Rocky
“His whole life was a million-to-one shot.”
Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!
How Rocky compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Rocky, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 6
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 29%
- Share of the series audience
Rocky (1976) is the highest-rated of the 6 rated films in the Rocky series, at 7.8/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 30 years before the most recent entry, Rocky Balboa (2006).
Its 9,090 TMDB ratings are 29% of the 31,553 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Rocky, comparing all 6 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
Rocky
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Rocky is film 1 of 6. See the complete watch order.