How to watch the Alien movies in order (chronological and release date)

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Alien movies in order: a xenomorph in the movie Alien Covenant drooling.

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Often regarded as one of thebest sci-fi moviesof all time, Alien kicked off the franchise with Sigourney Weaver and her team fighting off Xenomorphs the good old-fashioned way, and the star returned for quite a few more movies after that. But the saga has since expanded with Michael Fassbender taking us back in time with Prometheus and Covenant, Romulus taking place between the original and the sequel, and hey, even The Predator got involved at one point or another.

But every movie in the series includes the same three secret ingredients; gore, space travel, and of course, aliens. So without further ado, here’s how to watch all the Alien movies in chronological and release order.

How to watch the Alien movies in chronological order

Alien vs. Predator

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A xenomorph and Predator fighting during the movie Alien vs Predator.

Year:2004Director:Paul W. S. Anderson

Sorry, we know this is a strange place to start when talking about how to watch the Alien movies in order. James Cameron and Ridley Scott worked together on a fifth Alien movie, with the idea eventually becoming Prometheus. But in 2004, Fox decided to take the franchise in a different direction, paying off a fun Easter egg in the ’90s movie Predator 2, which featured an Alien skull.

Alien vs. Predator follows billionaire businessman Charles Weyland as he investigates an icy pyramid, which just so happens to contain an Alien Queen. As it turns out, the whole thing is part of an ancient ritual to lure humans into birthing Xenomorphs so that travelling Predators have something exciting to hunt.

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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

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The predator and a xenomorph facing off infront of the planet Earth in the movie Alien vs Predator: Requiem.

Year:2007Director:The Brothers Strause

Alien vs. Predator wasn’t great, as you can tell from our ownAlien vs Predator: Requiem review. But it did well enough at the box office to justify another one, set immediately after the first movie’s revelation of the birth of hybrid ‘Predalien’. The Predators send a particularly badass member of their own species to Earth in an attempt to kill the hybrid, with lots of humans inevitably caught in the crossfire.

The Brothers Strause replaced Anderson in the director’s chair after forming a strong relationship with Fox on other blockbusters. But the response to the movie was rough. It ended up on several lists of the worst films of 2007 and got a pair of Razzie nominations.

The sibling directors had made noises about making another Alien movie and the box office numbers were decent, but the strength of the critical backlash led Fox to put the creatures back into storage – for a few years at least.

Prometheus

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Michael Fassbender as David in the Alien movie, Prometheus.

Year:2012Director:Ridley Scott

In 2012, Ridley Scott returned for something entirely different to what had come before. He envisaged Prometheus as the first in a series of prequels that would eventually lead directly into the original Alien. Set in 2089, Prometheus was the first and followed a team of scientists on the hunt for the origins of humanity.

This carried them through to the society of The Engineers, who were seemingly responsible for humanity’s creation, but had chosen to destroy their offspring. Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof packed the film with religious imagery and highfalutin literary allusions, which somewhat put off those who were hoping for a balls-to-the-wall horror movie akin to the first film.

On that basis, the response to Prometheus ended up being quite mixed, although we still gave it a four-star rating in ourPrometheus review. While Scott did eventually get to make a sequel, his plans for a wide-ranging prequel franchise were more or less dead.

Alien: Covenant

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Michael Fassbender as David 8 in the Alien movie, Alien Covenant.

Year:2017Director:Ridley Scott

Unfortunately, Covenant got caught between two stalls. It’s like the philosophical elements and the blood-and-guts body horror in Covenant are from different movies trying to co-exist awkwardly. The plot is the usual setup – a team of scientists arrive on a planet and subsequently discover some form of parasitic alien – and originality is in short supply.

Scott, at the time, said Covenant was the start of a three-movie arc that would lead straight into Alien, but a combination of soft box office, middling critical notices – like in ourAlien: Covenant review– and theDisney-Fox merger seems to have put an end to his plans.

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Alien

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Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the movie, Alien.

Year:1979Director:Ridley Scott

Every element of Alien works perfectly, from its slow build of tension to the all-out carnage of its second half. HR Giger’s designs for the chest-burster and the xenomorph have never been bettered for the sheer fear factor.

With all of this in mind, it’s no surprise that the film was an enormous success and is often considered one of thebest horror moviesof all time. It’s also completely unsurprising that a movie so influential and successful fired the starting pistol on a franchise that’s still running decades later.

Alien: Romulus

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Isabela Merced as Kay backing away from a xenomorph in the movie Alien Romulus.

Year:2024Director:Fede Álvarez

In true legacy sequel style, Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus chooses to ignore the other sequels in the franchise and wedges itself right after the original movie. As we break down in ourAlien: Romulus ending explained guide, the film centers around a group of rebels who are tasked to find the DNA from that Xenomorph that Ripley blasted into space during the 1979 movie.

Keep your eyes on this page as we update you with all the latest details. But for now, you can read more about Fede Álvarez’s film with ourAlien: Romulus review.

Alien: Romulus is now available to rent on Amazon Prime Video and will be ready to stream on Hulu in the US from November 21. A UK Disney Plus date has yet to be announced.

Aliens

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Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in a yellow robot during the movie Aliens.

Year:1986Director:James Cameron

More than 50 years after the events of Alien, Ripley awakens from hypersleep and tries to warn the authorities about what she’s seen. There’s now a terraforming colony on LV-426, so the presence of aliens would be a big problem. Along with a team of Marines, Ripley returns to the surface and discovers that she, of course, was right all along.

There aren’t many filmmakers who can live up to Cameron when it comes to crafting an epic blockbuster, and Aliens is a prime example of this. Like its predecessor, it was a huge hit at the box office and is considered to be one of thebest alien moviesof all time. In 2024, Aliens Expanded – a four-hour documentary movie – debuted, exploring every element of Aliens. It takes a special film to justify anything like that.

Alien 3

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20th Century Studios looking away from a xenomorph during the movie Alien 3.

Year:1992Director:David Fincher

David Fincher is a household name in Hollywood today, but in the early ‘90s he was best known as the music video director behind songs like Madonna’s ‘Vogue’. Alien 3 was his feature debut and it went so terribly that he has since disowned the entire thing, saying in 2009 that “to this day, no one hates it more than me”.

Immediately after the events of Aliens, Ripley is the sole survivor of an escape pod crash, landing in the middle of a maximum security prison full of violent inmates. Unwittingly, she has brought the embryo of an Alien Queen along with her – inside her body.

Alien 3 had been through multiple iterations before it landed with Fincher and the general perception is that the movie’s myriad flaws weren’t really his fault. Fortunately for him, he’d moved on to the project that would cement him as a truly gifted movie visionary: one of thebest thriller moviesof all time, Se7en.

Alien Resurrection

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Sigourney Weaver as Ripley smiling during the movie Alien Resurrection.

Year:1997Director:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Ripley’s death at the end of Alien 3 seemingly stopped more Alien sequels, but Fox inevitably wanted more from the franchise. Weaver wasn’t especially keen to return, but she liked the idea of a slightly twisted version of the character whose DNA had been combined with aXenomorph.

This makes Ripley’s loyalties a little harder to discern as the story goes on, with military scientists using human hosts to breed Xenomorphs for them to study. French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who had a background in sci-fi cinema, was brought in as director.

The result was a film that did better than its predecessor with critics but still failed to hit the heights of the first two movies. Weaver wasn’t against the idea of making another appearance in an Alien film – and she’s still open to it to this day – but Fox decided to focus on the Alien vs. Predator crossover series. That didn’t exactly go brilliantly.

How to watch the Alien movies in release order

Upcoming Alien movies and shows

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A facehugger on a human during the movie, Alien Romulus.

Since the Disney-Fox merger, there have been numerousupcoming moviesand Alien TV shows in development. Most famously, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp spent several years working to put together Alien: Awakening, set after Aliens, which could well have involved the return of Sigourney Weaver.

But new Aliens movies are on the way as according to Fox President Steve Asbell,Alien: Romulus is getting a sequel. “We’re working on a sequel idea now. We haven’t quite closed our deal with Fede [Alvarez], but we are going to, and he has an idea that we’re working on,” said Asbell toThe Hollywood Reporter. The sequel will follow Rain and Andy, but other than that, no other details have been announced. “We know there’s going to be aliens. We know there’s going to be great horror set pieces,” said Asbell. “But I fell in love with both of them and I want to see what their story is.”

The series does have an immediate future on the small screen withAlien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Hawley. We don’t know a great deal about that show, other than the fact it’s a prequel to Alien set in the near future and on Earth. It stars Sydney Chandler as a woman with an adult body and a child’s consciousness, which is a fascinating and unconventional idea. The rest of the cast includes Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, and Alex Lawther.

Filming on Alien: Earth wrapped in the summer of 2024, and the show is expected to air in early 2025. So we’ll all get another Xenomorph to fix very soon, indeed.

Before you check out the new Alien movie, here’s our list of all themovies and TV shows to watch before Alien: Romulus. We also have a list of the 30greatest Alien factsif you love a bit of sci-fi trivia.

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