James Bond Films Ranked

26 movies  

Only includes the ones I've seen. Based on quality more than entertainment value, with the most so-bad-its-good ones at the bottom.

Casino Royale (2006) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Casino Royale
7.5 (16 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Daniel Craig / Eva Green
other title: James Bond: Casino Royale / 007: Casino Royale
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: One of the best movies ever made. Reboots Bond to explore his origins via the original book. Grounded and back-to-basics while transforming the most dated stuff. A character study that treats Bond's sexism and ego as flaws rather than merits.
Skyfall (2012) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Skyfall
7.5 (14 ratings) director: Sam Mendes actor: Daniel Craig / Judi Dench
other title: James Bond: Skyfall / 007: Skyfall
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: An incredible exploration of Bond's relationship with M, as well as certain aspects of both of their pasts. Successfully integrates some elements of classic Bond into the Craig timeline, such as a great new Q. Queerbaiting via the villain is unfortunate.
GoldenEye (1995) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
GoldenEye
7.3 (6 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Pierce Brosnan / Sean Bean
other title: James Bond: GoldenEye / 007 - GoldenEye
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: My first Bond movie. Very nostalgic. 006's involvement makes things personal for Bond, and Natalya's story is dramatic and brilliant, but the film has plenty of action and silly moments too. A great mix of the best of Moore and Dalton's Bonds.
No Time to Die (2021) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB Bangumi WikiData
No Time to Die
7.1 (10 ratings) director: Cary Joji Fukunaga actor: Daniel Craig / Léa Seydoux
other title: James Bond: No Time to Die / 007: Sem Tempo para Morrer
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Licence to Kill (1989) [Movie] TMDB
Licence to Kill
director: John Glen actor: Timothy Dalton / Carey Lowell
other title: 007 - Vendetta privata / James Bond: Licence to Kill
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: One of the most underrated Bond films. Things get more personal for Bond than usual, leading to an exciting revenge story. Underappreciated in it's own time for similar reasons to what Craig's Bond would be respected for in his.
For Your Eyes Only (1981) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
For Your Eyes Only
director: John Glen actor: Roger Moore / Carole Bouquet
other title: Solo per i tuoi occhi / James Bond: Agent 007 - Strengt Fortroligt
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Some of the best action in the series so far. Relies on thrills and suspense rather than spectacle, but retains a sense of humour. Bond is much classier than in prior movies and Melina is great too. Falls for a few of the usual unfortunate Bond trappings.
From Russia with Love (1963) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
From Russia with Love
director: Terence Young actor: Sean Connery / Daniela Bianchi
other title: A 007, dalla Russia con amore / Agent 007 - Jages
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: The template of the spy genre - and for good reason. Much more grounded than future Bond movies. Female characters are two-dimensional, but in a way that would come across as self-parody if done today, rather than misogynistic.
A View to a Kill (1985) [Movie] TMDB Douban KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData
A View to a Kill
director: John Glen actor: Roger Moore / Tanya Roberts
other title: 007 - Bersaglio mobile / James Bond: Agent 007 i skudlinjen
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
Spectre (2015) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Spectre
6.7 (10 ratings) director: Sam Mendes actor: Daniel Craig / Christoph Waltz
other title: James Bond: Spectre / 007 Spectre
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Clumsily ties some plot points of the previous films together, while genuinely adding to others. The reimagining of a classic villain is undercooked, while an interesting new relationship leads into the next movie well. Overall good, but not great.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
director: Peter R. Hunt actor: George Lazenby / Diana Rigg
other title: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà / James Bond: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
The World Is Not Enough (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB WikiData
The World Is Not Enough
director: Michael Apted actor: Pierce Brosnan / Sophie Marceau
other title: Il mondo non basta / James Bond: The World Is Not Enough
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Has its issues, but not as bad as some people say it is. I wanted to see Elektra and Bond's relationship explored more instead of adding a second lady to the mix who doesn't add a whole lot. Great to see more of Valentine and of Judi Dench's M.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB IMDb TMDB
The Spy Who Loved Me
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Roger Moore / Barbara Bach
other title: La spia che mi amava / James Bond: Spionen der elskede mig
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: The concept of a foreign agent's lover being killed by 007 only for the two unknowing agents to have to begrudgingly work together is inspired, but I wish they went further with the drama of that. Impressive action and effects for the time.
The Living Daylights (1987) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb
The Living Daylights
director: John Glen actor: Timothy Dalton / Maryam d'Abo
other title: 007 - Zona pericolo / James Bond: Spioner dør ved daggry
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.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: A strong story with some interesting ideas, but drags on in the second half. Final act has aged poorly given the real-world events that occurred after the movie came out. Dalton's Bond is the most serious and dramatic up to this point, which is refreshing after a decade of Moore.
Live and Let Die (1973) [Movie] Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Live and Let Die
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Roger Moore / Yaphet Kotto
other title: Agente 007 - Vivi e lascia morire / James Bond: Lev og lad dø
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Moore is easily a more likeable Bond than his predecessors in his first Bond movie. Charming, funny and even compassionate as opposed to Connery's brutality. A silly, funny movie with great action, but goes a bit overboard with the supernatural stuff.
Quantum of Solace (2008) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Quantum of Solace
5.9 (8 ratings) director: Marc Forster actor: Daniel Craig / Olga Kurylenko
other title: James Bond: Quantum Of Solace / 007: Quantum of Solace
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Bond's quest for vengance continues from the last movie's ending and provides some unneeded - yet not unwelcome - closure, but these sections are diamonds in the rough. The film is at its best when its referencing a much better one.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
Tomorrow Never Dies
other title: Il domani non muore mai / James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Octopussy (1983) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Octopussy
director: John Glen actor: Roger Moore / Maud Adams
other title: Octopussy - Operazione piovra / James Bond: Agent 007 i Octopussy
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Moonraker (1979) [Movie] Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb NeoDB Bangumi WikiData
Moonraker
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Roger Moore / Lois Chiles
other title: Moonraker - Operazione spazio / James Bond: Agent 007 - Moonraker
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: An average Bond film until they go to space and things go off the rails, but not in a fun, so-bad-it's-good way. Just like TSWLM, they have a Bond woman who can hold her own, but they don't do enough with that. Jaws' demotion to comedy relief is pathetic.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
The Man with the Golden Gun
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Roger Moore / Christopher Lee
other title: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro / James Bond: Manden med den gyldne pistol
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Great villains and scenario, but this movie tries to make Moore's Bond more like Connery's in all of the worst ways, resulting in villains that are more likeable than the protagonist. Almost as much bigotry as You Only Live Twice.
Thunderball (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB
Thunderball
director: Terence Young actor: Sean Connery / Claudine Auger
other title: Agente 007 - Thunderball - Operazione tuono / James Bond: Agent 007 i ilden
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.
TalkyPup 🐶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️🦘: Decent plot, but slow pacing even for a 60's movie. Fiona is a great foil for Bond. The underwater gimmick is cool in theory, but the water literally gives fights less impact. Both real-world and fictional animal cruelty is appalling.
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