Moonraker
“Where all the other Bonds end… this one begins!”
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
How Moonraker compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of James Bond, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #24 of 26
- Rank in the series by rating
- 2 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 2%
- Share of the series audience
Moonraker (1979) ranks 24th of the 26 rated films in the James Bond series, at 6.2/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.6/10.
It arrived 2 years after The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
Its 2,289 TMDB ratings are 2% of the 114,993 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 September 2026.
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Moonraker is film 11 of 26. See the complete watch order.
- 1Dr. No
- 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
- 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