It’s all about family in the Fast & Furious franchise. What started as a movie about illegal street racing eventually transitioned into a beloved action film series. The 11 Fast & Furious movies have grossed over $7.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the 10 highest-grossing franchises in history. There are 10 movies within the Fast Saga and one spinoff. It’s only a matter of time before Universal greenlights television shows and reboots the franchise with a new cast.
The long-awaited sequel to Fast X remains in development. Until then, you can stream every Fast & Furious movie and relive every landmark moment in the series. The Fast & Furious franchise is like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, meaning the movies exist on a specific timeline. Here is the list of how to watch the Fast & Furious movies in chronological order.
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Fast and Furious (2001)
The one that started it all. If you’ve only seen the most films in the franchise, 2001’s Fast and Furious will be almost shocking in its restraint. The first film follows undercover LAPD officer Brian O’Conner (the late Paul Walker) and his investigation into a series of hijackings. This leads Brian to Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), the notorious street racer and leader of a local crew.
Ultimately, Brian realizes he has more in common with Dom than he expected and falls in love with Dom’s sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster). Rather than turning Dom over, Brian helps him escape, setting the stage for an enduring partnership.
The Turbo-Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The first short film in the franchise was included in the special edition DVD set of 2003’s 2 Fast 2 Furious. It’s not essential viewing — it’s buried in the special features of a DVD — but it provides a nice little link between the first and second films and shows just how forward-thinking this franchise really was. Marvel’s post-credits scenes receive the hype, but the Fast and Furious franchise found creative ways to further the story half a decade earlier.
In the six-minute film, Brian is on the run after helping Dom escape. He flees LA and begins winning street races across the U.S. to earn money and notoriety while the FBI launches a national manhunt for him. In the end, Brian reaches Miami, where 2 Fast 2 Furious takes place.
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
In Miami, Brian continues street racing to make a living. 2 Fast 2 Furious introduces mechanic Tej Parker (Ludacris) and starts making strides toward some of the crazy car modifications that have become a staple in the franchise.
Brian’s former boss, FBI Agent Bilkins (Thom Barry), cuts a deal with him to return to undercover work to take down drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser). Brian teams up with childhood friend Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) to bring down Verone in exchange for clean criminal records.
Los Bandoleros (2009)
The second short film in The Fast and Furious franchise is 20 minutes long and aims to bridge the third film, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Fast and Furious 4.
Los Bandoleros marks the return of Dom Toretto, now a fugitive hiding out in the Dominican Republic. In the film, Dom plans to steal oil and break his friend Tego Leo (Tego Calderon) out of prison. It also sheds some important light on Dom and Letty’s (Michelle Rodriguez) relationship — one of the most important in the franchise.
Fast & Furious (2009)
Shockingly, it’s not until 2009’s Fast & Furious that Dom Toretto and Brian O’Conner — the bromance at the crux of the franchise — finally reunite. Dom’s been on the run for five years and, in that time, has assembled a heist crew of Letty, Tego Leo, Rico Santos (Don Omar), Cara Mirtha (Mirtha Michelle), and Han Lue (Sung Kang).
Several months later, Dom finds out Letty has been killed, so he returns to the U.S. for her funeral and to find out what happened. Meanwhile, Brian, now an FBI agent, tries to track down a drug lord called Arturo Braga (John Ortiz). Letty was secretly working undercover for Brian while trying to clear Dom’s record when she died (or so the film leads you to believe). With the help of Braga’s liaison Gisele (Gal Gadot), Dom and Brian manage to take down Braga. However, rather than show gratitude, the FBI hits Dom with a 25-year prison sentence.
Fast Five (2011)
Fast Five is the film that ushers The Fast and Furious franchise into a new decade and new levels of death-defying stunts and high-octane action. To wit: Fast Five is where they get into a high-speed chase with a fortified train. Dom, Brian, and Mia are on the run in Rio de Janeiro after breaking Dom out of the prison bus. Now, the FBI sends top agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to bring the crew back to the U.S. Aware of Hobbs’ arrival, Dom and Brian decide to rob crime lord Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida) to support their life on the run.
After they successfully steal hundreds of millions of dollars and help Hobbs and Brazilian officer Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) bring this violent crime lord to justice, Hobbs compromises by giving Dom and Brian a 24-hour head start before he resumes the hunt. The film ends with a pregnant Mia, Brian, Dom, and Elena on a beach together. Mid-credits, Hobbs appears with a recent picture of Letty, who is very much alive without Dom’s knowledge.
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Fast and Furious 6 begins with all the members of the Brazil heist finally living happy lives. Brian and Mia have a son, while Dom is together with Elena. Hans and Gisele are a couple, and Roman and Tej have more wealth than they could have imagined. Hobbs returns to their lives when he encounters a former special ops agent gone rogue, Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), and a still-alive Letty. Shocked, Dom and his crew agree to help take out Shaw and rescue Letty in exchange for complete exoneration.
The team succeeds in derailing Shaw from his master plan but not without a price. Gisele sacrifices herself to save Han, and in the mid-credits scene, we see Han in a high-speed car chase in Tokyo. Suddenly, his car is obliterated by another one. Dom gets a phone call from the driver, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), who warns, “You don’t know me, but you’re about to.”
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
This is where things get a little dicey. Tokyo Drift follows high school student Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), who moves to Tokyo to avoid a prison sentence for street racing in the U.S. In Tokyo, Sean discovers drift racing and meets Han, with whom he begins to work and live.
Together, they rob the cruel, super-rich leader of the drift-racing underworld, the Drift King, and wind up in a chase. Just as Han gets away, his car is struck by another, exploding instantly and killing Han. This is the same crash that finally makes sense after Fast & Furious 6.
Furious 7 (2015)
If Fast Five took it up a notch, Furious 7 would break the adrenaline meter. Furious 7 is where they drop cars from a plane in one of the franchise’s best action scenes. The movie also elevates the franchise into dealing with more global existential stakes. Furious 7 introduces us to Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, a rogue special forces assassin on a mission to avenge his brother Owen after Dom Toretto put him in a coma.
Working with a covert ops team led by Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell), Dom and his team track Shaw while trying to obtain a computer program called God’s Eye that can be used to locate any person in the world in less than four minutes. After some intense action and one-on-one fights, Luke Hobbs arrives to save the day, putting Shaw in prison and sending Dom’s team back to the beach. Unfortunately, Furious 7 is Walker’s final film, as he died in a real car crash midway through production. The film handles his passing beautifully, giving him, Mia, and their son a touching, peaceful farewell from the franchise.
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
The Fate of the Furious is the one where Dom breaks bad. After being coerced into working for cyberterrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron), Dom goes rogue while working on a mission led by Hobbs. The betrayal sends Hobbs to the same prison as Deckard Shaw. Covert ops leader Mr. Nobody recruits them together to hunt down Dom and Cipher.
Throughout the film, we realize that Dom has a son with ex-girlfriend Elena whom he never knew about. Cipher is using the boy and Elena as leverage against Dom. Cipher even kills Elena to secure Dom’s cooperation, although Deckard and Owen Shaw come through in the clutch to save Dom’s son. In a resolving act, Shaw delivers Dom’s son safely to Dom, ending the rift between Dom, Shaw, and Hobbs.
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw (2019)
The first (but certainly not only) spinoff in the Fast and Furious franchise stars two of its most lovable, most poorly matched stars: Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw. While Hobbs and Shaw may loathe one another, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham’s chemistry and action star pedigree make for a ton of high-octane fun.
Forced to team up against Brixton Lore (Idris Elba), a cyber-genetically enhanced terrorist working for a shadow organization that plans to release a deadly virus that would wipe out half the planet, Hobbs and Shaw must put aside their differences to accomplish the mission. They’ll have help from a new secret agent with a connection to Shaw’s past.
F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
Throughout the entire series, Dom Toretto has preached the importance of family. What if the family fights for the other side? In F9, Dom learns that his estranged brother, Jakob Toretto (John Cena), is working as a highly trained assassin and elite driver for Otto (Thue Ersted Rasmussen), a wealthy aristocrat who wants a weapons-controlling program called Project Aries.
Dom blamed Jakob for their father’s death, but the lead Toretto will soon learn there’s more to the story. F9 marks the return of Han Lue, Dom’s former running mate who somehow survived the events in Tokyo Drift. With Han back on the team, Dom and his crew race to keep Project Aries from being activated by Jakob, Otto, and the recently escaped cyberterrorist Cipher.
Fast X (2023)
No matter what happens, Dom always gets the job done. However, Fast X presents Dom and the family’s toughest challenge to date: Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the son of drug lord Hernan Reyes from Fast Five. Dante targets Dom as revenge for her father’s death and the loss of his family’s fortune.
Fast X takes the crew around the globe, from Rome and Rio to Portugal and Antarctica. No matter how hard he tries, Dante thwarts Dom at every turn. Once Dante kidnaps Dom’s son, it becomes a matter of life and death for Toretto. Fast X famously ended on a cliffhanger and included a post-credits scene featuring the return of a familiar DSS agent.
