How many movies did hanibal lector make?

Question

if you were to watch hanibal grow older from a young kid what is the order you would watch the movies?

Answer 1

The character is featured in the novels and films that follow:

Red Dragon (also filmed as Manhunter) (in which he is a lesser character already incarcerated while the hunt is on for The Tooth Fairy)

The Silence of The Lambs (where he takes a greater role,helping Clarice Starling,an FBI agent,capture Buffalo Bill and in so doing arranges his own escape.)

Hannibal (In which Clarice,having gotten demoted is called back in to help recapture the escaped Hannibal,who is also being hunted by two other men,one,a millionaire who narrowly escapes with his life,another,an Italian detective who wants to claim the reward for his capture.)

Hannibal Rising (which chronicles Hannibal's formative years during the end of WWII when he and his sister are orphaned and he loses her in a horrible act of cannibalism.And he grows up under the tutelage of a Japanese woman while he studies medicine(and becomes better and better at killing and evading capture.)

Answer 2

Hannibal Lecter is not a real person, so he technically made no movies.   But he has been a character in 5 movies total.

Manhunter in 1986

Silence of the Lambs in 1991

Hannibal in 2001

Red Dragon in 2002

Hannibal Rising in 2007

Red Dragon is a remake of Manhunter