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Welcome to a different ongoing article right here on What’s on Netflix, the place we have a look at the 12 months’s largest hits (and misses) by monitoring the most profitable launches from the first two weeks throughout Netflix motion pictures, each English and non-English, in addition to function documentaries. Utilizing information from Netflix’s official High 10s, we’ll break down which titles are main the pack to date this 12 months and people who haven’t fairly made the invoice. Let’s dig in.
Observe: For this listing, we’ll be taking a look at the first two weeks of launch for every title (apart from function documentaries). As soon as the Engagement Stories drop for the first half of the 12 months, we’ll additionally incorporate these. Information goes as much as June 1st, 2025.
English Language Film Hits of 2025
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Again in Motion got here out of the gate swinging in January 2025 and has constructed itself a convincing lead in the film charts with a reasonably lacklustre lineup for the the rest of the listing. That robust efficiency in its first two weeks continued for the Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz motion comedy, with the film rating in Netflix’s all-time high 10 listing at the time of publication, at quantity 6.
The Tom Hardy motion film, Havoc, is available in a distant second, with The Life Record shortly behind, cementing Sofia Carson’s continued standing as a Netflix film queen.
The Electrical State is the fourth most-watched launch of 2025. Nonetheless, given the reported funds, that’s virtually definitely a disappointment for the streamer and maybe marks the finish of Netflix’s massive-budget swings (massive funds swings will nonetheless be coming!).
Elsewhere, horror is struggling on Netflix once more with Worry Avenue: Promenade Queen presently rating final amongst the English language movies from the US which have managed to function in the US high 10s for 2 weeks.
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl solely appeared in the charts for one week earlier than dropping out. They scored 4.8 million views and 4.6 million views, respectively, though in the case of Wallace & Gromit, the film was not made obtainable in the United Kingdom.
Documentary Function Hits on Netflix in 2025
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Shifting on to documentaries, we’ll slim this listing down to only the first week of launch till we get the Netflix Engagement Report information. Thus far, The Tornado: Caught in the Storm takes house the most quantity of views and by fairly a long way, though once you do stack it up towards A Lethal American Marriage in the second week, they’re extra on par with one another.
A number of misses from the listing embrace an early launch of the 12 months following Bryan Johnson, the man who’s going to extraordinary lengths to attempt to dwell ceaselessly. That title is Don’t Die: The Man Who Needs to Dwell Ceaselessly. Additionally lacking from the documentary function listing is Behind the Curtain: Stranger Issues The First Shadow, the behind-the-scenes documentary for the stage play (which is sensible).
This 12 months, Netflix will proceed its enlargement into documentary “franchises”, for lack of a greater phrase. Untold is the largest one to date, and of the three which were launched, solely The Liver King and The Fall of Favre managed to leap into the high 10s, with Taking pictures Guards lacking out.
Non-English Language Film Hits of 2025 So Far
the high 4 motion pictures of the 12 months there’s a transparent development: motion motion pictures kick ass for Netflix’s worldwide film slate. Exterritorial, Counterattack, and Advert Vitam have damaged into the all-time at the time of writing, and iHostage seems prefer it needs to be becoming a member of them in the close to future. Motion and violence are common, and that positively applies right here, with all 4 motion pictures performing effectively even past their authentic nation.
Elsewhere, displaying for Japanese titles, albeit much less so for Indian movies and romance titles.
A few omissions from the chart above embrace the French musical comedy Banger, which solely clocked a single week in the Non-English charts with 1.9M views earlier than dropping out. That’s the same story for the anime film The Rose of Versailles, which solely pulled in 1.3M views earlier than dropping out.
As a reminder, we provide many high 10 instruments that transcend what the official Netflix High 10 web site offers. Our easy search software lets you seek for particular person titles and (simply) return by way of prior weeks of high 10s with comparisons of how a lot a title jumped or dropped in any given week. We’ve additionally obtained a rustic search and our Netflix Engagement Stories search software.
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