On paper, watching the Fast and Furious movies in order should be as easy as driving from A to B. As it turns out, however, the chronology of the lucrative Vin Diesel vehicle is a little more complex, and takes several significant detours along the way.
Since the franchise began with The Fast and the Furious in 2001 there have been nine further movies, including Dwayne Johnson/Jason Statham-starring spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. The 10th instalment of the main story, Fast X, will power its way into theaters on May 19 – check out the Fast X trailer here – and it's building up to a climactic 11th instalment that's set to bring the Fast Saga to a close.
That means this is the perfect time to watch or rewatch the highest octane movie franchise on the planet. In this guide, we've provided options on where you can find the films to stream. Over recent years they've all been available across streamers like Peacock, Prime Video and HBO Max, but where they'll turn up can be a moveable feast.
This article also explains how to watch the Fast and Furious movies in order, both in chronological and release date order. Although it's not quite as complicated as knowing how to watch the Marvel movies in order, it's still handy to have a road map at your disposal.
Watch the Fast and Furious movies in order: where can I stream the movies?
With Peacock owned outright by Comcast, the parent company of Universal Pictures, you'd expect that to be the place where all the Fast and Furious movies will live. However, many of the films have recently been removed from Peacock, and aren't widely available in the US, presumably due to rights deals.
While we've done our best to work out where you can stream them right now as part of a subscription, you might need to pay for them separately (rent or purchase) on Google Play, Vudu, Apple TV or Amazon Prime (especially if you're in the UK).
The Fast and the Furious
Spectrum TV/TNT via Roku (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Stan (AU)
The Turbo Charged Prelude (short film)
Not available to stream, but it's here on YouTube.
2 Fast 2 Furious
Spectrum TV/TNT via Roku (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Stan (AU)
Los Bandoleros (short film)
Not available to stream, but it's here on Vimeo
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Hulu (US), HBO Max (US), FuBo TV (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Stan (AU)
Fast & Furious
Spectrum TV/TNT via Roku (US), FuBo TV (US) Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU)
Fast Five (US title)/Fast & Furious 5 (UK)
TNT via Roku (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Stan (AU)
Fast & Furious 6
Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Stan (AU)
Furious 7 (US)/Fast & Furious 7 (UK)
Peacock (US), FuBo TV (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Stan, (AU)
The Fate of the Furious (US)/Fast & Furious 8 (UK)
FuBo (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU), Foxtel (AU), Stan (AU)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Netflix (US), FuBo TV (US), Premium Rental (US), Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU)
F9 (US)/Fast & Furious 9 (UK)
Hulu (US), HBO Max (US), NOW/Virgin TV Go (UK), BiNGE (AU)
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 (May 19, 2023)
- Fast & Furious 11 (release date TBC)
As if the Fast and the 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 give it a go below but beware, there are SPOILERS AHEAD.
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, while 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 John Cena starring as Dominic Toretto's 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 and 11 will operate as a two-part finale for the long-running series. Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs won't be part of the parts 10 and 11, but Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw has been confirmed to return.
"Fast 9 is designed to be the prequel to the finale and establish a narrative that could stand over multiple films,” star/producer Vin Diesel told Total Film magazine ahead of that movie's release. “F9 is an amazing film, it's going to be a thrill for people to see. But it needed to lay the groundwork for the finale, which will have to be broken into two films because there are so many elements to wrap up.”
There’s also a pair of official short films that expand the 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. Los Bandoleros (written and directed by Vin Diesel), meanwhile, 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. Although it's not technically a Fast and Furious movie, 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.
Meanwhile, kid-friendly spin-off Fast & Furious: Spy Racers has four 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.
Fast and Furious movies in release date order
- 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 & Furious X (May 19, 2023)
- Fast & Furious 11 (TBC)
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. No way anyone could get confused by that – though on the plus side, at least it wasn’t called Fast & Four-ious.
From there, American viewers were treated to a moveable feast of titling, with Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, and (bizarrely) The Fate of the Furious. 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 incoming Fast X makes clever use of a roman numeral but when it comes to the eleventh and final instalment, all bets are off. Fast & Furious: The End of the Road, anyone?
The Fast and the Furious movies, ranked
Leaving aside a rare exception 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 – and make a successful transition from car racing dramas to all-action espionage movies.
Indeed, 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. Perhaps expectations were too high, after they'd waited so long.
- 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 – 6.0
- 2 Fast 2 Furious – 5.9
- F9 – 5.2
You can also check out our guide to Fast & Furious movies ranked.
Confused by the order of any other top movie franchises? Try our guide on how to watch the Harry Potter movies in order and how to watch the X-Men movies in order.
