At the end of Geeked Week, Netflix is showing its streaming cards. The most-watched movie in the first half of the year was a fantasy adventure starring Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown.
A week full of Netflix news comes to an end. During Geeked Week, we not only learned about new nerdy formats and movies. The streaming service also revealed its usually secret viewing figures. And the top titles brought some surprises.
Netflix: These are the most-streamed movies in the first half of 2024
With over 263 million hours streamed, the fantasy film Damsel, starring Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown, is the most-watched Netflix movie in the first half of the current year. The adventure about a damsel in distress who becomes a warrior to stand up to a dragon was only moderately well received by critics. In the Moviepilot community, Damsel only has a rating of 5.9.
According to Variety, the complete top 10 looks like this and is sorted by views, not by hours streamed:
Damsel (263,700,000 hours)
Lift (230,800,000 hours)
The Snow Society (252,500,000 hours)
In the Water of the Seine (146,800,000 hours)
The Super Mario Bros. movie (123,100,000 hours)
The mother of the bride (116,500,000 hours)
Atlas (154,200,000 hours)
Minions (110,200,000 hours)
Irish Wish (113 .000.000 hours)
The Boss Baby (103.800.000 hours)
The most-streamed series on Netflix in the first half of 2024
There were even bigger surprises in the area of internationally streamed series on Netflix. The top spot was not taken by Bridgerton or even Baby Reindeer, but by a British crime series based on Netflix’s long-running author Harlan Coben. The sci-fi event series 3 Body Problem, on the other hand, only made it to 8th place.
Fool Me Once (689,500,000 hours)
Bridgerton – Season 3 (733,800,000 hours)
Baby Reindeer (347,600 ,000 hours)
The Gentlemen (507,300,000 hours)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (515,300,000 hours)
Griselda (383,000,000 hours)
An American Nightmare (123,700,000 hours)
3 Body Problem (388,100,000 hours)
Berlin (318,400,000 hours)
Two in One Day (263,000,000 hours)
