# List of 1984 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1984.

## Number-one films

| † | This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. |
| # | Weekend end date | Film | Gross | Notes |
| 1 | January 8, 1984 | Terms of Endearment | $6,234,421 | |
| 2 | January 15, 1984 | Terms of Endearment | $5,211,394 | |
| 3 | January 22, 1984 | Terms of Endearment | $3,466,172 | |
| 4 | January 29, 1984 | Silkwood | $3,547,122 | Silkwood reached #1 in its seventh weekend of release. |
| 5 | February 5, 1984 | Terms of Endearment | $3,045,877 | Terms of Endearment reclaimed #1 in its eleventh weekend of release. |
| 6 | February 12, 1984 | Unfaithfully Yours | $3,774,126 | |
| 7 | February 20, 1984$^{4-dayweekend}$ | Footloose | $8,556,935 | |
| 8 | February 26, 1984 | Footloose | $6,617,737 | |
| 9 | March 4, 1984 | Footloose | $6,300,641 | |
| 10 | March 11, 1984 | Splash | $6,174,059 | |
| 11 | March 18, 1984 | Splash | $6,452,183 | |
| 12 | March 25, 1984 | Police Academy | $8,570,007 | |
| 13 | April 1, 1984 | Police Academy | $8,061,398 | |
| 14 | April 8, 1984 | Police Academy | $7,403,955 | |
| 15 | April 15, 1984 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $11,183,148 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter broke Friday the 13th Part III's record ($9,40 million) for highest weekend debut for a slasher film & its record for highest weekend debut for a film released during the Friday the 13th weekend. |
| 16 | April 22, 1984 | Police Academy | $6,101,974 | Police Academy reclaimed #1 in its fifth weekend of release. |
| 17 | April 29, 1984 | Police Academy | $4,733,389 | |
| 18 | May 6, 1984 | Breakin' | $6,047,686 | |
| 19 | May 13, 1984 | The Natural | $5,088,381 | |
| 20 | May 20, 1984 | The Natural | $5,423,233 | |
| 21 | May 28, 1984$^{4-dayweekend}$ | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $33,936,113 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's Memorial Day weekend was the biggest weekend of all-time surpassing Return of the Jedi. |
| 22 | June 3, 1984 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $16,673,295 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock had the highest non-holiday opening of all-time surpassing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan's $14.3 million. |
| 23 | June 10, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $13,578,151 | Ghostbusters had Columbia Pictures' biggest weekend of all-time, surpassing Tootsie's $11.2 million. |
| 24 | June 17, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $15,093,905 | Ghostbusters set another record for Columbia Pictures' biggest weekend of all-time. |
| 25 | June 24, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $13,059,428 | |
| 26 | July 1, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $11,148,617 | |
| 27 | July 8, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $11,136,134 | |
| 28 | July 15, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $9,761,392 | |
| 29 | July 22, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $8,493,861 | |
| 30 | July 29, 1984 | Purple Rain | $7,766,201 | |
| 31 | August 5, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $6,443,646 | Ghostbusters reclaimed #1 in ninth weekend of release. |
| 32 | August 12, 1984 | Red Dawn | $8,230,381 | |
| 33 | August 19, 1984 | Tightrope | $9,156,545 | |
| 34 | August 26, 1984 | Tightrope | $7,198,635 | |
| 35 | September 3, 1984$^{4-dayweekend}$ | Tightrope | $7,130,891 | |
| 36 | September 9, 1984 | Tightrope | $4,018,355 | |
| 37 | September 16, 1984 | Ghostbusters † | $3,457,626 | Ghostbusters reclaimed #1 in its fifteenth weekend of release. |
| 38 | September 23, 1984 | All of Me | $5,803,848 | |
| 39 | September 30, 1984 | All of Me | $5,258,421 | |
| 40 | October 8, 1984$^{4-dayweekend}$ | Teachers | $7,013,366 | |
| 41 | October 14, 1984 | Teachers | $4,579,286 | |
| 42 | October 21, 1984 | Teachers | $3,448,610 | |
| 43 | October 28, 1984 | The Terminator | $4,020,663 | |
| 44 | November 4, 1984 | The Terminator | $4,219,463 | |
| 45 | November 11, 1984 | Oh, God! You Devil | $5,560,001 | |
| 46 | November 18, 1984 | Missing in Action | $6,101,460 | |
| 47 | November 25, 1984 | Supergirl | $5,738,249 | |
| 48 | December 2, 1984 | Missing in Action | $3,021,220 | Missing in Action reclaimed #1 in its third weekend of release. |
| 49 | December 9, 1984 | Beverly Hills Cop | $15,214,805 | Beverly Hills Cop broke The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas's record ($11.8 million) for highest weekend debut for an R-rated film and Star Trek: The Motion Picture's record ($11.9 million) for the highest weekend debut in December. |
| 50 | December 16, 1984 | Beverly Hills Cop | $11,514,444 | |
| 51 | December 25, 1984$^{5-dayweekend}$ | Beverly Hills Cop | $15,697,159 | |
| 52 | January 1, 1985$^{5-dayweekend}$ | Beverly Hills Cop | $20,064,790 | |

## Highest-grossing films
### Calendar Gross

Highest-grossing films of 1984 by Calendar Gross
| Rank | Title | Studio(s) | Actor(s) | Director(s) | Gross |
| 1. | Ghostbusters | Columbia Pictures | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton and Annie Potts | Ivan Reitman | $220,919,997 |
| 2. | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount Pictures | Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone and Ke Huy Quan | Steven Spielberg | $179,870,271 |
| 3. | Gremlins | Warner Bros. Pictures | Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Frances Lee McCain | Joe Dante | $148,168,459 |
| 4. | The Karate Kid | Columbia Pictures | Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeth Shue, William Zabka, Martin Kove and Randee Heller | John G. Avildsen | $90,815,558 |
| 5. | Police Academy | Warner Bros. Pictures | Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith and George Gaynes | Hugh Wilson | $81,198,894 |
| 6. | Footloose | Paramount Pictures | Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow | Herbert Ross | $80,035,402 |
| 7. | Beverly Hills Cop | Paramount Pictures | Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Ronny Cox, Paul Reiser and Jonathan Banks | Martin Brest | $77,455,497 |
| 8. | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount Pictures | William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Merritt Butrick and Christopher Lloyd | Leonard Nimoy | $76,471,046 |
| 9. | Terms of Endearment | Paramount Pictures | Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow | James L. Brooks | $74,420,269 |
| 10. | Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau and Manuel Ojeda | Robert Zemeckis | $74,348,839 |

### In-Year Release

Highest-grossing films of 1984 by In-year release :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross |
| 1. | Beverly Hills Cop | Paramount | $234,760,478 |
| 2. | Ghostbusters | Columbia | $229,242,989 |
| 3. | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount | $179,870,271 |
| 4. | Gremlins | Warner Bros. | $148,168,459 |
| 5. | The Karate Kid | Columbia | $90,815,558 |
| 6. | Police Academy | Warner Bros. | $81,198,894 |
| 7. | Footloose | Paramount | $80,035,402 |
| 8. | Romancing the Stone | 20th Century Fox | $76,572,238 |
| 9. | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Paramount | $76,471,046 |
| 10. | Splash | Disney | $69,821,334 |
Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 1984 :
| G | Pinocchio (1984 Re-issue) |
| PG | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
| PG-13 | Red Dawn |
| R | Beverly Hills Cop |