2023 was a successful year for Netflix movies with two feature films reaching the top 10 most watched movies on the platform. The blockbuster Mother with Jennifer Lopez and the thriller The World After Us by Sam Esmail with Julia Roberts.
While 2024 is already well underway and it’s coming to an end in a few months, the American giant has already revealed the top 5 most watched movies on the platform this year. So, what are Netflix’s most watched movies for the first half of 2024?
Millie Bobby Brown, Netflix star
The first is the huge success of Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown. A Netflix staple with the Duffer Brothers series but also the Enola Holmes franchise, the 20-year-old actress this year starred in the fantasy action film The Lady and the Dragon, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.
She plays a devoted young girl who agrees to marry a handsome prince. But he discovers that he has been chosen as a sacrifice to pay off an old debt. Trapped in a cave, he must face a fiery dragon. He now only relies on his intelligence and courage to hope to get out of this situation…
Lady and the Dragon, which also stars Robin Wright and Angela Bassett, has more than 143 million views worldwide. term. It also ranks seventh in the top 10 most watched Netflix movies of all time.
In second place is In Flight, an action comedy directed by Kevin Hart, in which he plays a skilled and experienced art thief who prepares an impossible heist with his elite team: steal half a billion dollars in gold aboard a plane. the sky The film has 129 million views.
Finally, the third most watched feature film on Netflix this year is none other than Juan Antonio Bayona’s Circle of Snows, which tells the true story of the survivors of a 1970s Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes.
This historical drama, which has won twelve Goya awards and two Oscar nominations, has recorded 103 million views on Netflix for the first half of 2024.
Next comes the French film Sous la Seine with 84 million views and the romantic comedy Mother of the Bride, starring Brooke Shields, with 77 million views.
But 2024 isn’t over, and that ranking could see some changes when the numbers are in, especially given the success of Xavier Shark’s Gens , which is Netflix’s second-most-watched non-English-language movie of all time. As of today, according to Netflix.
The Lady and the Dragon, In Flight, Snow Circle, Under the Seine and Mother of the Bride are available on Netflix.
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