To understand how all these movies fit together, you need to watch the X-Men in chronological order (as best as you can anyway). Here's how. It's hard to believe, but the X-Men Cinematic Universe ...
(We've left X-Men '97 off this list as it's not technically ... As with the release order list, movies are in bold type, shorts are in italics and TV shows and one-off specials are neither.