The Terminator
“Your future is in its hands.”
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
How The Terminator compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Terminator, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 6
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 25%
- Share of the series audience
The Terminator (1984) ranks 2nd of the 6 rated films in The Terminator series, at 7.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.8/10.
It is the film that started the series, 35 years before the most recent entry, Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).
Its 15,078 TMDB ratings are 25% of the 59,585 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 Terminator, comparing all 6 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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