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2025 is halfway over, and for the most part, films this year have been massively disappointing, including the supposedly final Mission: Impossible film and most of the Netflix original films that came out this year. While it is true that most Netflix original films that were released this year are not that good, there were also some extremely entertaining films, from Tom Hardy‘s gritty action thriller film Havoc to Vince Vaughn‘s touching comedy film Nonnas. So, we decided to compile a list of the best Netflix original films that came out in 2025.

Exterritorial Credit – Netflix

Exterritorial is a German action thriller film written and directed by Christian Zübert. The 2025 film follows Sara Wulf, a former Special Forces soldier visiting the US Consulate in Germany with her son, but when he suddenly goes missing, she does everything she can to find him.

Rom-coms are a genre that leaves fans wanting more, and Netflix has heard that loud and clear. The streaming service has been focusing on the genre in the last few months, releasing hits like La Dolce Villa, The Life List, as well as Kate Hudson's series The Running Point and Kristen Bell and Adam Brody's Nobody Wants This.

Looking at the viewership numbers alone, Netflix wants to continue to release quality rom-coms and will do that with an exciting new project: People We Meet on Vacation. The novel, which was published in 2021, comes from popular romance author Emily Henry, who has several adaptations in the works. However, Netflix has confirmed that the first one will be People We Meet on Vacation, which is set for release on Jan. 9, 2026, per Tudum.

People We Meet on Vacation tells the story of Poppy and Alex's summer trip, and has found its...

Tom Francis and Maia Reficco are enjoying a night on the town!

The cute couple stepped out for the Vanity Fair and Carbone Fine Food Power Party on Monday night (June 30) in New York City.

Tom and Maia were seen meeting up with Gracie Lawrence and her brother Clyde, who form the band Lawrence.

Tom, 26, is currently starring in the Broadway revival of Sunset Blvd and he earned a Tony nomination for his performance. He’s leaving the show at the end of this week so he can prepare for his role in the upcoming Netflix movie The Mosquito Bowl. Also starring in the movie are Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgard, and Ray Nicholson.

Maia, 24, is best known for starring in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and the Netflix movie La Dolce Villa. She’s also a stage actress who was on Broadway in Hadestown.

The couple went official back in...

Straw scores the biggest audience for a Netflix movie in 2025. Written, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry, the psychological thriller stars Taraji P. Henson as Janiyah, a single mother caring for her chronically ill daughter, Aria (Gabby Jackson), who must deal with a series of unfortunate events that cause her to commit unthinkable crimes. In addition to Henson in the lead role, Straw's cast also includes Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor, Sinbad, Rockmond Dunbar, Ashley Versher, Mike Merrill, and Glynn Turman.

Now, after releasing on June 6, Straw has scored the biggest week for a Netflix film in 2025, racking up an impressive 48.9 million views last week. This marks not only the biggest week for any Netflix film in 2025 so far, but also the best debut week for a new release this year. This week, the movie maintained its position at the top of Netflix's English Films chart. It also ranked among the...

Tom Francis and Maia Reficco are Broadway’s hottest new couple!

The 25-year-old English actor and the 24-year-old actress cuddled up for some cute photos while attending a Met Gala after party on Monday night (May 5) at People’s, the intimate and iconic Greenwich Village destination in New York City.

The invite-only After Hours gathering featured stars across fashion, film, art, and music. We have photos of all the celebs who attended!

Tom walked the red carpet at the Met Gala earlier in the night. He just received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in the musical Sunset Blvd, which is running through July.

Maia recently wrapped her run on Broadway in the Tony-winning musical Hadestown and she can be seen in the recent Netflix movie La Dolce Villa.

After Tom shared his red carpet photos on Instagram, Maia commented, “...

Netflix has been focusing on big-budget productions, with action and visual effects-filled projects topping the charts. However, the streaming giant has proven an interest in rom-coms and dramas, as well.

In recent months, Netflix has released several memorable titles, whether shows like Kristen Bell and Adam Brody's Nobody Wants This and Kate Hudson's comedy Running Point, or romantic films like Scott Foley's Italian dream getaway La Dolce Villa. Although the streamer has seen a lot of interest in big-budget productions like The Electric State, the interest in dramas and rom-coms is obvious. That is now highlighted by its latest release, The Life List, which topped the charts the past week, per Tudum.

The Life List premiered on Netflix on Mar. 28, and it had two full days to make an impression on the week between Mar. 24 and 30. An impression it did because the romantic drama topped the charts...

The big first-night audience for Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special carried over to streaming the week after — giving the show its first-ever appearance on the Nielsen streaming charts.

SNL, which streams on Peacock, notched 863 million minutes of viewing in the United States for the week of Feb. 17-23. That was good for seventh place overall and third among library series. The show has an absurdly large library — 1,109 episodes spanning half a century — but Nielsen notes that 68 percent of viewing for the week was for episodes from the current season, including the anniversary special.

Netflix’s Zero Day and Prime Video’s Reacher finished first and second overall for the week after premiering on Feb. 20. Zero Day held a slight lead with 1.84 billion minutes of viewing to 1.81 billion for Reacher. Love Is Blind (1.42 billion minutes), Bluey (1.05 billion) and Family Guy (1.01 billion) also scored more than a billion viewing mintues.

Netflix’s Love Is Blind came out of the gate strong with the Valentine’s Day premiere of its eighth season.

The dating show accumulated 1.07 billion viewing minutes in the United States for the week of Feb. 10-16, according to Nielsen. That’s better than the premiere week totals for the past two cycles: Season six had 907 million minutes in the same week a year ago, and season seven opened to 1.05 billion minutes in early October.

Nielsen counts viewing of all episodes toward a show’s weekly tally, but the ratings service notes that 95 percent — our about 1.02 billion minutes — of Love Is Blind’s total was for the new batch of episodes that premiered Feb. 14.

Sweet Magnolias (1.16 billion minutes), which finished second overall a week earlier, moved into the top spot for Feb. 10-16 with a nine percent increase in viewing week to week. The final episodes of Cobra Kai...

The Leopard is now streaming on Netflix, and, like another recently released project on the streaming platform titled La Dolce Villa, it showcases the beauty of Italy in nearly every scene.

Where Netflix's The Leopard Was Filmed - Key Locations in Italy

The Leopard is a retelling of a classic Italian story that was first a novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It was also one of the ten most exciting brand new shows to be released on Netflix in 2025 (find out the other nine shows here).

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“Zero Day” jumped to the top of Netflix’s most-watched TV list in its second week on the streamer.

The Robert De Niro-led political thriller series sat atop the Top 10 English TV list during the week of Feb. 24 with 17.9 million views. Despite a slight decline in its viewership from its debut week — during which “Zero Day” logged 19.1 million views — the show climbed up the list from its No. 2 position last week, when it failed to surpass viewership for “American Murder: Gabby Petito.”

This week, “American Murder” slid to the No. 2 position with 11.3 million views, down drastically from last week’s viewership of 31.3 million views. Still, viewership for “Gabby Petito” exceeded that of “Running Point,” which debuted in the No. 3 spot on the list with 9.3 million views.

Last week,...

Big studios are always in competition with streaming services. However, the success some titles have on online platforms proves there is a way for all films to become successful, even when they're not big hits at the box office.

Netflix is one of the most open streaming services when it comes to its viewership data, releasing updated numbers every week. The reports shared by the giant streaming platform have often highlighted that big-budget productions are also popular online, but box office flops and titles with poor ratings get another chance as well. Per Tudum, the 2019 underrated sci-fi horror Don't Let Go found success on streaming, debuting in the Top 10 for the week between Feb. 17 and 23.

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In its first week on the platform,Don't Let Go debuted at No.

Picture: The Super Mario Bros Movie – Illumination Studios

It’s a busy end to February on Netflix UK with 45 new additions to the library this week, including Illumination’s Super Mario Bros movie, Kate Hudson’s new Netflix comedy Running Point, and every episode of the first season of Pokemon Horizons.

First of all, here are the week’s highlights:

The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023)

Director: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic

Genre: Animated, Action, Adventure | Runtime: 92 Minutes

Cast: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key

Illumination Studios greatly adapted one of the world’s most iconic and beloved video games. With plenty of action and easter eggs galore, it’s one to watch with all the family this weekend.

Mario and Luigi, the plumber duo from Brooklyn, are transported to the Mushroom Kingdom, where they find themselves in a conflict between the mushroom princess, Peach, and the tyrannical fire-breathing turtle Bowser,...

Last week’s streaming chart had a very clear theme: in the week of Valentine’s Day, viewers were choosing Netflix and chill. Yet there was a big debut missing from the chart: the HBO/Max hit “The White Lotus,” which premiered on Sunday, Feb. 16.

“The White Lotus” viewers must have been busy that Sunday night, because they caught up in a big way. With a full week of viewership under its belt, “The White Lotus” is the most-watched streaming program on the latest Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report.

Coming in at No. 2 this week is the Netflix true-crime doc “American Murder: Gabby Petito,” as a deep-dive into the case that gripped the country. It’s followed by “Zero Day,” a conspiracy thriller series starring Robert De Niro. The new Netflix original drew big viewership numbers, with 2.1 million U.S. households watching in the first four days it was available...

Tom Holland has proven his acting skills in the action genre with his take on the beloved comic book character Peter Parker/ Spider-Man, but that wasn't his only hit film. In 2022, he joined forces with Mark Wahlberg for an adaptation of the video game franchise Uncharted.

The movie was a big success at the box office, and it received good feedback from the fans. However, it didn't impress the critics. The action-adventure video game series was first released in 2007 with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, created by Amy Henning and developed by Naughty Dog. Three years later,Uncharted became a hit on Netflix, taking over the global charts at number two, Tudum reports.

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Uncharted received 10.5 million views between the week of Feb. 17 and Feb. 23, with...

There are lots of changes from last week's top five lists of most viewed shows and movies on Netflix. The latest details are now on Tudum and reveal eight new entries across the two lists. Time then to take a closer look at whats new and the two that remained.

With lots of movies being added over recent weeks and a few departing from the platform, some changes were almost inevitable. Though I didn't expect to see just one remain unchanged from last week. As is often the case, some favorite old characters make a reappearance, too.

Likewise, in terms of shows there were some big hitters arriving on our screens recently. That's definitely had an impact this week with just one remaining from the previous week. The list highlights the ongoing popularity of a docuseries to get behind a story we know and fits well alongside the demand for great drama and thrillers.

In Hollywood, relationships can often be a whirlwind of passion and heartbreak. There are only a few celebrities who have been in the spotlight with as much grace as Jennifer Garner, despite her private life being publicized.

Jennifer Garner in Love, Simon | 20th Century Studios

She is known for her roles in Alias and 13 Going 30, and while her career has been amazing, the actress’ love life has seen some ups and downs. Like everyone else, Garner also has some regrets, but they have nothing to do with what most people would guess.

Jennifer Garner and Scott Foley’s Hollywood romance Scott Foley as Eric in La Dolce Villa | Front Row Films

Jennifer Garner and Scott Foley’s love story began in the late ’90s, and it was during a time when they were both close to stardom. The ex-couple met on the set of Felicity, where Garner was Foley’s...

“La Dolce Villa” is a Netflix original romantic comedy that premiered on February 13, 2025. Directed by Mark Waters and written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy, the film tells the story of a father who travels to Italy to dissuade his daughter from renovating a dilapidated villa, only to find himself entangled in the charm of the Italian countryside and a budding romance. The following article looks at the cast of “La Dolce Villa” and what part they play in it.

La Dolce Villa – Complete Cast & Characters Guide Scott Foley as Eric

Scott Foley stars as Eric, a widowed restaurant consultant from Columbus, Ohio. Concerned about his daughter’s impulsive decision to purchase a crumbling villa in Montezara, Italy, Eric travels to the picturesque town to intervene. Despite his initial reservations, he becomes enamored with the local culture and forms a connection with the town’s mayor. Foley is known for...

In the week leading up to Valentine’s Day, which was more popular for TV viewers: romance or action? For streaming viewers, the tried and true “Netflix and chill” held strong as the streamer accounts for eight of the Top 10 most-watched programs on the Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report.

Sitting atop this week’s streaming chart is “Aftermath,” a 2024 action flick that accomplishes the rare feat of being the most-watched program while also being panned by nearly everyone who has seen it. The movie managed to squeeze ahead of Netflix’s clear Valentine’s Day tie-in title, “La Dolce Villa,” a rom-com about a father finding love in Italy as he helps his daughter renovate a fixer-upper of a villa.

We got back to action with the next few spots, starting with “Surviving Black Hawk Down.” The docuseries looks at the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, which served as the inspiration for the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.

In the week leading up to Valentine’s Day, which was more popular for TV viewers: romance or action? For streaming viewers, the tried and true “Netflix and chill” held strong as the streamer accounts for eight of the Top 10 most-watched programs on the Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report.

Sitting atop this week’s streaming chart is “Aftermath,” a 2024 action flick that accomplishes the rare feat of being the most-watched program while also being panned by nearly everyone who has seen it. The movie managed to squeeze ahead of Netflix’s clear Valentine’s Day tie-in title, “La Dolce Villa,” a rom-com about a father finding love in Italy as he helps his daughter renovate a fixer-upper of a villa.

We got back to action with the next few spots, starting with “Surviving Black Hawk Down.” The docuseries looks at the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, which served as the inspiration for the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.

Scott Foley has signed on to star and executive produce It’s Not Like That, a faith based drama at Prime Video, Deadline has confirmed. It’s Not Like That, from Wonder Project, was given a cast-contingent series order at Prime Video in November and Foley’s casting now lifts that contingency.

Foley will play the series regular role of Malcolm, a minister and recent widow.

Per the logline, It’s Not Like That follows Lori, who is freshly divorced with two teens. Malcolm’s a minister and recently widowed dad of three. Their families once did everything together, but now Lori and Malcolm must navigate their newly minted singledom, parenthood and the complexities of Malcolm being a modern-day minister. Is this the beginning of a love story? It’s not like that. Or is it?

The series comes from Ian Deitchman and Kristin Robinson, who created the series and serve as showrunners.

The Netflix Effect is weird. Whether it’s “Suits” or “Madame Web” or a Netflix original like “Baby Reindeer” that turns into a sleeper hit, people tend to gravitate toward some truly random stuff on Netflix. It’s the case most weeks on the Netflix Top 10 charts, but this week even we’re at a loss.

Coming in at No. 2 on Netflix’s Top 10 English Films for the week of February 17 was none other than “Uncharted,” the 2022 Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg adventure-thriller based on the PlayStation video game franchise. Because…why not?

You guys watched it 10.5 million times this week, behind only the Netflix original rom-com “La Dolce Villa,” which hit No. 1 for the second week in a row post-Valentine’s Day with 14.1 million views. “Uncharted” previously landed on Netflix on August 5, 2022, and it spent three consecutive weeks on the Netflix Top 10 charts at that time, reaching 23 million viewing hours in a single week.

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The 2025 SAG Awards failed to crack into Netflix’s Top 10 TV programs for the week.

The livestream of the awards show, which streamed Sunday, Feb. 23, was not included in the streamer’s Top 10 viewership list for the week of Feb. 17, meaning that viewership for the SAG Awards was exceeded by the Feb. 17 installment of WWE’s Monday Night Raw, which took the No. 10 spot on the TV list. While Netflix has not released exact viewing figures for the SAG Awards, it can be assumed the show saw less than the 2.8 million views seen by Raw.

Last year’s SAG Awards, which marked the first time Netflix livestreamed the ceremony, similarly did not rank within the Top 10 TV shows for that week.

“American Murder: Gabby Petito,” however, was Netflix’s...

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The 2025 SAG Awards failed to crack into Netflix’s Top 10 TV programs for the week.

The livestream of the awards show, which streamed Sunday, Feb. 23, was not included in the streamer’s Top 10 viewership list for the week of Feb. 17, meaning that viewership for the SAG Awards was exceeded by the Feb. 17 installment of WWE’s Monday Night Raw, which took the No. 10 spot on the TV list. While Netflix has not released exact viewing figures for the SAG Awards, it can be assumed the show saw less than the 2.8 million views seen by Raw.

Last year’s SAG Awards, which marked the first time Netflix livestreamed the ceremony, similarly did not rank within the Top 10 TV shows for that week.

“American Murder: Gabby Petito,” however, was Netflix’s...

Audiences are seemingly still enthralled by Gabby Petito’s disappearance, flocking to Netflix’s latest docuseries about the tragedy nearly four years later.

American Murder: Gabby Petito put up a massive 31.3M views from February 17 to February 23, reaching No. 1 on the English-language TV list globally. It was among the Top 10 in 90 countries, per Netflix.

It was a fairly strong week overall for Netflix’s unscripted content, even amid the release of some flashy scripted series. American Murder: Gabby Petito was one of five non-fiction series to hit the Top 10 English-language TV list,

The Search For Instagram’s Worst Con Artist came in third place with 5.5M views, followed by the latest season of Love Is Blind in fourth place with 5M views. Court of Gold served up 2.8M views, which was good enough for eighth place, and WWE’s Raw was once again on the list on tenth place with 2.8M views.

Docuseries American Murder: Gabby Petito, the harrowing story of a #VanLife vlogger’s disappearance, debuted at No. 1 in English TV with 31.3 million views. It resonated worldwide, too, landing in the Top 10 in 90 countries.

Audiences also tuned in for the new drama-thriller series Zero Day — starring Robert De Niro, about a deadly cyberattack — which debuted at No. 2 in English TV (19.1 million views); the German series Cassandra, about an AI virtual assistant gone rogue; and the Swedish detective show The Åre Murders.

Valentine’s Day may have come and gone, but love was still in the air this week. The Italian-set La Dolce Villa, starring Scott Foley, kept audiences swooning at No. 1 in English films for the second week in a row (14.1 million views). The Indonesian rom-com The...

Not to be confused with And Just Like That…, TV’s Scott Foley is set to star in It’s Not Like That, a faith-based drama for Prime Video.

According to Variety, which first broke the news, Foley will play Malcolm, a minister and newly widowed family man. The official logline reads as follows:

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Lori is freshly divorced with two teens.

Exclusive: After nearly 12 years as Manager/Producer at the NYC-based Washington Square Films, Jennifer Konawal Brady has joined the recently launched Amplified in the same role.

During her time at Washington Square Films, Brady produced titles including Ari Issler and Ben Snyder’s 11:55; Burn Country starring Rachel Brosnahan and Dominic Rains; Sweets, starring Pedro Pascal, Kevin Corrigan and Sarita Choudhury, for client Catherine Kellner; Colewell starring Karen Allen; the Sundance sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves!, starring Sunita Mani and John Reynolds, alongside Keshet and Heck of a Hill; Janicza Bravo’s Zola, alongside Killer Films and A24; and her client Maya Cozier’s directorial debut She Paradise for Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Most recently, Brady was an EP on Canadian-Italian director Luis DeFillippis’ Something You Said Last Night, a film that has won multiple awards globally as well as being a charter project for a Trans Mentorship Program which provides Btl opportunities for the queer community.

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After its Valentine's Day release, Netflix's latest rom-com, La Dolce Villa, took the number one spot on the streaming service's Top 10 movies. The film, which translates to "The Sweet Villa," stars Scandal actor Scott Foley as Eric Field, who rushes to Tuscany, Italy, after his daughter, Olivia Field (Maia Reficco), decides to purchase a crumbling villa to restore it herself. The two have an estranged relationship, and Eric isn't thrilled by Olivia's impulsive purchase, so he decides to leave his busy life and follow her to Italy to stop this rash decision. His plans, however, didn't account for a potential romance blossoming as he found himself falling for the town's mayor, Francesca (Violante Placido). It's a beautiful film...

It’s a quieter week on Netflix UK, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent new additions to the library. This week, Netflix’s exciting new political thriller Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro, is added, and Gladiator and The Theory of Everything return.

First of all, here’s this week’s top highlights:

Genre: Drama, ThrillerRating: TV-MARelease Date: February 20, 2025Cast: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy CaplanLanguage: EnglishWatch on Netflix

Episodes: 6

Genre: Political, Thriller | Runtime: 45 Minutes

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Joan Allen

Robert De Niro is back to his best in Netflix’s latest political thriller, Zero Day. Not one to miss this weekend, make sure to watch an episode or two!

After a devasting cyber attack results in thousands dead, and the threat of another attack looms, former US President George Mullen is called out of retirement to lead...

Netflix has been serving up even more questionable streaming fare than usual of late. Dylan Sprouse's "Die Hard on a bridge" movie, "Aftermath," broke Netflix's film charts recently despite being what one viewer described as "visual cancer." It followed Amy Schumer's similar domination of the Netflix charts with her movie "Kinda Pregnant," a film that garnered a 28% Rotten Tomatoes score. That all transpired in the wake of Cameron Diaz's absolute domination of Netflix with her first movie in 11 years, "Back in Action," itself a 29-percenter on Rt. As such, the arrival of a half-decent true crime drama on the streamer's movie charts is a welcome development.

"Trial by Fire" is a biographical drama directed by Edward Zwick, the filmmaker responsible for one of the best Civil War movies ever made in "Glory." This overlooked 2018 effort is based upon the article of the same name by journalist David Grann,...

The action genre is widely popular, whether in theaters, streaming, or on TV. This is often proven in the Netflix charts, and Dylan Sprouse and Mason Gooding's latest action film doesn't disappoint.

Netflix has had a series of hit action original movies, including 2020's Extraction, 2021's Red Notice, which is Netflix's most popular film in the English language, and 2022's The Gray Man. However, not all films are Netflix originals, and Netflix has a lot of success with licensed action films, including Mission: Impossible, currently in the charts. Now a new hybrid released film, 2024's Aftermath, has become a hit globally, per Tudum.

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Aftermath just hit Netflix after a late 2024 limited release in theaters and digital. The movie...

It’s time again to check up on what everyone has been watching on Netflix. The lists of the most viewed movies and shows for the week have been updated on Tudum. Have a look at the top five lists below or the new movies and shows added this week to see which you should add to your watch list

There are two new entries on the top five movies list, an action thriller and a romantic comedy. They add to the mix of comedy and fantasy animation which continue their run. Back in Action, the Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx spy movie drops, out.

On the top five shows list it’s a very varied collection of styles and shows. There is a brand new entry straight in at the top. It’s gripping viewing for sure. There’s also the return of a long-term favorite show as more episodes are released.

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Welcome back to another comprehensive breakdown of the Netflix top 10s for the week ending February 16th. It was a very busy week in the Netflix top 10s, but in the case of Cobra Kai, it’s difficult to call the show’s final batch of episodes a success or disappointment given its complex release schedule. Here’s your full top 10 report covering The Witcher’s new anime, La Dolce Villa, Honeymoon Crasher, Love is Blind, Surviving Black Hawk Down, Cassandra, and more!

Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours viewed from February 10th, 2025 to February 16th, 2025, we’ll use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or Cve, expressed in millions. That means we divide the hours viewed announced by Netflix by the runtime of films or series. It allows for better comparisons between films and series, but it’s not an audience metric. It is the minimum number of...

Scream alum Scott Foley's new film La Dolce Villa was released by Netflix a day before Valentine's Day. The romantic comedy became an instant hit, topping the streaming charts on the most romantic day of the year.

Valentine's Day is a big day for everything with a romance theme and multiple streamers did everything they could to offer the most competitive lineups to their subscribers. Netflix doubled its efforts with a brand-new movie starring Scott Foley. According to Tudum, the move was a success, as La Dolce Villa proved love was in the air during the week of Feb. 10 and 16.

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La Dolce Villa became the number one global film with 19.8 million views, the equivalent of 32.7 million hours viewed.

Time travel films have always been popular with viewers, and over the years, there have been several distinctive stories produced by Hollywood. One such film, the 2019 thriller Don't Let Go, has made a surprising comeback, recently soaring into Netflix's top ten charts after being added to the platform. Since its addition to Netflix on February 16, Don't Let Go has quickly climbed the streaming charts, reaching #4 in just two days. It's certainly not a small feat considering the fact that it has surpassed popular films like Kinda Pregnant and Rambo: Last Blood, both of which have done fairly well since their debut a week ago. Meanwhile, La Dolce Villa, Aftermath, and Trial by Fire are in the top three on the streaming chart, with Honeymoon Crasher, Uncle Drew, and Back in Action trailing closely behind, albeit it's been over a week since they have been added to the streaming service.

Audiences rang in the weekend of love with Netflix’s latest romantic comedy, La Dolce Villa.

The film, which was the most-watched title of the week in addition to its spot atop the English films list, secured 19.8M views from February 10 to 16. Last week’s No. 1 film, Amy Schumer’s Kinda Pregnant, fell to second place with 13.7M views.

After a strong few weeks in the top two spots, Back in Action came in at sixth place, though it still managed 5.7M views, which is decent considering it debuted a month ago.

On the TV side of things, Surviving Black Hawk Down took the No. 1 spot with 7.9M views.

Meanwhile, Cobra Kai‘s final episodes generated a pretty low 5.9M views, which is down pretty significantly from the first week of viewing for the beginning of Season 6. However, Season 6 has struggled to generate the viewing from previous seasons since it...

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“La Dolce Villa” debuted as Netflix’s most-watched movie of the week just in time for Valentine’s Day.

The Italy-set movie scored 19.8 million views from its Feb. 13 debut through Feb. 16, making it the No. 1 most-watched English movie during the week of Feb. 10. Viewership for “La Dolce Villa” outpaced “Kinda Pregnant,” which took the No. 2 spot with 13.7 million views, as well as “Aftermath,” which scored third place with 9.9 million views.

The “Shrek” franchise took three of the spots on the Top 10 movies list this week, with “Shrek” taking fourth place with 7 million views, “Shrek 2” coming in the No. 5 slot with 6.1 million views and “Shrek the Third” coming in at No. 10 with 3.6 million views. Further down on the list, “Back in Action” spent its fifth week on the list...

Many Netflix viewers were tuning into “La Dolce Villa” over Valentine’s Day weekend, evidenced by the new romance’s position on the Netflix Top 10 for Feb. 10-16. The movie was the most-watched title of the week with 19.8 million views achieved in just four days.

It was followed on the English-language movies list by last week’s No. 1 title, Amy Schumer’s “Kinda Pregnant,” which this week hit 13.7 million views.

More to come…...

La Dolce Villa (2025), directed by Mark Waters, is a charming comedy-drama starring Scott Foley as Eric, Violante Placido as Francesca, and Maia Reficco as Olivia, alongside Giuseppe Futia, Simone Luglio, Tommaso Basili, and Alessandra Carrillo. The film follows Eric, a seasoned restaurant consultant, who travels to a secluded Italian town to prevent his daughter Olivia from purchasing a picturesque villa—convinced she’s fallen for an elaborate scam. However, as he navigates the quirks of small-town life and its colorful residents, Eric soon discovers that the truth may be far more complicated than he ever expected.

La Dolce Villa (2025) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis: Why is Eric Travelling to Olivia?

Eric is a hardworking and determined middle-aged man who takes great pride in his work. He rarely takes vacations, but this time, he’s making an exception to travel to a remote town in Italy. To Eric, this place feels cursed.

“Nosferatu” (Focus) and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount), two of the biggest hits last Christmas, are both coming to their studios’ streaming platforms less than two months after their theatrical release. That is a radical decrease in the amount of normal time before home subscribers can see a hit film for no extra charge.

In a week that saw four different films released no earlier than January 12 make the VOD top 10 lists, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” (Lionsgate) currently is the most popular. At Netflix, the Italian-set rom-com “La Dolce Villa” capitalized on Valentine’s Day to take the #1 spot.

With the absence of any same-week streaming charts for all services, IndieWire normally concentrates on top 10 charts for VOD (which usually is the first stage of home availability) and Netflix’s same-day list. But the gravity of these two announcements overshadows our normal coverage.

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I quite enjoyed Netflix’s “La Dolce Villa” largely because of the chemistry between Scott Foley and Maia Reficco who play the father-and-daughter team in the film. She wants to buy a villa and move to Italy, he doesn’t want her to. Drama and hilarity follow. I spent some time with both Foley and Reficco to

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A three-hour movie about the guy who brought the world the atomic bomb wouldn’t seem like a contender for one of the highest-grossing movies of its year, but Oppenheimer was just that. And without that sort of theatrical release, it may not have had the impact that it did…Unless you put Oppenheimer on Netflix, of course, in which it still would have been a massive hit. Just ask Netflix!

Recently sitting down with Puck’s Matt Belloni, Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria laid out the strategy the company would have taken had it been behind Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. “We would have done an amazing qualifying run. So many people obviously would have watched it. It was a great movie. And I think it would have had that.”

Comparing ticket sales to streaming numbers is almost impossible, as there are just too many factors to take into account.

If you are looking to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a new feel-good rom-com that also transports you to Italy, then “La Dolce Villa” is probably right up your alley.

Now streaming on Netflix, the movie centers on Eric Field (Scott Foley), a dad who rushes to Italy after his daughter tells him that she’s purchasing a home there for one euro and plans to rebuild it herself. Naturally, he has to stop what he feels is a wildly poor decision.

But once he gets there, the two are able to find common ground and reconnect after the passing of the family’s matriarch. Eric even finds love along the way.

So, here are all the people you’ll need to keep track of in “La Dolce Villa.”

Scott Foley and Maia Reficco in “La Dolce Villa” (Netflix) Eric Field (Scott Foley)

Eric Field is a dad, a widower,...

Directed by Mark Waters, La Dolce Villa, the 2025 Netflix rom-com, is the story of a father who turns up in Italy in pursuit of his young daughter, who wants to buy a house. With a close-knit cast, La Dolce Villa moves like a Tuscany romance, replete with vintage villas, charming medieval streets, wine and gelato, and a grand fresco. A new addition to the array of Valentine’s Day rom-coms, La Dolce Villa is surely going to make your heats a lot more merry.

Scott Foley as Eric

As the well-meaning but anxious father in La Dolce Villa, we get to see American actor and director Scott Foley. Foley has been a part of the slasher franchise Scream as Roman Bridger. He has also starred in multiple TV shows like Felicity, Scandal, and Scrubs. The 2014 American black comedy, Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife, is the sole directorial venture of Foley. As a misfit,...

The phrase “quiet on the set” was stretched to the limit during the upbeat shoot of La Dolce Villawhen director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) had to ask his costars gently but firmly to, well, pipe down. Scott Foley (Scandal) and Maia Reficco (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), who play father and daughter in the heartwarming Netflix original comedy, bonded so well on set that they had trouble dialing down the banter and laughs. “Look,” Foley noted with a smile in a recent MovieWeb interview, “it's not that we're unprofessional, right? I just want to get that out of the way right now.” He added:

“It’s important to develop a rapport with whoever you're working with, and each relationship is different. And playing the father to this daughter, I thought it was important that we have a shorthand, that there was sort of inside jokes that we had. We very...

La Dolce Villa arrives as a lighthearted romantic comedy with an escape-to-Italy vibe. The story follows an American father who flies to Italy when his daughter decides, on a whim, to purchase a one-euro villa. This setup hints at a clash between American caution and Italian zest, presenting a narrative that treats love, family, and the lure of a different way of life as interconnected threads.

The film finds its home on a streaming service, a move that caters to viewers seeking a relaxed, cheerful experience. The creative team behind it has a history of crafting feel-good tales that mix travel fantasies with romantic mishaps.

Their previous projects have explored similar territories, offering a familiar yet refreshing take on destination romances. Their work here captures the spirit of lighthearted storytelling while playing with familiar conventions in unexpected ways.

The small Italian town of Montezara serves as more than a mere...

Netflix’s latest destination romance “La Dolce Villa” largely takes place in a beautiful old Italian town called Montezara, and it really is beautiful. Unfortunately, it’s also not actually a real place. So, where did this film actually shoot?

Now streaming on Netflix, the movie centers on Eric Field (Scott Foley), a dad who rushes to Italy after his daughter Olivia (Maia Reficco) informs him that she’ll be purchasing a home for one euro and moving there, as part of an effort to bring in new residents.

While there, he not only gets closer to his daughter, but also finds love, as well as his old passion for cooking. Because that’s just what Italy does to people.

And for the record, yes, “La Dolce Villa” was actually filmed in Italy. Montezara is just a fake town. According to directo Mark Waters, the town they primarily shot in was San Quirico D’orcia.

Giuseppe Futia plays one of the film's primary love interests, Giovanni, in Netflix's La Dolce Villa, and fans want to know more about the streaming star.  

The new streaming romantic comedy transports viewers to Italy. It spotlights Scott Foley's Eric, a father who follows his 20-something daughter after she commits to fixing up a villa in the Italian countryside. 

Futia's Giovanni is a steamy, dreamy Italian chef who takes a liking for Eric's daughter, Olivia (played by Maia Reficco). 

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Netflix’s latest rom-com is here in the form of “La Dolce Villa,” and like any story, plays into the fantasy of some viewers. But there’s one element that’s actually very real and possible — buying a home in Italy for next to nothing.

Now streaming, the movie centers on Eric Field (Scott Foley), a dad who rushes to Italy after his daughter Olivia (Maia Reficco) informs him that she’s purchasing a villa for one euro, as part of an initiative to help bring new residents to town. And while that may seem like a fun story concocted for screen, it’s actually a real initiative that people can take advantage of.

The program has been running for a few years and following the 2024 election, the Italian village Ollolai started offering homes for one euro to those who might want to exit the country due to Donald Trump.

Rom-coms have been no small piece of director Mark Waters’s career. He’s the man behind films including “Just Like Heaven” and “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” he produced “500 Days of Summer,” and more.

But, even with a new rom-com out on Netflix this week, if you ask Waters himself, he wouldn’t necessarily tout himself as a king in the genre.

“I think I’m the person who’s responsible for killing people’s rom-com career,” Waters joked with TheWrap. “Because I know that Mark Ruffalo, after [‘Just Like Heaven’], I don’t think he did another rom-com. And after ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,’ I think Matthew McConaughey never did another one.”

In fairness, that’s because both actors went on to star in much heavier fare, intentionally so. And Waters knows that, saying that “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” was a “bridging” role for McConaughey, as the character...