Godzilla Live-Action Movies in Chronological Order

After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.

Scout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.

Godzilla's initial 1957 French theatrical debut resulted in an entirely different version of the film altogether, combining Toho's original Gojira with elements of the re-edited US release with Raymond Burr.

The heavily re-edited American version of Godzilla Raids Again. A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

A UN reporter covers the appearance of a prehistoric monster that emerges from hibernation, while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with a monster of their own.

When greedy tycoons refuse to return Mothra's egg to the people of Infant Island, they must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help when Godzilla arises near Nagoya.

A detective protects a princess who prophecies Earth's destruction by a powerful space monster; the world's only hope being if Mothra can persuade Godzilla and Rodan to unite and save the planet.

Astronauts encounter the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save them from "Monster Zero", but when one of the astronaut romances a mysterious woman, he uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.

Four men searching for one's brother are shipwrecked on Letchi Island, where a terrorist organization developing nuclear weapons have enslaved the natives of Infant Island and command monstrous crustacean named Ebirah.

A reporter stumbles upon weather experiments on a tropical island, discovering giant mantises, a castaway woman, and an infant monster that Godzilla must adopt as his own.

In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.

A latchkey child living in the industrial city of Kawasaki confronts his loneliness through his escapist dreams of Monster Island and friendship with Minilla.

A toxic, ever-evolving alien life-form from the Dark Gaseous Nebula arrives to consume rampant pollution, and neither Humanity nor Godzilla may be able to stop it.

After a manga artist and his friends uncover a plot by his employers at an amusement park to lure Ghidorah and Gigan to Earth, Godzilla and Anguirus set out to aid in defeating the alien invaders.

An inventor creates a robot that is seized by an undersea kingdom to guide their monster god in attacking the surface as retaliation for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

An Okinawan prophecy appears to foretell Earth's destruction at the hands of Godzilla, only for the true Godzilla to reveal his doppelganger as a mechanical alien weapon.

An Interpol investigation uncovers a shunned biologist, his cyborg daughter, and their monstrous dinosaur, entwined in a alien plot to resurrect Mechagodzilla and construct a new utopia from the ashes of humanity.

When American reporter Steve Martin investigates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo to a smoldering graveyard. Nuclear weapon testing resurrected this relic from the Jurassic age, and now it's rampaging across Japan. At night, Godzilla wades through Tokyo leaving death and destruction in his wake, disappearing into Tokyo Bay when his rage subsides. Conventional weapons are useless against him; but renowned scientist Dr. Serizawa has discovered a weapon that could destroy all life in the bay - including Godzilla. But which disaster is worse, Godzilla's fury, of the death of Tokyo Bay?

The Japanese government suppresses news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the US and USSR, both of whom willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

Desolate by the loss of his daughter, a geneticist creates a monstrous new mutation.

Time travelers use Godzilla in their scheme to destroy Japan to prevent the country's future economic reign.

The Mads force Joel and the Bots to watch "Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)," the cheesy Japanese monster mash featuring Godzilla's infamous flying kick.

The Mads force "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)" on Joel and the Bots. In this one, a group of friends are shipwrecked on an island guarded by a crab. The Bots meet Mothra on the Hexfield and the Mads start re-thinking the structure of their experiments.

Japan is caught in the middle of a three way battle between Godzilla, the divine Mothra, and her dark counterpart Battra.