Thunderball
“Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!”
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
How Thunderball compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of James Bond, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #9 of 26
- Rank in the series by rating
- 1 year
- Wait since the previous film
- 2%
- Share of the series audience
Thunderball (1965) ranks 9th of the 26 rated films in the James Bond series, at 6.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.6/10.
It arrived 1 year after Goldfinger (1964).
Its 2,717 TMDB ratings are 2% of the 114,993 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 September 2026.
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Thunderball is film 4 of 26. See the complete watch order.
- 1Dr. No
- 2From Russia with Love
- 3Goldfinger
- 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
- 16The Living Daylights
- 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