List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 1988.

Number one films

#	Weekend ending	Film	Gross	Notes	Ref
1	3 January 1988	Masters of the Universe	£342,680
2	10 January 1988	Predator	£598,537	Predator reached number one in its second week of release
3	17 January 1988	Fatal Attraction	£904,240	Fatal Attraction grossed a record £2,048,421 in its opening week
4	24 January 1988		£1,057,905
5	31 January 1988		£1,010,184
6	7 February 1988		£818,556
7	14 February 1988		TBD	Fatal Attraction grossed £2,100,361 for the week
8	21 February 1988		TBD	Fatal Attraction grossed £1,135,617 for the week
9	28 February 1988		£526,317
10	6 March 1988		£379,432
11	13 March 1988	Stakeout	£305,456
12	20 March 1988	Fatal Attraction	£241,267	Fatal Attraction returned to number one in its tenth week of release
13	27 March 1988	Empire of the Sun	£177,125
14	3 April 1988	The Fox and the Hound (reissue)	£203,544	The reissue of The Fox and the Hound reached number one in its second week of release
15	10 April 1988	Empire of the Sun	£203,759	Empire of the Sun returned to number one in its third week of release
16	17 April 1988	Moonstruck	£230,491	Moontruck reached number one in its fourth week of release
17	24 April 1988		£214,145
18	1 May 1988	Three Men and a Baby	£1,097,870	Three Men and a Baby reached number one in its fifth week of release
19	8 May 1988		£890,632
20	15 May 1988		TBD	Three Men and a Baby grossed £881,822 for the week
21	22 May 1988		£400,022
22	29 May 1988		£391,156
23	5 June 1988		£327,343
24	12 June 1988		£218,076
25	19 June 1988		£157,189
26	26 June 1988	Crocodile Dundee II	£1,333,508	Crocodile Dundee II had a record opening weekend surpassing Beverly Hills Cop II's £1,008,450
27	3 July 1988		£1,289,810
28	10 July 1988		£996,082
29	17 July 1988		£622,845
30	24 July 1988		£589,603
31	31 July 1988	The Jungle Book (reissue)	£592,922	The reissue of The Jungle Book reached number one in its sixth week of release
32	7 August 1988	Coming to America	£521,566	Coming to America reached number one in its second week of release
33	14 August 1988		£600,969
34	21 August 1988	Beetlejuice	£524,740
35	28 August 1988	Rambo III	£551,189
36	4 September 1988		£318,227
37	11 September 1988	Beetlejuice	£214,901	Beetlejuice returned to number one in its fourth week of release
38	18 September 1988	Frantic	£219,232
39	25 September 1988	The Running Man	£577,953
40	2 October 1988	Good Morning, Vietnam	£767,851
41	9 October 1988		£742,164
42	16 October 1988	Buster	TBD	Buster reached number one in its fifth week of release with a weekly gross of £1,085,213
43	23 October 1988	A Fish Called Wanda	£718,594	A Fish Called Wanda reached number one in its second week of release
44	30 October 1988		£761,468
45	6 November 1988		£670,486
46	13 November 1988		£723,628
47	20 November 1988		£629,032
48	27 November 1988	Scrooged	£548,212
49	4 December 1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	£1,506,863	Who Framed Roger Rabbit surpassed the opening weekend record set by Crocodile Dundee II
50	11 December 1988		£1,280,841
51	18 December 1988		£901,811
52	25 December 1988		TBD

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films in the U.K. between 1 December 1987 and 18 December 1988.

Rank	Title	Distributor	U.K. Gross
1.	Fatal Attraction	UIP	£15,441,584
2.	Crocodile Dundee II	UIP	£13,324,673
3.	Three Men and a Baby	Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros.	£9,662,992
4.	A Fish Called Wanda	UIP	£8,509,357
5.	Coming to America	UIP	£5,808,136
6.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros.	£5,604,360
7.	Good Morning, Vietnam	Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros.	£5,213,785
8.	The Last Emperor	Columbia/Tri-Star	£4,070,826
9.	The Jungle Book (reissue)	Walt Disney/Warner Bros.	£3,944,843
10.	Buster	Vestron	£3,809,021

Highest-grossing films of 1988 by BBFC rating

U	The Jungle Book (reissue)
PG	Crocodile Dundee II
15	A Fish Called Wanda
18	Fatal Attraction

See also

• List of British films — British films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films