How to watch the Fast and Furious movies in order (chronological and release date)
Here’s how to watch the Fast and Furious movies in order, from the 2001 original through to Fast X
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Think watching theFast and Furiousmovies in order is as simple as cruising from start to finish? Not quite. With 10 films (and counting), plus a spin-off, the timeline of this blockbuster Vin Diesel franchise is surprisingly intricate, with plenty of unexpected twists and turns.
In this guide, we’ll break down how to watch theFast and Furiousmovies in order – both by release date and chronological sequence – from the original all the way to the latest entry,Fast X. We’ll also explore what the future of the franchise might hold, provide streaming options in the US, UK, and Australia, and rank all 11 films based on their IMDb ratings.
Where to stream the Fast and Furious movies
Like Dom Toretto and his family, theFast & Furiousmovies rarely hang around in one place for long. Even though thePeacockstreaming service is owned outright by Comcast, the parent company of Universal Pictures, none of the films are currently available on the Peacock platform. That means US viewers will have to hunt around other streaming services to find them.
Viewers in the UK and Australia fare should find it slightly easier to binge the saga, with Sky Go and Now (in the UK), and Netflix, Prime Video, BINGE and Foxtel Now (in Australia) providing a home for most of the films in the long-running franchise.
Below we’ve tracked down where you can view the 11Fast & Furiousmovies to date. If they’re not available to stream, we’ve offered options to rent or buy the movies on SVOD.
The Fast and the FuriousAvailable to rent/buy onAppleTV,Google Play,Amazonand more (US); Sky Go,Now(UK);Netflix,Prime Video, Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
The Turbo Charged Prelude (short film)Not available to stream, but it’s here onYouTube.
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2 Fast 2 FuriousAvailable to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and more (US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
Los Bandoleros (short film)Not available to stream, but it’s here onVimeo
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo DriftAvailable to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and more (US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Prime Video, Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
Fast & FuriousAvailable to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and more (US); Now (UK); Netflix, Prime Video, Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
Fast Five (US title)/Fast & Furious 5 (UK)Apple TV Plus(US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Binge, Foxtel Now, Stan (Australia)
Fast & Furious 6Apple TV Plus (US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Prime Video, Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
Furious 7 (US)/Fast & Furious 7 (UK)Max, Apple TV Plus (US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Prime Video, Binge, Foxtel Now, Stan (Australia)
The Fate of the Furious (US)/Fast & Furious 8 (UK)Available to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and more (US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Prime Video, Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawApple TV Plus (US); available to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and more (UK); Binge, Foxtel Now (Australia)
F9 (US)/Fast & Furious 9 (UK)Apple TV Plus (US); Netflix (UK); available to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and more (Australia)
Fast XPrime Video, Apple TV Plus (US); Sky Go, Now (UK); Netflix, Binge (Australia)
How to watch the Fast and Furious movies in release date order
Here’s a complete rundown of how to watch theFast and Furiousmovies by their release dates:
It should be easy to work out how to watch theFast and Furiousmovies in order by release date – unfortunately, the naming conventions of this series are muddled, and the titles may be different depending on where you’re reading this.
It was all so simple in the early days, when the originalThe Fast and the Furiouswas followed by the pun-driven2 Fast 2 Furious. Japan-setThe Fast and the Furious 3was subtitledTokyo Drift, but things got seriously weird for the franchise’s fourth instalment, which was simply calledFast & Furious –as confusing as that was, at least the movie wasn’t calledFast & Four-ious.
From there, American viewers were treated to a moveable feast of naming, withFast Five,Fast & Furious 6,Furious 7, and (bizarrely)The Fate of the Furious –we’ll grudgingly concede that “fate” does sound a bit likeF8. The ninth instalment embraced brevity with a simpleF9.
Brits, meanwhile, got a rather more consistentFast & Furious 5,Fast & Furious 6,Fast & Furious 7,Fast & Furious 8andFast & Furious 9.
The most recent movie in the series,Fast X,made clever use of a roman numeral but when it comes to the 11th and final instalment, all bets are off.Fast & Furious: The End of the Road, anyone?
Dwayne Johnson/Jason Statham-starring spin-offHobbs & Shawtook a back-to-basics approach to titling, so we’re guessing that the standalone Luke Hobbs movie Johnson announced onInstagramback in June 2023 will simply be calledHobbs. According toVariety, the film will be a bridge between the events ofFast Xand the eleventh instalment of the main franchise. But, seeing as Diesel announced an April 2025 release date for the nextFastmovie on his ownInstagrampage, Johnson will have to put the pedal to the metal if he’s going to be first into theaters.
How to watch the Fast and Furious movies in chronological order
Here’s how you watch theFast and Furiousmovies in chronological order:
The franchise began more than two decades ago withThe Fast and the Furious, the straighforward, seemingly standalone story of a cop who goes undercover with a bunch of LA street racers, who have a lucrative sideline hijacking trucks. It’s subsequently evolved into something very different, as Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his “family” join forces with the US government to carry out high-octane undercover missions. That’s when things start to get complex.
As if theFast and Furiousnaming/numbering convention wasn’t complicated enough, the order the films were released doesn’t correspond exactly with on-screen continuity. That means that to watch theFast and Furiousmovies in order from a chronological perspective is weirdly complex. We’ll try to explain how it all fits together below, but beware – there are a fewSPOILERSahead in the road.
The rogue element shaking everything up isTokyo Drift, the third movie to drive into theaters. When Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto unexpectedly showed up at the end of that movie – returning to the franchise after sitting out2 Fast 2 Furious– everybody assumed that fourth instalmentFast & Furiouswould pick up where that left off. But there was a glaring continuity issue – Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang), who’d been killed inTokyo Drift, was alive and well inFast & Furious.
As it turns out, Han actually makes his fateful trip to Tokyo at the end ofFast & Furious 6. We subsequently learn that British rogue agent Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham, who joined the series inFast & Furious 6) was driving the car that killed Han. The scene where Toretto turns up in Tokyo actually takes place during the timeline ofFurious 7/Fast & Furious 7.
Fast & Furious 9picks up afterThe Fate of the Furious/Fast & Furious 8, with Charlize Theron’s Big Bad Cipher back in action, along withThe Suicide Squad’s John Cena as Dominic Toretto’s long lost brother and rival Jakob. To make matters even more complicated,Fast & Furious 9reveals that Han was never actually dead at all, as he’d teamed up with Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell) to fake his death. Got all that?
Fast Xended with a massive cliffhanger ahead of part 11, which Diesel and co have pitched as a finale for the long-running series – though the star did raise the possibility of a 12th instalment during the press tour forFast X.
Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Statham’s Deckard Shaw both showed up unexpectedly at the end of the most recent movie. When Johnson announced his new Hobbs movie in June 2023, he teased that it will “serve as a fresh, new chapter & set up forFAST X: Part II” – suggesting his new film will be set before (or, at least, parallel to)Fast X.
Beyond the movies, there’s a pair of official short films that expand theFastcontinuity. TheTurbo Charged Preludesets the scene for2 Fast 2 Furious, explaining how Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner ends up in Miami. Meanwhile,Los Bandoleros(written and directed by Vin Diesel) establishes key plot points for fourth movieFast & Furious.
And while we’ve not included it in the chronological order list above, realFast and Furiouscompletists may want to check out crime dramaBetter Luck Tomorrow.It’s not technically aFast and Furiousmovie, but regularF&Fdirector Justin Lin and star Sung Kang have both said the Han inBetter Luck Tomorrowis the same character who later turns up inTokyo Drift.
Kid-friendly spin-offFast & Furious: Spy Racershas six seasons on Netflix. It’s about Dom Toretto’s younger cousin, Tony, but the tone is so different to the movies that we’re unsure about calling itcanon. We’ve therefore left it out of the chronology above.
The Fast and Furious movies ranked: from best to worst
Leaving aside rare exceptions likeMission: Impossible, long-running franchises don’t generally get better as they go on. Still, if you trust theFast and Furiousranking based onIMDb user scores, it took untilFast Fivefor the series to hit its stride, as it made a successful transition from car racing dramas to all-action espionage movies.
In fact,Fast Fivewas the start of a three-movie golden run for the saga, before it dropped off slightly withThe Fate of the Furious. The first sequel,2 Fast 2 Furious, remained the franchise low-point for a long time, but nowF9(aka the one where they send a car into space) has replaced it as the IMDb users' least wanted, clocking in at a miserable 5.2/10. 2023 releaseFast Xis also languishing towards the bottom of the chart.
Want to continue living your life a quarter-mile at a time? You can also check out our guide tobest Fast and Furiousmoviesto see if you agree with our ranking of every film to date.
Richard is a freelance journalist specialising in movies and TV, primarily of the sci-fi and fantasy variety. An early encounter with a certain galaxy far, far away started a lifelong love affair with outer space, and these days Richard’s happiest geeking out about Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel and other long-running pop culture franchises. In a previous life he was editor of legendary sci-fi and fantasy magazine SFX, where he got to interview many of the biggest names in the business – though he’ll always have a soft spot for Jeff Goldblum who (somewhat bizarrely) thought Richard’s name was Winter.
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