How to Watch the Fast and Furious Movies in Chronological Order

As 1 of the longest movie franchises of each time, The Fast and Furious bid has evolved from comparatively humble thoroughfare racing movies to the pinnacle of over-the-top Hollywood enactment — an improvement that's led to astir $2 cardinal USD astatine the planetary container office.

Throughout that time, the franchise's 12 films (nine mainline, 1 spinoff, and 2 shorts) person woven unneurotic a convoluted communicative that's proven a spot hard to follow. With the latest Fast and Furious film: Fast X present disposable to watercourse connected Amazon, we've enactment unneurotic this useful usher connected however to ticker the Fast and Furious movies successful chronological order.

At the bottommost of the article, you'll find a 2nd database that orders the films by their existent merchandise dates, if you’d similar to ticker them successful that bid instead. Considering its deficiency of value to the movie series’ ongoing narrative, we aren’t including the animated bid Fast & Furious: Spy Racers.

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How Many Fast and Furious Movies are There?

There are presently a full of 12 Fast and Furious movies, 2 abbreviated films, and an animated series. Fast and Furious 11 (also known arsenic Fast X: Part 2) is expected to reason the main storyline, though spinoffs and broadside projects whitethorn continue. See our usher connected wherever to ticker each Fast and Furious movie for streaming details for the films.

How Long to Watch All Fast and Furious Movies

A Fast and Furious movie marathon volition instrumentality you astir a afloat time to get through. If you’re looking to ticker the full franchise successful a weekend, each of the films unneurotic instrumentality almost 23 and fractional hours.

Fast and Furious Movies successful Chronological Order

1. The Fast and the Furious (2001)

The timeline begins with the franchise's archetypal film, 2001's The Fast and the Furious. The reasonably straightforward enactment crippled tasks Paul Walker's undercover bull Brian O'Conner with taking down a unit of carjackers led by Vin Diesel's Dom Toretto. Brian gets progressive successful amerciable thoroughfare racing, befriends Dom, starts dating his sister (Jordan Brewster's Mia Toretto), and yet chooses those relationships implicit his work arsenic a cop. The archetypal movie besides introduces viewers to bid staple Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Letty Ortiz, Dom's emotion interest.

Read our review of The Fast and the Furious.

2. The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious shows however Brian O’Conner, connected the tally from instrumentality enforcement, gets from LA to Miami earlier the events of 2 Fast 2 Furious. The six-minute abbreviated movie features nary dialog and a fistful of races. It’s nonessential viewing, but it’s present nonetheless.

3. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

The series’ lone movie without Dom Toretto, 2 Fast 2 Furious introduces Roman Pearce (Tyrese GIbson) and Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges). The communicative follows Brian O’Connor and Pearce arsenic they spell undercover to instrumentality down a cause lord successful speech for having their transgression records expunged — a ngo that's yet successful. It besides introduces a caller emotion involvement for O’Connor successful Eva Mendes’s Monica Fuentes, who lone appears again concisely successful Fast Five.

Read our review of 2 Fast 2 Furious

4. Los Bandoleros (2009)

The 2nd of the series’ 2 abbreviated films, Los Bandoleros takes spot betwixt Fast 1 and Fast 4, though its nonstop placement connected the timeline is ne'er specified. Written and directed by Vin Diesel, Los Bandoleros is acceptable successful the Dominican Republic, wherever Dom is lying debased aft the events of Fast 1. In its 20-minute runtime, the movie manages to screen an lipid war, corrupt politics, and a situation break, culminating successful a romanticist reunion betwixt Dom and Letty. Chronologically, it’s besides the archetypal clip we spot Sung Kang’s death-defying Han Lue.

5. Fast & Furious (2009)

Not to beryllium confused with The Fast and the Furious, Fast & Furious is the franchise's 4th mainline film, though it precedes Tokyo Drift (film fig three) successful the chronology. It's a sequel to Fast 1, acceptable 5 years later, with Dom and Brian teaming up erstwhile again to instrumentality down a cause lord and avenge the “death” of Letty. Dom is yet arrested and sentenced, though en way to the prison, Brian, Mia, and Tego Leo (Tego Calderon) are seen intercepting the situation bus. Fast & Furious besides introduces Gal Gadot’s Gisele Yashar. It was the Wonder Woman actor's archetypal large movie role.

Read our review of Fast & Furious.

6. Fast Five (2011)

Frequent bid manager Justin Lin’s 3rd Fast movie raised the stakes with monolithic setpieces and a supersized formed featuring Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs. Picking up wherever Fast & Furious near off, Dom heads to Rio de Janeiro with Mia and Brian aft escaping his situation transport. A acquainted communicative unfolds: They bargain and contention souped-up thoroughfare cars portion connected the tally from different authorities agency, this clip Luke Hobbs and the DEA. Eva Mendes’s Monica Fuentes returns successful a mid-credits country to uncover Letty is inactive alive.

Read our review of Fast Five.

7. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

Fast 6 begins with Dom and his unit erstwhile again connected the lam. Hobbs, meanwhile, is looking to instrumentality down a mercenary radical led by Luke Evans’s Owen Shaw. Hobbs recruits Dom by showing him a representation of Letty, whom Dom believes to beryllium dead, and offering him and his unit amnesty backmost successful the U.S. As always, determination are vehicular shenanigans and casualties, though things yet extremity good for the crew, and the franchise carries on. The post-credits country introduces Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw to the series.

Read our review of Fast & Furious 6.

8. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

The wackiest of the Fast movies timeline-wise is the series’ 3rd movie, which really takes spot betwixt Fast 6 and 7. The archetypal Fast movie directed by Justin Lin features a Dom cameo but mostly centers astir teenage thoroughfare racers Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) and Twinkie (Shad "Bow Wow" Moss), with bid staple Han Lue serving arsenic a mentor to Sean. With a $62 cardinal haul, it's the series’ slightest palmy introduction by container bureau total.

Read our review of Tokyo Drift.

9. Furious 7 (2015)

The series’ biggest container bureau occurrence to day is Furious 7, which grossed implicit $350 cardinal — nary different Fast movie has cleared $250 million. It’s besides the astir well-received critically with a Rotten Tomatoes people of 82% (five points amended than runner-up Fast Five). Furious 7 picks up astatine the extremity of Tokyo Drift, with Statham’s Deckard Shaw serving arsenic the main villain. It was directed by James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, Aquaman).

This is the past Fast movie with Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner, arsenic Walker died during the clip of its filming. Furious 7 ends with an affectional farewell to Brian/Walker.

Read our review of Furious 7.

10. The Fate of the Furious (2017)

Order is restored present arsenic Fast 8 follows Fast 7 successful some the existent and fictional timelines. The film’s stacked formed includes Charlize Theron, Russell Crowe, Scott Eastwood, and Helen Mirren, alongside bid regulars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Dwayne Johson, and Jason Statham. In summation to the expected dose of accelerated cars, over-the-top action, and double-crossing, Fast 8 finds clip for cyberterrorism and the menace of atomic war.

Read our review of The Fate of the Furious.

11. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw (2019)

The series’ lone spinoff movie to day stars Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Statham’s Deckard Shaw. The duo, who became buddies aft escaping situation unneurotic successful the erstwhile film, are tasked with redeeming humanity from a deadly virus. The spinoff besides brings the legendary Idris Elba into the fold arsenic villainous ace worker Brixton Lore.

Back successful 2020, Johnson said helium was moving connected a Hobbs and Shaw sequel, though helium vowed to ne'er again look successful the mainline films owed to a feud with Vin Diesel. So arsenic it stands determination are presently nary discussions happening for a sequel.

Read our review of Hobbs and Shaw.

12. F9 (2021)

The series’ astir caller movie earlier Fast X, erstwhile again directed by Justin Lin, pits Dom and the unit against Jakob Toretto, Dom’s estranged member played by John Cena. The family’s each present for this one, arsenic astir each large bid subordinate to day returns, successful summation to caller humor similar Cena, Michael Rooker, and Cardi B. The crippled involves different menace to humanity: Project Aries, a instrumentality susceptible of controlling each of the world's limb systems. As always, that crippled is foiled, successful portion acknowledgment to Roman and Tej flying a Pontiac into space.

Read our review of Fast and Furious 9.

Not yet disposable for streaming.

13. Fast X (2023)

Fast X is acceptable to beryllium the 2nd to past section successful the Fast and Furious series. Dom volition person to support his household from a caller force named Dante (Jason Momoa) who is looking for revenge aft the decease of his begetter successful Fast 5.

If you're wondering however to ticker Fast X successful 2024, it's presently disposable to rent connected Amazon oregon you tin watercourse it connected Peacock with a subscription.

Read our review of Fast X.

How to Watch the Fast and Furious Movies By Release Date

1. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
2. The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003 – abbreviated film)
3. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
4. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
5. Fast & Furious (2009)
6. Los Bandoleros (2009 – abbreviated film)
7. Fast Five (2011)
8. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
9. Furious 7 (2015)
10. The Fate of the Furious (2017)
11. Hobbs & Shaw (2019 – spinoff film)
12. F9 (2021)
13. Fast X (2023)
14. Fast X: Part 2 (TBA 2026)

The Future of The Fast and Furious Movies

Fast X is the 2nd to past movie of the mainline The Fast and Furious movies, with the franchise's conclusion, Fast X: Part 2, expected to merchandise successful 2026. Vin Diesel precocious spoke astir what to expect from the last movie, including a instrumentality to focusing connected thoroughfare racing and adjacent a reunion with Paul Walker's character, Brian O'Conner.

That besides doesn't mean we're done with the universe. In the meantime, determination are plans for Dwayne Johnson to prima successful a caller Fast and Furious movie arsenic Luke Hobbs successful 2025. There's besides a rumored The Fast and Furious spinoff that volition supposedly beryllium led by the women of the series, according to a study from Syfy. Though, again, thing is confirmed there, either.