Below is a list of all the Mission: Impossible movies in the order of date of release.

  1. Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Henry Czerny

Plot:
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he’s surprised to learn that he’s the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

2. Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton

Plot:
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

3. Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames

Plot:
Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.

4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg

Plot:
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg

Plot:
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating ‘The Syndicate’, an International and highly-skilled rogue organisation committed to destroying the IMF.

6. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

Plot:
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.