What a decade saw.

Released from 2016 through 2026, plus a few shows that began earlier and were actually watched in these years. Theatrical figures are worldwide gross as published by Box Office Mojo on November 6, 2026. Streaming figures are the ones Netflix has published. Where no honest count exists, the title is here because it changed the way people talked. A crowd is not a reason to press play.

About 131 million American households then. The percent is our estimate of how many met it.

1. 1Avengers: Endgame (2019)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films28%of American households37 millionhouses, estimatedA man spends his life to restore other people's children. The three-hour fight is the toll you pay to hear that sentence.About $2.94 billion worldwide, the largest theatrical gross of the decade. Box Office Mojo, November 6, 2026.
2. 2Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)46 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films28%of American households37 millionhouses, estimatedThe character is sound. A new chapter still has to earn the old line about responsibility.About $2.52 billion worldwide and still the conversation. Box Office Mojo, November 6, 2026.
3. 3Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films27%of American households35 millionhouses, estimatedThe warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.About $2.33 billion worldwide.
4. 4Ne Zha 2 (2025)58 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films27%of American households35 millionhouses, estimatedA boy refuses the sentence heaven wrote. The scale is the product. The refusal is the story.About $2.27 billion worldwide, the most-seen animated film of the decade, almost all of it in China.
5. 5Avengers: Infinity War (2018)46 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films27%of American households35 millionhouses, estimatedThey show up and lose. His theory is a massacre with a sentence attached.About $2.05 billion worldwide.
6. 6Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)51 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films27%of American households35 millionhouses, estimatedHe wanted the easy repair. The film, at the last minute, makes him give the life up.About $1.92 billion worldwide.
7. 7Zootopia 2 (2025)64 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films26%of American households34 millionhouses, estimatedA partnership and a city that picks its suspect by species. The first film's argument, continued. Worth it.About $1.87 billion worldwide.
8. 8Squid Game (2021)29 · Leave it · Shows26%of American households34 millionhouses, estimatedDebt is a real terror. The show turns the terror into a sport and asks you back for another round. Leave it.Netflix counted 265 million views for the first season in its first 91 days, the most of any series it has published.
9. 9Inside Out 2 (2024)64 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films26%of American households34 millionhouses, estimatedA true account of a new feeling that tries to run a person. Keep it. Talk after.About $1.70 billion worldwide.
10. 10The Lion King (2019)71 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films25%of American households33 millionhouses, estimatedThe same story: a son, a murdered father, a realm neglected. The story holds. The shine does not improve it.About $1.66 billion worldwide for the 2019 picture.
11. 11Stranger Things (2016)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows25%of American households33 millionhouses, estimatedLoyalty among the young. Parents who fail, then show up. Keep the talk after.The show of the decade on Netflix. Billions of hours, including a final season the country watched as an event.
12. 12Top Gun: Maverick (2022)61 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films25%of American households33 millionhouses, estimatedCraft, a chain of command, and a man who finally puts the student ahead of the stunt.About $1.50 billion, and the film that brought a great many people back into a theater.
13. 13Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)58 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films25%of American households33 millionhouses, estimatedA father still in the fight for a people. The picture is a war. Do not hand the war to a small child.About $1.49 billion worldwide.
14. 14Barbie (2023)49 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films24%of American households31 millionhouses, estimatedA mother and a daughter are the true thing in it. The joke spends a long time on the other sex.About $1.45 billion, and the year was spoken of in its name.
15. 15Frozen II (2019)74 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films24%of American households31 millionhouses, estimatedA sequel about a debt. Heavier, and serious about the parents' wrong.About $1.45 billion worldwide.
16. 16The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)48 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films24%of American households31 millionhouses, estimatedA brother who goes back. Bright, thin, and safe for a child who already loves the game.About $1.36 billion worldwide.
17. 17Wednesday (2022)38 · Leave it · Shows24%of American households31 millionhouses, estimatedWit without duty. A sneer is not a character, however well dressed.Netflix's biggest English-language series debut, 252 million views in the first 91 days of season one.
18. 18Black Panther (2018)71 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films23%of American households30 millionhouses, estimatedA nation owes the people it hid from. A king still has to keep the nation.About $1.35 billion, and a cultural event beyond the gross.
19. 19Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)25 · Leave it · Films23%of American households30 millionhouses, estimatedThe joke is the gore. Friendship is the excuse. Leave it with children, and be careful alone.About $1.34 billion worldwide.
20. 20Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)55 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films23%of American households30 millionhouses, estimatedFailure is allowed to be the lesson. The casino detour spends the lesson. The teacher who comes back is the part to keep.About $1.33 billion, and the argument lasted longer than the run.
21. 21Moana 2 (2024)70 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films22%of American households29 millionhouses, estimatedThe same vocation, a wider map. Less surprising, still about a people and not a selfie.More than a billion dollars worldwide, and a children's film the country already knew by heart.
22. 22Oppenheimer (2023)65 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films22%of American households29 millionhouses, estimatedGenius, duty, and a stewardship question too big for the man who asked it late.Already on the desk. Nearly a billion, and the other half of the year people named for Barbie.
23. 23The Mandalorian (2019)68 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows22%of American households29 millionhouses, estimatedA western about keeping a child. The creed matters when it costs the paycheck.The show that made a streaming service feel like a town square.
24. 24Game of Thrones (2011)25 · Leave it · Shows22%of American households29 millionhouses, estimatedA spectacle that taught a decade to enjoy cruelty. Leave it.It began in 2011. The seasons this decade actually watched, through 2019, were the television event of those years.
25. 25KPop Demon Hunters (2025)30 · Leave it · Films21%of American households28 millionhouses, estimatedCourage as a single, and the underworld as a wardrobe. The product is the group.Netflix's most-watched film, 325 million views.
26. 26Succession (2018)35 · Leave it · Shows21%of American households28 millionhouses, estimatedA household as a company, and a company as a wound. Brilliant, and not for the house.The decade's drama about a fortune and the children it ruined.
27. 27The Last of Us (2023)55 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows21%of American households28 millionhouses, estimatedA man chooses the child over the purse. The violence is the weather. Adults.The game became a Sunday show, and a father walking a child across a ruin.
28. 28Bridgerton (2020)38 · Leave it · Shows20%of American households26 millionhouses, estimatedThe end is marriage, which is right. The method is gossip and appetite.Among Netflix's most-watched romances. The hours are not in dispute.
29. 29Parasite (2019)61 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films20%of American households26 millionhouses, estimatedA lie gets a family through the door. The bill is a man with a name, in the basement. Worth an evening, then talk.Best picture, and a film the world actually argued about.
30. 30Yellowstone (2018)43 · Leave it · Shows20%of American households26 millionhouses, estimatedLand, work, and a father who confuses stewardship with a kingdom.The ranch show the country kept on, season after season.
31. 31The Bear (2022)64 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows20%of American households26 millionhouses, estimatedA hymn to craft, sung in a panic. The work is holy. The panic is a bad teacher.The kitchen show people sent each other.
32. 32Ted Lasso (2020)51 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows19%of American households25 millionhouses, estimatedDecency as a strategy. It works better as a character than as a theory of everything.The kindness people quoted, and the hours on Apple to back the quoting.
33. 33House of the Dragon (2022)33 · Leave it · Shows19%of American households25 millionhouses, estimatedBlood is not a household. A throne is not a town. Leave it for the young.The return of that throne, watched as an event.
34. 34Shogun (2024)78 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows19%of American households25 millionhouses, estimatedDuty, honor, and a house worth dying for. Not our parish. Very much our standard.Already on the desk. The limited series the year stopped for.
35. 35Joker (2019)24 · Leave it · Films18%of American households24 millionhouses, estimatedThe wound is real. The film is too in love with the man who answers it with a gun. Leave it.A billion-dollar portrait of a grievance, and a costume the decade would not put down.
36. 36Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)63 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films18%of American households24 millionhouses, estimatedThe noise is enormous. The quiet claim is that a marriage and a daughter are the life, not the failure. Worth an evening.The small film that became the one people said you had to see.
37. 37Dune: Part Two (2024)49 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films18%of American households24 millionhouses, estimatedNow the warning is complete. He is not the hero of the prophecy. He is what a prophecy does.The half the first film promised, and the one the year filled theaters for.
38. 38Dune (2021)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films18%of American households24 millionhouses, estimatedPower handed to a boy, and a people who are not his. The first half of a warning. Do not take the chosen-one glow as the moral.The first half. A desert, a house, and a warning about a boy called chosen.
39. 39Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films17%of American households22 millionhouses, estimatedHe refuses a canon that demands a sacrifice he did not choose. The refusal is right. The film does not finish it.The animated event of its year, and a boy refusing a script.
40. 40Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)64 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films17%of American households22 millionhouses, estimatedA city, a promise, and a boy who is not ready. The best of the comic-book tiles on this row.The first of those films. A new way of drawing a picture, and a boy from Brooklyn.
41. 41Get Out (2017)46 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films17%of American households22 millionhouses, estimatedThe smile is the weapon. Believe the person who says the room is wrong.A modest opening and a conversation that outlasted it.
42. 42The Queen's Gambit (2020)54 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows17%of American households22 millionhouses, estimatedExcellence is real. So is the empty room after. A gift is not a personality.The limited series that put a chessboard in houses that did not have one.
43. 43The Boys (2019)36 · Leave it · Shows16%of American households21 millionhouses, estimatedA fair hate for unaccountable power. Then it becomes the cruelty it hates.Already on the desk. The superhero show people watched because they were tired of the sincere ones.
44. 44The White Lotus (2021)31 · Leave it · Shows16%of American households21 millionhouses, estimatedA satire of money that also sells you the pool. Watch it awake, or don't.The vacation people watched in order to judge.
45. 45Severance (2022)51 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows16%of American households21 millionhouses, estimatedA precise horror about work that asks for a person and returns a function.The office that would not stay at the office.
46. 46WandaVision (2021)45 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows15%of American households20 millionhouses, estimatedGrief told honestly, then a fantasy that drafts the neighbors. Watch the bill.The first of those streaming chapters, watched week by week.
47. 47Andor (2022)70 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows15%of American households20 millionhouses, estimatedThe rare adventure that treats a republic as work. Stay for the cost.Already on the desk. The one of that galaxy that took the work of a rebellion seriously.
48. 48Loki (2021)45 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows15%of American households20 millionhouses, estimatedA liar given a clock and a desk. The joke is better than the theology.The variant show the same audience kept with.
49. 49The Rings of Power (2022)68 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows15%of American households20 millionhouses, estimatedThe old moral world. Uneven as a show, sound as a compass: do not serve the devouring thing.Already on the desk. The expensive return to that map.
50. 50Chernobyl (2019)74 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows14%of American households18 millionhouses, estimatedThe truth has a body count when a state prefers the report. Keep it. Adults.Five hours, and a public record of a lie told by a state.
51. 51Fleabag (2016)38 · Leave it · Shows14%of American households18 millionhouses, estimatedGrief is real. The aside to the audience is a way of refusing the people who could answer.The confession people sent to each other, in two short seasons.
52. 52The Crown (2016)59 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows14%of American households18 millionhouses, estimatedDuty to an office, weighed against a house. The office is real. So is the cost. Worth an evening, then talk.The palace, watched for a decade as if it were a family next door.
53. 53The Handmaid's Tale (2017)64 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows13%of American households17 millionhouses, estimatedA warning about power in religious costume. Conscience is the heroine, not the regime.Already on the desk. The costume the decade used for a warning.
54. 54Better Call Saul (2015)51 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows13%of American households17 millionhouses, estimatedThe decade watched the years that mattered. A talent spent on a con. The bill arrives with a name.It began in 2015. These years are when the country watched the bill come due.
55. 55Ozark (2017)33 · Leave it · Shows13%of American households17 millionhouses, estimatedHe says it is for the family. The family is the hostage of the skill. Adults. Do not take his competence as a virtue.A Bloomberg reading of Nielsen minutes put it among the most-streamed Netflix dramas of the decade.
56. 56The Witcher (2019)41 · Leave it · Shows13%of American households17 millionhouses, estimatedThe job is a job. The destiny talk is the part to distrust. Adults and older teens, and the blood is the advertisement.The fantasy Netflix put next to the throne shows, and people finished.
57. 57Euphoria (2019)19 · Leave it · Shows12%of American households16 millionhouses, estimatedLeave it. A real ache in a teenager is not a reason to film the ache as a style.The teen show adults argued about and teenagers watched anyway.
58. 58Arcane (2021)58 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows12%of American households16 millionhouses, estimatedA sister's love against a city's split. The invention is not progress just because it shines. Older teens.The animated city people who do not play the game still watched.
59. 59Money Heist (2017)31 · Leave it · Shows12%of American households16 millionhouses, estimatedA clever plan is not a justice. The romance with the thief is the whole con, including the one on you.The red jumpsuit. One of the shows that traveled farthest past its own country.
60. 60Baby Reindeer (2024)40 · Leave it · Shows11%of American households14 millionhouses, estimatedThe confession is serious. The show puts a real kind of harm on a stage. Adults, once, and then stop.The confession of 2024. Netflix's published views put it over a hundred million.
61. 61Moana (2016)73 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films11%of American households14 millionhouses, estimatedA girl, a people, a boat, and a task that is not about becoming famous. Keep it.A children's film that became a language in the house.
62. 62Coco (2017)73 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films11%of American households14 millionhouses, estimatedKeep it. Remember the dead by name. Ambition that erases a family is the villain.The dead, a guitar, and a family. People went, and then they went again.
63. 63Encanto (2021)70 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films11%of American households14 millionhouses, estimatedKeep it. A family that performs its gifts is not the same as a family that tells the truth.The family song the year could not get out of its head.
64. 64Finding Dory (2016)68 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films10%of American households13 millionhouses, estimatedParents who did not stop. A disability that is not a joke at the end. Keep it.More than a billion dollars, and a lost parent. The decade opened with it.
65. 65Zootopia (2016)63 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films10%of American households13 millionhouses, estimatedA city, a frame-up, and a partnership. Fear as a political tool. Keep it, and talk after.A city of animals, and one of the last films everyone seemed to have seen.
66. 66Toy Story 4 (2019)68 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films10%of American households13 millionhouses, estimatedKeep it. A made thing can have a duty, and a duty can change without becoming a betrayal.The cowboy's last job, and a gross that said the children had not left.
67. 67Incredibles 2 (2018)71 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films10%of American households13 millionhouses, estimatedA marriage that trades duties, and a warning about the screen. Keep it.More than a billion, and a father left with the children.
68. 68A Minecraft Movie (2025)45 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films9%of American households12 millionhouses, estimatedThe craft is the good idea. The joke is louder than the craft. Children will come anyway.Nearly a billion dollars, and a theater full of children who already knew the blocks.
69. 69Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)38 · Leave it · Films9%of American households12 millionhouses, estimatedA zoo that became a market. The child is the only reason to stay awake.More than a billion dollars. The dinosaurs, sold.
70. 70Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)68 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films9%of American households12 millionhouses, estimatedA republic's war, fought by people who do not get the medal. Older teens and adults. Keep it.The war film of that galaxy. People went, and they still quote the beach.
71. 71Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)53 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films8%of American households10 millionhouses, estimatedA noisy quest that still knows the rule: you do not leave a player behind, and you finish what you started.Close to a billion, and a family film the decade actually shared.
72. 72Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)48 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films8%of American households10 millionhouses, estimatedThe lie is the plot, which is right. The trip is a product. Older teens.The class trip, and a gross that followed the last Avengers film.
73. 73It (2017)41 · Leave it · Films8%of American households10 millionhouses, estimatedThe friendship is real. The fear is the product. Not for a child. Leave it if the house is young.The clown. One of the horror films the decade treated as an event.
74. 74La La Land (2016)60 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films8%of American households10 millionhouses, estimatedThe work is the true love story. The couple is the beautiful thing that does not get to be the whole life.The musical people fought about, and the one they still hum.
75. 75Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)49 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films7%of American households9.2 millionhouses, estimatedThe work of the band is real. The life is sanded until the disease is a lesson in timing. Watch it for the work.The concert at the end. Close to a billion, and a life sanded smooth.
76. 76A Star Is Born (2018)45 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films7%of American households9.2 millionhouses, estimatedLove is not a cure for a man who will not put the drink down. The film knows. It still asks you to ache for him.The song of that year, and a marriage that does not survive the fame.
77. 77The Greatest Showman (2017)40 · Leave it · Films7%of American households9.2 millionhouses, estimatedThe welcome is a ticket. The people are realer than the man who bills them. Do not confuse the anthem with a kindness.The anthem. People who do not go to musicals went.
78. 78Hamilton (2020)66 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films6%of American households7.9 millionhouses, estimatedA republic, built by a man who could not stop working or wanting. Thrilling, and not innocent.The filmed show. It began on a stage and entered houses in 2020.
79. 79Wicked (2024)53 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films6%of American households7.9 millionhouses, estimatedThe outcast is not the lesson. The campaign against her is. Watch the first half awake. It is not finished.The first half of the musical, and a cultural season of its own.
80. 80Knives Out (2019)61 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films6%of American households7.9 millionhouses, estimatedKindness is not naivete. The family that lives off a name is the suspect, even when it is funny.The family and the nurse. A mystery people lent to each other.
81. 81Arrival (2016)74 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films6%of American households7.9 millionhouses, estimatedUnderstanding is the work. She says yes to a child she will lose. That yes is the film.The linguist. Not the biggest gross. One of the films people still mean when they say the decade.
82. 82Dunkirk (2017)70 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films5%of American households6.5 millionhouses, estimatedKeep it. The bravery is a little boat pointed at a beach, not a speech about a beach.The beach and the little boats.
83. 831917 (2019)64 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films5%of American households6.5 millionhouses, estimatedA message carried through a broken country. The courage is not the camera. The courage is the errand.The errand across the ruin.
84. 84The Batman (2022)50 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films5%of American households6.5 millionhouses, estimatedVengeance is not a program. The film, slowly, agrees. Adults. Long, and the length is the weather.The rain, the file, and a fortune that was not clean.
85. 85Moonlight (2016)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films4%of American households5.2 millionhouses, estimatedKeep it for adults. A life told without a speech. Tenderness is the rare thing, and it is not a sin.Best picture, and a small film. On this list for the life it insisted on telling.
86. 86The Shape of Water (2017)49 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films4%of American households5.2 millionhouses, estimatedThe lonely are not nothing. The romance asks you to bless a desire the film has not examined. Adults, and divided.Best picture. The cleaners, and a romance this desk does not bless.
87. 87Blade Runner 2049 (2017)59 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Films4%of American households5.2 millionhouses, estimatedHe is not the chosen one. Doing the errand anyway is the soul the company forgot to install. Adults.The manufactured man who was not the miracle.
88. 88CODA (2021)73 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films4%of American households5.2 millionhouses, estimatedA family, a trade, and a gift that does not cancel the boat. Keep it.Best picture. A family that works, and a daughter with a gift.
89. 89Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)65 · Worth an evening, then talk · Films3%of American households3.9 millionhouses, estimatedA crime against a people, told at the length of the crime. Hard, and necessary.The murders, and the fortune. Already on the desk.
90. 90Bluey (2018)78 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows3%of American households3.9 millionhouses, estimatedA household, shown at the size of an afternoon. Keep it in the house.The children's show of the decade. Already on the desk.
91. 91The Good Place (2016)54 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows3%of American households3.9 millionhouses, estimatedA comedy that believes moral improvement is real. It borrows the philosophy and misplaces the judge.The philosophy show people actually finished.
92. 92Adolescence (2025)78 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows3%of American households3.9 millionhouses, estimatedThe rare one that tells the truth about a boy lost in the feed. Sit with it.Already on the desk. One of the most-watched limited series Netflix has published.
93. 93The Night Agent (2023)56 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows2%of American households2.6 millionhouses, estimatedA man who stays at his post. Conspiracy sauce on a real idea of duty.Already on the desk. Tens of millions of views, more than once.
94. 94One Piece (2023)61 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows2%of American households2.6 millionhouses, estimatedFreedom without much order. Loyalty with a whole heart. The crew is the house.Already on the desk. The live-action people who loved the comic actually watched.
95. 95Fallout (2024)54 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows2%of American households2.6 millionhouses, estimatedThe old world's bill comes due. Ironic, bloody, and not empty of a moral.Already on the desk. The wasteland show of its year.
96. 96Only Murders in the Building (2021)50 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows1%of American households1.3 millionhouses, estimatedA building as a small town. Charming, and a little too pleased to treat death as a hobby.Already on the desk. The comedy people kept through the years.
97. 97Invincible (2021)65 · Worth an evening, then talk · Shows1%of American households1.3 millionhouses, estimatedBloody, and morally awake. Power is a debt, not a personality.Already on the desk. The animated brutality a generation of boys pressed play on.
98. 98Dark (2017)61 · Watch it awake, or skip it · Shows1%of American households1.3 millionhouses, estimatedFamily sins on a hundred-year loop. The puzzle is brilliant. Do not let it replace the people.Already on the desk. The German puzzle that traveled.
99. 99Beef (2023)43 · Leave it · Shows1%of American households1.3 millionhouses, estimatedA sermon against the grudge, wearing a joke. Rage is a bad hobby.Already on the desk. The grudge, and the hours.
100. 100Love Is Blind (2020)21 · Leave it · Shows1%of American households1.3 millionhouses, estimatedA vow used as a twist. Courtship replaced by a format. Leave it.Already on the desk. A Bloomberg reading of Nielsen minutes put it among the most-streamed shows of these years. A crowd is not a reason.