List of 1985 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 1985.^[1]

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#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 6, 1985	Beverly Hills Cop	$11,515,665		^[3]
2	January 13, 1985		$9,616,239		^[4]
3	January 20, 1985		$6,475,055		^[5]
4	January 27, 1985		$8,216,877		^[6]
5	February 3, 1985		$7,143,280		^[7]
6	February 10, 1985		$6,026,722		^[8]
7	February 18, 1985^{4-day weekend}		$7,770,244		^[9]
8	February 24, 1985		$5,857,274		^[10]
9	March 3, 1985		$5,114,137		^[11]
10	March 10, 1985	Witness	$4,506,587	Witness reached #1 in its fifth weekend of release after being #2 for the past four weekends.	^[12]
11	March 17, 1985	Beverly Hills Cop	$4,614,165	Beverly Hills Cop reclaimed #1 in fifteenth weekend of release.	^[13]
12	March 24, 1985	Friday the 13th: A New Beginning	$8,032,883		^[14]
13	March 31, 1985	Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment	$10,675,896	Police Academy 2 had the biggest opening in March ever.	^[15]^[16]
14	April 7, 1985		$8,608,385		^[17]
15	April 14, 1985		$5,406,970		^[18]
16	April 21, 1985		$4,052,568		^[19]
17	April 28, 1985	Stick	$3,358,299		^[20]
18	May 5, 1985	Code of Silence	$5,512,461		^[21]
19	May 12, 1985		$3,583,099		^[22]
20	May 19, 1985		$2,803,483		^[23]
21	May 27, 1985^{4-day weekend}	Rambo: First Blood Part II	$25,169,330	Rambo: First Blood Part II had the highest weekend debut of 1985 and broke Beverly Hills Cop's record ($15.2 million) for highest weekend debut for a R-rated film. It was TriStar Pictures' first film to gross over $10 million in a weekend.	^[24]
22	June 2, 1985		$14,810,543		^[25]
23	June 9, 1985		$10,228,608		^[26]
24	June 16, 1985		$9,162,153		^[27]
25	June 23, 1985	Cocoon	$7,936,427		^[28]
26	June 30, 1985	Pale Rider	$9,119,111		^[29]
27	July 7, 1985	Back to the Future †	$11,152,500		^[30]
28	July 14, 1985		$10,555,133		^[31]
29	July 21, 1985		$10,315,305		^[32]
30	July 28, 1985	National Lampoon's European Vacation	$12,329,627	National Lampoon's European Vacation broke record Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment ($10 million) for the highest weekend debut for a comedy film.	^[33]
31	August 4, 1985	Back to the Future †	$8,428,452	Back to the Future reclaimed #1 in its fifth weekend of release.	^[34]
32	August 11, 1985		$8,074,395		^[35]
33	August 18, 1985		$7,252,140		^[36]
34	August 25, 1985		$6,927,360		^[37]
35	September 2, 1985^{4-day weekend}		$9,049,668		^[38]
36	September 8, 1985		$5,214,465		^[39]
37	September 15, 1985		$4,134,257		^[40]
38	September 22, 1985		$3,924,156		^[41]
39	September 29, 1985	Invasion U.S.A.	$6,891,609		^[42]
40	October 6, 1985	Commando	$7,700,015		^[43]
41	October 14, 1985^{4-day weekend}		$6,540,130		^[44]
42	October 20, 1985		$4,171,033		^[45]
43	October 27, 1985	Jagged Edge	$3,216,053	Jagged Edge reached #1 in its fourth weekend of release.	^[46]
44	November 3, 1985	Death Wish 3	$5,319,116		^[47]
45	November 10, 1985	Death Wish 3	$3,161,679		^[48]
46	November 17, 1985	Once Bitten	$4,025,657		^[49]
47	November 24, 1985	King Solomon's Mines	$5,005,788		^[50]
48	December 1, 1985	Rocky IV	$19,991,537	Rocky IV set the record opening for a three-day weekend beating Star Trek III: The Search for Spock's $16.7 million and also recorded the biggest Thanksgiving opening	^[51]^[52]
49	December 8, 1985		$11,189,102		^[53]
50	December 15, 1985		$7,208,991		^[54]
51	December 22, 1985		$8,445,197		^[55]
52	December 29, 1985		$10,755,123		^[56]

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Back to the Future	Universal Pictures	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson	Robert Zemeckis	$190,581,407
2.	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Ronny Cox, Paul Reiser and Jonathan Banks	Martin Brest	$157,304,980
3.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	TriStar Pictures	Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Julia Nickson and Steven Berkoff	George P. Cosmatos	$150,415,432
4.	Rocky IV	MGM/UA Entertainment Company	Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen and Dolph Lundgren	Sylvester Stallone	$89,102,648
5.	Cocoon	20th Century Fox	Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware and Tahnee Welch	Ron Howard	$76,113,124
6.	Witness	Paramount Pictures	Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Jan Rubes and Alexander Godunov	Peter Weir	$68,706,993
7.	The Goonies	Warner Bros. Pictures	Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton and Ke Huy Quan	Richard Donner	$61,389,680
8.	Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment	Warner Bros. Pictures	Bobcat Goldthwait, Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Bruce Mahler, Colleen Camp, Art Metrano, Marion Ramsey, Howard Hesseman and George Gaynes	Jerry Paris	$55,600,000
9.	Fletch	Universal Pictures	Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Tim Matheson	Michael Ritchie	$50,612,888
10.	A View to a Kill	United Artists	Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee and Christopher Walken	John Glen	$50,327,960

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Back to the Future	Universal	$210,609,762
2.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	TriStar	$150,415,432
3.	Rocky IV	United Artists	$127,873,716
4.	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	$94,175,854
5.	Out of Africa	Universal	$87,071,205
6.	Cocoon	20th Century Fox	$76,113,124
7.	The Jewel of the Nile	20th Century Fox	$75,973,200
8.	Witness	Paramount	$68,706,993
9.	The Goonies	Warner Bros.	$61,389,680
10.	Spies Like Us		$60,088,980

G	101 Dalmatians (1985 Re-issue)
PG	Back to the Future
PG-13	The Color Purple
R	Rambo: First Blood Part II

List of 1985 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

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References

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