The Mission: Impossible franchise is one of the most successful film franchises at the box office and in home media starting in 1996 with Mission: Impossible. The movies are based on the TV series of the same name that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973 and was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC.
Here’s a list of the Mission: Impossible movies in order of release date.
List of Mission: Impossible Films
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
- Mission: Impossible 3 (2006)
- Mission: Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol (2011)
- Mission: Impossible 5 – Rogue Nation (2015)
- Mission: Impossible 6 – Fallout (2018)
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 8 (2025)
The Mission: Impossible films star Tom Cruise IMF (Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt. Several characters have continued throughout the series including Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg).
Other actors who have appeared in M:I films as recurring characters include Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Renner, Léa Seydoux, Rebecca Ferguson, and Michelle Monaghan, as well as single movie appearances by Paula Patton, Jon Voight, Alec Baldwin, Emmanuelle Béart, Thandiwe Newton, Billy Crudup, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The Mission: Impossible films all released in 4k Blu-ray SteelBook editions in the summer of 2023, anticipating the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One on July 14, 2023. Read a review of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning on 4k Blu-ray.