How Many Resident Evil Movies Are There?

Eight live action Resident Evil films have reached theaters between 2002 and 2026, and they split into three separate runs. The Japanese animated films sit outside that count, and the table gives the quick numbers for the rest.

Grosses are from Box Office Mojo and The Numbers. For the full money breakdown, see the resident evil box office page.

The first run is six films that follow Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, against the Umbrella Corporation, and Paul W. S. Anderson directed four of them. Alice was created for the films and does not appear in the games. Resident Evil (2002) opens with Alice waking in a mansion with no memory, before a commando team takes a train into the Hive, a secret underground lab, to find out why its computer, the Red Queen, has sealed everyone inside. It cost $33 million and made about $103 million worldwide. Michelle Rodriguez plays Rain, and Marilyn Manson is credited as composer.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), directed by Alexander Witt, moves the outbreak into Raccoon City, which Umbrella seals off. Sienna Guillory plays Jill Valentine, and Matthew G. Taylor plays the hulking Nemesis. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), directed by Russell Mulcahy, jumps ahead to a world turned mostly to desert, where Alice wanders alone and Ali Larter's Claire leads a convoy of survivors. Both middle films cost $45 million.

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) brought Anderson back and was the first film in the saga shot in 3D, according to Screen Daily. It cost $60 million and grossed about $300 million worldwide, the biggest jump in the run. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) opens with an attack on the ship Arcadia and a suburban nightmare in which Alice wakes as a housewife. It also brings in Ada Wong and Leon Kennedy, played by Li Bingbing and Johann Urb.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter closed the run. It premiered in Tokyo in December 2016, reached US theaters on January 27, 2017, and runs 107 minutes, the longest of the six. It cost $40 million and made about $312 million worldwide, but only $26.8 million of that came from the US. Alice returns to the Hive beneath Raccoon City, with Iain Glen's Dr. Isaacs and the Red Queen waiting. The Red Queen also has her own page at red queen resident evil.

Yes, there is a seventh live action film, and it is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, released in the US on November 24, 2021. Johannes Roberts directed it. Set in 1998, it follows Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield returning to a dying Raccoon City, with Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker and Avan Jogia as Leon Kennedy. Mark Korven composed the score.

It was also the smallest film of the lot, with a $25 million budget and about $42 million worldwide. For a closer look at how the games and films differ, see resident evil games vs movies.

Yes, Resident Evil (2026) is the eighth live action film, and it opened in the US on September 18, 2026. Zach Cregger directed and co-wrote it with Shay Hatten, and Sony released it, with TriStar Pictures, Constantin Film and Davis Films sharing the $75 million budget, according to TheWrap. Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier who takes a double pay delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital on a snowy night, is bitten by a little girl on the way, and meets people twisted by the Umbrella Corporation's outbreak once he arrives. Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis and Zach Cherry are among the cast, and Hays Holladay and Ryan Holladay are the credited composers.

The numbers back up the attention. It took $60.2 million in the US on opening weekend, which Deadline called a franchise best, and had grossed $400 million worldwide as of November 2, 2026, according to The Numbers. That makes it the highest grossing Resident Evil film so far. A home video release followed on November 3, 2026. Because the title matches the 2002 film, always check the year before you search. See resident evil 2026 for the full film page.

No single streaming service carries all eight films. In the US, Netflix lists all six Alice films as of November 3, 2026, according to JustWatch data via TMDB, while Welcome to Raccoon City is listed on Hulu, fuboTV and YouTube TV, and Resident Evil (2026) has no US streaming listing yet. In Australia, Stan lists seven of the eight, and the 2026 film is rental or purchase only. In the UK, Disney Plus lists the first five, with The Final Chapter available to rent or buy and the 2026 film available to rent. Services change often, so where to watch resident evil holds the checked list by country.

If you are starting from scratch, the resident evil movies in order guide sets out the release and chronological orders, and the resident evil movies hub links every other page. For the next entry in the series, see the new resident evil movie page.