
“All pirates must die.”
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Pirates of the Caribbean, not taken from this film’s own record.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) ranks 4th of the 5 rated films in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, at 6.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.1/10.
It arrived 6 years after Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), the longest wait between any two films in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Its 13,043 TMDB ratings are 15% of the 84,364 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Pirates of the Caribbean, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is film 5 of 5. See the complete watch order.