Netflix has announced which films and series have been streamed the most in the past year 2022 – and as expected there are many titles that have set new record notifications in 2022 (‘Wednesday’, ‘Dahmer’), but also a number that – in at least in Germany – have largely remained under the radar (“Extraordinary Attorney Woo”).
Netflix divides both movies and series into two categories: English and non-English. This results in a total of four lists – in one of these lists the German anti-war film and Oscar nominee “Nothing New in the West” came second. Here are these four top 10 lists officially released by Netflix:
The most watched English-language Netflix series of 2022
- Stranger Things season 4
- Wednesday Season 1
- “Dahmer – Monsters”
- Bridgerton season 2
- “Inventing Anna”
- Ozark season 4
- The Watcher season 1
- The Sandman season 1
- The Umbrella Academy season 3
- virgin river season 4
Most watched non-English Netflix series of 2022
- We’re all dead season 1
- Extraordinary lawyer Woo season 1
- “Heartbeat” season 1
- Til Money Do Us Part season 1
- Elite Season 5
- “Burning Fire” Season 1
- The Empress season 1
- Business proposal season 1
- Entrevias season 1
- “Welcome to Eden” Season 1
Most-watched English-language Netflix movies of 2022
- “The Gray Man”
- “The Adam Project”
- “Purple Hearts”
- “rush”
- “The Tinder Swindler”
- “The Sea Monster”
- “Enola Holmes 2”
- “Seniors”
- “The Man from Toronto”
- “Day Shift”
Most watched non-English Netflix movies of 2022
- “troll”
- “Nothing New in the West”
- “Operation Black Crab”
- “Through My Window – I Only See You”
- ‘Another murder team is investigating’
- “Mature Love”
- “carter”
- “My Name Is Vendetta”
- “Sans Repit – Restless”
- “Furoza”
The basis for the top 10 lists is how many hours a movie or series has been watched in the first 28 days after release. All titles published between January 1 and December 18, 2022 have been reviewed.
Unlike the weekly charts Netflix has not indicated in the annual figures how many hours the titles in the ranking have been viewed. It is therefore not clear how much gap there is between the 10th and 1st place for the most watched English-language Netflix films. If you are interested in this, you will have to look for these numbers yourself, which is not possible in all cases.
In addition to the pure lists, Netflix has also compiled a few interesting figures: Sun about five of the ten most successful English-language series appeared in 2022: “Stranger Things 4”, “Wednesday”, “Dahmer – Monster”, “Bridgerton” Season 2 and “Inventing Anna”. For English-language films that is three out of ten and for non-English-language films even a sensational seven out of ten best viewed films not at all.
In our list of the best series 2022, which we selected together with our sister site Moviepilot, Netflix is surprisingly rarely at the top: