Box Office
Worldwide box office · 1988
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 | Worldwide | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $238.1M | $664.2M |
| 2 | Rain Man | $172.8M | $482.1M |
| 3 | Coming to America | $128.2M | $357.5M |
| 4 | Big | $115.0M | $320.7M |
| 5 | Twins | $111.9M | $312.3M |
| 6 | Crocodile Dundee II | $109.3M | $304.9M |
| 7 | Die Hard | $83.1M | $231.8M |
| 8 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $78.8M | $219.7M |
| 9 | Cocktail | $78.2M | $218.2M |
| 10 | Beetlejuice | $73.7M | $205.6M |
| 11 | Working Girl | $63.8M | $177.9M |
| 12 | A Fish Called Wanda | $62.5M | $174.3M |
| 13 | Scrooged | $60.3M | $168.3M |
| 14 | Willow | $57.3M | $159.8M |
| 15 | Beaches | $57.0M | $159.1M |
| 16 | Rambo III | $53.7M | $149.8M |
| 17 | Oliver & Company | $53.3M | $148.6M |
| 18 | Bull Durham | $50.9M | $142.0M |
| 19 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | $49.4M | $137.7M |
| 20 | The Land Before Time | $48.5M | $135.2M |
| 21 | Colors | $46.6M | $130.0M |
| 22 | Young Guns | $45.7M | $127.4M |
| 23 | Biloxi Blues | $43.2M | $120.5M |
| 24 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $42.0M | $117.3M |
| 25 | The Great Outdoors | $41.5M | $115.6M |
| 26 | Tequila Sunrise | $41.3M | $115.2M |
| 27 | Big Business | $40.2M | $112.0M |
| 28 | Bambi 1988 Re-release | $39.0M | $108.9M |
| 29 | Midnight Run | $38.4M | $107.2M |
| 30 | The Dead Pool | $37.9M | $105.7M |
| 31 | Red Heat | $35.0M | $97.6M |
| 32 | Dangerous Liaisons | $34.7M | $96.7M |
| 33 | Mississippi Burning | $34.6M | $96.5M |
| 34 | Child's Play | $33.4M | $93.2M |
| 35 | The Accidental Tourist | $32.6M | $91.0M |
| 36 | The Accused | $32.1M | $89.5M |
| 37 | Shoot to Kill | $29.3M | $81.7M |
| 38 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $28.2M | $78.7M |
| 39 | Betrayed | $25.8M | $72.0M |
| 40 | Funny Farm | $25.5M | $71.2M |
| 41 | Alien Nation | $25.2M | $70.3M |
| 42 | Gorillas in the Mist | $24.7M | $69.0M |
| 43 | The Fox and the Hound 1988 Re-release | $23.6M | $65.7M |
| 44 | License to Drive | $22.4M | $62.6M |
| 45 | Short Circuit 2 | $21.6M | $60.3M |
| 46 | Married to the Mob | $21.5M | $59.9M |
| 47 | Punchline | $21.0M | $58.7M |
| 48 | The Presidio | $20.3M | $56.7M |
| 49 | Action Jackson | $20.3M | $56.5M |
| 50 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | $19.7M | $54.8M |
| 51 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | $19.6M | $54.7M |
| 52 | Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach | $19.5M | $54.4M |
| 53 | Friday the 13th: The New Blood | $19.2M | $53.5M |
| 54 | Cocoon: The Return | $18.9M | $52.8M |
| 55 | The Seventh Sign | $18.9M | $52.7M |
| 56 | Above the Law | $18.9M | $52.6M |
| 57 | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | $17.8M | $49.6M |
| 58 | Frantic | $17.6M | $49.2M |
| 59 | Johnny Be Good | $17.6M | $49.0M |
| 60 | For Keeps? | $17.5M | $48.9M |
| 61 | Crossing Delancey | $16.3M | $45.4M |
| 62 | Bright Lights, Big City | $16.1M | $45.0M |
| 63 | She's Having a Baby | $16.0M | $44.7M |
| 64 | Masquerade | $15.9M | $44.2M |
| 65 | Big Top Pee-wee | $15.1M | $42.2M |
| 66 | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | $14.7M | $41.0M |
| 67 | School Daze | $14.5M | $40.6M |
| 68 | Poltergeist III | $14.1M | $39.4M |
| 69 | Stand and Deliver | $14.0M | $39.0M |
| 70 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $13.9M | $38.6M |
| 71 | The Milagro Beanfie ld War | $13.8M | $38.6M |
| 72 | Return to Snowy River | $13.7M | $38.2M |
| 73 | Vice Versa | $13.7M | $38.1M |
| 74 | They Live | $13.4M | $37.5M |
| 75 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $13.0M | $36.3M |
| 76 | Mystic Pizza | $12.8M | $35.7M |
| 77 | D.O.A. | $12.7M | $35.4M |
| 78 | Everybody's All-American | $12.6M | $35.3M |
| 79 | Casual Sex? | $12.3M | $34.2M |
| 80 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | $12.1M | $33.7M |
| 81 | Bloodsport | $11.8M | $32.9M |
| 82 | Caddyshack II | $11.8M | $32.9M |
| 83 | Moon Over Parador | $11.4M | $31.9M |
| 84 | Moving | $11.1M | $30.9M |
| 85 | The Couch Trip | $11.0M | $30.7M |
| 86 | Iron Eagle II | $10.5M | $29.3M |
| 87 | Shakedown | $10.1M | $28.1M |
| 88 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | $10.0M | $27.9M |
| 89 | Bad Dreams | $9.8M | $27.3M |
| 90 | Return of the Living Dead II | $9.2M | $25.7M |
| 91 | Switching Channels | $9.1M | $25.5M |
| 92 | Salsa | $8.9M | $24.8M |
| 93 | Clean and Sober | $8.7M | $24.2M |
| 94 | U2: Rattle and Hum | $8.6M | $24.0M |
| 95 | High Spirits | $8.6M | $23.9M |
| 96 | Without a Clue | $8.5M | $23.8M |
| 97 | The Last Temptation of Christ | $8.4M | $23.4M |
| 98 | Satisfaction | $8.3M | $23.0M |
| 99 | The Blob | $8.2M | $23.0M |
| 100 | Dead Ringers | $8.0M | $22.4M |
“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.