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So far in 2026, two English-language Netflix movies have managed to enter Netflix’s all-time most-watched list: Swapped and War Machine, with the former being undoubtedly the most-watched movie of the year on the 91-day metric, but we do not have 91-day numbers for everything, so what have been the biggest movies of the year so far, and what’s disappointed? Let’s take an updated look as of October 2026.
Reducing that timeframe, War Machine is the most-watched English-language Netflix movie of 2026 so far, pulling in 112.0 million views in its first 28 days. It narrowly beats Apex (105.2M) and The Rip (104.0M), the only other 2026 movies to clear 100 million views in their first four weeks on the charts. War Machine also has the biggest total so far, with around 153.0 million views once Netflix’s January–June Engagement Report is added to its Top 10 run. But totals favor whatever has been out longest. A January release has had more than nine months to build one, while UNABOMBER has had under three weeks. So instead of ranking raw totals, we’ve lined up the year’s English-language Netflix movies over the same window: their first 28 days on the Top 10, meaning the opening weekend plus the following three weeks. We’ve also estimated each movie’s opening 14 days.
The Netflix Movie Rankings of 2026 So Far
#
Movie
Released
Opening weekend
First 14 days (est.)
First 28 days
1
War Machine
Mar 6
39.3M
94.0M
112.0M
2
Apex
Apr 24
38.2M
87.7M
105.2M
3
The Rip
Jan 16
41.6M
90.3M
104.0M
4
Swapped
May 1
15.5M
69.3M
96.7M
5
Thrash
Apr 10
37.7M
77.7M
86.1M
6
The Last House
Aug 7 ¶
27.5M
67.9M
78.8M
7
The Whisper Man
Aug 28 ¶
23.2M
63.9M
75.5M
8
Voicemails for Isabelle
Jun 19
17.5M
56.1M
70.4M
9
72 HOURS
Jul 24 ¶
22.1M
53.5M
64.3M
10
Office Romance
Jun 5
20.9M
50.0M
57.6M
11
People We Meet on Vacation
Jan 9
17.2M
45.8M
54.3M
12
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Mar 20
25.3M
48.1M
50.6M †
13
Remarkably Bright Creatures
May 8
10.4M
35.4M
43.8M
14
Enola Holmes 3
Jul 3 ¶
20.7M
35.4M
37.4M †
15
Ladies First
May 22
11.9M
33.7M
36.0M †
16
Little Brother
Jun 26
14.0M
29.2M
31.0M †
17
Joe’s College Road Trip
Feb 13
12.5M
24.5M
25.7M †
18
Don’t Say Good Luck
Aug 14 ¶
8.1M
23.4M
25.3M †
19
Roommates
Apr 17
8.8M
23.0M
24.5M †
20
Best of the Best
Sep 18 ¶
4.3M
11.6M †
11.6M †
† Dropped out of the Top 10 early, so this is a minimum. ¶ Release date assumed to be the Friday of its debut week; confirm before publishing.
The Rip had the biggest opening weekend of the year with 41.6 million views. War Machine overtook it with a 44.4 million-view second week, the biggest single week any 2026 English movie has had, and stayed ahead over both 14 and 28 days.
Netflix Weekly Views Breakdown – War Machine, Apex, The Rip, Swapped, Thrash and 5 more Netflix titles (4-week analysis)
Weekly views for 10 Netflix titles: War Machine, Apex, The Rip, Swapped, Thrash, The Last House, The Whisper Man, Voicemails for Isabelle, 72 HOURS, Office Romance. Combined total across all titles and weeks: 850,600,000 views.
Per-week Netflix views for War Machine, Apex, The Rip, Swapped, Thrash and 5 more Netflix titles across 4 weeks.
Title
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Total
War Machine
39,300,000
44,400,000
18,000,000
10,300,000
112,000,000
Apex
38,200,000
40,200,000
16,200,000
10,600,000
105,200,000
The Rip
41,600,000
40,400,000
14,600,000
7,400,000
104,000,000
Swapped
15,500,000
38,700,000
26,400,000
16,100,000
96,700,000
Thrash
37,700,000
34,500,000
9,600,000
4,300,000
86,100,000
The Last House
27,500,000
33,500,000
12,000,000
5,800,000
78,800,000
The Whisper Man
23,200,000
33,400,000
12,700,000
6,200,000
75,500,000
Voicemails for Isabelle
17,500,000
31,000,000
13,300,000
8,600,000
70,400,000
72 HOURS
22,100,000
25,100,000
11,100,000
6,000,000
64,300,000
Office Romance
20,900,000
24,600,000
7,800,000
4,300,000
57,600,000
The top five
1. War Machine. It held #1 for two weeks and stayed in the Top 10 for eight straight weeks, then returned for two more in late July.
2. Apex. It posted 40.2 million views in its first full week but dropped off faster and left the Top 10 after six weeks.
3. The Rip. The only 2026 English movie to spend three weeks at #1. A steep third-week drop to 14.6 million views cost it top spot.
4. Swapped. The slowest starter in the top five, with 15.5 million views on its opening weekend before jumping to 38.7 million. Its 13 weeks in the Top 10 are the most of any 2026 English movie. Like KPop Demon Hunters before it, repeat viewership kept this one riding through its first 91 days.
5. Thrash. Two huge weeks at #1, with 37.7 million and then 34.5 million views, before falling to 9.6 million. It was gone after four weeks. Further down, The Last House was the biggest movie of the summer. The Whisper Man and Voicemails for Isabelle both opened at #2 and climbed to #1 in their first full week.
Too early to call
Three recent movies haven’t had four weeks yet, so here’s how each compares with the other 22 over the same number of weeks.
Movie
Weeks so far
Views so far
Rank among the 23 over the same weeks
UNABOMBER
3
48.6M
13th
Doing Life
2
27.5M
17th
Animals
1
23.8M
7th
Animals had the seventh-biggest opening weekend of the year, and Doing Life nearly doubled in its second week, from 9.3 million to 18.2 million views.
Netflix Weekly Views Breakdown – War Machine, The Rip, Apex, The Whisper Man, UNABOMBER and 2 more Netflix titles (3-week analysis)
Weekly views for 7 Netflix titles: War Machine, The Rip, Apex, The Whisper Man, UNABOMBER, Doing Life, Animals. Combined total across all titles and weeks: 462,100,000 views.
Per-week Netflix views for War Machine, The Rip, Apex, The Whisper Man, UNABOMBER and 2 more Netflix titles across 3 weeks.
Title
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Total
War Machine
39,300,000
44,400,000
18,000,000
101,700,000
The Rip
41,600,000
40,400,000
14,600,000
96,600,000
Apex
38,200,000
40,200,000
16,200,000
94,600,000
The Whisper Man
23,200,000
33,400,000
12,700,000
69,300,000
UNABOMBER
16,400,000
24,900,000
7,300,000
48,600,000
Doing Life
9,300,000
18,200,000
0
27,500,000
Animals
23,800,000
0
0
23,800,000
Total views so far
Adding Netflix’s January–June Engagement Report gives complete totals for movies released in the first half of the year. War Machine comes out on top again with around 153.0 million views. Its 146.9 million views between January and June were the most of any movie on Netflix in that period.
Movie
Views Jan–Jun (Engagement Report)
Top 10 views since July
Total so far
War Machine
146.9M
6.1M
153.0M
Swapped
130.8M
11.4M ‡
142.2M
The Rip
136.1M
0
136.1M
Apex
129.0M
0
129.0M
Thrash
100.0M
0
100.0M
Voicemails for Isabelle
53.3M
32.0M ‡
85.3M
The Whisper Man
–
82.2M
82.2M §
The Last House
–
82.1M
82.1M §
‡ Includes five-sevenths of the week of June 29–July 5, which straddles both halves. § Released after June, so this is Top 10 views only and a minimum.
The weekly Top 10 misses more than you might expect. For the 14 movies in both datasets, it captured 87% of their January–June views, and only 70% for People We Meet on Vacation, which picked up 23.4 million views the charts never recorded.
About the data
Weekly figures come from Netflix’s global Top 10 for English-language movies, from January 5–11 to October 5–11, 2026. First-half totals come from Netflix’s January–June 2026 Engagement Report.
A view is hours watched divided by runtime. Weeks a movie spent outside the Top 10 count as zero.
Netflix’s debut week covers only the opening weekend for a Friday release. The 14-day estimate adds that weekend, the second week and four-sevenths of the third week.
The list covers 23 English-language Netflix movies that premiered in 2026. Licensed and library titles aren’t included. Look up any movie’s week-by-week run in our Netflix Top 10 data search.