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Alien

edited 2026-05-21

A complete viewing order for the Alien franchise — seven mainline films from Ridley Scott's 1979 original through Alien: Romulus (2024), the FX television series Alien: Earth (2025), and the crossover films. Covers both release order and in-universe chronological order, with notes on which entries belong to the prequel storyline and which to the Alien vs. Predator crossover continuity.

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01FILM
2012Ridley Scott's 2012 prequel, set in 2089 and the years following, in the same universe as the original Alien films but exploring distinct my…
2h 4m
02FILM
2017Ridley Scott's 2017 direct sequel to Prometheus, set in 2104 aboard the colonial transport vessel Covenant, which carries 2,000 colonists an…
2h 2m
03FILM
1979Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film, the first entry in the franchise. The crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened…
1h 57m
04FILM
2024Fede Álvarez's 2024 entry, set in 2142 between the events of the 1979 original and the 1986 sequel. On a dark mining colony, an orphaned you…
1h 59m
05FILM
1986James Cameron's 1986 action-horror sequel, set 57 years after the events of Alien. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is discovered in stasis and per…
2h 17m
06FILM
1992David Fincher's 1992 directorial debut, set immediately after Aliens. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a maximum-securi…
1h 54m
07FILM
1997Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 1997 fourth entry, set approximately 200 years after Alien 3. Military scientists aboard the spacecraft USM Auriga have…
1h 49m