 | 393 | $1,193,062 | Oct 18 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 50 | Grand Canyon | - | - | - | $193,315 | 1,223 | $33,243,020 | Dec 27 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 51 | Twenty-One | - | - | - | $189,654 | 24 | $256,521 | Oct 4 | Triton Pictures | false |
| 52 | The Double Life of Véronique | - | - | - | $182,866 | 22 | $1,999,955 | Nov 22 | Miramax | false |
| 53 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | - | - | - | $175,304 | 25 | $1,345,903 | Dec 6 | Universal Pictures | false |
| 54 | Naked Lunch | - | - | - | $124,853 | 102 | $2,641,357 | Dec 27 | Twentieth Century Fox | false |
| 55 | Until the End of the World | - | - | - | $98,023 | 22 | $829,625 | Dec 27 | Warner Bros. | false |
| 56 | The Inner Circle | - | - | - | $93,292 | 3 | $93,292 | Dec 27 | Columbia Pictures | false |
| 57 | Kafka | - | - | - | $76,221 | 32 | $1,059,071 | Dec 4 | Miramax | false |
| 58 | Rhapsody in August | - | - | - | $61,246 | 12 | $516,431 | Dec 19 | Orion Classics | false |
| 59 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | - | - | - | $58,380 | 28 | $1,318,449 | Nov 27 | Triton Pictures | false |
| 60 | Hear My Song | - | - | - | $24,783 | 214 | $4,313,473 | Dec 27 | Miramax | false |
| 61 | Convicts | - | - | - | $13,623 | 1 | $13,623 | Dec 6 | - | false |
| 62 | Let Him Have It | - | - | - | $8,899 | 10 | $88,686 | Dec 6 | Fine Line Features | false |
| 63 | Paper Mask | - | - | - | $7,991 | 3 | $7,991 | Nov 27 | Castle Hill Productions | false |
| 64 | December | - | - | - | $5,868 | 2 | $5,868 | Dec 6 | IRS Media | false |
| 65 | Cheap Shots | - | - | - | $2,323 | 2 | $2,323 | Nov 15 | Hemdale | false |
