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Spiritual Trilogies watch order

Spiritual Trilogy movies in order, release and chronological. Updated October 20, 2026.

Spiritual trilogies are three films with no shared characters or plot that belong together by director, theme or tone. Some are named by their makers, like Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) and Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy; others are fan inventions, like the Cage Uncaged trilogy of The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off. Each trilogy has its own rail here; watch the three films in release order.

How to watch the Spiritual Trilogy movies in order: the full guide

All 48 films and series in the Spiritual Trilogies franchise, in release order and in chronological (story) order. The first in release order is L'Avventura (1960); the first in chronological order is Shaun of the Dead (set in First in the trilogy).

Release order

  1. L'Avventura (Movie, 1960): A woman disappears on an island and her friends stop looking.
  2. La Notte (Movie, 1961): A day and night in a failing marriage in Milan.
  3. L'Eclisse (Movie, 1962): A translator drifts into an affair with a stockbroker in Rome.
  4. A Fistful of Dollars (Movie, 1964): The Man with No Name plays two gangs against each other.
  5. Repulsion (Movie, 1965): A young woman alone in her London flat comes apart.
  6. For a Few Dollars More (Movie, 1965): Two bounty hunters after the same outlaw.
  7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Movie, 1966): Three gunmen hunt buried Confederate gold.
  8. Rosemary's Baby (Movie, 1968): A pregnant woman suspects her neighbors of something unholy.
  9. Klute (Movie, 1971): A detective and a call girl being stalked.
  10. The Parallax View (Movie, 1974): A reporter digs into a political assassination and a shadowy corporation.
  11. The Tenant (Movie, 1976): Polanski himself, in a Paris apartment whose last tenant jumped.
  12. All the President's Men (Movie, 1976): Woodward and Bernstein break the Watergate story.
  13. The Thing (Movie, 1982): A shape-shifting alien in an Antarctic research station.
  14. Amadeus (Movie, 1984): Salieri's jealousy of Mozart.
  15. Prince of Darkness (Movie, 1987): Physicists study a canister of liquid evil in a church basement.
  16. Days of Being Wild (Movie, 1990): A restless young man in 1960 Hong Kong and the women he hurts.
  17. Three Colours: Blue (Movie, 1993): Liberty: a widow tries to cut herself off from everything.
  18. In the Mouth of Madness (Movie, 1994): An investigator finds a horror novelist's books are rewriting reality.
  19. Three Colours: White (Movie, 1994): Equality: a divorced Polish hairdresser plots to win back his wife.
  20. Three Colours: Red (Movie, 1994): Fraternity: a model and a retired judge who listens to his neighbors' calls.
  21. The Rock (Movie, 1996): Nicolas Cage as a chemical weapons expert breaking into Alcatraz.
  22. Con Air (Movie, 1997): Nicolas Cage as a parolee on a plane full of hijacking convicts.
  23. Face/Off (Movie, 1997): Nicolas Cage and John Travolta swap faces.
  24. In the Mood for Love (Movie, 2000): Two neighbors realize their spouses are having an affair.
  25. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Movie, 2000): Three escaped convicts in 1930s Mississippi, retelling The Odyssey.
  26. Cast Away (Movie, 2000): A FedEx engineer stranded on an island for four years.
  27. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Movie, 2002): A kidnapping to pay for a sister's kidney goes wrong.
  28. Oldboy (Movie, 2003): A man is locked in a room for 15 years without being told why.
  29. Intolerable Cruelty (Movie, 2003): A divorce lawyer falls for a gold digger.
  30. Shaun of the Dead (Movie, 2004): Edgar Wright's zombie comedy; strawberry Cornetto, for blood.
  31. 2046 (Movie, 2004): The writer from In the Mood for Love, years later.
  32. Lady Vengeance (Movie, 2005): A woman jailed for a child's murder plans her revenge.
  33. Hot Fuzz (Movie, 2007): A London supercop in a sinister village; the blue Cornetto, for police.
  34. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Movie, 2007): Jesse James's last months, through the eyes of the man who kills him.
  35. There Will Be Blood (Movie, 2007): An oilman's rise and ruin in early 1900s California.
  36. No Country for Old Men (Movie, 2007): A hunter takes drug money and a killer follows him.
  37. I Am Legend (Movie, 2007): The last man in New York after a plague.
  38. Burn After Reading (Movie, 2008): Two gym employees find a CIA analyst's memoir on a disc.
  39. Black Swan (Movie, 2010): A ballerina loses herself to the lead in Swan Lake.
  40. Inside Job (Movie, 2010): A documentary on the 2008 financial crisis.
  41. The World's End (Movie, 2013): A pub crawl during an alien takeover; the mint Cornetto.
  42. The Wolf of Wall Street (Movie, 2013): Jordan Belfort's fraud-fuelled rise as a stockbroker.
  43. Whiplash (Movie, 2014): A jazz drummer and an abusive bandleader.
  44. Sicario (Movie, 2015): An FBI agent is pulled into a cartel operation on the Mexican border.
  45. The Martian (Movie, 2015): An astronaut left behind on Mars.
  46. The Big Short (Movie, 2015): The few investors who saw the 2008 housing crash coming.
  47. Hell or High Water (Movie, 2016): Two brothers rob the bank about to take their family ranch.
  48. Wind River (Movie, 2017): A tracker and an FBI agent investigate a death on a reservation.

Chronological order

  1. Shaun of the Dead (set in First in the trilogy): Edgar Wright's zombie comedy; strawberry Cornetto, for blood.
  2. Hot Fuzz (set in Second in the trilogy): A London supercop in a sinister village; the blue Cornetto, for police.
  3. The World's End (set in Third in the trilogy): A pub crawl during an alien takeover; the mint Cornetto.
  4. Repulsion (set in First in the trilogy): A young woman alone in her London flat comes apart.
  5. Rosemary's Baby (set in Second in the trilogy): A pregnant woman suspects her neighbors of something unholy.
  6. The Tenant (set in Third in the trilogy): Polanski himself, in a Paris apartment whose last tenant jumped.
  7. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (set in First in the trilogy): A kidnapping to pay for a sister's kidney goes wrong.
  8. Oldboy (set in Second in the trilogy): A man is locked in a room for 15 years without being told why.
  9. Lady Vengeance (set in Third in the trilogy): A woman jailed for a child's murder plans her revenge.
  10. The Thing (set in First in the trilogy): A shape-shifting alien in an Antarctic research station.
  11. Prince of Darkness (set in Second in the trilogy): Physicists study a canister of liquid evil in a church basement.
  12. In the Mouth of Madness (set in Third in the trilogy): An investigator finds a horror novelist's books are rewriting reality.
  13. Sicario (set in First in the trilogy): An FBI agent is pulled into a cartel operation on the Mexican border.
  14. Hell or High Water (set in Second in the trilogy): Two brothers rob the bank about to take their family ranch.
  15. Wind River (set in Third in the trilogy): A tracker and an FBI agent investigate a death on a reservation.
  16. Klute (set in First in the trilogy): A detective and a call girl being stalked.
  17. The Parallax View (set in Second in the trilogy): A reporter digs into a political assassination and a shadowy corporation.
  18. All the President's Men (set in Third in the trilogy): Woodward and Bernstein break the Watergate story.
  19. Three Colours: Blue (set in First in the trilogy): Liberty: a widow tries to cut herself off from everything.
  20. Three Colours: White (set in Second in the trilogy): Equality: a divorced Polish hairdresser plots to win back his wife.
  21. Three Colours: Red (set in Third in the trilogy): Fraternity: a model and a retired judge who listens to his neighbors' calls.
  22. Days of Being Wild (set in First in the trilogy): A restless young man in 1960 Hong Kong and the women he hurts.
  23. In the Mood for Love (set in Second in the trilogy): Two neighbors realize their spouses are having an affair.
  24. 2046 (set in Third in the trilogy): The writer from In the Mood for Love, years later.
  25. L'Avventura (set in First in the trilogy): A woman disappears on an island and her friends stop looking.
  26. La Notte (set in Second in the trilogy): A day and night in a failing marriage in Milan.
  27. L'Eclisse (set in Third in the trilogy): A translator drifts into an affair with a stockbroker in Rome.
  28. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (set in First in the trilogy): Three escaped convicts in 1930s Mississippi, retelling The Odyssey.
  29. Intolerable Cruelty (set in Second in the trilogy): A divorce lawyer falls for a gold digger.
  30. Burn After Reading (set in Third in the trilogy): Two gym employees find a CIA analyst's memoir on a disc.
  31. A Fistful of Dollars (set in First in the trilogy): The Man with No Name plays two gangs against each other.
  32. For a Few Dollars More (set in Second in the trilogy): Two bounty hunters after the same outlaw.
  33. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (set in Third in the trilogy): Three gunmen hunt buried Confederate gold.
  34. The Rock (set in First in the trilogy): Nicolas Cage as a chemical weapons expert breaking into Alcatraz.
  35. Con Air (set in Second in the trilogy): Nicolas Cage as a parolee on a plane full of hijacking convicts.
  36. Face/Off (set in Third in the trilogy): Nicolas Cage and John Travolta swap faces.
  37. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (set in First in the trilogy): Jesse James's last months, through the eyes of the man who kills him.
  38. There Will Be Blood (set in Second in the trilogy): An oilman's rise and ruin in early 1900s California.
  39. No Country for Old Men (set in Third in the trilogy): A hunter takes drug money and a killer follows him.
  40. Amadeus (set in First in the trilogy): Salieri's jealousy of Mozart.
  41. Black Swan (set in Second in the trilogy): A ballerina loses herself to the lead in Swan Lake.
  42. Whiplash (set in Third in the trilogy): A jazz drummer and an abusive bandleader.
  43. Cast Away (set in First in the trilogy): A FedEx engineer stranded on an island for four years.
  44. I Am Legend (set in Second in the trilogy): The last man in New York after a plague.
  45. The Martian (set in Third in the trilogy): An astronaut left behind on Mars.
  46. Inside Job (set in First in the trilogy): A documentary on the 2008 financial crisis.
  47. The Wolf of Wall Street (set in Second in the trilogy): Jordan Belfort's fraud-fuelled rise as a stockbroker.
  48. The Big Short (set in Third in the trilogy): The few investors who saw the 2008 housing crash coming.

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Common questions

What order should I watch the Spiritual Trilogy movies in?

Spiritual trilogies are three films with no shared characters or plot that belong together by director, theme or tone. Some are named by their makers, like Edgar Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) and Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy; others are fan inventions, like the Cage Uncaged trilogy of The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off. Each trilogy has its own rail here; watch the three films in release order.

How many Spiritual Trilogy movies and shows are there?

There are 48 titles in the Spiritual Trilogies franchise: 48 films and 0 series, released from 1960 to 2017. 3 more are announced: Sicario 3, Wind River: Rising, and I Am Legend 2.

How long does it take to watch all the Spiritual Trilogy movies?

About 96 hours for all 48 titles, counting every episode.

What is the first Spiritual Trilogy title in chronological order?

Shaun of the Dead, set in First in the trilogy. In release order the first is L'Avventura (1960).

What is the next Spiritual Trilogy release?

Sicario 3, date to be announced.