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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T14:12:35.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Whitney Peak prepares to take on a seriously nasty apex predator in Netflix’s most popular film of the past seven days (Picture: Netflix)\n\nWhile we all crave peace and tranquillity in our everyday lives, there’s nothing like settling back in a plush armchair and enjoying a movie that’s all about utter, utter chaos and disaster, is there?\n\nThis past week’s biggest cinematic hits on Netflix prove just that, as the global most-watched film is about as chaotic and disastrous as it gets.\n\nUnless you find the idea of killer sharks swimming down the street relaxing, that is.\n\nAs for the rest of the top 10? It’s the usual eclectic mix. Get ready for a rundown of true-life flicks, sci-fi actioners, easy-watching comedy features, and even a film about an uber tough Finnish gold miner killing an entire squadron of Nazis.\n\nHere’s the countdown of the most-watched movies on Netflix right now…\n\n##  Get personalised updates on all things Netflix\n\nWake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro’s TV Newsletter.\n\nSign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we’ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you.\n\n## 10. Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story – 3,400,000 views last week\n\nPolice arrest Matthew MacCaull’s Steven Pladl in this made-for-TV true crime potboiler (Picture: A&E Lifetime)\n\nThis true-crime made-for-TV movie is based on a very real and very grim murder case. Directed by Elisabeth Röhm, it stars Jackie Cruz, Matthew MacCaull and Matreya Scarrwener.\n\nIt follows a family reunited with their biological daughter, which should be the start of something nice. But, given that this is a true-crime made-for-TV movie, it isn’t.\n\nWhat unfolds instead is manipulation, control and a relationship that veers into deeply troubling territory before ending in tragedy.\n\nIt’s one of those ‘ripped from the headlines’ dramas that doesn’t mess about, leaning hard into the ghastly reality behind the story. It’s fairly bleak, but then a lot of folk like bleak, don’t they?\n\n## 9. Feel My Voice – 3,500,000 views\n\nSarah Toscano and Serena Rossi in a surprise hit on Netflix, the Italian-language Feel My Voice (Picture: Netflix)\n\nThis 2026 Italian coming-of-age drama from Luca Ribuoli centres on Eletta, a 16-year-old who happens to be the only hearing member of her deaf family. Most of her life is spent translating the world for them while helping keep their rural business running.\n\nA school choir offers Eletta an unexpected option. When she realises that she can actually sing, it opens up a path she’s never really considered.\n\nShe’s soon caught between staying rooted at home or stepping out and chasing something of her own.\n\nSarah Toscano leads nicely on her silver screen debut, supported by the likes of Serena Rossi and Emilio and Carola Insolera.\n\n## 8. War Machine – 3,500,000 views\n\nWhat’s not to love about a sci-fi version of Reacher, eh? (Picture: Netflix)\n\nAlan Ritchson is a large fella. That’s how he got cast as Jack Reacher in Amazon Prime Video’s smash hit show Reacher (that and he’s also a pretty charismatic screen presence). The man’s built for action.\n\nSo it’s good seeing him cast here in this throwback picture that makes you pine for the action movies of the 1980s and 90s.\n\nIn it, the big man comes up against an even bigger foe — a giant space robot, the ‘war machine’ of the title. Being hefty and strong won’t quite cut it, so a little guile is also required. As millions of Netflix subscribers can attest.\n\nIt’s loud, fun, silly and very watchable.\n\n## 7. Sniper 2 – 3,600,000 views\n\n24 years ago, Tom Berenger and Bokeem Woodbine predicted the current trend for workwear as a major fashion trend for men (Picture: Sky TV)\n\nOne of the most remarkable things about Netflix is that people will, seemingly, just watch whatever’s pushed to them on there. Sniper 2 is a case in point.\n\nThe original Sniper was made in 1993 and was a moderate box office success. Nine years later, a cheap sequel was made for TV that few people bothered watching.\n\n24 years later, millions of Netflix users are only too happy to dedicate 91 minutes of their lives to that sequel.\n\nFun fact about this film? The ‘Serbian’ bad guys in it are all actually speaking Hungarian.\n\n## 6. KPop Demon Hunters – 4,400,000 views\n\nThey perform K-pop and they hunt demons. They’re the K-pop Demon Hunters (Picture: AP/Netflix)\n\nIt’s week number 44 in the charts for the animated musical that never dies.\n\nThe global pop phenomenon has been watched well over 500 million times at this point. Which would mean that one in every 16 human beings alive on Earth today has seen it if it wasn’t for the fact that a good number of those viewings are almost certainly rewatches from superfans.\n\nThe merch is on fire (not literally, we’ve no word that there are any manufacturing faults) and there are sequels in the works.\n\nThe KPDH craze ain’t over yet.\n\n## 5. Toaster – 4,400,000 views\n\nTop tip: Never hug a recently-used and very hot metal toaster (Picture: Netflix)\n\nAsk any film buff and they’ll tell you — there aren’t enough movies made about toasters.\n\nThankfully, director Vivek Daschaudary is addressing that here with this Hindi black comedy about a man (Rajkummar Rao) who gets obsessed with a very particular bread cooker, to the backdrop of all sorts of crime, confusion and crumbs.\n\nArchana Puran Singh, Abhishek Banerjee, Farah Khan, Upendra Limaye, Jitendra Joshi and Seema Pahwa co-star.\n\n## 4. Sisu – 4,500,000 views\n\nThere’s gold in them thar Finnish hills, y’hear? (Picture: Sony Pictures)\n\nSisu is what happens when you cross a gold rush western with a war film, then crank the violence up to almost absurd levels. Intriguing, right? Right.\n\nSet in the dying days of World War Two, it follows a grizzled prospector who just wants to keep his recently-mined Scandi-gold. Unfortunately for him, a group of Nazis also quite fancy keeping his recently-mind Scandi-gold.\n\nWhat unfolds is part survival story, part revenge rampage, with a near-mythical lead who refuses to die no matter what gets thrown at him.\n\nIt’s brutal, a bit mad and weirdly satisfying.\n\n## 3. Roommates – 8,800,000 views\n\nJaya Harper, Bella Murphy, Sadie Sandler and Chloe East in Roommates (Picture: Netflix)\n\nThis sharp and popular college comedy is a little better than its low-key streaming rollout suggests.\n\nSadie Sandler (daughter of Adam) stars here as one of two freshmen whose friendship curdles into rivalry, overseen by a dean played by Sarah Sherman.\n\nReviewers were oddly kept away from this in the lead-up to it being dropped, which often suggests that the moneymen are worried about critical reception.\n\nBut Roommates is pretty funny and well worth your attention. Especially in a streaming comedy landscape where the bar for teen gagfests has been – and remains – depressingly low.\n\n## 2. 180 – 9,500,000 views\n\nThe wonderfully-named Prince Grootboom in 180 (Picture: Netflix)\n\n180 has quickly become one of the planet’s most-streamed films after landing on the platform late last week, despite a wave of pretty brutal viewer reactions.\n\nThe South African thriller follows a dad (played by Prince Grootboom) pushed to the edge after a road rage incident leaves his son critically injured, sending him spiralling into revenge.\n\nWhile one early critic called it ‘an above-average thriller’, audiences have been far harsher, with some talking online about switching off after 20 minutes.\n\n‘This may possibly be the worst I’ve ever watched in my life,’ one distinctly unimpressed viewer claimed after seeing it. Is it really that bad? You can find out for yourself. If you dare.\n\n## 1. Thrash – 34,500,000 views\n\nDriving in a flood, swimming with sharks and trying to stay alive – now _that’s_ multi-tasking (Picture: Netflix)\n\nWe’ve all seen shark movies before. So Thrash isn’t exactly doing anything new. But at 80-odd minutes, it’s one of those lean, slightly silly great white thrillers that knows exactly what it’s doing and just gets on with it.\n\nThis is a daft but effective twist on the usual shark formula, dropping its threat inland after a flood and turning everyday streets into something you suddenly don’t want to wade through.\n\nIt stars Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, Djimon Hounsou and Alyla Browne as a group of survivors forced to fight their way through rising water and wrecked, rather soggy buildings in a bid for survival.\n\nOriginal? No. Popular? You betcha. It’s racked up more than 72 million views in its first 10 days on the streaming platform.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Action-packed thriller is Netflix’s most-watched movie right now with 72,200,000 views"
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