The harry potter movies in chronological order by date of release

You might have assumed that the world of Harry Potter had reached its cinematic kết thúc when Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 wrapped up the boy wizard’s story in 2011, but Warner Bros. wasn’t about khổng lồ cthất bại up siêu thị on their magical cash cow. Thus, the franchise was extended into the Wizarding World shared universe, which now includes not only the eight original Harry Potter movies but also the Fantastic Beasts spinoff films. With the films’ timeline suddenly not so straight-forward and the imaginative titles of these movies perhaps starting to blover together in your head, we figured it was time khổng lồ offer up a primer on how khổng lồ tackle all the films in this sprawling fantasy series.

Harry Potter Movies in Order of Release Date

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Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - November 16, 2001

Harry Potter và the Chamber of Secrets - November 15, 2002

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - June 4, 2004

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire - November 18, 2005

Harry Potter và the Order of the Phoenix - July 11, 2007

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - July 15, 2009

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 - November 19, 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - July 15, 2011

Fantastic Beasts và Where lớn Find Them - November 18, năm 2016

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - November 16, 2018

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Fantastic Beasts & Where lớn Find Them

Set in 1926, roughly seven decades prior to Harry Potter beginning his education at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the first Fantastic Beasts movie focuses on the Thủ đô New York adventures of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a British wizard và Ministry of Magic employee who finds himself embroiled in an insidious scheme involving the Magical Congress of the United States & a powerful wizard named Gellert Grindelwald (revealed late in the film lớn be Johnny Depp), who believes wizards should reign over non-magical humans.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

A few months after the events of the first Fantastic Beasts, Newt is baông xã in Engl&, but he’s soon tasked by the by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), who will one day look over Harry as the Headmaster of Hogwarts, lớn traông xã down Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), a troubled young wizard who is also being sought out by a recently escaped Grindelwald. In addition to Dumbledore, The Crimes of Grindelwald introduces other characters who will later play a significant role in the Harry Potter films, including a young Minerva McGonagall & Nagini, a circus performer whose blood curse will permanently transkhung her inkhổng lồ a giant snake.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

At this point we jump ahead over a half-century and begin the main series, which will trachồng the orphan Harry Potter’s yearly adventures at Hogwarts as he battles against various dark forces, including the evil wizard Lord Voldemort. As a baby, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) survived an attack by Voldemort that backfired on the dark lord, disembodying hlặng, và claimed the lives of Harry’s parents. Harry has been raised by his aunt và uncle in the years since, oblivious to lớn the magical world around hlặng. That all changes with the arrival of a mysterious owl bringing exciting news: Harry is a wizard và he has been accepted inkhổng lồ Hogwarts to begin his magical training. Upon entering the school, he meets his new BFFs, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), & immediately draws the ire of his potions teacher, the mysterious Severus Snape (Alan Rickman). As the Hogwarts Headmaster, Dumbledore (now played by Richard Harris) keeps an eye on everyone, while Harry và his pals attempt to lớn solve a mystery involving a giant three-headed dog and the magical Sorcerer’s Stone.

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Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets

It’s Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, and the school has a problem – something or someone is freezing the students into lớn a petrified state. These attacks seem to be related to lớn the titular Chamber of Secrets, a secret room supposedly hidden in Hogwarts that could purge the school of students not born lớn wizard parents (discriminatorily called “mudbloods” in the Wizarding World). It’s up to Harry lớn mix things right, but khổng lồ vì chưng so, he’ll need khổng lồ unloông xã the secrets of an enchanted diary that was written by a former student named Tom Riddle.

Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

Year three. Also known as the one where these movies start getting really, really good. (You can probably thank incoming director Alfonso Cuarón for that.) Sirius Blaông chồng (Gary Oldman), who has been locked up in Azkaban for supporting Voldemort, has escaped, setting the wizarding community on edge. The school is locked down & surrounded by Dementors, ghostly, grim reaper-lượt thích figures tasked with returning Blaông xã khổng lồ the prison. But all is not what it seems, và with an assist from his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Remy Lupin (David Thewlis), Harry begins unraveling secrets that will extend his network of allies for the battles to come. Harris sadly died before the filming of this movie, và Dumbledore was played by Michael Gambon for the rest of the series’ run.

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

Year four. Harry is not supposed lớn be old enough to compete in the Triwizard Tournament, a series of challenges pitting the best student from Hogwarts (which turns out khổng lồ be Robert Pattinson!) against the champions of several other wizarding schools. But when his name is pulled from the magical goblet that dictates the contestants, Harry finds himself forced lớn participate. Meanwhile, everyone’s hormones are raging and finding a date to lớn the Yule Ball becomes a particular source of consternation. Oh, and, yeah, Voldemort, formerly known as Tom Riddle, fully returns khổng lồ the flesh, ready to get his revenge on Harry. He’s played by Ralph Fiennes và he is pissed.

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Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix

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Voldemort is bachồng, và everyone is freaking out. Everyone, that is, except for the Ministry of Magic, who sends the sadistic Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), one of the series’ most detestable villains, to Hogwarts to make sure everyone is keeping their head down và not spreading any nhái news. Harry, Ron, and Hermione know better though, và they create Dumbledore’s Army, a group of students who b& together to lớn train in secret for the battles ahead. Phoenix is the first in the series khổng lồ be directed by David Yates, who would go on khổng lồ direct every Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film made since.

Harry Potter và the Half-Blood Prince

In Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts, Voldemort’s followers, also known as Death Eaters, have openly declared war on the Wizarding World in an attempt to lớn consolidate power. Harry worries that his longtime school rival Draco (Tom Felton) has gone full Death Eater and learns that Voldemort cannot be killed so long as pieces of his soul survive sầu in six Horcruxes – enchanted objects that will serve sầu as the primary MacGuffins for the rest of the series.

Harry Potter và the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

Warner Bros. split the final book of J.K. Rowling’s epic fantasy series in two movies. In Part 1, Harry, Ron, và Hermione have bailed on their final year of wizarding school to lớn go on a quest to lớn find và destroy all remaining Horcruxes. They manage lớn trachồng one down but learn that, lớn destroy it, they will also need lớn locate the powerful Sword of Gryffindor. Then there’s also the matter of the Deathly Hallows themselves, three magical items that would allow the wizard who possesses them khổng lồ master death. So obviously everyone is interested in those too, heroes and villains alượt thích. The film ends in an ominous cliffhanger that sets the stage for the final installment.

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Harry Potter và the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

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In the series’ gr& finale, which picks up immediately after Deathly Hallows – Part 1 ends, we learn the truth about Snape (he’s not such a bad guy after all!) and the forces of good và evil collide for an epic battle at Hogwarts. Everyone gets a chance khổng lồ shine, from Harry, Ron, and Hermione down to fan-favorite supporting characters lượt thích Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis) and Molly Weasley (Julie Walters). Is Voldemort finally defeated for good this time? You’ll have sầu to watch to find out!

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Rowling và Warner Bros. have always intended lớn make five sầu Fantastic Beasts films, andFantastic Beasts 3, with Mads Mikkelsen replacing Depp in the role of Grindelwald, is slated for release in July 2022. The odds of seeing Harry return to the big screen seem remote, but there’s always a chance Warner Bros. could reunite the cast for an adaptation of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, a năm 2016 stage play based on a story by Rowling that is mix 19 years after Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and is considered canon by Rowling.

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