Box Office
Worldwide box office · 1991
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 | Beauty and the Beast | $248.8M | $602.9M |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $205.1M | $496.9M |
| 3 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | $165.5M | $401.0M |
| 4 | The Silence of the Lambs | $130.9M | $317.1M |
| 5 | City Slickers | $124.0M | $300.5M |
| 6 | Hook | $119.7M | $289.9M |
| 7 | The Addams Family | $113.5M | $275.0M |
| 8 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $101.6M | $246.2M |
| 9 | Father of the Bride | $89.3M | $216.4M |
| 10 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | $86.9M | $210.6M |
| 11 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $82.4M | $199.7M |
| 12 | Cape Fear | $79.1M | $191.6M |
| 13 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | $78.7M | $190.6M |
| 14 | Backdraft | $77.9M | $188.7M |
| 15 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | $74.9M | $181.4M |
| 16 | The Prince of Tides | $74.8M | $181.2M |
| 17 | JFK | $70.4M | $170.6M |
| 18 | Hot Shots! | $69.5M | $168.3M |
| 19 | What About Bob? | $63.7M | $154.4M |
| 20 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1991 Re-release | $60.8M | $147.4M |
| 21 | The Last Boy Scout | $59.5M | $144.2M |
| 22 | My Girl | $59.5M | $144.1M |
| 23 | Boyz n the Hood | $57.5M | $139.3M |
| 24 | Doc Hollywood | $54.8M | $132.8M |
| 25 | Bugsy | $49.1M | $119.0M |
| 26 | New Jack City | $47.6M | $115.4M |
| 27 | The Rocketeer | $46.7M | $113.2M |
| 28 | Thelma & Louise | $45.6M | $110.4M |
| 29 | Point Break | $43.2M | $104.7M |
| 30 | Regarding Henry | $43.0M | $104.2M |
| 31 | The Fisher King | $41.9M | $101.5M |
| 32 | Out for Justice | $39.7M | $96.1M |
| 33 | The Doctor | $38.1M | $92.4M |
| 34 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | $38.0M | $92.2M |
| 35 | Dead Again | $38.0M | $92.1M |
| 36 | Soapdish | $36.5M | $88.4M |
| 37 | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | $34.9M | $84.5M |
| 38 | White Fang | $34.8M | $84.3M |
| 39 | The Doors | $34.5M | $83.6M |
| 40 | King Ralph | $34.0M | $82.4M |
| 41 | Curly Sue | $33.7M | $81.6M |
| 42 | Dying Young | $33.7M | $81.6M |
| 43 | Grand Canyon | $33.2M | $80.5M |
| 44 | Jungle Fever | $32.5M | $78.7M |
| 45 | Double Impact | $30.1M | $72.9M |
| 46 | L.A. Story | $28.9M | $69.9M |
| 47 | Deceived | $28.7M | $69.6M |
| 48 | Necessary Roughness | $26.3M | $63.6M |
| 49 | The Hard Way | $25.9M | $62.7M |
| 50 | Other People's Money | $25.7M | $62.2M |
| 51 | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | $25.2M | $61.0M |
| 52 | Problem Child 2 | $25.1M | $60.8M |
| 53 | Little Man Tate | $25.0M | $60.6M |
| 54 | Class Action | $24.3M | $58.8M |
| 55 | The People Under the Stairs | $24.2M | $58.6M |
| 56 | Lionheart | $24.1M | $58.3M |
| 57 | Oscar | $23.6M | $57.1M |
| 58 | Frankie and Johnny | $22.8M | $55.2M |
| 59 | Pure Luck | $22.6M | $54.9M |
| 60 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | $22.2M | $53.7M |
| 61 | Only the Lonely | $21.8M | $52.9M |
| 62 | Ricochet | $21.8M | $52.7M |
| 63 | F/X2 | $21.1M | $51.1M |
| 64 | Mobsters | $20.2M | $49.1M |
| 65 | House Party 2 | $19.4M | $47.1M |
| 66 | Mortal Thoughts | $18.8M | $45.5M |
| 67 | Paradise | $18.6M | $45.2M |
| 68 | For the Boys | $17.9M | $43.3M |
| 69 | The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter | $17.4M | $42.1M |
| 70 | Hudson Hawk | $17.2M | $41.7M |
| 71 | Defending Your Life | $16.4M | $39.7M |
| 72 | Billy Bathgate | $15.6M | $37.7M |
| 73 | Highlander II: The Quickening | $15.6M | $37.7M |
| 74 | Switch | $15.5M | $37.7M |
| 75 | A Kiss Before Dying | $15.4M | $37.4M |
| 76 | Shipwrecked | $15.1M | $36.6M |
| 77 | Toy Soldiers | $15.1M | $36.5M |
| 78 | Madonna: Truth or Dare | $15.0M | $36.4M |
| 79 | Child's Play 3 | $15.0M | $36.2M |
| 80 | The Commitments | $14.9M | $36.2M |
| 81 | Once Around | $14.9M | $36.0M |
| 82 | All I Want for Christmas | $14.8M | $35.9M |
| 83 | Not Without My Daughter | $14.8M | $35.8M |
| 84 | Flight of the Intruder | $14.6M | $35.3M |
| 85 | Ernest Scared Stupid | $14.1M | $34.3M |
| 86 | The Perfect Weapon | $14.1M | $34.1M |
| 87 | Drop Dead Fred | $13.9M | $33.6M |
| 88 | The Marrying Man | $12.5M | $30.2M |
| 89 | Shattered | $11.5M | $27.9M |
| 90 | Career Opportunities | $11.3M | $27.5M |
| 91 | One Good Cop | $11.3M | $27.3M |
| 92 | V.I. Warshawski | $11.1M | $27.0M |
| 93 | The Super | $11.0M | $26.7M |
| 94 | A Rage in Harlem | $10.4M | $25.3M |
| 95 | He Said, She Said | $9.8M | $23.8M |
| 96 | The Butcher's Wife | $9.7M | $23.5M |
| 97 | Scenes from a Mall | $9.6M | $23.2M |
| 98 | Guilty by Suspicion | $9.5M | $23.0M |
| 99 | Body Parts | $9.2M | $22.3M |
| 100 | Stone Cold | $9.2M | $22.2M |
“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.