
“When you can live forever, what do you live for?”
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Twilight, not taken from this film’s own record.
Twilight (2008) ranks 2nd of the 5 rated films in the Twilight series, at 6.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.2/10.
It is the film that started the series, 4 years before the most recent entry, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012).
Its 14,661 TMDB ratings are 28% of the 52,836 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Twilight, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

Twilight is film 1 of 5. See the complete watch order.