Dr. No
“Now meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction!”
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
How Dr. No compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of James Bond, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #6 of 26
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 4%
- Share of the series audience
Dr. No (1962) ranks 6th of the 26 rated films in the James Bond series, at 7.0/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.6/10.
It is the film that started the series, 59 years before the most recent entry, No Time to Die (2021).
Its 4,252 TMDB ratings are 4% of the 117,247 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for James Bond, comparing all 26 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
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Dr. No is film 1 of 26. See the complete watch order.
- 2From Russia with Love
- 3Goldfinger
- 4Thunderball
- 5You Only Live Twice
- 6On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- 7Diamonds Are Forever
- 8Live and Let Die
- 9The Man with the Golden Gun
- 10The Spy Who Loved Me
- 11Moonraker
- 12For Your Eyes Only
- 13Octopussy
- 14Never Say Never Again
- 15A View to a Kill
- 16The Living Daylights
- 17Licence to Kill
- 18GoldenEye
- 19Tomorrow Never Dies
- 20The World Is Not Enough
- 21Die Another Day
- 22Casino Royale
- 23Quantum of Solace
- 24Skyfall
- 25Spectre
- 26No Time to Die