And while the majority of the film takes place in 1991, the true start of the film is technically 1980 - the year when Harry was born and Hagrid drops him of at the Dursley residence. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone is the first film in the original series. Where to Watch: Peacock, AppleTV+, Amazon Prime Video (to rent) Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (2001) Read our review of The Secrets of Dumbledore. There are a few time jumps due to a creature named Qilin, but most of the movie is set in the 1930s.

Set 5 years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald, the third film in the Fantastic Beasts series largely focuses on Grindelwald himself once again - who is actually played by Mads Mikkelsen this time. Where to Watch: HBO Max, AppleTV+, and Amazon Prime Video (to rent)įantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the first film in the Fantastic Beasts series that sees a true time jump. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) Read our review of The Crimes of Grindelwald 3. The film itself largely focuses on the villain revealed in the first movie, Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp). We get a look at a young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and even get introduced to a youthful Minderva McGonagall (Fiona Glascott). Just a few months after the end of the first prequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald takes us back to England and features even more tie-ins to the original Harry Potter Movies. Where to Watch: AppleTV+ and Amazon Prime Video (to rent)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Read our review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2. The first Fantastic Beasts film focuses on Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as he navigates his way through New York and the magical underpinnings of the United States. Considering it takes place around 70 years before Harry starts school at Hogwarts, it is the first film you'll want to watch if you're going by chronological order. Set all the way back in 1926, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the first Harry Potter spin-off prequel to hit theaters. Where to Watch: Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video (to rent) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) The Harry Potter Movies in Chronological Order 1. And although it takes place before the films, there are quite a few last names in Hogwarts Legacy you'll recognize from the books and movies and Hogwarts Castle is pretty much exactly the same. For context, the Fantastic Beasts movies begin in the 1920s and the Harry Potter films start in the 1990s. Hogwarts Legacy takes place before any of the mainline movies sometime around the 1890s.

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