Think watching the Fast and Furious movies 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 the Fast and Furious movies 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, the Fast & Furious movies rarely hang around in one place for long. Even though the Peacock streaming 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 11 Fast & Furious movies 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 Furious
Available to rent/buy on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon and 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 on YouTube.
2 Fast 2 Furious
Available 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 on Vimeo
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
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
Available 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 6
Apple 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 & Shaw
Apple 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 X
Prime 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 the Fast and Furious movies by their release dates:
- The Fast and the Furious (2001)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
- Fast & Furious (2009)
- Fast Five (US title)/Fast & Furious 5 (UK) (2011)
- Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
- Furious 7 (US) / Fast & Furious 7 (UK) (2015)
- The Fate of the Furious (US) / Fast & Furious 8 (UK) (2017)
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
- F9 (US) / Fast & Furious 9 (UK) (2021)
- Fast X (2023)
It should be easy to work out how to watch the Fast and Furious movies 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 original The Fast and the Furious was followed by the pun-driven 2 Fast 2 Furious. Japan-set The Fast and the Furious 3 was subtitled Tokyo Drift, but things got seriously weird for the franchise’s fourth instalment, which was simply called Fast & Furious – as confusing as that was, at least the movie wasn’t called Fast & Four-ious.
From there, American viewers were treated to a moveable feast of naming, with Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, and (bizarrely) The Fate of the Furious – we'll grudgingly concede that "fate" does sound a bit like F8. The ninth instalment embraced brevity with a simple F9.
Brits, meanwhile, got a rather more consistent Fast & Furious 5, Fast & Furious 6, Fast & Furious 7, Fast & Furious 8 and Fast & 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-off Hobbs & Shaw took a back-to-basics approach to titling, so we're guessing that the standalone Luke Hobbs movie Johnson announced on Instagram back in June 2023 will simply be called Hobbs. According to Variety, the film will be a bridge between the events of Fast X and the eleventh instalment of the main franchise. But, seeing as Diesel announced an April 2025 release date for the next Fast movie on his own Instagram page, 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 the Fast and Furious movies in chronological order:
- The Fast and the Furious
- The Turbo Charged Prelude (short film)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- Los Bandoleros (short film)
- Fast & Furious
- Fast Five (US title) / Fast & Furious 5 (UK)
- Fast & Furious 6
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- Furious 7 (US) / Fast & Furious 7 (UK)
- The Fate of the Furious (US) / Fast & Furious 8 (UK)
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
- F9 (US) / Fast & Furious 9 (UK)
- Fast X
The franchise began more than two decades ago with The 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 the Fast and Furious naming/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 the Fast and Furious movies 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 few SPOILERS ahead in the road.
The rogue element shaking everything up is Tokyo 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 out 2 Fast 2 Furious – everybody assumed that fourth instalment Fast & Furious would pick up where that left off. But there was a glaring continuity issue – Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang), who’d been killed in Tokyo Drift, was alive and well in Fast & Furious.
As it turns out, Han actually makes his fateful trip to Tokyo at the end of Fast & Furious 6. We subsequently learn that British rogue agent Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham, who joined the series in Fast & Furious 6) was driving the car that killed Han. The scene where Toretto turns up in Tokyo actually takes place during the timeline of Furious 7 / Fast & Furious 7.
Fast & Furious 9 picks up after The Fate of the Furious / Fast & Furious 8, with Charlize Theron’s Big Bad Cipher back in action, along with The Suicide Squad's John Cena as Dominic Toretto's long lost brother and rival Jakob. To make matters even more complicated, Fast & Furious 9 reveals 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 X ended 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 for Fast 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 for FAST 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 the Fast continuity. The Turbo Charged Prelude sets the scene for 2 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 movie Fast & Furious.
And while we’ve not included it in the chronological order list above, real Fast and Furious completists may want to check out crime drama Better Luck Tomorrow. It's not technically a Fast and Furious movie, but regular F&F director Justin Lin and star Sung Kang have both said the Han in Better Luck Tomorrow is the same character who later turns up in Tokyo Drift.
Kid-friendly spin-off Fast & Furious: Spy Racers has 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 it canon. We've therefore left it out of the chronology above.
The Fast and Furious movies ranked: from best to worst
Leaving aside rare exceptions like Mission: Impossible, long-running franchises don’t generally get better as they go on. Still, if you trust the Fast and Furious ranking based on IMDb user scores, it took until Fast Five for the series to hit its stride, as it made a successful transition from car racing dramas to all-action espionage movies.
In fact, Fast Five was the start of a three-movie golden run for the saga, before it dropped off slightly with The Fate of the Furious. The first sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, remained the franchise low-point for a long time, but now F9 (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 release Fast X is also languishing towards the bottom of the chart.
- Fast Five / Fast & Furious 5 – 7.3
- Furious 7 / Fast & Furious 7 – 7.1
- Fast & Furious 6 – 7.0
- The Fast and the Furious – 6.8
- The Fate of the Furious / Fast & Furious 8 – 6.6
- Fast & Furious – 6.5
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw – 6.5
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift – 6.1
- 2 Fast 2 Furious – 5.9
- Fast X – 5.7
- F9 – 5.2
Want to continue living your life a quarter-mile at a time? You can also check out our guide to best Fast and Furious movies to see if you agree with our ranking of every film to date.
