Netflix just revealed its 2023 and early 2024 release schedule at Tudum: A Global Fan Event. New seasons of well-known shows like Squid Game, Bridgerton, Emily in Paris, and others were also announced by the massive OTT streamer, along with many more intriguing new releases (Heart of Stone, The Archies, Berlin, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and others). Let’s look at the most popular Netflix films of all time in terms of viewership.
1. THE IRISHMAN
Viewing time: 214,570,000
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci are all part of the gangster film’s main cast. The Martin Scorsese-directed film follows the ascent of former truck driver and World War II veteran Frank Sheeran (De Niro) into the criminal underworld. The well-known actor-director team of Scorsese and De Niro worked together on the film for the eighth time.
2. THE UNFORGIVABLE
Viewing time: 214,700,000
The film, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is based on the British drama Unforgiven, which follows Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock), a woman who attempts to reintegrate into society after serving her time for a heinous crime. Will society, however, embrace her? a well regarded, powerful drama that belongs on your watch list.
3. PURPLE HEARTS
Viewing time: 228,690,000
In the musical love drama Purple Hearts, aspiring singer Cassie (Sofia Carson) and marine Luke (Nicholas Galitzine) make the decision to wed in order to receive military benefits that will enable them to pay off their debts. However, when a tragedy draws them together, the story takes an intriguing turn.
4. EXTRACTION
Viewing time: 231,340,000
Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth, is an action-drama movie about a mercenary sent to Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord’s son from a squad of kidnappers. Netflix has revealed a third Extraction installment at the Tudum: A Global Fan Event in Brazil.
5. THE ADAM PROJECT
Viewing time: 233,160,000
Ryan Reynolds plays a time-traveling fighter pilot who attempts to save his wife by going back in time but crashes lands in 2022, where he teams up with his 12-year-old self to prevent the future from happening. The Shawn Levy-directed film has Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Zoe Saldaa among its ensemble cast.
6. THE GRAY MAN
Viewing time: 253,870,000
The Grey Man, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and starring Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, and Chris Evans, is billed as one of Netflix’s most ambitious productions. The spy thriller centres on a CIA operative who unearths sinister information about the organisation.
7. GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Viewing time: 279,740,00
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, starring Daniel Craig, follows renowned detective Benoit Blanc as he travels to Greece at the invitation of a tech millionaire in order to solve a fictitious murder. However, when an actual murder occurs on the private island, the plot takes a tragic turn. Can Blanc figure out the mystery?
8. BIRD BOX
Viewing time: 282,020,000
Another riveting Netflix original is here to keep you watching right up to the very end. The post-apocalyptic universe in which the film, directed by Susanne Bier, is set follows the journey of a blindfolded mother named Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock), who strives to shield her children from evil forces that kill anybody who sees them.
9. DON’T LOOK UP
Viewing time: 359,790,000
In the movie Don’t Look Up starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, two astronomers—student Kate Dibiasky and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy—go on a media tour to spread the word about an incoming comet that has the potential to wipe out the entire earth.
10. RED NOTICE
Viewing time: 364,020,000
Red Notice, an action comedy-drama starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, is the most-watched title ever on Netflix. The story of the film, which was penned and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, centres on an Interpol agent (Dwayne Johnson) who is compelled to work with an art thief (Ryan Reynolds) in order to foil another thief (Gal Gadot).
