Ant movies, the everyday meaning
Type "ant movies" and most people mean Ant-Man, then the cartoons about ants, then the old horror films about giant ones. All three are on the ant movies shelf, nine films from 1954 to 2023, each with its story, cast and a Watch now button for your country.
How many Ant-Man movies are there?
Three films carry the name: Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). Paul Rudd plays Scott Lang in all three, with Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym and Michael Peña, David Dastmalchian and Randall Park around them in the first two; Quantumania adds Jonathan Majors as Kang and Kathryn Newton as Cassie.
The Ant-Man movies in order
For Scott Lang's whole story, watch them in release order with his two Avengers appearances slotted in: Ant-Man; Captain America: Civil War, where he joins Steve Rogers at the airport; Ant-Man and the Wasp, set during his house arrest; Avengers: Endgame, which begins with his escape from the Quantum Realm; and Quantumania. Release order and story order are the same, which makes this one of the easiest Marvel runs to follow. Before Quantumania, the essentials are the two earlier Ant-Man films and Endgame.
Animated ant movies
1998 had two: DreamWorks' Antz, with Woody Allen as the worker ant Z, and Pixar's A Bug's Life, with Flik the inventor ant and a troupe of circus bugs. The Ant Bully (2006) shrinks a boy down to ant size to learn the colony's ways, and the French Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013) tells a war between black ants and red ants over a box of sugar with almost no dialogue at all. If you liked The Ant Bully, those three are the films like it.
Giant ants and killer ants
Them! (1954) is the giant-ant film every later one borrows from: atomic tests in the New Mexico desert, ants the size of trucks, and a chase into the storm drains of Los Angeles. Phase IV (1974), the only feature Saul Bass directed, turns the idea inward, ordinary-sized ants growing intelligent and laying siege to two scientists in the Arizona desert. Together they are the ant horror shelf.
And the song
"Movies" is also the 2001 single by the band Alien Ant Farm, from the album Anthology, the one many people remember alongside their cover of Smooth Criminal. It is music rather than a film, so it lives on music services; this shelf keeps to the films.
