How to Watch All the ‘Fast & Furious’ Movies in Order

The Fast & Furious franchise is just a few laps from the finish line.

Fast X is finally available to stream at home, which leaves just two films left in Vin Diesel’s racing and heisting saga.

The franchise began in 2001 with The Fast and the Furious, intended to be the first film in a tetralogy about family and illegal street racing — the initial set of movies wrapped up with Fast & Furious.

Then, the series pivoted toward heists and spying while still honoring the strong family element, beginning with 2011’s Fast Five.

Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster headline the franchise (as did Paul Walker before his death in 2013), but each film has introduced new characters that have stuck around for more. Some notable actors who have starred in Fast movies include Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, whose characters received a spin-off film in 2019, John Cena, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Charlize Theron, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, and more. Fast X will be Jason Momoa and Brie Larson’s introduction into the world.

We know there’s a lot to catch up on before you see Fast X, so we’re making it easier than ever for you to find all of these movies and figure out how to watch them all in order.

1. The Fast and the Furious (2001)

   This is the movie that started it all and spawned the massive franchise we know and love today. “The very first film features a group of rebellious upstarts who want to exist outside the rules imposed upon them. They break the law to earn money, get a better life, and to partake in a specific culture,” wrote Decider’s Meghan O’Keefe.

   WHERE TO STREAM THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

2. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

   The sequel to The Fast and the Furious is the only movie of the franchise not to feature Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto. Instead, it focuses on Paul Walker’s Brian O’Connor, an ex-LAPD officer going undercover for the FBI.

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

   Vin Diesel only shows up toward the end, and Paul Walker doesn’t appear at all, but the third installment in the Fast & Furious franchise served as the reset it need after 2 Fast 2 Furious. The series goes international, and for the first time, Justin Lin sat in the director chair — Lin would go on to shape this universe into what we know it as today.

   “Suddenly, the action scenes weren’t just flashy, they had personality. The characters began to feel honestly connected to one another. There was some verve to the filmmaking, some chutzpah,” wrote former Decider reporter Joe Reid.

   WHERE TO STREAM THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT

4. Fast & Furious (2009)

   For the first time since the 2001 original film, Diesel and Walker returned to lead a Fast & Furious movie. This back-to-basics movie serves as not much more than a setup for all of the films that follow.

   WHERE TO STREAM FAST & FURIOUS

5. Fast Five (2011)

   With Fast Five, the franchise takes a turn from the straightforward street car racing that was the series’ signature style so far into a heist action series featuring cars.

   “It’s a known law of action movies: add Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to your franchise, and it instantly becomes better. That’s what happened with the Fast & Furious series, which went from car-racing movies with some action to action movies with some car-racing, thanks to the addition of Johnson’s Luke Hobbs,” Decider’s managing editor Alex Zalben wrote about the film.

   WHERE TO STREAM FAST FIVE

6. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

   Former Decider reporter Joe Reid wrote, of Fast & Furious 6: “Everything that’s great about Furious 6 — the all-star cast, the ever-more implausible stunts, the sense of big-budget fun grounded by themes of family and loyalty — was introduced in Fast Five (and executed a bit better too).”

   The movie introduces Luke Evans’ Owen Shaw, who would return for the next two installments.

   WHERE TO STREAM FAST & FURIOUS 6

7. Furious 7 (2015)

   Furious 7 features the final appearance of Paul Walker, who died tragically before he could complete work on the film. Thanks to CGI and his brother acting as a stand-in, the production was able to wrap up Brian O’Connor’s arc.

   Decider managing editor Alex Zalben says the film “features more blockbuster stunts than you can count: jumping between skyscrapers; falling out of planes; etc.”

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8. The Fate of the Furious (2017)

   In The Fate of the Furious, Charlize Theron makes her franchise debut as the new villain Cipher, who blackmails Dom Toretto into betraying his family — which, if you know anything about how important family is to these movies, is a big deal.

   WHERE TO STREAM THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS

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

   This offshoot of the main Fast & Furious franchise pairs Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) together. The unlikely duo team up (alongside Shaw’s sister, played by Vanessa Kirby) to take down Idris Elba’s cybernetically enhanced terrorist.

   Decider’s senior film reporter Anna Menta wrote about the movie, stating that “when paired with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson‘s Fast & Furious character, Luke Hobbs, in the 2019 spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw, Shaw lets some of that dry wit shine through.”

   WHERE TO STREAM FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW

10. F9 (2021)

    In F9, the fitting ninth installment of the main franchise, Dom Toretto’s estranged brother (John Cena) teams up with the aforementioned Cipher and Thue Ersted Rasmussen’s rogue covert operative to begin using a new weapons program.

    “Not only do we get to see Diesel character Dominic Toretto’s dad in flashbacks, but we learn our car-enthusiast-turned-criminal-gang-leader-turned-spy-hero-turned-FAM’LY-man protagonist has a brother!” wrote Decider contributor John Serba in his review. “A brother no one ever bothered to mention in the previous 18 hours of movies, and who happens to be not just a very good driver of automobiles but also an international terrorist – how about that!”

    WHERE TO STREAM F9

11. Fast X (2023)

    The latest movie in the Fast franchise to hit theaters is now available to buy or rent at home. Fast X is now the first installment in a three-act final chapter for the films, despite reports that the next film would actually be the the saga’s victory lap.

    In addition to all the usual suspects, the movie adds Brie Larson, Rita Moreno, and Jason Momoa to the large cast, the latter of them playing an over the top, campy and colorful villain — a perfect foil to Dom Toretto and the Family.

    WHERE TO STREAM FAST X