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Every Mission: Impossible Movie in Order (and Where to Stream Them)

All the Mission: Impossible movies in release order — with critic and audience scores for each film and where to stream the whole series in the US right now.

By PickYourBinge TeamUpdated 8 movies

Planning your Mission: Impossible marathon? Here is every movie in the series in the order it was released, with Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb scores for each one.

We've also listed where every film is streaming in the US today, so you can see at a glance which service gets you the most of the series.

In order

  1. 1Mission: Impossible 1996
  2. 2Mission: Impossible II 2000
  3. 3Mission: Impossible III 2006
  4. 4Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011
  5. 5Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 2015
  6. 6Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018
  7. 7Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
  8. 8Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 2025
Mission: Impossible (1996) poster
IMDb7.265%

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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Stream on
  • HBO Max
  • Paramount+
Director
Brian De Palma
Starring
Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart
Mission: Impossible II (2000) poster
IMDb6.1

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

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Stream on
  • Paramount+
Director
John Woo
Starring
Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton
Mission: Impossible III (2006) poster
IMDb6.973%

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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Stream on
  • Paramount+
Director
J.J. Abrams
Starring
Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) poster
IMDb7.494%

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

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Stream on
  • Paramount+
Director
Brad Bird
Starring
Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) poster
IMDb7.494%

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

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Stream on
  • Paramount+
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) poster
IMDb7.798%

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

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Stream on
  • Paramount+
  • YouTube TV
  • FXNow
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) poster
IMDb7.696%

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.

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Stream on
  • Paramount+
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) poster
IMDb7.180%

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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Stream on
  • Prime Video
  • Paramount+
  • MGM+
  • Fubo
  • Philo
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames

Which order should you watch them in?

Release order is the safest choice for a first watch — it's how audiences met the story, and later films assume you've seen the earlier ones. Streaming availability is US only and reflects providers at time of publish.

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