With the year now coming to a close, we’re going to be looking back at 2022 and looking through the most popular titles on Netflix in the United Kingdom throughout the year. Here are the top 100 movies and most popular series in 2022 according to the Netflix top 10s. This list is compiled using raw top 10 data from our partner, FlixPatrol. Every day, they gather up all the top 10s from around the globe assigning points values to each movie and TV show.
If a movie is the number 1 movie on any particular day, FlixPatrol assigns that title ten points. Conversely, if a movie is the tenth most popular for any given day, it’s given one point. Netflix has provided a list of the best-performing titles in terms of hours watched which we compiled in our news post here.
Top 50 Most Popular Movies on Netflix UK in 2022 Yes, your eyes won’t deceive you; a Christmas movie gained the most points in 2022, with it appearing in the Netflix top 10s almost every day through December 2022. Its ability to top the charts throughout the festive period allowed it to become Netflix UK’s best-performing movie in the top 10s. It’s one of many Universal Pictures movies that dominated Netflix UK rankings throughout the year. The documentary The Tinder Swindler was the best-performing Netflix Original in the United Kingdom, even beating out the action thriller The Gray Man.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Total Points: 354 Days in Top 10s: 43
Sing
Total Points: 280 Days in Top 10s: 56
The Tinder Swindler
Total Points 269 Days in Top 10s: 32
The Gray Man
Total Points: 266 Days in Top 10s: 40
The Adam Project
Total Points: 260 Days in Top 10s: 43
The Sea Beast
Total Points: 250 Days in Top 10s: 40
I Came By
Total Points: 243 Days in Top 10s: 32
The Man From Toronto
Total Points: 235 Days in Top 10s: 37
The Gentlemen
Total Points: 232 Days in Top 10s: 32
Don’t Look Up
Total Points: 221 Days in Top 10s: 33
Purple Hearts
Total Points: 215 Days in Top 10s: 28
Senior Year
Total Points: 196 Days in Top 10s: 23
Hustle
Total Points: 189 Days in Top 10s: 26
Grown Ups
Total Points: 188 Days in Top 10s: 32
Me Time
Total Points: 176 Days in Top 10s: 30
Luckiest Girl Alive
Total Points: 174 Days in Top 10s: 24
Day Shift
Total Points: 170 Days in Top 10s: 24
Girl in the Picture
Total Points: 170 Days in Top 10s: 23
Falling for Christmas
Total Points: 168 Days in Top 10s: 33
All Quiet on the Western Front
Total Points: 163 Days in Top 10s: 23
Enola Holmes 2
Total Points: 161 Days in Top 10s: 21
Trolls World Tour
Total Points: 161 Days in Top 10s: 30
Killer Elite
Total Points: 158 Days in Top 10s: 22
The Good Nurse
Total Points: 157 Days in Top 10s: 23
Legend
Total Points: 156 Days in Top 10s: 29
Do Revenge
Total Points: 152 Days in Top 10s: 18
Look Both Ways
Total Points: 145 Days in Top 10s: 18
Sonic the Hedgehog
Total Points: 142 Days in Top 10s: 30
Rogue Agent
Total Points: 137 Days in Top 10s: 22
The School for Good and Evil
Total Points: 137 Days in Top 10s: 17
The Weekend Away
Total Points: 136 Days in Top 10s: 18
Persuasion
Total Points: 135 Days in Top 10s: 20
Grown Ups 2
Total Points: 133 Days in Top 10s: 25
The Curse of Bridge Hollow
Total Points: 130 Days in Top 10s: 19
Lou
Total Points: 128 Days in Top 10s: 17
Bohemian Rhapsody
Total Points: 128 Days in Top 10s: 17
How It Ends
Total Points: 122 Days in Top 10s: 22
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
Total Points: 119 Days in Top 10s: 19
Joker
Total Points: 118 Days in Top 10s: 16
American Made
Total Points: 117 Days in Top 10s: 20
Spiderhead
Total Points: 116 Days in Top 10s: 14
Munich: The Edge of War
Total Points: 116 Days in Top 10s: 17
Nativity!
Total Points: 115 Days in Top 10s: 27
Interceptor
Total Points: 114 Days in Top 10s: 14
365 Days : This Day
Total Points: 114 Days in Top 10s: 13
Troll
Total Points: 112 Days in Top 10s: 13
Love in the Villa
Total Points: 112 Days in Top 10s: 18
Blonde
Total Points: 111 Days in Top 10s: 14
Dolittle
Total Points: 108 Days in Top 10s: 17
The Invisible Man
Total Points: 105 Days in Top 10s: 16
Top 50 Most Popular Series on Netflix UK in 2022 No surprise which shows stayed in the top 10s the longest on Netflix UK in 2022, with Stranger Things spending 135 days (over a third of the year) in the top 10s in total. The closest competitor it had was Ozark, and both of those were frankly aided by split-season releases.
Netflix Originals dominated the series list with the closest thing to a licensed title coming in at number 15 in the form of Better Call Saul (although its labeled a Netflix Original in the UK).
Stranger Things
Total Points: 1.010 Days in Top 10s: 135
Ozark
Total Points: 633 Days in Top 10s: 96
The Crown
Total Points: 539 Days in Top 10s: 78
Love Is Blind
Total Points: 481 Days in Top 10s: 77
Bridgerton
Total Points: 413 Days in Top 10s: 61
Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Total Points: 363 Days in Top 10s: 44
Inventing Anna
Total Points: 353 Days in Top 10s: 57
Cobra Kai
Total Points: 344 Days in Top 10s: 50
Wednesday
Total Points: 338 Days in Top 10s: 36
The Lincoln Lawyer
Total Points: 318 Days in Top 10s: 41
The Sandman
Total Points: 318 Days in Top 10s: 41
Pieces of Her
Total Points: 312 Days in Top 10s: 47
The Umbrella Academy
Total Points: 300 Days in Top 10s: 40
Virgin River
Total Points: 289 Days in Top 10s: 44
Better Call Saul
Total Points: 286 Days in Top 10s: 62
Stay Close
Total Points: 276 Days in Top 10s: 39
The Watcher
Total Points: 266 Days in Top 10s: 35
Top Boy
Total Points: 266 Days in Top 10s: 36
Anatomy of a Scandal
Total Points: 247 Days in Top 10s: 33
All of Us Are Dead
Total Points: 243 Days in Top 10s: 32
Lucifer
Total Points: 241 Days in Top 10s: 54
The Last Kingdom
Total Points: 238 – Days in Top 10s: 39
One of Us Is Lying
Total Points: 236 Days in Top 10s: 41
Selling Sunset
Total Points: 208 Days in Top 10s: 25
1899
Total Points: 203 Days in Top 10s: 30
Emily in Paris
Total Points: 197 Days in Top 10s: 30
Too Hot to Handle
Total Points: 191 Days in Top 10s: 35
Meet, Marry, Murder
Total Points: 191 Days in Top 10s: 32
Dynasty
Total Points: 182 Days in Top 10s: 27
Heartstopper
Total Points: 175 Days in Top 10s: 30
After Life
Total Points: 174 Days in Top 10s: 26
Harry & Meghan
Total Points: 171 Days in Top 10s: 22
Is It Cake?
Total Points: 169 Days in Top 10s: 28
Devil in Ohio
Total Points: 169 Days in Top 10s: 25
Dead to Me
Total Points: 161 Days in Top 10s: 28
The Adventures of Paddington
Total Points: 153 Days in Top 10s: 46
Fate: The Winx Saga
Total Points: 152 Days in Top 10s: 21
The Witcher
Total Points: 148 Days in Top 10s: 28
The Sinner
Total Points: 145 Days in Top 10s: 27
Echoes
Total Points: 144 Days in Top 10s: 20
Resident Evil
Total Points: 144 Days in Top 10s: 21
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On
Total Points: 142 Days in Top 10s: 23
Never Have I Ever
Total Points: 141 Days in Top 10s: 21
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
Total Points: 136 Days in Top 10s: 20
Taboo
Total Points: 134 Days in Top 10s: 26
Firefly Lane
Total Points: 133 Days in Top 10s: 20
The Midnight Club
Total Points: 133 Days in Top 10s: 21
Sweet Magnolias
Total Points: 132 Days in Top 10s: 21
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Total Points: 130 Days in Top 10s: 21
Vikings: Valhalla
Total Points: 127 Days in Top 10s: 17
What have you most enjoyed on Netflix UK in 202? Let us know in the comments down below.
With the year now coming to a close, we’re going to be looking back at 2022 and looking through the most popular titles on Netflix in the United Kingdom throughout the year. Here are the top 100 movies and most popular series in 2022 according to the Netflix top 10s.
This list is compiled using raw top 10 data from our partner, FlixPatrol. Every day, they gather up all the top 10s from around the globe assigning points values to each movie and TV show.
If a movie is the number 1 movie on any particular day, FlixPatrol assigns that title ten points. Conversely, if a movie is the tenth most popular for any given day, it’s given one point.
Netflix has provided a list of the best-performing titles in terms of hours watched which we compiled in our news post here.
Top 50 Most Popular Movies on Netflix UK in 2022
Yes, your eyes won’t deceive you; a Christmas movie gained the most points in 2022, with it appearing in the Netflix top 10s almost every day through December 2022. Its ability to top the charts throughout the festive period allowed it to become Netflix UK’s best-performing movie in the top 10s.
It’s one of many Universal Pictures movies that dominated Netflix UK rankings throughout the year.
The documentary The Tinder Swindler was the best-performing Netflix Original in the United Kingdom, even beating out the action thriller The Gray Man.
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Total Points: 354
- Days in Top 10s: 43
- Sing
- Total Points: 280
- Days in Top 10s: 56
- The Tinder Swindler
- Total Points 269
- Days in Top 10s: 32
- The Gray Man
- Total Points: 266
- Days in Top 10s: 40
- The Adam Project
- Total Points: 260
- Days in Top 10s: 43
- The Sea Beast
- Total Points: 250
- Days in Top 10s: 40
- I Came By
- Total Points: 243
- Days in Top 10s: 32
- The Man From Toronto
- Total Points: 235
- Days in Top 10s: 37
- The Gentlemen
- Total Points: 232
- Days in Top 10s: 32
- Don’t Look Up
- Total Points: 221
- Days in Top 10s: 33
- Purple Hearts
- Total Points: 215
- Days in Top 10s: 28
- Senior Year
- Total Points: 196
- Days in Top 10s: 23
- Hustle
- Total Points: 189
- Days in Top 10s: 26
- Grown Ups
- Total Points: 188
- Days in Top 10s: 32
- Me Time
- Total Points: 176
- Days in Top 10s: 30
- Luckiest Girl Alive
- Total Points: 174
- Days in Top 10s: 24
- Day Shift
- Total Points: 170
- Days in Top 10s: 24
- Girl in the Picture
- Total Points: 170
- Days in Top 10s: 23
- Falling for Christmas
- Total Points: 168
- Days in Top 10s: 33
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Total Points: 163
- Days in Top 10s: 23
- Enola Holmes 2
- Total Points: 161
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- Trolls World Tour
- Total Points: 161
- Days in Top 10s: 30
- Killer Elite
- Total Points: 158
- Days in Top 10s: 22
- The Good Nurse
- Total Points: 157
- Days in Top 10s: 23
- Legend
- Total Points: 156
- Days in Top 10s: 29
- Do Revenge
- Total Points: 152
- Days in Top 10s: 18
- Look Both Ways
- Total Points: 145
- Days in Top 10s: 18
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Total Points: 142
- Days in Top 10s: 30
- Rogue Agent
- Total Points: 137
- Days in Top 10s: 22
- The School for Good and Evil
- Total Points: 137
- Days in Top 10s: 17
- The Weekend Away
- Total Points: 136
- Days in Top 10s: 18
- Persuasion
- Total Points: 135
- Days in Top 10s: 20
- Grown Ups 2
- Total Points: 133
- Days in Top 10s: 25
- The Curse of Bridge Hollow
- Total Points: 130
- Days in Top 10s: 19
- Lou
- Total Points: 128
- Days in Top 10s: 17
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Total Points: 128
- Days in Top 10s: 17
- How It Ends
- Total Points: 122
- Days in Top 10s: 22
- Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
- Total Points: 119
- Days in Top 10s: 19
- Joker
- Total Points: 118
- Days in Top 10s: 16
- American Made
- Total Points: 117
- Days in Top 10s: 20
- Spiderhead
- Total Points: 116
- Days in Top 10s: 14
- Munich: The Edge of War
- Total Points: 116
- Days in Top 10s: 17
- Nativity!
- Total Points: 115
- Days in Top 10s: 27
- Interceptor
- Total Points: 114
- Days in Top 10s: 14
- 365 Days : This Day
- Total Points: 114
- Days in Top 10s: 13
- Troll
- Total Points: 112
- Days in Top 10s: 13
- Love in the Villa
- Total Points: 112
- Days in Top 10s: 18
- Blonde
- Total Points: 111
- Days in Top 10s: 14
- Dolittle
- Total Points: 108
- Days in Top 10s: 17
- The Invisible Man
- Total Points: 105
- Days in Top 10s: 16
Top 50 Most Popular Series on Netflix UK in 2022
No surprise which shows stayed in the top 10s the longest on Netflix UK in 2022, with Stranger Things spending 135 days (over a third of the year) in the top 10s in total.
Total Points: 354
Days in Top 10s: 43
Total Points: 280
Days in Top 10s: 56
Total Points 269
Days in Top 10s: 32
Total Points: 266
Days in Top 10s: 40
Total Points: 260
Days in Top 10s: 43
Total Points: 250
Days in Top 10s: 40
Total Points: 243
Days in Top 10s: 32
Total Points: 235
Days in Top 10s: 37
Total Points: 232
Days in Top 10s: 32
Total Points: 221
Days in Top 10s: 33
Total Points: 215
Days in Top 10s: 28
Total Points: 196
Days in Top 10s: 23
Total Points: 189
Days in Top 10s: 26
Total Points: 188
Days in Top 10s: 32
Total Points: 176
Days in Top 10s: 30
Total Points: 174
Days in Top 10s: 24
Total Points: 170
Days in Top 10s: 24
Total Points: 170
Days in Top 10s: 23
Total Points: 168
Days in Top 10s: 33
Total Points: 163
Days in Top 10s: 23
Total Points: 161
Days in Top 10s: 21
Total Points: 161
Days in Top 10s: 30
Total Points: 158
Days in Top 10s: 22
Total Points: 157
Days in Top 10s: 23
Total Points: 156
Days in Top 10s: 29
Total Points: 152
Days in Top 10s: 18
Total Points: 145
Days in Top 10s: 18
Total Points: 142
Days in Top 10s: 30
Total Points: 137
Days in Top 10s: 22
Total Points: 137
Days in Top 10s: 17
Total Points: 136
Days in Top 10s: 18
Total Points: 135
Days in Top 10s: 20
Total Points: 133
Days in Top 10s: 25
Total Points: 130
Days in Top 10s: 19
Total Points: 128
Days in Top 10s: 17
Total Points: 122
Days in Top 10s: 22
Total Points: 119
Days in Top 10s: 19
Total Points: 118
Days in Top 10s: 16
Total Points: 117
Days in Top 10s: 20
Total Points: 116
Days in Top 10s: 14
Total Points: 116
Days in Top 10s: 17
Total Points: 115
Days in Top 10s: 27
Total Points: 114
Days in Top 10s: 14
Total Points: 114
Days in Top 10s: 13
Total Points: 112
Days in Top 10s: 13
Total Points: 112
Days in Top 10s: 18
Total Points: 111
Days in Top 10s: 14
Total Points: 108
Days in Top 10s: 17
Total Points: 105
Days in Top 10s: 16
The closest competitor it had was Ozark, and both of those were frankly aided by split-season releases.
Netflix Originals dominated the series list with the closest thing to a licensed title coming in at number 15 in the form of Better Call Saul (although its labeled a Netflix Original in the UK).
- Stranger Things
- Total Points: 1.010
- Days in Top 10s: 135
- Ozark
- Total Points: 633
- Days in Top 10s: 96
- The Crown
- Total Points: 539
- Days in Top 10s: 78
- Love Is Blind
- Total Points: 481
- Days in Top 10s: 77
- Bridgerton
- Total Points: 413
- Days in Top 10s: 61
- Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- Total Points: 363
- Days in Top 10s: 44
- Inventing Anna
- Total Points: 353
- Days in Top 10s: 57
- Cobra Kai
- Total Points: 344
- Days in Top 10s: 50
- Wednesday
- Total Points: 338
- Days in Top 10s: 36
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Total Points: 318
- Days in Top 10s: 41
- The Sandman
- Total Points: 318
- Days in Top 10s: 41
- Pieces of Her
- Total Points: 312
- Days in Top 10s: 47
- The Umbrella Academy
- Total Points: 300
- Days in Top 10s: 40
- Virgin River
- Total Points: 289
- Days in Top 10s: 44
- Better Call Saul
- Total Points: 286
- Days in Top 10s: 62
- Stay Close
- Total Points: 276
- Days in Top 10s: 39
- The Watcher
- Total Points: 266
- Days in Top 10s: 35
- Top Boy
- Total Points: 266
- Days in Top 10s: 36
- Anatomy of a Scandal
- Total Points: 247
- Days in Top 10s: 33
- All of Us Are Dead
- Total Points: 243
- Days in Top 10s: 32
- Lucifer
- Total Points: 241
- Days in Top 10s: 54
- The Last Kingdom
- Total Points: 238 –
- Days in Top 10s: 39
- One of Us Is Lying
- Total Points: 236
- Days in Top 10s: 41
- Selling Sunset
- Total Points: 208
- Days in Top 10s: 25
- 1899
- Total Points: 203
- Days in Top 10s: 30
- Emily in Paris
- Total Points: 197
- Days in Top 10s: 30
- Too Hot to Handle
- Total Points: 191
- Days in Top 10s: 35
- Meet, Marry, Murder
- Total Points: 191
- Days in Top 10s: 32
- Dynasty
- Total Points: 182
- Days in Top 10s: 27
- Heartstopper
- Total Points: 175
- Days in Top 10s: 30
- After Life
- Total Points: 174
- Days in Top 10s: 26
- Harry & Meghan
- Total Points: 171
- Days in Top 10s: 22
- Is It Cake?
- Total Points: 169
- Days in Top 10s: 28
- Devil in Ohio
- Total Points: 169
- Days in Top 10s: 25
- Dead to Me
- Total Points: 161
- Days in Top 10s: 28
- The Adventures of Paddington
- Total Points: 153
- Days in Top 10s: 46
- Fate: The Winx Saga
- Total Points: 152
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- The Witcher
- Total Points: 148
- Days in Top 10s: 28
- The Sinner
- Total Points: 145
- Days in Top 10s: 27
- Echoes
- Total Points: 144
- Days in Top 10s: 20
- Resident Evil
- Total Points: 144
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On
- Total Points: 142
- Days in Top 10s: 23
- Never Have I Ever
- Total Points: 141
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
- Total Points: 136
- Days in Top 10s: 20
- Taboo
- Total Points: 134
- Days in Top 10s: 26
- Firefly Lane
- Total Points: 133
- Days in Top 10s: 20
- The Midnight Club
- Total Points: 133
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- Sweet Magnolias
- Total Points: 132
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
- Total Points: 130
- Days in Top 10s: 21
- Vikings: Valhalla
- Total Points: 127
- Days in Top 10s: 17
What have you most enjoyed on Netflix UK in 202? Let us know in the comments down below.
Total Points: 1.010
Days in Top 10s: 135
Total Points: 633
Days in Top 10s: 96
Total Points: 539
Days in Top 10s: 78
Total Points: 481
Days in Top 10s: 77
Total Points: 413
Days in Top 10s: 61
Total Points: 363
Days in Top 10s: 44
Total Points: 353
Days in Top 10s: 57
Total Points: 344
Days in Top 10s: 50
Total Points: 338
Days in Top 10s: 36
Total Points: 318
Days in Top 10s: 41
Total Points: 312
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Total Points: 300
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Total Points: 289
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Total Points: 286
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Total Points: 276
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Total Points: 266
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Total Points: 266
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Total Points: 247
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Total Points: 241
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Total Points: 236
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Total Points: 208
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Total Points: 203
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Total Points: 197
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Total Points: 191
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Total Points: 191
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Total Points: 182
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Total Points: 175
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Total Points: 174
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Total Points: 171
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Total Points: 169
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Total Points: 169
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Total Points: 161
Days in Top 10s: 28
Total Points: 153
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Total Points: 152
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Total Points: 148
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Total Points: 145
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Total Points: 144
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Total Points: 144
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Total Points: 142
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Total Points: 141
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Total Points: 136
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Total Points: 134
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Total Points: 133
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