All 8 New Movies of 2024 Now Sweeping Netflix's Top 10 Chart
Bollywood's Top Gun, a dark fantasy starring Millie Bobby Brown, and a slew of new rom-coms and thrillers.
There are 8 feature-length movies in the Global Top 10 most watched movies on Netflix. Let's take a look at what these movies are and if they're worth watching.
8. Fighter — 10th Place
Release Date (Theaters): January 25, 2024
Release Date (Netflix): March 21, 2024
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
Netflix's list of the most popular feature films of 2024 opens with India's Hindi-language Fighter, which has entered its second week in the global Top 10. If you were impressed by Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise, you may also enjoy this Bollywood take on the aerial warfare genre. The plot follows elite members of the Indian Air Force as they form a team to thwart an impending terrorist attack.
7. Rest in Peace — 8th Place
Release Date (Theaters): March 21, 2024
Release Date (Netflix): March 27, 2024
IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
Less than a week ago, a new Argentinean thriller debuted on Netflix and now sits at #8 in the global Top 10. Rest in Peace follows a man who was thought to have died in the July 18, 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, known as the AMIA bombing. Bit he simply took advantage of the situation to disappear and move to Paraguay, leaving behind debts and his former life. After 30 years, however, he returned to his homeland to discover the fate of his family.
6. The Beautiful Game — 7th Place
Release Date (Netflix): March 29, 2024
IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
Recently, Netflix released an original British sports drama starring Bill Nighy and Michael Ward (who streaming service users may know from the series Top Boy). The Beautiful Game is about a soccer team made up of homeless people who travel to Rome for the Homeless World Cup.
5. Damsel — 5th Place
Release Date (Netflix): March 8, 2024
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Now in its fourth week, one of the most watched movies on Netflix is the new Damsel starring Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown. Damsel reimagines traditional tales about valiant knights, ferocious dragons, and beautiful damsels in distress. The story follows a princess who must survive in a dragon's lair after being thrown there by the prince she was supposed to marry.
4. Irish Wish — 4th Place
Release Date (Netflix): March 15, 2024
IMDb Rating: 5.2/10
Lindsay Lohan continues to conquer the streaming niche, starring in the new romantic comedy, which remains in the Top 10 for a third week. Lohan plays Maddie Kelly, the editor of popular novelist Paul Kennedy (Alexander Vlahos), with whom she has been secretly in love for years. Maddie wants to marry him, and the greater powers intervene: to her utter panic, she wakes up the next day as Paul's wife.
3. No Pressure — 3rd Place
Release Date (Netflix): March 27, 2024
IMDb Rating: 5.1/10
No Pressure is a new Polish rom-com that has been in the Top 10 for three days. The plot follows a city girl who returns to her home village for her grandmother's funeral. In the process, she falls in love with a handsome farmer who reveals a secret: the grandmother is not dead, and it was all a plot to lure the granddaughter back to the farm.
2. Heart of the Hunter — 2nd Place
Release Date (Netflix): March 29, 2024
IMDb Rating: 4.6/10
Despite lukewarm reviews, this South African action film about a retired assassin who is drawn back into dangerous events involving the government broke into the Top 10 on March 31. Although the plot is predictable, this B-movie boasts top-notch production quality, including VFX.
1. The Wages of Fear — 1st Place
Release Date (Netflix): March 29, 2024
IMDb Rating: 4.6/10
Finally, the remake of the 1953 French thriller of the same name, The Wages of Fear, landed in first place. The plot follows a team sent by an oil company to blow up an oil well within 24 hours as it threatens to cause a global environmental disaster.