The Hunger Games
“The world will be watching.”
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
How The Hunger Games compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Hunger Games, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 4
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 32%
- Share of the series audience
The Hunger Games (2012) ranks 2nd of the 4 rated films in The Hunger Games series, at 7.2/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.1/10.
It is the film that started the series, 4 years before the most recent entry, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015).
Its 23,690 TMDB ratings are 32% of the 72,985 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Hunger Games, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
The Hunger Games
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