Box Office
Domestic box office · 1990
The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.
| # | Title | Domestic | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $285.8M | $721.5M |
| 2 | Ghost | $217.6M | $549.5M |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves | $184.2M | $465.1M |
| 4 | Pretty Woman | $178.4M | $450.5M |
| 5 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $135.3M | $341.5M |
| 6 | The Hunt for Red October | $122.0M | $308.1M |
| 7 | Total Recall | $119.4M | $301.5M |
| 8 | Die Hard 2 | $117.5M | $296.8M |
| 9 | Dick Tracy | $103.7M | $261.9M |
| 10 | Kindergarten Cop | $91.5M | $230.9M |
| 11 | Back to the Future Part III | $87.7M | $221.5M |
| 12 | Presumed Innocent | $86.3M | $217.9M |
| 13 | Days of Thunder | $82.7M | $208.7M |
| 14 | Another 48 Hrs. | $80.8M | $204.1M |
| 15 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $71.6M | $180.8M |
| 16 | Bird on a Wire | $71.0M | $179.2M |
| 17 | The Godfather Part III | $66.7M | $168.3M |
| 18 | Flatliners | $61.5M | $155.3M |
| 19 | Misery | $61.3M | $154.7M |
| 20 | Edward Scissorhands | $56.4M | $142.3M |
| 21 | Problem Child | $53.5M | $135.0M |
| 22 | Arachnophobia | $53.2M | $134.3M |
| 23 | Awakenings | $52.1M | $131.5M |
| 24 | Look Who's Talking Too | $47.8M | $120.7M |
| 25 | Hard to Kill | $47.4M | $119.7M |
| 26 | GoodFellas | $46.8M | $118.3M |
| 27 | Marked for Death | $46.0M | $116.3M |
| 28 | RoboCop 2 | $45.7M | $115.3M |
| 29 | The Jungle Book 1990 Re-release | $44.6M | $112.7M |
| 30 | Young Guns II | $44.1M | $111.5M |
| 31 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | $41.5M | $104.7M |
| 32 | Rocky V | $40.9M | $103.4M |
| 33 | Joe Versus the Volcano | $39.4M | $99.5M |
| 34 | Postcards from the Edge | $39.1M | $98.7M |
| 35 | Mermaids | $35.4M | $89.4M |
| 36 | Darkman | $33.9M | $85.5M |
| 37 | Air America | $31.1M | $78.4M |
| 38 | Predator 2 | $30.7M | $77.4M |
| 39 | Green Card | $29.9M | $75.5M |
| 40 | Pacific Heights | $29.4M | $74.2M |
| 41 | Child's Play 2 | $28.5M | $72.0M |
| 42 | The Rescuers Down Under | $27.9M | $70.5M |
| 43 | Internal Affairs | $27.7M | $70.0M |
| 44 | Cadillac Man | $27.6M | $69.8M |
| 45 | Memphis Belle | $27.4M | $69.3M |
| 46 | House Party | $26.4M | $66.6M |
| 47 | Jacob's Ladder | $26.1M | $65.9M |
| 48 | The Exorcist III | $26.1M | $65.9M |
| 49 | Fantasia 1990 Re-release | $25.4M | $64.0M |
| 50 | Navy Seals | $25.1M | $63.3M |
| 51 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $25.0M | $63.2M |
| 52 | Ghost Dad | $24.7M | $62.4M |
| 53 | My Blue Heaven | $23.6M | $59.6M |
| 54 | The Russia House | $23.0M | $58.1M |
| 55 | The First Power | $22.4M | $56.6M |
| 56 | The Rookie | $21.6M | $54.6M |
| 57 | The Freshman | $21.5M | $54.2M |
| 58 | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | $21.4M | $54.1M |
| 59 | Quigley Down Under | $21.4M | $54.1M |
| 60 | Madhouse | $21.0M | $53.1M |
| 61 | Hamlet | $20.7M | $52.3M |
| 62 | Jetsons: The Movie | $20.3M | $51.3M |
| 63 | Stella | $20.2M | $51.1M |
| 64 | Taking Care of Business | $20.0M | $50.5M |
| 65 | Betsy's Wedding | $19.7M | $49.8M |
| 66 | DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp | $18.1M | $45.7M |
| 67 | Sibling Rivalry | $17.9M | $45.1M |
| 68 | White Palace | $17.5M | $44.2M |
| 69 | The Guardian | $17.0M | $43.0M |
| 70 | Death Warrant | $16.9M | $42.6M |
| 71 | Tremors | $16.7M | $42.1M |
| 72 | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | $16.3M | $41.2M |
| 73 | Men at Work | $16.2M | $41.0M |
| 74 | I Love You to Death | $16.2M | $40.9M |
| 75 | Mo' Better Blues | $16.2M | $40.8M |
| 76 | Avalon | $15.7M | $39.7M |
| 77 | The Bonfir e of the Vanities | $15.7M | $39.6M |
| 78 | Revenge | $15.6M | $39.5M |
| 79 | Reversal of Fortune | $15.4M | $39.0M |
| 80 | Mr. Destiny | $15.4M | $38.8M |
| 81 | Spaced Invaders | $15.4M | $38.8M |
| 82 | Quick Change | $15.3M | $38.5M |
| 83 | Fire Birds | $14.8M | $37.3M |
| 84 | Wild at Heart | $14.6M | $36.8M |
| 85 | Lord of the Flies | $14.0M | $35.3M |
| 86 | The Grifters | $13.4M | $34.0M |
| 87 | Crazy People | $13.2M | $33.4M |
| 88 | Bad Influence | $12.6M | $31.9M |
| 89 | Cinema Paradiso | $12.0M | $30.3M |
| 90 | Graveyard Shift | $11.6M | $29.2M |
| 91 | Henry & June | $11.6M | $29.2M |
| 92 | Pump Up the Volume | $11.5M | $29.1M |
| 93 | Opportunity Knocks | $11.4M | $28.7M |
| 94 | Q&A | $11.2M | $28.3M |
| 95 | Wild Orchid | $11.1M | $27.9M |
| 96 | Nuns on the Run | $11.0M | $27.7M |
| 97 | Narrow Margin | $10.9M | $27.5M |
| 98 | The Witches | $10.4M | $26.2M |
| 99 | The Adventures of Milo and Otis 1990 Re-release | $10.4M | $26.1M |
| 100 | The Two Jakes | $10.0M | $25.3M |
“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.