Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
“Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses.”
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
How Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Indiana Jones, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 5
- Rank in the series by rating
- 5 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 23%
- Share of the series audience
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ranks 2nd of the 5 rated films in the Indiana Jones series, at 7.9/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.1/10.
It arrived 5 years after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
Its 11,332 TMDB ratings are 23% of the 49,233 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Indiana Jones, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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