Two action films just made history on Netflix: Nothing like this has happened on streaming before. – Cinema News

The audience decided to watch these two action thrillers equally.

Netflix has been sharing its audience data every Tuesday night for some time now. It is an exercise in semi-transparency, since the source is the company itself and it chooses very carefully which numbers it shares with the public. However, a curious phenomenon recently occurred: the most watched film on Netflix… is it actually two?

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11 million each

The films that tied with around 11 million views each are Alma de Caçador and The Wages of Fear. If you don’t realize right away that they have the same data, the fact is that the first one is in the Top 10 of films spoken in English and the remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s extraordinary thriller is in the Top 10 of films spoken in other languages.

It’s true that other information offered by Netflix offers a points tiebreaker, as Soul of the Hunter is a slightly longer film, so the total hours watched for the week of March 25th to 31st is 19.7 million compared to 19.4 million from The Wages of Fear.

One thing that this historical link makes clear is that Netflix’s audience is increasingly international, as not long ago it would have been unthinkable to see a film that wasn’t in English on the top of the platform. It’s true that we’re still a little far from any of them being among the most watched of all time on Netflix, but it’s becoming less and less absurd to think about that possibility.

*Translation from a partner site of QuandoCinema

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