Most Watched Series & Movies on Netflix of All Time

Over the years, Netflix has put out some gigantic hits, which were added to throughout 2024! Here’s your latest update guide to all of the biggest and most watched movies and series on Netflix of all time! 

To measure its biggest hits, Netflix uses hours watched and completed viewing equivalents (CVE for short). These viewing hours are from Netflix’s global subscriber base, and CVE works by taking the runtime of the show or movie and dividing it by the number of hours watched. It’s not perfect, but it’s substantially better than what other streamers provide.

Before Netflix switched its hourly figures, it used the number of households who watched within the first 28 days. While these numbers are hard to stack against the list below, we have kept a record of all the old Netflix viewership stats here. Those numbers are correct up through October 2021, when Netflix switched.

Below, we’ve compiled a full list of all titles in the top 10 since mid-2021. This gives us a complete list of older 28-day hourly stats and Netflix’s newer 91-day stat, and we’ve split it into each category.

Note: Last updated on December 31st, 2024, to include Squid Game season 2 breaking into the top 10s after a single week.  

Most Watched English Language Series of All Time

Picture: Netflix / MGM Television

New 91-Day List

Note: Listed by completed viewing equivalent 

1. Wednesday (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours Watched: 1,718,800,000
   • Completed Viewing Equivalent: 252,100,000
2. Stranger Things (Season 4 – 2022)
   • Hours: 1,838,000,000
   • CVE: 140,700,000
3. DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours: 1,031,100,000
   • CVE: 115,600,000
4. Bridgerton (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours: 929,300,000
   • CVE: 113,300,000
5. The Queen’s Gambit (Limited Series – 2020)
   • Hours: 746,400,000
   • CVE: 112,800,000
6. Bridgerton (Season 3 – 2024)* 
   • Hours: 845,300,000
   • CVE: 105,900,000
   • Note: It will continue rising through September 2024.
7. The Night Agent (Season 1 – 2023)
   • Hours: 803,200,000
   • CVE: 98,200,000
8. Fool Me Once (Limited Series – 2024)
   • Hours: 629,800,000
   • CVE: 98,200,000
9. Stranger Things (Season 3 – 2019)
   • Hours: 716,100,000
   • CVE: 94,800,000
10. Bridgerton (Season 2 – 2022)
    • Hours: 797,200,000
    • CVE: 93,800,000

Previously in the all-time top 10:

• Baby Reindeer: Limited Series
  • Hours: 335,200,000
  • CVE: 84,500,000
• The Witcher (Season 1 – 2019)
  • Hours: 663,600,000
  • CVE: 83,000,000
• Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Limited Series – 2023)
  • Hours: 526,800,000
  • CVE: 81,300,000
• The Watcher (Season 1 – 2022)
  • Hours: 447,100,000
  • CVE: 79,600,000

Most Watched English Language Movies of All Time

Red Notice – Picture: Netflix

New 91-Day List

1. Red Notice (2021)
   • Hours Viewed: 454,200,000
   • Completed Viewing Equivalent: 230,900,000
2. Don’t Look Up (2021)
   • Hours: 408,600,000
   • CVE: 171,400,000
3. The Adam Project (2022)
   • Hours: 281,000,000
   • CVE: 157,600,000
4. Bird Box (2018)
   • Hours: 325,300,000
   • CVE: 157,400,000
5. Leave the World Behind (2023) 
   • Hours: 339,300,000
   • CVE: 143,400,000
6. The Gray Man (2022)
   • Hours: 299,500,000
   • CVE: 139,300,000
7. Damsel (2024)
   • Hours: 253,000,000
   • CVE: 138,000,000
8. We Can Be Heroes (2020)
   • Hours: 231,200,000
   • CVE: 137,300,000
9. The Mother (2023) 
   • Hours: 265,900,000
   • CVE: 136,400,000
10. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
    • Hours: 320,300,000
    • CVE: 136,300,000

Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:

• Extraction (2020) 
  • Hours: 266,900,000
  • CVE: 135,700,000
• Extraction 2 (2023)
  • Hours: 278,700,000
  • CVE: 134,900,000
• Spenser Confidential (2020)
  • Hours: 238,900,000
  • CVE: 129,100,000

Most Watched Non-English Language Series of All Time

Squid Game – Picture: Netflix

New 91-Day List

1. Squid Game (Season 1 – 2021)
   • Hours Viewed: 2,205,200,000
   • Completed Viewing Equivalent: 265,200,000
2. Money Heist (Part 4 – 2020)
   • Hours: 710,200,000
   • CVE: 106,000,000
3. Lupin (Part 1 – 2021)
   • Hours: 396,300,000
   • CVE: 99,500,000
4. Money Heist (Part 5 – 2021)
   • Hours: 900,700,000
   • CVE: 99,200,000
5. Money Heist (Part 3 – 2019)
   • Hours: 519,800,000
   • CVE: 80,000,000
6. Lupin (Part 2 – 2021)
   • Hours: 258,900,000
   • CVE: 68,400,000
7. Squid Game (Season 2 – 2024)*
   1. Hours: 487,600,000
   2. Views: 68,000,000
8. Who Killed Sara? (Season 1 – 2021)
   • Hours: 392,400,000
   • CVE: 58,400,000
9. Berlin (Season 1 – 2023)
   • Hours: 372,600,000
   • CVE: 56,700,000
10. All of Us Are Dead (Season 1 – 2022)
    • Hours: 679,300,000
    • CVE: 55,500,000

Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:

• Dear Child (Limited Series – 2023)
  • Hours: 245,400,000
  • CVE: 50,900,000
• Elite (Season 3 – 2020)
  • Hours: 334,800,000
  • CVE: 50,000,000
• Elite (Season 4 – 2021)
  • Hours: 302,200,000
  • CVE: 46,300,000

Most Watched Non-English Language Movies of All Time

Troll – Picture: Netflix

New 91-Day List

1. Troll (2022)
   • Hours Watched: 178,600,000
   • Completed Viewing Equivalent: 103,000,000
2. Under Paris (2024)
   • Hours: 177,300,000
   • CVE: 102,300,000
3. Society of the Snow (2024)
   • Hours: 239,700,000
   • CVE: 98,500,000
     
4. Nowhere (2023)
   • Hours: 155,600,000
   • CVE: 85,700,000
5. The Platform (2020)
   • Hours: 129,700,000
   • CVE: 82,800,000
6. Through My Window (2022)
   • Hours: 116,000,000
   • CVE: 61,100,000
7. AKA (2023)
   • Hours: 125,900,000
   • CVE: 60,900,000
8. Blood Red Sky (2021)
   • Hours: 124,800,000
   • CVE: 60,900,000
9. My Name Is Vendetta (2022)
   • Hours: 86,500,000
   • CVE: 56,400,000
10. Black Crab (2022)
    • Hours: 103,300,000
    • CVE: 53,900,000

Previously featured in the all-time 91-day top 10:

• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  • Hours: 129,400,000
  • CVE: 52,100,000
• Below Zero (2021)
  • Hours: 86,700,000
  • CVE: 48,600,000
• Loving Adults (2022)
  • Hours: 83,600,000
  • CVE: 47,300,000

Most Watched Live Event of All Time

Note: This uses the two weeks of data available for each title when available. Those marked with an asterisk indicate title was removed soon after it was released.

1. Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (2024)
   • Hours: 233,500,000
   • Views: 48,400,000
2. The Roast of Tom Brady (2024)
   1. Hours: 48,400,000
   2. Views: 15,800,000
3. Christmas Gameday: Ravens vs. Texans (2024)*
   • Hours: 42.8M 
   • Views: 14.4M
4. Christmas Gameday: Chiefs vs. Steelers (2024)*
   • Hours: 41,200,000
   • Views: 14,300,000

For more on the Netflix top 10s and to search all the titles with hourly data stats released, check out our search tool here.

This post will be updated over time to reflect additions to the top 10s. What’s been your favorite movie or series listed above? Let us know in the comments below.