Die Hard
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High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
How Die Hard compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Die Hard, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 5
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 32%
- Share of the series audience
Die Hard (1988) is the highest-rated of the 5 rated films in the Die Hard series, at 7.8/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.8/10.
It is the film that started the series, 25 years before the most recent entry, A Good Day to Die Hard (2013).
Its 12,617 TMDB ratings are 32% of the 39,394 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Die Hard, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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