The links here will tell you all aboot each of the 33 actual Godzilla movies in... well maybe not excruciating detail, but at least enough. Each entry will have info on the release, principal staff, a synopsis, the themes, monsters & mecha appearances, and English versions of the films.

The Showa Series

  1. 1954 GODZILLA
  2. 1955 GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN
  3. 1962 KING KONG VERSUS GODZILLA
  4. 1964 MOTHRA VERSUS GODZILLA
  5. 1964 GHIDORAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER
  6. 1965 GODZILLA VERSUS MONSTER ZERO
  7. 1966 GODZILLA VERSUS THE SEA MONSTER
  8. 1967 SON OF GODZILLA
  9. 1968 DESTROY ALL MONSTERS

The Champion Festival Series

  1. 1969 GODZILLA'S REVENGE
  2. 1971 GODZILLA VERSUS HEDORAH
  3. 1972 GODZILLA VERSUS GIGAN
  4. 1973 GODZILLA VERSUS MEGALON
  5. 1974 GODZILLA VERSUS MECHAGODZILLA
  6. 1975 TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA

The VS Series

  1. 1984 RETURN OF GODZILLA
  2. 1989 GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE
  3. 1991 GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH
  4. 1992 GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA
  5. 1993 GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA
  6. 1994 GODZILLA VS. SPACEGODZILLA
  7. 1995 GODZILLA VS. DESTOROYAH

The Millennium Series

  1. 1999 GODZILLA 2000
  2. 2000 GODZILLA X MEGAGUIRUS
  3. 2001 GODZILLA X MOTHRA X KING GHIDORAH
  4. 2002 GODZILLA X MECHAGODZILLA
  5. 2003 GODZILLA X MOTHRA X MECHAGODZILLA
  6. 2004 GODZILLA: FINAL WARS

The 2010's Series

  1. 2016 SHIN GODZILLA
  2. 2017 GODZILLA: PLANET OF THE MONSTERS
  3. 2018 GODZILLA: CITY ON THE EDGE OF BATTLE
  4. 2018 GODZILLA: THE PLANET EATER

The Reiwa Series

  1. 2023 GODZILLA -1.0

Television Series

  1. 1973 ZONE FIGHTER (26 Episodes (5 Godzilla Episodes))
  2. 2021 GODZILLA: SINGULAR POINT (13 Episodes (8 Godzilla Episodes))

Ride Films

  1. 1994 Monster Planet of Godzilla (Sanrio Puroland)
  2. 2017 Godzilla: The Real 4D (Universal Studios Japan)
  3. 2019 Godzilla vs. Evangelion (Universal Studios Japan)
  4. 2021 Godzilla the Ride: Ultimate Battle (Seibuen Amusement Park)
  5. 2023 Godzilla the Ride: Great Clash (Seibuen Amusement Park)

Godzilla Fes Shorts

  1. 2020 Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fes
  2. 2021 Godzilla vs. Hedorah
  3. 2022 Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex
  4. 2022 Fes Godzilla 3: Gigan Invasion
  5. 2023 Godzilla vs. Megalon
  6. 2023 Fes Godzilla 4: Operation Jet Jaguar
  7. 2024 Fes Godzilla 5: All Monsters Showdown
  8. 2026 Fes Godzilla II: Shinjuku Burning

N.R.A.Q.

Never Really Asked Questions

Q: Where are the Hollywood movies?
A: I don't care.

Q: No but really, where are the Hollywood movies?
A: They fall outside the scope of this site, which only cares about the real Godzilla movies and their associated media.

Q: What is with these titles?
A: The series is pretty notorious for the incredible variation of titles each of the entries have. The titles I use here are chosen specifically based on the following criteria:

  1. Two movies can't have the same title.
  2. It has to be something the movie has actually been called in some language or another.
  3. Nothing completely obnoxious.
     This immediately rules out sticking to any version of Toho's "official" English titles which have violated all three of those rules. Using the original Japanese titles is out too, because some of those are truly obnoxious, two of them are exactly the same, and #31 in particular has an amazing Japanese title that's really hard to translate properly because of how all the kanji compounds work. One thing that's always irritated me is Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, because it's not a sequel to Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and at the time it was produced, it was a toss-up in the west whether that movie was called Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster or Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, so the existence of the "II" is ridiculous to begin with. Instead, I chose to differentiate the "tai," "vs.," and "X," series by... using the thing that actually differentiates those titles. So any film that uses "tai," I render here as spelling out "versus," since in the Japanese title this is just the word itself (albeit in pictograph form), so the English equivalent should be the full word. This not only differentiates the 70's films from the 90's ones, but from the short Godzilla vs. Hedorah as well. Plus there is a precedent, as the US TV dub of #7 was called Godzilla versus the Sea Monster. Monster Zero wasn't, that had the "vs.," not "versus," tacked onto it on video in the 80's, but these are just names I'm using to make my personal webzone readable, so if I have to play a little fast and loose with the typography, that's not really unreasonable.
     Now I changed a couple of the titles here when I updated this page to be the hub for the shorts and such, too. The changes were firstly that although All Monsters Attack is a far more reasonable title to give to #10 than Godzilla's Revenge, nobody ever actually gave it that title. There's a couple of other instances of this sort of thing happening but those are both a kind of grey area, but Revenge has genuinely just never been distributed in any version that's called AMA, the only time you'll ever see the film titled that is if you're watching a fan edit or if you have a copy from the aughts or later of the original Japanese film with subtitles enabled, where it will subtitle the title card with that even though it's not the title of the movie. So, while Revenge isn't a great title, it is what the English version of the film was actually called, and it's a lot less obnoxious than the Japanese title, so there you go. Likewise, I also reversed my devicion to default to subtitles for GMK and GMMG, and instead I know use the X part of the title for all the ones that have X's in the title, and made the typographically creative decision to render the •'s as X's for GMK too, in order to keep it consistent. Feel free to not like this choice, but it's just a Neocities website.

Q: What is the "Champion Festival" series? Aren't those movies part of the Showa series?
A: Yes and no. Yes, in that they mostly (aside from Godzilla's Revenge) fit into the Showa timeline and were produced during the Showa era. No in that Destroy All Monsters was intended to be was the last Godzilla film of its "era." The genesis of Revenge is a whole thing that happened after the original plans for the new era fell through, and the staff of Hedorah was intentionally a fresh start intended to inaugurate a Godzilla for a new generation. These films are stylistically distinct from everything that came before and their existence as a distinct entity was confirmed by the book Godzilla Champion Festival Perfection. Also 15 movies is a little long compared to the subsequent series, so splitting it up just looks better on paper.

Q: VS series? Don't you mean the Heisei series?
A: No I don't. "Heisei" is a term used by western fans for 7 films, one of which wasn't released during the Heisei era, and doesn't include all the rest of the Heisei era Godzilla films. For the record, "series" and "era" mean different things, with "era" referring to a Japanese "nengo," or "era name," which is where Showa and Heisei come from. The 32 Godzilla films are split neatly down the middle, with 16 being produced in each of these eras. I wouldn't mind the name if that's what the series was called, but Japanese fans don't say this, they call the 1984-1995 series the "VS series" because each of the sequels has "VS" in the title (as opposed to the Japanese word "tai" which means versus). Because the western term is imprecise and incorrect, I use the Japanese term here.

Q: I know that not a single one so called Reiwa series Godzilla films actually came out during the Reiwa era, but that's what Toho officially calls the series!
A: I'm aware of this, but again, this is not what what Japanese fans call this series. They call it, understandably, the 2010's series. For the same reasons as above, it makes even less sense to me to refer to a series of films by an era not a single one of the films was produced in, so I use the Japanese terminology instead. If Toho wants to use technically incorrect naming conventions, that's up to them, but this is only a naming convention they've used at English events, and there's no evidence they internally or domestically call this series the Reiwa series. This isn't an elitism thing, it's a "not getting things backwards and wrong" thing.