The Living Daylights
“The new James Bond...living on the edge.”
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
How The Living Daylights compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of James Bond, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #13 of 26
- Rank in the series by rating
- 2 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 2%
- Share of the series audience
The Living Daylights (1987) ranks 13th of the 26 rated films in the James Bond series, at 6.6/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.6/10.
It arrived 2 years after A View to a Kill (1985).
Its 2,144 TMDB ratings are 2% of the 117,247 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 November 2026.
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The Living Daylights is film 16 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
- 11Moonraker
- 12For Your Eyes Only
- 13Octopussy
- 14Never Say Never Again
- 15A View to a Kill
- 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