Netflix is one of the most popular streaming services in the world, with more than 220 million subscribers. And just what do those people tend to watch? In particular, what is the most popular movie on Netflix?
Each week, the streaming service releases a list of its 10 most-watched movies over the preceding seven days. Below, we’ve listed the top 10 movies in the U.S. from June 12 to June 18, along with general information about each film, such as genre, rating, cast, and synopsis.
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Netflix continues to bolster its anime roster with new movies based on classic manga series. Their latest offering is Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King, based on the Black Clover manga and TV series. Asta (Gakuto Kajiwara) is a young boy born into a magical world without any magic. Ten years earlier, Conrad Leto (Toshihiko Seki) was sealed out of the Clover Kingdom by Julius (Toshiyuki Morikawa), who became the new Wizard King.
In the present day, Conrad returns with four other banished Wizard Kings to reclaim the Clover Kingdom. Conrad also wields the powerful Imperial Sword. Asta and his fellow mages, including his rival Yuno (Nobunaga Shimazaki), must band together to stop Conrad from ruling the Clover Kingdom.
Liam Page (Alex Roe) and Josie Swan (Jessica Rothe) are high school sweethearts set to be married. However, Liam unexpectedly leaves Josie at the altar and hightails it out of town. Eight years later, Liam is a famous country singer, while Josie works at a flower shop in the local town. After the death of his childhood friend, Liam returns to his hometown for the first time since the wedding. Liam soon meets Josie’s daughter, Billy (Abby Ryder Fortson), and quickly learns he is the father.
Moved by the announcement, Liam attempts to form a relationship with Billy, and by spending time with the young girl, he begins to rekindle his love for Josie. Forever My Girl is perfect for those looking for a romantic drama. Although the story is formulaic, there’s enough charm from Roe and Rothe to stick around.
Griffin Keyes (Kevin James) is a zookeeper in search of love. Five years earlier, Griffin had his heart broken by Stephanie (Leslie Bibb), who denied his proposal because of his zookeeping occupation. Griffin’s brother offers him a job at a car dealership, a proposal he considers since it could win back Stephanie. This doesn’t sit well with the zoo animals, who believe Griffin is the best zookeeper and want him to stay.
The animals decide to help Griffin find love, so he remains their zookeeper. This is the part where I mention that the animals can talk to Griffin, much to his surprise. The animals teach Griffin their mating habits and rituals to use on humans, which are met with mixed results. However, the animals aren’t willing to give up on their lovable loser, so they take matters into their own hands.
Before he won the hearts of soccer fans as the quirky, positive Coach Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis starred in a string of raunchy comedies in the early 2010s. One of those films was 2013’s We’re the Millers. Sudeikis stars as David Clark, a mediocre marijuana dealer who owes money to his supplier, Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms). To cancel his debt, David agrees to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the U.S.
David hires stripper Rose (Jennifer Anniston), runaway Casey (Emma Roberts), and nerd Kenny (Will Poulter) to pose as his family, believing it will remove any suspicion that he’s smuggling drugs across the border. We’re the Millers is an effective comedy that makes us wonder if Sudeikis will return to these types of stories after Ted Lasso.
At 93 years old, Clint Eastwood is still directing and starring in movies. Five years ago, Eastwood directed the crime drama, The Mule. Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a 90-year-old broke horticulturist with a fractured relationship with his family. Desperate for money, Earl is offered a chance to run drugs for the cartel as a “mule.” Because of his age and lack of a criminal record, Earl can run huge shipments of drugs without suspicion, earning him thousands of dollars.
Earl can buy a new truck and reclaim his home. Things are going well until his success draws the attention of Special Agent Colin Bates (Bradley Cooper). With the DEA breathing down his neck and pressure from the cartel to deliver, Earl must grapple with his past and make up for his previous mistakes before it’s too late.
In the mid-2000s, Lindsay Lohan was one of Hollywood’s brightest young stars. In 2004, Lohan starred in Mean Girls, the teen comedy about female high school cliques and their effects on a high school. Lohan plays Cady Heron, a 16-year-old girl who transfers to North Shore High School after moving back to the United States from Africa. Struggling to fit in, Cady infiltrates the Plastics, the wealthy and popular group led by the ruthless Regina George (Rachel McAdams).
At first, Cady joins the Plastics as a ploy to damage their reputations. However, Cady slowly loses her identity and becomes everything she hates. Thanks to a witty script by Tina Fey and iconic performances from Lohan and McAdams, Mean Girls remains a piece of pop culture history.
Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is one of the world’s most-skilled special agents. As a former Australian Army SASR operator, Rake now operates as a black-market mercenary. Rake is hired to save and protect an Indian drug lord’s son in Bangladesh. Rake saves the boy, but he’s double-crossed as the contract is nullified.
Filled with the guilt of abandoning his son, Rake protects the boy and brings him to safety. Directed by Sam Hargrove, Extraction is one of the best action films of the last ten years. Released during the beginning months of the pandemic, Extraction became a smash hit for Netflix as it’s the eighth-most popular English film of all time.
There was a moment in the 2010s when Angry Birds felt like the most popular mobile game in the world. Everyone was launching the flightless birds on their mobile slingshots to pass the time. The game’s popularity led to a feature film in 2016, The Angry Birds Movie. Jason Sudeikis voices Red, the angriest of birds on Bird Island, ordered to take anger management classes. It’s here Red meets Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride), two birds that are outcasts like Red.
One day, a green-colored pig named Leonard (Bill Hader) comes to the island on a peaceful expedition. The suspicious Red doesn’t believe Leonard and soon discovers the pig’s plan to steal the eggs from the birds on the island. Just like in the game, Red and his friends eventually use the slingshot to launch themselves into the pig’s city to stop the plan. At the end of the day, kids who play Angry Birds will enjoy their favorite flightless birds on the big screen.
Boss Baby (Alec Baldwin) is not your typical infant. Boss Baby wears a suit and tie, carries a briefcase, and acts like a boss (pun intended). When he arrives home from the hospital, Boss Baby meets his 7-year-old brother Tim (Miles Bakshi; Tobey Maguire voices Adult Tim), beginning a sibling rivalry. However, Boss Baby takes pity on his older brother after he’s grounded and reveals his plans to Tim.
Boss Baby is on a mission to investigate the recent uptick in adults’ love for puppies while making babies the dominant force in their parents’ lives again. Boss Baby incorporates a fairly high concept for children, but at the end of the day, it’s a kids’ movie, so there are plenty of bathroom jokes and friendly bits that will make children laugh.
Despite being shot in the neck and left for dead at the end of Extraction, Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) survives and makes a full recovery. Weeks later, Rake is recruited for another mission: to infiltrate a Georgian prison and rescue his ex-wife’s sister and her two children. Joined by siblings Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) and Yaz (Adam Bessa), Rake plans a daring rescue mission that draws the attention of a ruthless mobster Zurab (Tornike Gogrichiani).
Like most sequels, Extraction 2 raises the stakes and action, highlighted by a terrific 21-minute one-take-action scene. With Extraction 3 in development, the Hemsworth-led franchise may be the best Netflix has to offer.
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