Looking for a new Netflix movie to watch next? Check out this complete list of the most-viewed Netflix movies in history for some ideas.
In 2023, Netflix remains one of the most popular of the major streaming services, with a vast library of movies and TV shows catering to all sorts of tastes and preferences. The streaming giant’s library is so extensive, frankly, that it can sometimes feel a little daunting when you’ve got some time to spare and are looking for something new to watch.
To help out the movie buffs among you, what you’ll find presented below is the current ranking of the most-watched Netflix movies of all time, as of June 2023, to help guide you to at least some of the best content that the platform has to offer. The most viewed movies below include everything from action-packed thrillers to heartwarming dramas, and you should have no trouble finding something you’ll enjoy on this list.
You might ask, though: What makes a film Like Purple Hearts, Bird Box, The Gray Man, or Extraction among the top, “most-watched” movies on Netflix? That’s actually something of a moving target that’s changed over the years. The answer more or less lies in the total number of hours a movie was streamed over its first 91 days on the service following its premiere date.
Netflix tracks the raw number of viewing hours that its movies rack up over that time period — and the company then estimates a very rough audience size based on dividing the movie’s aggregate hours viewed by its total runtime.Top 10 Most-Watched Netflix Movies
Among other things, this calculation of Netflix’s most-watched movies helps prevent a shorter movie from being at an automatic disadvantage compared to a longer feature film (since this calculation spreads out the time spent watching a movie evenly over its total audience).
All that said, let’s get into what the data currently reveals. Dividing the raw numbers of hours accumulated by the individual runtime of each of these popular Netflix films, Netflix’s most-watched movies as of June 2023 are as follows:
Red Notice (2021) — 230.
