Most Watched Netflix Series, Movies and Live Events of All Time

Over the years, Netflix has released some gigantic hits added 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 dividing the runtime of the show or movie 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 that 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 complete list of all titles in the top 10 since mid-2021. This gives us a full 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 March 18th with multiple updates:- Back in Action enters the English movie all-time list at #9, knocking out The Mother. La Palma and Carry-On end their runs. Other ongoing titles: Squid Game S2 and Ad Vitam.

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Most-Watched English Language Series of All Time

New 91-Day List

Note: Listed by completed viewing equivalent 

1. Wednesday (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours Watched: 1,718,800,000
   • Views: 252,100,000
2. Stranger Things (Season 4 – 2022)
   • Hours: 1,838,000,000
   • Views: 140,700,000
3. DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours: 1,031,100,000
   • Views: 115,600,000
4. Bridgerton (Season 1 – 2022)
   • Hours: 929,300,000
   • Views: 113,300,000
5. The Queen’s Gambit (Limited Series – 2020)
   • Hours: 746,400,000
   • Views: 112,800,000
6. Bridgerton (Season 3 – 2024) 
   • Hours: 846,500,000
     
   • Views: 106,000,000
7. The Night Agent (Season 1 – 2023)
   • Hours: 803,200,000
   • Views: 98,200,000
8. Fool Me Once (Limited Series – 2024)
   • Hours: 629,800,000
   • Views: 98,200,000
9. Stranger Things (Season 3 – 2019)
   • Hours: 716,100,000
   • Views: 94,800,000
10. Bridgerton (Season 2 – 2022)
    • Hours: 797,200,000
    • Views: 93,800,000

Previously in the all-time top 10:

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

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Most Watched English Language Movies of All Time

New 91-Day List

1. Red Notice (2021)
   • Hours Viewed: 454,200,000
   • Views: 230,900,000
2. Carry-On (2024)
   • Hours: 344,100,000
   • Views: 172,100,000
3. Don’t Look Up (2021)
   • Hours: 408,600,000
   • Views: 171,400,000
4. The Adam Project (2022)
   • Hours: 281,000,000
   • Views: 157,600,000
5. Bird Box (2018)
   • Hours: 325,300,000
   • Views: 157,400,000
6. Leave the World Behind (2023) 
   • Hours: 339,300,000
   • Views: 143,400,000
7. The Gray Man (2022)
   • Hours: 299,500,000
   • Views: 139,300,000
8. Damsel (2024)
   • Hours: 253,000,000
   • Views: 138,000,000
9. Back in Action (2025)*
   • Hours: 262,700,000
   • Views 138,300,000
10. We Can Be Heroes (2020)
    • Hours: 231,200,000
    • Views: 137,300,000

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

• The Mother (2023) 
  • Hours: 265,900,000
  • Views: 136,400,000
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
  • Hours: 320,300,000
  • Views: 136,300,000
• Extraction (2020) 
  • Hours: 266,900,000
  • Views: 135,700,000
• Extraction 2 (2023)
  • Hours: 278,700,000
  • Views: 134,900,000
• Spenser Confidential (2020)
  • Hours: 238,900,000
  • Views: 129,100,000

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Most-Watched Non-English Language Series of All Time

New 91-Day List

1. Squid Game (Season 1 – 2021)
   • Hours Viewed: 2,205,200,000
   • Views: 265,200,000
2. Squid Game (Season 2 – 2024)*
   • Hours: 1,370,100,000
   • Views: 191,200,000
3. Money Heist (Part 4 – 2020)
   • Hours: 710,200,000
   • Views: 106,000,000
4. Lupin (Part 1 – 2021)
   • Hours: 396,300,000
   • Views: 99,500,000
5. Money Heist (Part 5 – 2021)
   • Hours: 900,700,000
   • Views: 99,200,000
6. Money Heist (Part 3 – 2019)
   • Hours: 519,800,000
   • Views: 80,000,000
7. La Palma (Limited Series – 2024)
   1. Hours: 215,700,000
   2. Views: 70,300,000
8. Lupin (Part 2 – 2021)
   • Hours: 258,900,000
   • Views: 68,400,000
9. Who Killed Sara? (Season 1 – 2021)
   • Hours: 392,400,000
   • Views: 58,400,000
10. Berlin (Season 1 – 2023)
    • Hours: 372,600,000
    • Views: 56,700,000

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

• All of Us Are Dead (Season 1 – 2022)
  • Hours: 679,300,000
  • Views: 55,500,000
• Dear Child (Limited Series – 2023)
  • Hours: 245,400,000
  • Views: 50,900,000
• Elite (Season 3 – 2020)
  • Hours: 334,800,000
  • Views: 50,000,000
• Elite (Season 4 – 2021)
  • Hours: 302,200,000
  • Views: 46,300,000

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Most Watched Non-English Language Movies of All Time

New 91-Day List

1. Troll (2022)
   • Hours Watched: 178,600,000
   • Views: 103,000,000
2. Under Paris (2024)
   • Hours: 177,300,000
   • Views: 102,300,000
3. Society of the Snow (2024)
   • Hours: 239,700,000
   • Views: 98,500,000
     
4. Nowhere (2023)
   • Hours: 155,600,000
   • Views: 85,700,000
5. The Platform (2020)
   • Hours: 129,700,000
   • Views: 82,800,000
6. Through My Window (2022)
   • Hours: 116,000,000
   • Views: 61,100,000
7. AKA (2023)
   • Hours: 125,900,000
   • Views: 60,900,000
8. Blood Red Sky (2021)
   • Hours: 124,800,000
   • Views: 60,900,000
9. Ad Vitam (2025)* 
   • Hours: 98,100,000
   • Views: 60,100,000
10. My Name Is Vendetta (2022)
    • Hours: 86,500,000
    • Views: 56,400,000

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

• Black Crab (2022)
  • Hours: 103,300,000
  • Views: 53,900,000
• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  • Hours: 129,400,000
  • Views: 52,100,000
• Below Zero (2021)
  • Hours: 86,700,000
  • Views: 48,600,000
• Loving Adults (2022)
  • Hours: 83,600,000
  • Views: 47,300,000

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Most Watched Live Event of All Time

Note: This uses data from the Netflix Engagement Reports and the half of the year each title was released.

1. Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (2024)
   • Hours: 235,700,000 (Half 2 – 2024)
   • Views: 48,900,000
2. Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023)
   • Hours: 36,200,000 (H1- 2023)
   • Views: 31,000,000
3. The Roast of Tom Brady (2024)
   1. Hours: 68,700,000 (H1- 2024)
   2. Views: 22,400,000
4. Christmas Gameday: Ravens vs. Texans (2024)
   • Hours: 42,800,000 (H2 – 2024)
   • Views: 14,400,000
5. Christmas Gameday: Chiefs vs. Steelers (2024)
   • Hours: 41,200,000 (H2 – 2024)
   • Views: 14,300,000
6. Katt Williams: Woke Foke (2024)
   • Hours: 10,600,000 (H1 – 2024)
   • Views: 10,300,000 
7. Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef (2024)
   • Hours: 1,400,000 (H2 -2024)
   • Views: 1,200,000
8. The Netflix Slam (2024)
   • Hours: 2,600,000 (H1 -2024)
   • Views: 1,000,000 
9. Dinner Time Live with David Chang + Holiday Edition (2024)
   • Hours: 11,800,000 (2024 Combined)
   • Views: 700,000
10. The Netflix Cup (2023)
    • Hours: 1,700,000 (H2 -2023)
    • Views: 700,000

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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.