Netflix’s Most Watched Series and Movies Ever

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Over the years, Netflix has released some gigantic hits! Thanks to the top 10 data, here’s your guide to all of the biggest and most-watched movies, series, and live events on Netflix of all time! 

To measure its biggest hits, Netflix uses hours watched and completed-viewing equivalents (CVEs, for short). These viewing hours are derived from Netflix’s global subscriber base, and CVE calculates the show’s or movie’s runtime by dividing the total viewing time by the number of hours watched. It’s not perfect, but it’s substantially better than what other streamers provide.

Before Netflix switched its hourly figures, it used the number of households that watched within the first 28 days. While these numbers are difficult to compare with the list below, we have maintained a record of all the old Netflix viewership statistics here. Those numbers are correct up through October 2021, when Netflix switched.

Below, we’ve compiled a complete list of all titles in the top 10 since mid-2021. This provides a comprehensive list of older 28-day hourly statistics and Netflix’s newer 91-day statistics, which we’ve divided into separate categories.

Most-Watched English Language Series of All Time

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1. Wednesday (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours Watched: 1,718,800,000
   • Views: 252,100,000
2. Adolescence (Limited Series – 2025)
   • Hours: 546,500,000
   • Views: 142,600,000
3. Stranger Things (Season 4 – 2022)
   • Hours: 1,838,000,000
   • Views: 140,700,000
4. Stranger Things 5 (2025) 
   • Hours: 1,391,300,000
   • Views: 133,800,000
5. Wednesday (Season 2 – 2025) 
   • Hours: 928,500,000
     
   • Views: 119,300,000
6. DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours: 1,031,100,000
   • Views: 115,600,000
7. Bridgerton (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours: 929,300,000
   • Views: 113,300,000
8. The Queen’s Gambit (Limited Series – 2020)
   • Hours: 746,400,000
   • Views: 112,800,000
9. Bridgerton (Season 3 – 2024) 
   • Hours: 846,500,000
     
   • Views: 106,000,000
10. HIS & HERS (Limited Series – 2026)
    • Hours: 428,900,000
    • Views: 98,200,000

Previously in the all-time top 10:

• The Night Agent (Season 1 – 2023)
  • Hours: 803,200,000
  • Views: 98,200,000
• Fool Me Once (Limited Series – 2024)
  • Hours: 629,800,000
  • Views: 98,200,000
• Stranger Things (Season 3 – 2019)
  • Hours: 716,100,000
  • Views: 94,800,000
• Bridgerton (Season 2 – 2022)
  • Hours: 797,200,000
  • Views: 93,800,000
• Baby Reindeer: Limited Series
  • Hours: 335,200,000
  • Views: 84,500,000
• The Witcher (Season 1 – 2019)
  • Hours: 663,600,000
  • Views: 83,000,000
• Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Limited Series – 2023)
  • Hours: 526,800,000
  • Views: 81,300,000
• The Watcher (Season 1 – 2022)
  • Hours: 447,100,000
  • Views: 79,600,000

Most Watched English Language Movies of All Time

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1. KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
   • Hours: 541,800,000
   • Views: 325,100,000
2. Red Notice (2021)
   • Hours Viewed: 454,200,000
   • Views: 230,900,000
3. Carry-On (2024)
   • Hours: 344,100,000
   • Views: 172,100,000
4. Don’t Look Up (2021)
   • Hours: 408,600,000
   • Views: 171,400,000
5. The Adam Project (2022)
   • Hours: 281,000,000
   • Views: 157,600,000
6. Bird Box (2018)
   • Hours: 325,300,000
   • Views: 157,400,000
7. Back in Action (2025)
   • Hours: 279,700,000
   • Views 147,200,000
8. Leave the World Behind (2023) 
   • Hours: 339,300,000
   • Views: 143,400,000
9. War Machine (2026)
   • Hours: 254,200,000
   • Views: 139,900,000
10. Swapped (2026)*
    • Hours: 237,700,000
    • Views: 139,800,000

Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:

• The Gray Man (2022)
  • Hours: 299,500,000
  • Views: 139,300,000
• Damsel (2024)
  • Hours: 253,000,000
  • Views: 138,000,000
• We Can Be Heroes (2020)
  • Hours: 231,200,000
  • Views: 137,300,000
• The Mother (2023) 
  • Hours: 265,900,000
  • Views: 136,400,000
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
  • Hours: 320,300,000
  • Views: 136,300,000
• Extraction (2020) 
  • Hours: 266,900,000
  • Views: 135,700,000
• Extraction 2 (2023)
  • Hours: 278,700,000
  • Views: 134,900,000
• Spenser Confidential (2020)
  • Hours: 238,900,000
  • Views: 129,100,000

Most-Watched Non-English Language Series of All Time

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1. Squid Game (Season 1 – 2021)
   • Hours Viewed: 2,205,200,000
   • Views: 265,200,000
2. Squid Game (Season 2 – 2024)
   • Hours: 1,380,100,000
   • Views: 192,600,000
3. Squid Game (Season 3 – 2025)
   • Hours: 894,300,000
   • Views: 145,800,000
4. Money Heist (Part 4 – 2020)
   • Hours: 710,200,000
   • Views: 106,000,000
5. Lupin (Part 1 – 2021)
   • Hours: 396,300,000
   • Views: 99,500,000
6. Money Heist (Part 5 – 2021)
   • Hours: 900,700,000
   • Views: 99,200,000
7. Money Heist (Part 3 – 2019)
   • Hours: 519,800,000
   • Views: 80,000,000
8. La Palma (Limited Series – 2024)
   1. Hours: 215,700,000
   2. Views: 70,300,000
9. Lupin (Part 2 – 2021)
   • Hours: 258,900,000
   • Views: 68,400,000
10. Who Killed Sara? (Season 1 – 2021)
    • Hours: 392,400,000
    • Views: 58,400,000

Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:

• Berlin (Season 1 – 2023)
  • Hours: 372,600,000
  • Views: 56,700,000
• All of Us Are Dead (Season 1 – 2022)
  • Hours: 679,300,000
  • Views: 55,500,000
• Dear Child (Limited Series – 2023)
  • Hours: 245,400,000
  • Views: 50,900,000
• Elite (Season 3 – 2020)
  • Hours: 334,800,000
  • Views: 50,000,000
• Elite (Season 4 – 2021)
  • Hours: 302,200,000
  • Views: 46,300,000

Most Watched Non-English Language Movies of All Time

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New 91-Day List

1. Troll (2022)
   • Hours Watched: 178,600,000
   • Views: 103,000,000
2. Under Paris (2024)
   • Hours: 177,300,000
   • Views: 102,300,000
3. Society of the Snow (2024)
   • Hours: 239,700,000
   • Views: 98,500,000
     
4. Exterritorial (2025)
   • Hours: 166,500,000
   • Views: 91,700,000
5. The Great Flood (2025) 
   • Hours: 157,300,000
   • Views: 86,600,000
6. Nowhere (2023)
   • Hours: 155,600,000
   • Views: 85,700,000
7. The Platform (2020)
   • Hours: 138,700,000
   • Views: 82,800,000
8. Counterattack (2025)
   • Hours: 94,800,000
   • Views: 66,900,000
9. Ad Vitam (2025) 
   • Hours: 103,000,000
   • Views: 63,100,000
10. Brick (2025) 
    • Hours: 104,000,000
    • Views: 61,800,000

Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:

• Through My Window (2022)
  • Hours: 116,000,000
  • Views: 61,100,000
• AKA (2023)
  • Hours: 125,900,000
  • Views: 60,900,000
• Blood Red Sky (2021)
  • Hours: 124,800,000
  • Views: 60,900,000
• My Name Is Vendetta (2022)
  • Hours: 86,500,000
  • Views: 56,400,000

• Black Crab (2022)
  • Hours: 103,300,000
  • Views: 53,900,000
• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  • Hours: 129,400,000
  • Views: 52,100,000
• Below Zero (2021)
  • Hours: 86,700,000
  • Views: 48,600,000
• Loving Adults (2022)
  • Hours: 83,600,000
  • Views: 47,300,000

Most Watched Live Event of All Time

Note: This uses data from the Netflix Engagement Reports and, for half-year data, the week each title was released; if that data isn’t yet available, it uses the first week’s top 10 data. Excludes WWE.

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1. Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (2024)
   • Hours: 235,700,000 (Second Half of 2024)
   • Views: 48,900,000
2. Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023)
   • Hours: 36,200,000 (H1- 2023)
   • Views: 31,000,000
3. The Roast of Tom Brady (2024)
   • Hours: 68,700,000 (H1- 2024)
   • Views: 22,400,000
4. Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford (2025)
   • Hours: 69,600,000 (September 8 – 14, 2025)
   • Views: 17,700,000 
5. The Roast of Kevin Hart (2026)
   • Hours: 47,600,000 (May 10 – May 24, 2026)
   • Views: 16,600,000
6. Christmas Gameday: Ravens vs. Texans (2024)
   • Hours: 42,800,000 (H2 – 2024)
   • Views: 14,400,000
7. Christmas Gameday: Chiefs vs. Steelers (2024)
   • Hours: 41,200,000 (H2 – 2024)
   • Views: 14,300,000
8. Christmas Gameday: Lions vs. Vikings (2025)
   • Hours: 30,900,000 (H2 -2025)
   • Views: 12,800,000
9. Christmas Gameday: Cowboys vs. Commanders (2025)
   • Hours: 23,800,000
   • Views: 10,100,000
10. Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua (2025)
    • Hours: 35,300,000 
    • Views: 10,900,000

Previously, in the All-Time Most Watched List

• Katt Williams: Woke Foke (2024)
  • Hours: 10,600,000 (H1 – 2024)
  • Views: 10,300,000
• Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats (2024)
  • Hours: 8,300,000 (H2 – 2024)
  • Views: 7,400,000 
• Pop the Balloon LIVE: Get It Poppin’ (2025)
  • Hours: 2,600,000 (H1 – 2025)
  • Views: 3,400,000
• Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 3 (2025) 
  • Hours: 9,400,000 (July 6th, 2025 to July 13th, 2025)
  • Views: 2,800,000
• Netflix Tudum 2025
  • Hours: 4,200,000 (H1 – 2025)
  • Views: 2,200,000 
• Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney: Should I Lend People Money? (2025)
  • Hours: 1,500,000 (H1 – 2025)
  • Views: 1,600,00
• Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef (2024)
  • Hours: 1,400,000 (H2 -2024)
  • Views: 1,200,000
• The Netflix Slam (2024)
  • Hours: 2,600,000 (H1 -2024)
  • Views: 1,000,000 
• Dinner Time Live with David Chang + Holiday Edition (2024)
  • Hours: 11,800,000 (2024 Combined – As It Crossed Multiple Months)
  • Views: 700,000
• The Netflix Cup (2023)
  • Hours: 1,700,000 (H2 -2023)
  • Views: 700,000

For more on the Netflix top 10s and to search all the titles with hourly data stats released, check out our search tool here.

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