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Over the past few weeks, Netflix’s most popular movies chart in the US has visibly distanced itself from global trends. But at the same time, fans finally get a preview of the regional variety of content.

During the week of November 2nd to November 8th, a non-Netflix Original title was crowned the United States’ most popular movie. Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid’s 2004 sci-fi disaster film The Day After Tomorrow, which already made waves on Netflix last week, turned out to be the winner-winner-chicken-dinner this time around, underscoring rising fan favouritism for old Hollywood movies.

Following closely on this week’s most popular movies chart is yet another non-original: the 2026 Lifetime thriller Kidnapped In Her Own Home: The Martha Carelli Story, which, again, is a relatively recent addition to Netflix. Based on a shocking true-crime story, it is one of the two Lifetime movies storming the US charts this week.

Ranked third on this week’s most popular movies chart in the US is undoubtedly the Netflix Original holiday movie A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, based on W Bruce Cameron’s novel. Since arriving on Netflix last week, the heartwarming festive movie has been on everyone’s lips and for all the right reasons, considering no dogs die in it.

Although the US’s most popular movies chart also has an animated entry, The Croods, ranked fourth, the international rankings got variety when it comes to the genre. Meanwhile, rounding out the top five on the regional chart this week is the newest Netflix Original heist thriller Collision Course, bringing us halfway through our weekly cinematic trends.

Coming to the second half of this week’s most popular movies chart in the US, we have Guy Ritchie’s epic fantasy action-adventure film about the origin story of the legendary British king, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Succeeding the historical blast from the past on this week’s most popular movies chart is the 2017 Tom Cruise-led action-adventure film The Mummy, a reboot of the original franchise. What follows right next at eighth is the second Lifetime thriller licensed by Netflix, Don’t Trust the Couple Upstairs.

While that calls for an 80% competition rate, the remaining 20% is fulfilled by the likes of the 2015 Christmas comedy Love the Coopers and the recent sports comedy Champions. And with that, we officially come to a close for the week!

The 10 most popular movies on Netflix US this week:

• The Day After Tomorrow
• Kidnapped In Her Own Home: The Martha Carelli Story
• A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
• The Croods
• Collision Course
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
• The Mummy
• Don’t Trust The Couple Upstairs
• Love the Coopers
• Champions