seven hundred and nine. That’s the number of original movies — namely Netflix distribution — released in 2023. as reported Netflix & Figures Bulletin — which reveals the platform’s audience weekly — is far less than 2022, which featured 922 feature films.
Among these productions, still according to Netflix & Chiffres, 38% are American and Canadian, 24% European, 22% come from Asia-Pacific, 8% Latin America, 4% Middle East and 3% Africa.
In the first place among the ten biggest successes in English-language films, we find the thriller with mother Jennifer Lopez, which was released on May 12. Fourteen days after being released online, the film has garnered 103.5 million views. In second place, The World After Us with Julia Roberts, which just came out, also did very well with 99 million views – after 14 days.
Discover the 10 biggest English-language hits of 2023:
- Mother by Nicky Caro (103.5 m)
- The world after us by Sam Esmail (99 million)
- Tyler Rake 2 by Sam Hargrave (97.6M)
- Jeremy Garelick Murder Mystery 2 (91 m)
- Agent Stone Tom Harper ($77.4 million)
- Luther: Fallen Sun by Jamie Payne (70.5m)
- You People from Kenya Barris ($69.5 million)
- Rebel Moon by Zack Snyder (67m)
- You in my house and vice versa Aline Brosh McKenna (65.7 m)
- Lion by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim (65.7 m)
In the ranking of the ten biggest successes of non-English language films, Surprise: France is well represented by no less than two feature films: Morgan S. Daliberti’s AKA, an action film starring Alban Lenoir, is second with 45 million. views in 14 days and Voleuses by Mélanie Laurent, which is in 5th place with 32 million views in the same period.
Discover the top 10 biggest non-English language hits of 2023:
- Nowhere Albert Pinto (62.5 m)
- AKA Morgan S. Dalibert (45M)
- Bird Box Barcelona by David Pastor and Àlex Pastor (39.7M)
- Viking Wolf by Stig Svendsen (32.3 m)
- Thieves by Melanie Laurent (32m)
- Hunger Sitisiri Mongkolsiri (30.5M)
- Ballerina Chung-Hyun Lee (27.8 m)
- Paradise of Boris Koons (27.4 m)
- From My Window: Love for the Horizon by Marcel Fores (26.8m)
- Andre Van Duren’s double vice (26.7 m)
All these movies are available on Netflix.
Source: Allocine

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