[Updated May 4th, 2020]

Here’s a fun list of all the Fast and Furious movies to date in order of release date, including some interesting details and rumors about upcoming releases. We’ll start with some basic information about the Fast & Furious movie franchise. Below you can find more information about each Fast and Furious movie. If I forgot some important details or made a mistake somewhere, please let me know in the comments.

Also, because the Fast and Furious movies, like the Marvel MCU movies, are not necessarily released in chronological order of the story’s timeline, there will soon be a secondary Fast and Furious movies list, but this time with all movies in chronological watching order (including all the short movies to back up some story gaps) so you know exactly how to watch the films in the right sequence. Coming soon!

First, let’s have a look at the Fast and Furious main cast:

Vin Diesel as Dominic “Dom” Toretto

• Date of birth: July 18, 1967
• Place of birth: New York City
• Birth name: Mark Sinclair Vincent
• Fun fact: Has played Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing board game, intensively for 24 years
• Times he played in Fast and Furious movies: 8 times so far

Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner

• Date of birth: September 12, 1973
• Died: November 30, 2013 (age 40, a tragic car accident that also killed his friend who was driving)
• Place of birth: Glendale, California
• Birth name: Paul William Walker IV
• Fun fact: Would have wanted to play and auditioned for the role of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars.
• Times he played in Fast and Furious movies: 6 times

Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto

• Date of birth: April 26, 1980
• Place of birth: Panama City, Panama
• Birth name: Jordana Brewster
• Fun fact: Had to get her driver’s license during production of the first Fast and Furious movie.
• Times she played in Fast and Furious movies: 5 times so far

Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz

• Date of birth: July 12, 1978
• Place of birth: San Antonio, Texas
• Birth name: Mayte Michelle Rodríguez
• Fun fact: Just like Brewster she had to get her driver’s license during production of the first Fast & Furious movie.
• Times she played in Fast and Furious movies: 5 times so far

Dwayne Johnson as Hobbs

• Date of birth: May 2, 1972
• Place of birth: Hayward, California
• Birth name: Dwayne Douglas Johnson
• Fun fact: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was the first ever eight time WWE World Heavyweight Champion
• Times he played in Fast and Furious movies: 5 times so far

And with no further ado, here’s the list of all Fast and Furious movies:

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

As the first Fast and Furious movie in the series, The Fast and the Furious of 2001 was quite a refreshing type of action movie. Lots of flashy cars, CGI shots of NOS (nitro) being activated and great emphasis on gear changes. Although the subculture of street racing was of course not new, it set in motion a greater popularization of the “sport” and car tuning in general. The critical reception wasn’t great due to the story and acting not being all that sparkling, but it cannot be denied that this original Fast and Furious movie is now part of popular movie history. Also, upcoming movies in the series continuously set a higher standard for the art of car chasing scenes with each release.

• Main cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker
• Directed by: Rob Cohen
• Story location: Los Angeles
• Filming budget: $38,000,000

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2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

The second installment in the Fast and Furious movies series was unfortunately not a great success, with pretty low ratings, but the overall gross earnings were still high at over $230 million worldwide.

• Main cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson
• Directed by: John Singleton
• Story location: Florida, California
• Filming budget: $76,000,000

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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift seems to drift away from the main storyline and feels a bit different in terms of racing scenes. The biggest noticeable difference is that in Tokyo drift there’s much more actual stunts and less dependency on CGI and other graphical tricks. This makes it quite an enjoyable movie in the Fast and Furious series, even though the’re pretty negative reception from criticts (even worse than 2 Fast 2 Furious). Just don’t expect a high end story and award-winning acting.

• Main cast: Lucas Black, Damien Marzette, Shad Moss, Vin Diesel is also in there, but uncredited
• Directed by: Justin Lin
• Story location: Alabama, Tokyo
• Filming budget: $85,000,000

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Fast & Furious (2009)

To keep things entertaining, the Fast and Furious movies increasingly rely on over the top action and, in this case once again, heavy CGI-infused car chase scenes. It’s where some critics are starting to worry that these movies tend to be popular enough and generate enough gross income to keep making new installments of the Fast and Furious brand.

Still, Fast & Furious of 2009 is fun to watch, but I guess that’s only true if you like flashy cars, heavy action and hot bodies (car and human).

• Main cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson
• Directed by: Justin Lin
• Story location: Los Angeles, Mexico (desert)
• Filming budget: $85,000,000

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Fast Five (2011)

Fast Five of 2011 is a turning point in the Fast and Furious franchise. Not only because of even better action in scenes like the final car chase (which is arguably a ground-breaking level of action in a Hollywood car chase scene), but also the addition of Dwayne Johnson to the main cast, who adds great chemistry among the characters.

The franchise also matured in storytelling, moving away from the previous movies’ street racing theme towards a story line with more depth and scale. This fifth release in the line of Fast and Furious movies with an overall good critical reception, especially compared to its predecessors. Fast Five set the stage for a better generation of Fast and Furious movies to follow.

• Also known as: Fast and Furious 5
• Main cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne Johnson
• Directed by: Justin Lin
• Story location: Rio de Janeiro
• Filming budget: $125,000,000

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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

After the success of Fast Five (2013) the franchise took off with increasingly explosive and exciting action and a very international set of story locations, from London to the Canary Islands and Lost Angeles. This direction, and its strong and matured cast helped Fast & Furious 6 become the highest grossing installments of the Fast and Furious movies franchise at that time. Its critical reception was a bit lower than predecessor Fast Five, which helped set the new formula, but overall still generally positive.

• Main cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne Johnson
• Directed by: Justin Lin
• Story location: London
• Filming budget: $160,000,000

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Fast & Furious 7 (2014)

Sadly, this movie was released posthumously for actor Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in November of 2013. By then, filming was only half-way to completion, which of course caused some delay. Paul Walker’s brothers Caleb and Cody Walker were prepared to join in as stand-ins in for their brother’s scenes. Upon release, the critical reception was very good and the movie not only scored well with critics, but also took only 12 days to become the highest grossing and highest rated Fast and Furious movie to date. It still is the ninth highest grossing movie of all time, at a humongous $1.5 billion earned worldwide, just one position below The Avengers (2012).

Another fun fact to mention is that the air drop scene, showing cars being dropped out of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules military airplane, was actually real. Stunt coordinator, Spiro Razatos also worked on the previous two Fast and Furious movies and wanted to rely less on CGI and more on real stunts. Dropping cars out of an airplane and filming it for the big screen can definitely be called a “real stunt”!

• Also known as: Furious 7
• Main cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham
• Directed by: James Wan
• Story location: Los Angeles (USA), Azerbaijan, Abu Dhabi
• Filming budget: $190,000,000

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The Fate of the Furious (2017)

Another box office success and top 20 highest grossing movie of all time, The Fate of the Furious of 2017 was received with mixed reviews due to some less depth of story, but praise in terms of high quality action scenes and acting performances.

• Also known as: The Fast and the Furious 8 or even as short as F8
• Main cast: Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson
• Directed by: F. Gary Gray
• Story location: New York City (USA), Russia
• Filming budget: $250,000,000

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Hobbs & Shaw is a spin-off of the official Fast and Furious movie franchise, but chronologically still placed in between The Fate and the Furious (or Fast and Furious 8) and the upcoming title F9 (or Fast and Furious 9). The film received mixed reviews, but overall in line with the other Fast and Furious movies since Fast Five in 2011.

• Main cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba
• Directed by: David Leitch
• Story location: London (UK), Samoa
• Filming budget: $200,000,000

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F9 (expected 2021)

Originally scheduled for release in 2020, Fast & Furious 9, like James Bond: No Time To Die was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Also known as: The Fast and the Furious 9 or Fast & Furious 9
• Main cast: Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster, Charlize Theron
• Directed by: Justin Lin
• Story location: ?
• Filming budget: ?

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Fast & Furious 10 (announced for 2022)

• Also known as: The Fast and the Furious 9
• Main cast: Vin Diesel, ?
• Directed by: Justin Lin (rumored)
• Story location: ?
• Filming budget: ?

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