X-Men Movies: Every Film in the Franchise

The X-Men series is a superhero saga about mutants, people born with extraordinary powers who are feared and legislated against by the wider world, and it runs to 13 films across two decades. The story begins with X-Men (2000), directed by Bryan Singer, in which Senator Kelly pushes a law that would force mutants to register, the telepath Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) fears how Erik Lehnsherr, now called Magneto (Ian McKellen), will react, and a drifter named Logan (Hugh Jackman) is pulled into Xavier's school for gifted mutants. If you have ever followed a long television drama that swapped half its cast partway through, the shape will feel familiar, because the series later rewinds to the 1960s and recasts the leads.

The seven main saga films are X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019). Singer directed four of them: X-Men (2000), X2, Days of Future Past and Apocalypse. Brett Ratner directed The Last Stand, Matthew Vaughn directed First Class and Simon Kinberg directed Dark Phoenix. The cast changes the most from First Class onward, when James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender play the young Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, with Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, and Days of Future Past is the film that puts both generations on screen together.

Six spin-offs sit around the main films. The Wolverine trilogy is X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) by Gavin Hood, then The Wolverine (2013) and Logan (2017), both by James Mangold. Ryan Reynolds then leads Deadpool (2016), directed by Tim Miller, and Deadpool 2 (2018), directed by David Leitch. The last of the 13 to arrive was The New Mutants (2020), directed by Josh Boone. Deadpool, Deadpool 2 and Logan are the three R rated films in the US, while the rest are PG-13. For the full list, see how many X-Men movies there are. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) is a Marvel Studios film, so it is not one of the 13, and its page is in the Marvel franchise.

The series has earned about $6.08 billion worldwide, adding up the Box Office Mojo figures for all 13 films. Deadpool 2 is the highest grosser at $785.9 million worldwide, just ahead of Deadpool at $782.8 million and Days of Future Past at $746 million. At the other end, Dark Phoenix took $252 million on a $200 million budget and The New Mutants took $49 million on a $67 million budget. The X-Men box office page breaks down every film.

Are the X-Men part of Marvel? The characters are Marvel Comics creations, and Marvel Studios is now developing its own X-Men film, separate from the 13 Fox films. If you want the powers behind the stories, the guide to X-Men powers covers them, and the X-Men series cast page lists who played whom.

All 13 X-Men movies list Disney Plus as a streaming option in the US, UK and Australia, according to JustWatch data on TMDB checked on November 3, 2026. That makes Disney Plus the one service that covers the whole franchise, and the where to watch X-Men page lists each film by country.

Other services vary by film. In the US, First Class, The Wolverine and Deadpool 2 also list HBO Max, while The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix list fuboTV and Dark Phoenix adds YouTube TV and FXNow. For rent or buy, Amazon Video, Apple TV and YouTube show up for most titles in all three countries, with Google Play Movies and Fandango At Home in the US, Rakuten TV and Sky Store in the UK, and Fetch TV in Australia. In Australia the non-Disney options are buy only. Availability changes without notice, so check the film's own page before you commit to a weekend marathon.

If you also want the music, the X-Men soundtrack page covers the composers, and there are X-Men reviews and X-Men merchandise pages for the rest.