Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
“Explore a new era of J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World.”
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
How Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Fantastic Beasts, 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
- 54%
- Share of the series audience
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in the Fantastic Beasts series, at 7.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.9/10.
It is the film that started the series, 5 years before the most recent entry, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
Its 20,044 TMDB ratings are 54% of the 37,041 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Fantastic Beasts, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated October 2026.
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