Oscar contender KPop Demon Hunters garnered 481.6 million views on Netflix in the second half of 2025, according to the streamer’s latest biannual Engagement Report.
By far the service’s most-viewed film of all time, the musical animated adventure produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment debuted on Netflix on June 20. It finished well ahead of Happy Gilmore 2 (July 25 drop date) starring Adam Sandler in second place on 135 million for the six-month period.
Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar contender Frankenstein, which drew a formidable 98 million views, considering it arrived on the platform as recently as November 7, placed third.
Kathryn Bigelow’s Venice premiere A House Of Dynamite ranked seventh on 76 million – also impressive considering the October 24 drop – while The Thursday Murder Club (August 28) in eighth place drew 69 million views.
South Korean disaster movie The Great Flood was the highest-ranking non-English-language film in tenth place on a mighty 66.1 million since it arrived on December 19.
Brazilian man-and-dog family feature Caramelo (October 8) ranked 15th and garnered 52.9 million views, while Norwegian genre sequel Troll 2 (December 1) at number 24 earned 43.7 million views, and Indonesian zombie film The Elixir (October 23) at number 59 drew 22.7 million views.
Besides Frankenstein, Netflix’s Oscar hopefuls include shortlisted documentary The Perfect Neighbor (October 17) in 21st place garnered 49 million views, while Jay Kelly (December 5) at number 90 drew 18 million, and Train Dreams (November 21) at number 93 drew 17.7 million. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (December 12) at number 14 drew 56.3 million.
In television, the second season of Wednesday was the most-viewed show on 123.9 million views and debuted on August 6. Season 5 of Stranger Things debuted later in the year on November 26 and yet managed to rank second on 94 million. All five seasons finished in the top 15 for a combined 275 million views.
Overall, subscribers watched 96 billion hours in the second half of 2025 after a 2% increase year-on-year, or an additional 1.5 billion hours. Netflix calculates views by dividing the total hours viewed by run time.
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