| Week | Weekend End Date | Film | Total weekend gross (Pound sterling) | Weekend openings in the Top 10 | Reference(s) |
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| 1 | 4 January 2009 | Yes Man [a] | £2,223,950 | The Spirit (#6), The Reader (#7), Che Part One (#9) | [2] |
| 2 | 11 January 2009 | Role Models | £2,330,145 | Slumdog Millionaire (#2), Bride Wars (#3), Defiance (#4) | [3] |
| 3 | 18 January 2009 | Slumdog Millionaire | £2,630,820 | Seven Pounds (#2), My Bloody Valentine 3D (#3), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (#6), The Wrestler (#8) | [4] |
| 4 | 25 January 2009 | £2,806,996 | Valkyrie (#2), Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (#5), Frost/Nixon (#9) | [5] |
| 5 | 1 February 2009 | £2,359,854 | Revolutionary Road (#3), Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (#10) | [6] |
| 6 | 8 February 2009 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | £2,213,495 | He's Just Not That Into You (#2), The Secret of Moonacre (#6), Doubt (#9) | [7] |
| 7 | 15 February 2009 | Bolt | £5,457,438 | Hotel for Dogs (#5), Friday the 13th (#6), Notorious (#7), The Pink Panther 2 (#8), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (#9) | [8] |
| 8 | 22 February 2009 | £3,006,050 | Confessions of a Shopaholic (#2), Push (#7) | [9] |
| 9 | 1 March 2009 | Slumdog Millionaire | £1,676,508 | Gran Torino (#2), The Unborn (#3), The International (#6), New in Town (#10) | [10] [11] |
| 10 | 8 March 2009 | Watchmen | £3,243,001 | The Young Victoria (#4) | [12] [13] |
| 11 | 15 March 2009 | Marley & Me | £4,414,169 | Bronson (#10) | [14] [15] |
| 12 | 22 March 2009 | £2,166,270 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop (#2), Duplicity (#3), Lesbian Vampire Killers (#4) | [16] [17] |
| 13 | 29 March 2009 | Knowing | £2,471,605 | The Haunting in Connecticut (#3), The Damned United (#5) | [18] [19] |
| 14 | 5 April 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | £4,345,711 | The Boat That Rocked (#2) | [20] [21] |
| 15 | 12 April 2009 | Fast & Furious | £4,928,784 | 17 Again (#3), Race to Witch Mountain (#6), Dragonball Evolution (#8) | [22] [23] |
| 16 | 19 April 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | £2,057,367 | I Love You, Man (#4), Crank High Voltage (#5), In the Loop (#8) | [24] |
| 17 | 26 April 2009 | State of Play | £1,513,951 | The Uninvited (#7), Observe and Report (#8) | [25] |
| 18 | 3 May 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | £6,658,979 | Hannah Montana: The Movie (#2), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (#4) | [26] |
| 19 | 10 May 2009 | Star Trek | £5,950,203 | Coraline (#2) | [27] |
| 20 | 17 May 2009 | Angels & Demons | £6,054,627 | Fighting (#6) | [28] |
| 21 | 24 May 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | £4,160,496 | Tormented (#8) | [29] |
| 22 | 31 May 2009 | £2,054,769 | Drag Me to Hell (#2), 12 Rounds (#5), Obsessed (#9), Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (#10) | [30] |
| 23 | 7 June 2009 | Terminator Salvation | £6,936,528 | Last Chance Harvey (#6) | [31] |
| 24 | 14 June 2009 | The Hangover | £3,193,806 | The Last House on the Left (#7), Looking for Eric (#8) | [32] |
| 25 | 21 June 2009 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | £8,349,739 | | [33] |
| 26 | 28 June 2009 | £4,368,024 | Year One (#3), My Sister's Keeper (#4), Blood: The Last Vampire (#7), New York (#9), Sunshine Cleaning (#10) | [34] |
| 27 | 5 July 2009 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | £7,639,884 | Public Enemies (#2), Kambakkht Ishq (#6) | [35] |
| 28 | 12 July 2009 | Brüno | £5,000,229 | Short Kut: The Con is On (#10) | [36] |
| 29 | 19 July 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince † | £19,784,924 | Moon (#8) | [37] |
| 30 | 26 July 2009 | £5,176,950 | The Proposal (#2), Antichrist (#10) | [38] |
| 31 | 2 August 2009 | £2,917,786 | G-Force (#2), The Taking of Pelham 123 (#3), Land of the Lost (#6), Coco Before Chanel (#9), Love Aaj Kal (#10) | [39] |
| 32 | 9 August 2009 | The Ugly Truth | £1,976,043 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (#2), Orphan (#8) | [40] |
| 33 | 16 August 2009 | The Time Traveller's Wife | £1,410,333 | Aliens in the Attic (#2), Bandslam (#7), A Perfect Getaway (#10) | [41] |
| 34 | 23 August 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | £3,596,415 | Dance Flick (#6) | [42] |
| 35 | 30 August 2009 | The Final Destination | £3,633,395 | Funny People (#3), The Hurt Locker (#8), Broken Embraces (#10) | [43] |
| 36 | 6 September 2009 | District 9 | £2,288,378 | 500 Days of Summer (#3) | [44] |
| 37 | 13 September 2009 | £1,184,392 | Dorian Gray (#3), Sorority Row (#4), Julie & Julia (#6), Adventureland (#10) | [45] |
| 38 | 20 September 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | £1,583,544 | Gamer (#3), The Firm (#9), Away We Go (#10) | [46] |
| 39 | 27 September 2009 | Fame | £2,408,242 | Surrogates (#3), The Soloist (#5), Creation (#7) | [47] |
| 40 | 4 October 2009 | £1,786,358 | The Invention of Lying (#2), Toy Story 3D (#3), Pandorum (#7) | [48] |
| 41 | 11 October 2009 | Up | £6,411,836 | Zombieland (#2), Love Happen (#5), Halloween II (#6) | [49] |
| 42 | 18 October 2009 | £5,162,325 | Couples Retreat (#2), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (#3), Triangle (#7), Blue (#10) | [50] |
| 43 | 25 October 2009 | £3,807,003 | Saw VI (#2), Fantastic Mr. Fox (#3), Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant (#5) | [51] |
| 44 | 1 November 2009 | Michael Jackson's This Is It | £4,877,255 | 9 (#7), An Education (#8), Dead Man Running (#10) | [52] |
| 45 | 8 November 2009 | A Christmas Carol | £1,917,539 | The Men Who Stare at Goats (#4), The Fourth Kind (#5), Jennifer's Body (#7) | [53] |
| 46 | 15 November 2009 | 2012 | £6,489,809 | Harry Brown (#3) | [54] |
| 47 | 22 November 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | £11,683,158 | A Serious Man (#8), The Informant! (#10) | [55] |
| 48 | 29 November 2009 | £4,303,257 | Paranormal Activity (#2), Law Abiding Citizen (#5), Nativity! (#6), De Dana Dan (#9) | [56] |
| 49 | 6 December 2009 | Paranormal Activity | £1,839,273 | Planet 51 (#4), The Box (#8), The Descent Part 2 (#9) | [57] |
| 50 | 13 December 2009 | A Christmas Carol | £1,544,226 | Where the Wild Things Are (#2) | [58] |
| 51 | 20 December 2009 | Avatar | £8,509,050 | St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (#2) | [59] |
| 52 | 27 December 2009 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | £5,347,191 | Sherlock Holmes (#3), 3 Idiots (#4), Nowhere Boy (#7) | [60] |