X-Men: watch order

The movies in the series, sorted by release date. Total runtime: 14 h 23 min. A superhero film series about a team of mutant superheroes based on the Marvel Comics superheroes of the same name.

1. 
   Movie 1

   X-Men (2000)

   1 h 44 min · ★ 7.0

   Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

2. 
   Movie 2

   X2 (2003)

   2 h 13 min · ★ 7.0

   Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join Magneto and Mystique to unhinge…

3. 
   Movie 3

   X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

   1 h 44 min · ★ 6.4

   When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men led by Professor Charles Xavier, and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants.

4. 
   Movie 4

   X-Men: First Class (2011)

   2 h 12 min · ★ 7.3

   Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working…

5. 
   Movie 5

   X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

   2 h 12 min · ★ 7.5

   The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.

6. 
   Movie 6

   X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

   2 h 24 min · ★ 6.5

   After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

7. 
   Movie 7

   Dark Phoenix (2019)

   1 h 54 min · ★ 6.0

   The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious…