supernatural romance series twilight remains one of the biggest film franchises of the last 20 years based on the novels by stephanie meyer the story focuses on bella swan kristen stewart as she falls in love with vampire edward cullen robert pattinson in the rainy town of forks washingtonset over the course of five movies viewers have been falling in love with their story and the cast of eccentric supporting characters for more than 15 years and now weve passed the 10th anniversary of the final movies release theres never been a better time to revisit the epic storyto help you with your watching or rewatching plans weve broken down how to watch the twilight movies in chronological order as well as sorting them by release date weve also got all of the information you need to know about how to stream them as wellhow to watch twilight movies in orderthe twilight saga is best watched in chronological order which luckily enough is the same order as the movies were released for any fans of the books this also follows the release of meyers novels as well apart from breaking dawn being split into two movies twilight 2008the twilight saga new moon 2009the twilight saga eclipse 2010the twilight saga breaking dawn part 1 2011the twilight saga breaking dawn part 2 2012twilightimage credit lionsgate the first movie in the saga twilight introduces the story of bella swan and edward cullen directed by catherine hardwicke the first movie begins as bella moves into the small town of forks washington to live with her dad however when she starts out at her new school she finds herself drawn to the mysterious edward after she finds out hes a vampire the pair begin dating but danger is never far away the twilight saga new moonimage credit lionsgate after bellas brutal attack at the end of twilight edward convinces himself that hell cause her danger if he stays with her so he breaks up with bella and moves away from forks with the rest of the cullen family devastated bella slowly develops a new friendship with jacob black taylor lautner who is hiding some supernatural secrets of his own the second movie in the trilogy was directed by chris weitz and written by melissa rosenberg the twilight saga eclipseimage credit lionsgate eclipse picks up with bella and edward now theyve reconciled after the traumatic events of new moon directed by david slade the third movie in the saga sees the cullens and jacobs wolf pack forming a temporary alliance to battle new threat victoria with bella as the target jacob and edward come to blows over who will keep her most safe the twilight saga breaking dawn part 1image credit lionsgate the final book in meyers twilight series was split into two to make up breaking dawn part 1 and breaking dawn part 2 the fourth movie was directed by bill condon and featured wedding bells for bella and edward