Most Watched New Netflix Movies of 2026 So Far

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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.

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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

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