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 Ref 1 Home Alone £1,639,898 2 Arachnophobia £1,305,699 3 £1,221,939 4 £1,062,383 5 Rocky V £1,826,024 6 Kindergarten Cop £1,995,320 7 Three Men and a Little Lady £2,358,154 8 £3,002,703 9 £1,947,367 10 £1,425,722 11 £1,152,053 12 Green Card £1,167,612Green Card reached number one in its third week of release 13 Look Who's Talking Too £1,903,552 14 £1,414,050 15 Dances with Wolves £1,201,344Dances with Wolves reached number one in its ninth week of release 16 Highlander II: The Quickening £1,984,265 17 Sleeping with the Enemy £2,130,968Sleeping with the Enemy reached number one in its second week of release 18 £1,723,382 19 £1,466,686 20 The Doors £1,063,510The Doors reached number one in its third week of release 21 Misery £1,072,609Misery reached number one in its second week of release 22 £863,375 23 Mermaids £989,064Mermaids reached number one in its second week of release 24 The Silence of the Lambs £4,260,472The Silence of the Lambs reached number one in its second week of release and beat the one week record set by Batman 25 £3,566,735 26 £2,532,977 27 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear £2,587,730 28 £1,621,072 29 £1,426,471 30 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † £2,372,538 31 £2,300,000 32 £1,991,986 33 £1,831,174 34 Terminator 2: Judgment Day £4,631,895Terminator 2 set an opening weekend record of £2,337,980 beating Batmans £2 million and beat the opening week record set by Silence of the Lambs earlier in the year 35 £3,564,891 36 £2,395,446 37 £1,807,188 38 £1,541,718 39 £1,085,761 40 £868,862 41 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves † £723,922Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves returned to number one in its twelfth week of release 42 The Commitments £779,674The Commitments reached number one in its second week of release 43 £1,298,137 44 £1,172,034 45 City Slickers £1,005,788City Slickers reached number one in its third week of release 46 The Fisher King £820,557 47 £666,523 48 Point Break £1,190,599 49 £841,788 50 Hot Shots! £1,852,988Hot Shots! reached number one in its second week of release 51 The Addams Family £2,017,379 52
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 LadyWarner Bros. 12,967,783 5. Dances with WolvesGuild 10,598,273 6. Sleeping with the Enemy 20th Century Fox9,230,825 7. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear UIP8,790,453 8. Home Alone20th Century Fox 8,353,519 9. Kindergarten Cop UIP8,216,680 10. The Commitments20th Century Fox 6,997,113
See also List of British films — British films by year Lists of box office number-one films
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