While Starling is hunting down Buffalo Bill, Lecter is busy devising a plan for his escape. Lecter takes an interest in Starling but has demands of his own before he cooperates. She is sent to get some information from Lecter that would help find the identity and location of serial killer “Buffalo Bill,” played by Ted Levine. Clarice Starling ( Jodie Foster) is the “young woman from the FBI'' that’s mentioned at the very end of Red Dragon. This is easily the most famous Hannibal Lecter movie in the series, grossing $272.7 million worldwide and winning Oscars in the five major categories it was nominated for. Related: Why Only Three Movies Have Ever Swept the Oscars The Silence of the Lambs (1991) At the end of the movie, we see Lecter approached by Chilton to inform him that he has a visitor a young woman from the FBI. We learn later that Hannibal was actually in contact with the killer as well, pitting both men against each other as pawns in his own sadistic game of chess. Lecter, after some persuasion, agrees to assist Graham. Years later, Graham has to ask for the incarcerated Lecter’s help in tracking down a new serial killer known as “The Tooth Fairy,” played by Ralph Fiennes. This lands Hannibal in a sanitorium for the criminally insane, under the constant supervision of Director Frederick Chilton ( Anthony Heald). Graham comes to the realization that the serial killer is a cannibal, leading him to almost fall prey to Lecter himself. Ironically, he is helping FBI profiler Will Graham ( Edward Norton) on a case in which a serial killer is removing parts of his victims. Red Dragonis set in 1980, and Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins) is a well-established forensic psychiatrist. The movie ends with Hannibal making his way to the United States. Eight-year-old Lecter loses his entire family as a result of the fallout between retreating Nazi forces and a Soviet tank that has stopped at the family’s lodge.Īs an adult, Lecter (the late Gaspard Ulliel) hunts down the men who held him and his younger sister captive in the days leading to his sister’s gruesome death. Set in 1944 Lithuania, this movie serves as an origin story for Hannibal Lecter’s newfound taste for carnage… and for human flesh. Image via Orion Pictures Hannibal Rising (2007)ĭespite being the most recent release (both in movie and book format), Hannibal Rising is the first movie to watch in the chronological Lecter timeline.
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