100 English films of 1990 ranked by box office. #1: Ghost ($505.7 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghost | Jerry Zucker | $22 million | $505.7 million | 22.99x | |
| 2 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | $18 million | $476.7 million | 26.48x | |
| 3 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | $14 million | $463.4 million | 33.10x | |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | $22 million | $424.2 million | 19.28x | |
| 5 | Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven | $65 million | $261.4 million | 4.02x | |
| 6 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | $40 million | $245.1 million | 6.13x | |
| 7 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | $70 million | $240 million | 3.43x | |
| 8 | Presumed Innocent | Alan J. Pakula | $20 million | $221 million | 11.05x | |
| 9 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Steve Barron | $13.5 million | $202 million | 14.96x | |
| 9 | Kindergarten Cop | Ivan Reitman | $15 million | $202 million | 13.47x | |
| 11 | The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | $30 million | $200.5 million | 6.68x | |
| 12 | Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | $47 million | $162.7 million | 3.46x | |
| 13 | Days of Thunder | Tony Scott | $60 million | $157.9 million | 2.63x | |
| 14 | Another 48 Hrs. | Walter Hill | $38 million | $153.5 million | 4.04x | |
| 15 | Bird on a Wire | John Badham | $20 million | $138.7 million | 6.94x | |
| 16 | The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola | $54 million | $136.9 million | 2.54x | |
| 17 | Look Who's Talking Too | Amy Heckerling | $12 million | $120.9 million | 10.08x | |
| 18 | Rocky V | John G. Avildsen | $30 million | $120 million | 4.00x | |
| 19 | Awakenings | Penny Marshall | $31 million | $108.7 million | 3.51x | |
| 20 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | $20 million | $86 million | 4.30x | |
| 21 | Hard to Kill | Bruce Malmuth | $10 million | $75 million | 7.50x | |
| 22 | Problem Child | Dennis Dugan | $11 million | $72.2 million | 6.56x | |
| 23 | Three Men and a Little Lady | Emile Ardolino | $71.6 million | |||
| 24 | Postcards from the Edge | Mike Nichols | $22 million | $63.4 million | 2.88x | |
| 25 | The Krays | Peter Medak | $62.3 million | |||
| 26 | Flatliners | Joel Schumacher | $26 million | $61.5 million | 2.37x | |
| 27 | Misery | Rob Reiner | $20 million | $61.3 million | 3.07x | |
| 28 | Young Guns II | Geoff Murphy | $20 million | $59 million | 2.95x | |
| 29 | Marked for Death | Dwight H. Little | $12 million | $58 million | 4.83x | |
| 30 | Air America | Roger Spottiswoode | $30 million | $57.7 million | 1.92x | |
| 31 | Predator 2 | Stephen Hopkins | $35 million | $57.1 million | 1.63x | |
| 32 | Pacific Heights | John Schlesinger | $18 million | $55 million | 3.06x | |
| 33 | Arachnophobia | Frank Marshall | $22 million | $53.2 million | 2.42x | |
| 34 | Darkman | Sam Raimi | $14 million | $48.8 million | 3.49x | |
| 35 | Internal Affairs | Mike Figgis | $15 million | $47.7 million | 3.18x | |
| 36 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | $25 million | $47.1 million | 1.88x | |
| 37 | Death Warrant | Deran Sarafian | $6 million | $46.7 million | 7.78x | |
| 38 | RoboCop 2 | Irvin Kershner | $30 million | $45.7 million | 1.52x | |
| 39 | The Exorcist III | William Peter Blatty | $11 million | $44 million | 4.00x | |
| 40 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Joe Dante | $50 million | $41.5 million | 0.83x | |
| 41 | Joe Versus the Volcano | John Patrick Shanley | $25 million | $39.4 million | 1.58x | |
| 42 | Green Card | Peter Weir | $12.5 million | $38 million | 3.04x | |
| 43 | Havana | Sydney Pollack | $40 million | $36 million | 0.90x | |
| 44 | Child's Play 2 | John Lafia | $13 million | $35.8 million | 2.75x | |
| 45 | Mermaids | Richard Benjamin | $20 million | $35.4 million | 1.77x | |
| 46 | The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter | George T. Miller | $35 million | $32 million | 0.91x | |
| 47 | Cadillac Man | Roger Donaldson | $15 million | $27.6 million | 1.84x | |
| 48 | Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | $23 million | $27 million | 1.17x | |
| 49 | Revenge | Tony Scott | $22 million | $26.6 million | 1.21x | |
| 50 | House Party | Reginald Hudlin | $2.5 million | $26.4 million | 10.56x | |
| 51 | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | $25 million | $26.1 million | 1.04x | |
| 52 | Ghost Dad | Sidney Poitier | $30 million | $25.4 million | 0.85x | |
| 53 | Navy SEALs | Lewis Teague | $21 million | $25.1 million | 1.20x | |
| 54 | Ernest Goes to Jail | John Cherry | $9 million | $25 million | 2.78x | |
| 55 | Lionheart | Sheldon Lettich | $6 million | $24 million | 4.00x | |
| 56 | My Blue Heaven | Herbert Ross | $23.6 million | |||
| 57 | The Russia House | Fred Schepisi | $21.8 million | $23 million | 1.06x | |
| 58 | The First Power | Robert Resnikoff | $10 million | $22.4 million | 2.24x | |
| 59 | Hamlet | Franco Zeffirelli | £12.6 million | $22.3 million | ||
| 60 | The Rookie | Clint Eastwood | $30 million | $21.6 million | 0.72x | |
| 61 | The Freshman | Andrew Bergman | $12 million | $21.5 million | 1.79x | |
| 62 | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Renny Harlin | $20 million | $21.4 million | 1.07x | |
| 62 | Quigley Down Under | Simon Wincer | $18 million | $21.4 million | 1.19x | |
| 64 | Madhouse | Tom Ropelewski | $8 million | $21 million | 2.63x | |
| 65 | Stella | John Erman | $19 million | $20.2 million | 1.06x | |
| 66 | Taking Care of Business | Arthur Hiller | $15 million | $20 million | 1.33x | |
| 67 | Betsy's Wedding | Alan Alda | $19.7 million | |||
| 68 | Sibling Rivalry | Carl Reiner | $16 million | $17.8 million | 1.11x | |
| 69 | White Palace | Luis Mandoki | $17.4 million | |||
| 70 | The Guardian | William Friedkin | $10 million | $17 million | 1.70x | |
| 70 | Shipwrecked | Nils Gaup | $60 million | $17 million | 0.28x | |
| 72 | Tremors | Ron Underwood | $10 million | $16.7 million | 1.67x | |
| 72 | Tatie Danielle | Étienne Chatiliez | $16.7 million | |||
| 74 | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | John Harrison | $6 million | $16.3 million | 2.72x | |
| 75 | Men at Work | Emilio Estevez | $9 million | $16.2 million | 1.80x | |
| 75 | I Love You to Death | Lawrence Kasdan | $16.2 million | |||
| 77 | Mo' Better Blues | Spike Lee | $10 million | $16.2 million | 1.62x | |
| 78 | Nightbreed | Clive Barker | $11 million | $16 million | 1.45x | |
| 79 | Avalon | Barry Levinson | $20 million | $15.7 million | 0.79x | |
| 80 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Brian De Palma | $47 million | $15.6 million | 0.33x | |
| 81 | Spaced Invaders | Patrick Read Johnson | $3 million | $15.4 million | 5.13x | |
| 81 | Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | $15.4 million | |||
| 83 | Quick Change | Bill Murray | $17 million | $15.3 million | 0.90x | |
| 83 | Mr. Destiny | James Orr | $20 million | $15.3 million | 0.77x | |
| 83 | The Witches | Nicolas Roeg | $11 million | $15.3 million | 1.39x | |
| 86 | Fire Birds | David Green | $22 million | $14.7 million | 0.67x | |
| 87 | Wild at Heart | David Lynch | $10 million | $14.6 million | 1.46x | |
| 88 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears | $13.4 million | |||
| 89 | Crazy People | Tony Bill | $13.2 million | |||
| 90 | Lord of the Flies | Harry Hook | $9 million | $13 million | 1.44x | |
| 91 | Bad Influence | Curtis Hanson | $7 million | $12.6 million | 1.80x | |
| 92 | Graveyard Shift | Ralph S. Singleton | $10.5 million | $11.6 million | 1.10x | |
| 93 | Pump Up the Volume | Allan Moyle | $11.5 million | |||
| 93 | Henry & June | Philip Kaufman | $11.5 million | |||
| 95 | Opportunity Knocks | Donald Petrie | $13 million | $11.4 million | 0.87x | |
| 96 | Q & A | Sidney Lumet | $6 million | $11.2 million | 1.87x | |
| 97 | Nuns on the Run | Jonathan Lynn | £3 million | $11 million | ||
| 98 | Narrow Margin | Peter Hyams | $21 million | $10.9 million | 0.52x | |
| 99 | The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | $25 million | $10 million | 0.40x | |
| 100 | Miami Blues | George Armitage | $11 million | $9.9 million | 0.90x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.