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Welcome to a different ongoing article right here on What’s on Netflix, the place we take a look at the yr’s greatest hits (and misses) by monitoring the most profitable launches from the first two weeks throughout Netflix films, each English and non-English, in addition to characteristic documentaries. Utilizing knowledge from Netflix’s official High 10s, we’ll break down which titles are main the pack up to now this yr and people who haven’t fairly made the invoice. Let’s dig in.
Be aware: For this checklist, we’ll be taking a look at the first two weeks of launch for every title (aside from characteristic documentaries). As soon as the Engagement Stories drop for the first half of the yr, we’ll additionally incorporate these. Information goes as much as June fifteenth, 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 quite lacklustre lineup for the the rest of the checklist. That sturdy 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 prime 10 checklist 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. Nevertheless, given the reported finances, that’s virtually definitely a disappointment for the streamer and maybe marks the finish of Netflix’s massive-budget swings (large finances swings will nonetheless be coming!).
Elsewhere, horror is struggling on Netflix once more with Concern Avenue: Promenade Queen presently rating final amongst the English language movies from the US which have managed to characteristic in the US prime 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 out there in the United Kingdom.
Documentary Characteristic Hits on Netflix in 2025
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Transferring on to documentaries, we’ll slim this checklist down to only the first week of launch till we get the Netflix Engagement Report knowledge. To date, The Tornado: Caught in the Storm takes residence the most quantity of views and by fairly a long way, though if you do stack it up towards A Lethal American Marriage in the second week, they’re extra on par with one another.
Be aware: Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Catastrophe and Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy solely have one week’s price of knowledge at the time of updating.
A number of misses from the checklist embrace an early launch of the yr following Bryan Johnson, the man who’s going to extraordinary lengths to attempt to stay endlessly. That title is Don’t Die: The Man Who Desires to Reside Endlessly. Additionally lacking from the documentary characteristic checklist is Behind the Curtain: Stranger Issues The First Shadow, the behind-the-scenes documentary for the stage play (which is sensible).
This yr, Netflix will proceed its growth into documentary “franchises”, for lack of a greater phrase. Untold is the greatest one up to now, and of the three which have been launched, solely The Liver King and The Fall of Favre managed to leap into the prime 10s, with Taking pictures Guards lacking out.
Non-English Language Film Hits of 2025 So Far
the prime 4 films of the yr there’s a transparent pattern: motion films 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 to be prefer it ought to be becoming a member of them in the close to future. Motion and violence are common, and that undoubtedly applies right here, with all 4 films performing nicely even past their authentic nation.
Elsewhere, an excellent exhibiting for Japanese titles, albeit much less so for Indian movies and romance titles.
A few notable omissions from the chart above embrace the French musical comedy “Banger,” which solely spent a single week in the Non-English charts, garnering 1.9M views earlier than dropping out. That’s an analogous story for the anime film The Rose of Versailles, which solely garnered 1.3 million views earlier than dropping out. Our Instances will likely be included subsequent week.
As a reminder, we provide many prime 10 instruments that transcend what the official Netflix High 10 website supplies. Our easy search software permits you to seek for particular person titles and (simply) return via prior weeks of prime 10s with comparisons of how a lot a title jumped or dropped in any given week. We’ve additionally acquired a rustic search and our Netflix Engagement Stories search software.
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