How Many Harry Potter Movies Are There? All 11 Films

There are 11 Harry Potter movies: eight main films that adapt the seven novels, and three Fantastic Beasts spin-offs set in the same wizarding world. The main films follow Harry from his eleventh birthday to the final fight with Voldemort. The spin-offs begin in 1926 and follow the magizoologist Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne. If you want the viewing sequence rather than the count, Harry Potter movies in order sets out both the release order and the chronological order.

There are eight main Harry Potter movies, and the next Harry Potter project on the schedule is the HBO television series, not a ninth film. Seven novels became eight films because the last book was split into two releases, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 in 2010 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011. The spin-offs are what push the total past eight, and with all three Fantastic Beasts films included the count is 11.

The 11 films run from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), directed by Chris Columbus, to Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), directed by David Yates. Each film appears below in release order with its US release date, runtime and director.

Among the eight main films, the longest is Chamber of Secrets at 161 minutes. The shortest is Deathly Hallows: Part 2 at 130 minutes, so the saga closes on its quickest film. The three spin-offs run 133, 134 and 142 minutes. Release dates outside the US differ slightly, and Prisoner of Azkaban reached UK theaters on May 31, 2004, a few days before its US opening.

Four directors made the eight main films, and one of them also made all three spin-offs. Chris Columbus directed the first two, Alfonso Cuarón directed Prisoner of Azkaban, Mike Newell directed Goblet of Fire, and David Yates directed the last four. Yates therefore directed seven of the 11 films, more than any other filmmaker in the series. The music changed hands almost as often: John Williams scored the first three films, Patrick Doyle scored Goblet of Fire, Nicholas Hooper scored the fifth and sixth, Alexandre Desplat scored both Deathly Hallows films, and James Newton Howard scored the spin-offs. The Harry Potter soundtrack page covers the composers in more detail.

The cast is steadier than the crew. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are billed in all eight main films, and the wider Harry Potter cast includes Alan Rickman as Snape and Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid. Dumbledore is the one lead role that changed: Richard Harris played him in the first two films, and Michael Gambon took over from the third. Jude Law plays a younger Dumbledore in the second and third Fantastic Beasts films, and Mads Mikkelsen replaced Johnny Depp as Grindelwald in The Secrets of Dumbledore. For the people behind the roles, see the Harry Potter characters page.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 grossed the most, at about $1.31 billion worldwide according to The Numbers. Sorcerer's Stone comes next among the main films at roughly $1.03 billion worldwide according to Box Office Mojo, on a $125 million budget. The spin-offs moved the other way, from $816 million for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to $656 million for The Crimes of Grindelwald and $407 million for The Secrets of Dumbledore, with the last two carrying $200 million budgets. The Harry Potter box office page has the full figures.

There is one Harry Potter television series so far, an HBO adaptation that is reported to premiere on December 25, 2026. It is a fresh retelling of the novels with an entirely new cast, and it does not continue the films. Each of the seven books is planned as its own season, and Season 1 has eight episodes covering the first book. Dominic McLaughlin plays Harry, Arabella Stanton plays Hermione and Alastair Stout plays Ron, with John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Paapa Essiedu as Snape and Nick Frost as Hagrid. Francesca Gardiner is the showrunner, Mark Mylod directs multiple episodes, and Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers are composing the score.

The series was shot at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK, the lot where the films were made, and David Heyman, a producer of the films, is an executive producer. HBO renewed it for Season 2 in May 2026, before Season 1 had aired, and that season is reported to adapt Chamber of Secrets with no release date yet. Because it is television, it leaves the film count at 11. The Harry Potter TV series page has the full cast and production details, and the new Harry Potter movie page tracks the next project.

As of November 3, 2026, all 11 films are on HBO Max and Peacock among the US subscription services, according to JustWatch data via TMDB. Availability changes often and differs in the UK and Australia, so where to watch Harry Potter shows each film by country. If you are starting from the beginning, the Harry Potter timeline is the best next stop, and the Harry Potter movies hub links to everything else.