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Alien Watch Order

Four decades, three centuries, and two crossovers nobody counts.

Every Alien film and series in one switchable list, release order or the in-universe chronology that opens with Prometheus rather than the 1979 film.

How many Alien movies are there?

There are 9 films, plus 1 series or special out so far. Nothing further is currently announced.

Where each title sits in the story

Chronological order, grouped by era. The number on each is its release position. Where those jump around, release order and story order disagree.

  1. Present Day

    2 titles

    1. Alien vs. Predator, released 9 of 10
    2. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, released 10 of 10

  2. The Engineers

    3 titles

    1. Prometheus, released 5 of 10
    2. Alien: Covenant, released 6 of 10
    3. Alien: Earth, released 8 of 10

  3. The Nostromo Era

    4 titles

    1. Alien, released 1 of 10
    2. Alien: Romulus, released 7 of 10
    3. Aliens, released 2 of 10
    4. Alien 3, released 3 of 10

  4. Two Centuries Later

    1 title

    1. Alien Resurrection, released 4 of 10

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10 titles across 4 seriess17h 17m · 9 of 10 timed
01

The Original Run

1979 – 1997 · Alien · Four films, four directors, four genres.

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Alien

25 May 1979

A commercial towing ship answers a distress signal. Still the purest horror film in the series.

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02

Aliens

18 Jul 1986

Cameron turns it into a war film, fifty-seven years later.

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03

Alien 3

22 May 1992

Ripley crashes on a prison planet, in the troubled film that undoes Aliens' ending.

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04

Alien Resurrection

26 Nov 1997

Two hundred years later, Ripley is cloned. The strangest entry by a distance.

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02

The Prequels

2012 – 2017 · Alien · Ridley Scott returns to ask where it came from.

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Prometheus

8 Jun 2012

2093. A crew goes looking for humanity's creators and finds something else.

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Alien: Covenant

19 May 2017

2104. A colony ship meets David, and the origin of the creature is spelled out.

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The Modern Era

2024 – 2025 · Alien · Back to horror.

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Alien: Romulus

16 Aug 2024

2142. Set squarely between Alien and Aliens, and a deliberate return to the original's register.

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Alien: Earth

12 Aug 2025

2120. The first television series in the main continuity, set two years before the Nostromo answers its distress call.

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Alien vs. Predator

2004 – 2007 · Crossover · Not canon, and contradicted by the prequels.

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Alien vs. Predator

13 Aug 2004

2004, Antarctica. Chronologically first, and contradicted by everything Ridley Scott made afterwards.

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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

25 Dec 2007

A small-town sequel widely regarded as the low point of both franchises.

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