El Netflix catalog it is gigantic and practically endless. The company that began as a VHS and DVD rental service has ended up becoming an empire with its own productions that even win Oscars, and its catalog is such that sometimes we don't even know what content to consume. But have you ever wondered which are the most viewed movies created by the service?
The most watched movies on Netflix
In 2019 the number of original creations with the Netflix seal reached the figure of 371 titles, so you've probably seen more than one from his own collection. But among so many series and so many original movies, there is a series of chosen ones that rise up with the positions of the most viewed movies in the history of Netflix. They are the following (from least to most views):
10 – Midnight Sky (72 million)
The tenth place is shared by two fairly recent films. On the one hand, we have Midnight Sky (Good Morning, Midnight), a film starring George Clooney as a scientist stationed in the Arctic, who tries to contact a spaceship trying to return to Earth after suffering a global catastrophe.
Release date: December 9th 2020
Cast: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Sophie Rundle, Caollinn Springall
Director: George Clooney
9 – Army of the Dead (72 million)
Tied with 72 million viewers with Midnight Sky, it is one of the company's latest releases, and precisely for this reason it is surprising that it was able to sneak into tenth place so quickly. Directed by Zack Snyder, the film proposes the robbery of a Las Vegas casino by a group of expert robbers. The problem? The whole world is under a zombie epidemic.
Release date: May 14th 2021
Cast: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Garret Dillahunt, Ana de la Reguera, Theo Rosso, Matthias Schweighöfer
Director: Zack Snyder
8 – Power Project (75 million)
A scientific project seeks to find the perfect and invincible human. Everything is based on taking a pill, a product that ends up circulating on the black market and creating an extremely violent and peculiar wave of crime. A policeman, a drug dealer and an ex-soldier join forces to stop the distribution of the pill and stop its manufacturers.
Release date: August 14st, 2020
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Rodrigo Santoro
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
7 – Enola Holmes (76 million)
Based on the books The Adventures of Enola Holmes, this film tells the story of Enola Holmes, a young sister of detective Sherlock Holmes who must demonstrate her investigative skills to her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft to try to find her missing mother. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin and Helena Bonham Carther, it premiered on Netflix in September 2020 after ruling out theaters due to the pandemic.
Release date: 23th September 2020
Distribution: Millie Bobby Brown, Louis Partridge, Henry Cavill, Sam Claffin
Director: Harry Bradbeer
6 – The old guard (78 million)
A group of immortal mercenaries has been protecting the world from its problems for centuries, but a recent operation has revealed their powers, and now they are the defenseless. They must avoid being caught by the new threat, since they only want to replicate their genetic code to make more humans like them.
Release date: 10th September 2020
Cast: Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Harry Melling, Matthias Schoenaerts
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
5 – Criminals at sea (83 million)
The idea was to spend a wonderful vacation in which to strengthen their marriage, but the plans of this New York police officer and his wife go awry when they witness a murder on a millionaire's cruise ship. Worst? They have been unfairly blamed, and they must solve the mystery to get out of it.
Release date: August 28st, 2019
Cast: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Luke Evans, Gemma Arterton
Director: Kyle Newacheck
4 – 6 in the shade (83 million)
After faking his death, a billionaire decides to recruit a team of ghost agents who have been declared dead and absolutely untraceable. The mission? Put an end to the rule of a bloodthirsty dictator. Directed by Michael Bay, you will have explosions and action to bore.
Release date: December 13th 2019
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Melanie Lauernt, Adria Arjona, Ben Hardy
Director: Michael Bay
3 – Spenser: Confidential (85 million)
After trying to break up a drug ring, Boston police officer Spenser falls into a trap and ends up in jail. Time passes, and so does his condemnation, but neither Spencer nor the cartel forget what happened, so he will have to figure out how to put an end to the threats.
Release date: March 6th 2020
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Iliza Shlesinger, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter berg
2 – Blind (89 million)
A strange threat has greatly reduced the world's population. Nobody knows what it is, or what it looks like, but all that is known is that if you see it, you will die. Malorie will have to protect her children at all costs, and for this she will try to reach the last shelter that remains standing. To do this, she must cross a river for two days, and most importantly: she must be blindfolded all the time, or else they will die.
Release date: December 14th 2018
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich
Director: sussane bier
1 – Tyler Rake (99 million)
Tyler Rake is a mercenary who has accepted the most difficult mission of his career. He will have to rescue the son of an Indian mafia boss kidnapped by the Bangladeshi mafia, and in full extraction he will have to make decisions influenced by the relationship he begins to create with the boy. Starring Chris Hemsworth, you will have action to give and take.
Release date: April 24th 2020
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Randeep Hooda, Sam Hardgrave, Rudhraksh Jaiswai, David Harbour, Neha Mahajan
Director: Sam hargrave
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