Underworld

Five films where the third is a prequel set centuries earlier, so release order and story order are genuinely different lists.

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Where to start with Underworld

Two orders exist here and both are defensible, because the third film is a prequel set centuries before the first. Release order is the one recommended below, for a reason worth knowing before you choose: story order hands you the answer the 2003 film spends its whole running time withholding.

  1. 1
    Underworld (2003) Underworld

    The film everything else is built on. It sets out the war, the ranks, the rules about hybrids and who Selene is, and it opens with a narration that the prequel later dramatises.

  2. 2
    Underworld: Evolution Underworld: Evolution

    Picks up within hours of the first film ending and finishes that story rather than starting a new one. The two are close to a single film in two halves and should not be split up.

  3. 3
    Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

    The prequel, set centuries earlier, covering the events the first two films only refer back to. Watched here it fills in what you now know matters. Watched first, it makes the series a clean chronology and gives away the first film's central reveal.

  4. 4
    Underworld: Awakening Underworld: Awakening

    The jump forward. Selene wakes after twelve years in captivity into a world where humans know both species exist, which resets the premise, and it sets up the film that follows.

Then what? Blood Wars closes the run and is the only film that assumes you remember the fourth, so it is worth going straight on. Underworld: Endless War is three animated shorts from 2011 that are in continuity but not needed. If you would rather watch in story order, the list is Rise of the Lycans, Underworld, Evolution, Awakening, Blood Wars, and the only cost is the spoiler noted above. A television series has been in development at Sony since 2017 with no date announced, so nothing is listed for it.

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The Five Films

  • Underworld 2003
  • Underworld: Evolution 2006
  • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 2009
  • Underworld: Awakening 2012
  • Underworld: Blood Wars 2016

Outside the Films

  • Underworld: Endless War 2011

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