After just ten days on Netflix, the Spanish survival thriller “The Snow Company” is one of the ten most popular non-English language films on the streaming service. Since January 4th, director Juan Antonio Bayona’s thriller has been viewed around 51 million times, Netflix announced. It’s about the events after a plane crash in the Andes in 1972. The survivors begin to eat from the corpses preserved in ice in the cold.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September. Spain submitted the two-and-a-half-hour work as an entry for the 2024 Oscars in the “Best International Film” category.
For comparison: The most successful Netflix film in the same category as “The Snow Company”, i.e. in the “non-English language film” category, is the Norwegian monster film “Troll” from 2022 with more than 100 million views. Other titles in the top ten non-English Netflix films include the German films “Blood Red Sky” by Peter Thorwarth and the four Ocar-winning German anti-war film “Nothing New in the West” by Edward Berger.
Most popular series: “Wednesday” and “Squid Game”
Netflix also has a best list for English-language films (the US action comedy “Red Notice” is in first place) as well as two lists for series (English-language and non-English-language, in which “Wednesday” and “Squid Game” are at the top).
Netflix’s top 10 lists are based on views in the first 91 days. The international streaming service does not reveal other longer-term viewing figures. “Die Schneegesellschaft” still has some time to climb into the top ten in the coming weeks and will have overtaken “Nothing New in the West” in ninth place next week.
Netflix: 247 million subscribers in 190 countries
The number of views cannot quite be equated with the number of viewers. The number of views is a calculated quantity that, according to Netflix, is calculated by dividing the hours watched by the running time of the respective production.
The entertainment service Netflix says it has 247 million paying members in more than 190 countries. Its biggest competitors include Disney and Amazon’s Prime Video. The subscription service offers series, films, documentaries, reality and comedy formats in numerous languages.
