Resident Evil Movies: Story Timeline
This watch order focuses exclusively on the Alice storyline, the original six-film saga starring Milla Jovovich. These films tell a continuous story following Alice's journey from the initial outbreak at the Umbrella Corporation facility through to the final confrontation with the corporation itself.
Since these films were designed to follow each other chronologically, this story timeline matches the release order of the original series, providing the most coherent narrative experience for Alice's complete arc. This watch list does not include the unconnected 2021 reboot.
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Resident Evil
When a deadly virus escapes from a secret underground laboratory, an elite military team must battle hordes of zombies and mutated creatures to contain the outbreak.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
After a viral outbreak transforms the dead into zombies, Alice teams up with elite soldiers to rescue the daughter of the T-virus creator while the city is under quarantine. They must fight for survival and escape before the Umbrella Corporation destroys all evidence of their deadly experiment.
Resident Evil: Extinction
Years after the Raccoon City disaster, survivors journey across the Nevada desert while Alice joins their fight against zombie hordes and the sinister Umbrella Corporation.
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Alice continues her fight against the zombie apocalypse and the Umbrella Corporation while searching for survivors and a rumored safe haven. Her journey leads to Los Angeles, where she and her allies face overwhelming undead hordes and discover they may have walked into a trap.
Resident Evil: Retribution
Alice awakens in an Umbrella Corporation facility and continues her mission to stop those responsible for the T-virus outbreak that has turned the world's population into zombies. Her global pursuit leads to shocking revelations about her past as she fights to survive in a world on the brink of destruction.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Alice returns to where it all began in Raccoon City for humanity's final battle against the Umbrella Corporation and their undead forces in this concluding chapter of the apocalyptic saga.
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