Ghostbusters
“They're here to save the world.”
After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.
How Ghostbusters compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Ghostbusters, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 4
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 44%
- Share of the series audience
Ghostbusters (1984) is the highest-rated of the 4 rated films in the Ghostbusters series, at 7.5/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 40 years before the most recent entry, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).
Its 10,155 TMDB ratings are 44% of the 23,061 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Ghostbusters, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
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