Resident Evil: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 9 h 47 min. Loosely based upon the Capcom video games of the same name, the Resident Evil film series follows the protagonist Alice, a character created for the films. The Umbrella Corporation acts as the main antagonist, a bio-engineering pharmaceutical company responsible for formulating the T-virus, which results in a zombie infection outbreak.

1. 
   Movie 1

   Resident Evil (2002)

   1 h 40 min · ★ 6.7

   When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…

2. 
   Movie 2

   Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

   1 h 34 min · ★ 6.4

   As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who…

3. 
   Movie 3

   Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

   1 h 34 min · ★ 6.3

   Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.

4. 
   Movie 4

   Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

   1 h 37 min · ★ 6.1

   In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new…

5. 
   Movie 5

   Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

   1 h 35 min · ★ 5.8

   The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of…

6. 
   Movie 6

   Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

   1 h 47 min · ★ 6.1

   Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began -…