Back to the Future
“He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all.”
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
How Back to the Future compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Back to the Future, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 46%
- Share of the series audience
Back to the Future (1985) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in the Back to the Future series, at 8.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.9/10.
It is the film that started the series, 5 years before the most recent entry, Back to the Future Part III (1990).
Its 22,357 TMDB ratings are 46% of the 48,417 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Back to the Future, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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