JustWatch Streaming Charts: 2024 Edition

These are the movies and TV shows US consumers have been most interested in over the past year

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things is not a typical example of mainstream film making by any stretch of the imagination, so it’s great to see it claim a spot among other, movies enjoying much broader exposure. (Image: Searchlight Pictures)

Movie and TV show fans have never had it so good when it comes to the content options available for the consumer market: there are currently more than a dozen different streaming services delivering all kinds of movies or series straight to their TV sets, literally at the touch of a button. With that amount of new content being released every month, though, which films or TV shows are more likely to be worth each viewer’s precious time? Which movies or series are most people interested in knowing about?

That’s where JustWatch comes in. It’s a Web service designed to collect and present information on every movie or TV show featured in practically all streaming services operating around the world today, in one place. Visitors can create a free account, pick their country of residence — content it’s often different or even unavailable in various regions — define the streaming services they are interested in and get recommendations based on their preferences and searches. Consumers can then use the same account on the free JustWatch apps available for their Smart TV, streaming device, smartphone or tablet in order to always have new suggestions available on what’s hot and recommended on every streaming platform.

Based on user interest — as dictated by information searches, adding titles to a watchlist, marking titles as “seen” etc. — JustWatch is able to put together Top Ten charts of movies and TV shows across all streaming services operating in a given country, every month. The relevant data is collected from more than 50 million movie and TV show fans every month and updated daily for 140 countries and 4.500 streaming services in total. For the entirety of 2024, these are the films that consumers in the United States have been more interested in.

It seems that during an election year, in a country as politically divided as the United States currently is, films like Civil War can draw way more attention and interest than they normally would. (Image: JustWatch.com)

Based on the same information, these are the TV shows that consumers in the United States have shown the most interest in over the past year.