Mad Max watch order
There are 5 Mad Max films, about 9.4 hours in total. The first was released in 1979, the latest in 2024. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
Mad Max is an Australian dystopian action media franchise. Mad Max references are deeply embedded in popular culture; references to its dystopian, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic themes and bizarre landscape and desolate wasteland imagery. The collection currently includes Mad Max 1-4 also Furiosa and as of yet to be released Mad Max: The Wasteland.
- 1
Mad Max (1979)
12 Apr 1979 · 91 min
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
- 2
Mad Max 2 (1981)
24 Dec 1981 · 96 min
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
- 3
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
29 Jun 1985 · 107 min
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
- 4
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
13 May 2015 · 121 min
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
- 5
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
22 May 2024 · 149 min
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.