# List of 1991 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United Kingdom during 1991.

## Number one films

| † | This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. |
| # | Week ending | Film | Box Office | Notes |
| 1 | 3 January 1991 | Home Alone | £1,639,898 | |
| 2 | 10 January 1991 | Arachnophobia | £1,305,699 | |
| 3 | 17 January 1991 | Arachnophobia | £1,221,939 | |
| 4 | 24 January 1991 | Arachnophobia | £1,062,383 | |
| 5 | 31 January 1991 | Rocky V | £1,826,024 | |
| 6 | 7 February 1991 | Kindergarten Cop | £1,995,320 | |
| 7 | 14 February 1991 | Three Men and a Little Lady | £2,358,154 | |
| 8 | 21 February 1991 | Three Men and a Little Lady | £3,002,703 | |
| 9 | 28 February 1991 | Three Men and a Little Lady | £1,947,367 | |
| 10 | 7 March 1991 | Three Men and a Little Lady | £1,425,722 | |
| 11 | 14 March 1991 | Three Men and a Little Lady | £1,152,053 | |
| 12 | 21 March 1991 | Green Card | £1,167,612 | Green Card reached number one in its third week of release |
| 13 | 28 March 1991 | Look Who's Talking Too | £1,903,552 | |
| 14 | 4 April 1991 | Look Who's Talking Too | £1,414,050 | |
| 15 | 11 April 1991 | Dances with Wolves | £1,201,344 | Dances with Wolves reached number one in its ninth week of release |
| 16 | 18 April 1991 | Highlander II: The Quickening | £1,984,265 | |
| 17 | 25 April 1991 | Sleeping with the Enemy | £2,130,968 | Sleeping with the Enemy reached number one in its second week of release |
| 18 | 2 May 1991 | Sleeping with the Enemy | £1,723,382 | |
| 19 | 9 May 1991 | Sleeping with the Enemy | £1,466,686 | |
| 20 | 16 May 1991 | The Doors | £1,063,510 | The Doors reached number one in its third week of release |
| 21 | 23 May 1991 | Misery | £1,072,609 | Misery reached number one in its second week of release |
| 22 | 30 May 1991 | Misery | £863,375 | |
| 23 | 6 June 1991 | Mermaids | £989,064 | Mermaids reached number one in its second week of release |
| 24 | 13 June 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | £4,260,472 | The Silence of the Lambs reached number one in its second week of release and beat the one week record set by Batman |
| 25 | 20 June 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | £3,566,735 | |
| 26 | 27 June 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | £2,532,977 | |
| 27 | 4 July 1991 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | £2,587,730 | |
| 28 | 11 July 1991 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | £1,621,072 | |
| 29 | 18 July 1991 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | £1,426,471 | |
| 30 | 25 July 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † | £2,372,538 | |
| 31 | 1 August 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † | £2,300,000 | |
| 32 | 8 August 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † | £1,991,986 | |
| 33 | 15 August 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † | £1,831,174 | |
| 34 | 22 August 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £4,631,895 | Terminator 2 set an opening weekend record of £2,337,980 beating Batman's £2 million and beat the opening week record set by Silence of the Lambs earlier in the year |
| 35 | 29 August 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £3,564,891 | |
| 36 | 5 September 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £2,395,446 | |
| 37 | 12 September 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £1,807,188 | |
| 38 | 19 September 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £1,541,718 | |
| 39 | 26 September 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £1,085,761 | |
| 40 | 3 October 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | £868,862 | |
| 41 | 10 October 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † | £723,922 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves returned to number one in its twelfth week of release |
| 42 | 17 October 1991 | The Commitments | £779,674 | The Commitments reached number one in its second week of release |
| 43 | 24 October 1991 | The Commitments | £1,298,137 | |
| 44 | 31 October 1991 | The Commitments | £1,172,034 | |
| 45 | 7 November 1991 | City Slickers | £1,005,788 | City Slickers reached number one in its third week of release |
| 46 | 14 November 1991 | The Fisher King | £820,557 | |
| 47 | 21 November 1991 | The Fisher King | £666,523 | |
| 48 | 28 November 1991 | Point Break | £1,190,599 | |
| 49 | 5 December 1991 | Point Break | £841,788 | |
| 50 | 12 December 1991 | Hot Shots! | £1,852,988 | Hot Shots! reached number one in its second week of release |
| 51 | 19 December 1991 | The Addams Family | £2,017,379 | |
| 52 | 26 December 1991 | The Addams Family | £1,464,784 | |

## Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 1991 :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Gross (£) |
| 1. | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Warner Bros. | 20,104,692 |
| 2. | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Guild | 18,179,609 |
| 3. | The Silence of the Lambs | Rank | 17,119,333 |
| 4. | Three Men and a Little Lady | Warner Bros. | 12,967,783 |
| 5. | Dances with Wolves | Guild | 10,598,273 |
| 6. | Sleeping with the Enemy | 20th Century Fox | 9,230,825 |
| 7. | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | UIP | 8,790,453 |
| 8. | Home Alone | 20th Century Fox | 8,353,519 |
| 9. | Kindergarten Cop | UIP | 8,216,680 |
| 10. | The Commitments | 20th Century Fox | 6,997,113 |