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The global movie ranking is updated daily from TMDB popularity and vote data. It reflects real-time trends across streaming platforms and theaters worldwide.

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" leads the ranking with ★ 8.0. Average rating across top 100: 6.3/10. Dominant language: EN (83 titles).

#1Thriller34%

#2Action33%

#3Comedy27%

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Normal

An unassuming substitute sheriff, a sleepy small town, a bank robbery gone wrong. On paper, Normal looks like a hundred other thrillers, and that may be the best laid trap of the year. Because behind that deliberately plain title hides a film that climbed into our global top with a 7.1 confirmed by more than 340 votes, owing it to execution well above average. The recipe is familiar but rarely applied this well. A deceptively ordinary hero whose troubled past surfaces in small touches, an isolated county where everyone knows everyone, and a plot that peels its layers one by one to reveal something far more explosive than a botched hold-up. Each revelation recontextualizes the previous one, and the film works that machinery with contagious pleasure. This is mid-budget cinema at its finest. Contained budget, solid cast, precise ambitions, no franchise to launch and no extended universe to set up. That category of film everyone declared doomed, squeezed between blockbusters and streaming filler, keeps proving in our rankings that it breathes just fine. All it takes is a good story told with craft, and global audiences respond. And respond they do, week after week. No thunderous marketing campaign, no bankable star on the poster, just word of mouth quietly doing its job. These discreet trajectories are often the sturdiest, and the most satisfying to follow in our data. If your next movie night calls for a tense, well written thriller that does not treat you like a popcorn dispenser, the title tells the truth. This is anything but normal. One number in this article deserves more attention than the rating itself, the 340 votes behind it. Across the titles covered in these pages, that count ranges from 58 for The Invite to more than 11,000 for Rick and Morty, and it entirely changes what a score means. A 7.1 confirmed by 340 viewers is a stabilized figure, no longer at the mercy of a handful of enthusiasts or detractors, but not yet the verdict of a mass audience either. That is exactly the position mid-budget cinema occupies in our data, past the confidential stage, short of the phenomenon. Normal sits in the same rating band as Cape Fear and The Devil Wears Prada 2, two titles carried by decades of brand recognition. Reaching that level from a standing start is where the real performance lies.

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Disney and the Art of Reuse Without Vanishing

Three Disney productions sit inside their category’s top 20: The Mandalorian and Grogu at number seven among movies, Descendants: Wicked Wonderland at ten, and X-Men ’97 at eleven among series. This is not simply a portrait of a studio short on ideas. It is a company mastering the circulation of inherited worlds.

★ 9.4

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Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender

2026

Avatar Aang, the world's last Airbender, learns of an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With the help of his friends, he embarks on a global quest to find it before it falls into the wrong hands and threatens to upend the peace they sacrificed everything to achieve.

When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

#22

★ 8.4

Movie

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

2025

The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji begins.

This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea

#28

★ 6.4

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea

2026

After concluding the opening ceremony of the Demon Kingdom Federation Tempest, Rimuru and his companions are invited by the Celestial Emperor Hermesia of the great elven nation – the Magi Dynasty Salion – to visit her private resort island. As the group enjoys their brief vacation, a mysterious woman named Yura appears. A new incident unfolds against the backdrop of the boundless azure sea.

#30

★ 8.3

Movie

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

2026

Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and restore the family legacy. Alongside companions new and old, the brothers travel across the stars to stop the young heir's crusade.

Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy

#56

★ 7.0

Movie

Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy

2026

When Snoopy's beloved doghouse goes missing, he tries to track it down, and learns what makes a house feel like home.

Scientists have discovered how to 'hop' human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals. Animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world beyond anything she could have imagined.

After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity

#91

★ 8.1

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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity

2026

The Soul Reapers and Quincies clash in a final battle as Yhwach breaches the Royal Palace. When the Soul King falls, reality begins collapsing. Former enemies unite to storm the transformed palace and face a threat to all existence. A theatrical screening of the first three episodes of the anime featuring an exclusive behind‑the‑scenes conversation with creator Tite Kubo, chief series director Tomohisa Taguchi, and series director Hikaru Murata about the production.

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How to read the TrendingShows global ranking

Every day, thousands of films and shows circulate across streaming platforms, and it has become difficult to tell what genuinely works from what simply benefits from a big marketing push. TrendingShows exists to answer that precise question: what is the world actually watching right now, and why.

Our ranking method

Our rankings rely on worldwide popularity data aggregated by TMDB, a community database fed by millions of users around the world. That score combines several signals: page traffic, vote volume, list additions and how those indicators have moved over recent days. We pull this data every night, sort it by content type, then keep seven rolling days of history so we can measure movement rather than frozen positions. A title climbing ten places in three days tells you something a static top list never shows.

What the numbers say, and what they do not

One important note for reading our pages correctly: popularity is not quality. A blockbuster panned by critics can dominate the ranking for two weeks simply because everyone is talking about it, including negatively. That is why we systematically display the average viewer rating next to the position. The gap between the two is often the most interesting piece of information on the page. We also do not measure the platforms' actual watch hours, which Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video release sparingly and according to their own methodologies. What we measure is the worldwide attention paid to a title, which is different and often more revealing of the trends taking shape.

Getting around the site

The main ranking filters by type and genre, with twenty categories covering everything from action to documentary. The Statistics page gives you the wider view: dominant genres, language distribution, release years, average ratings compared between film and television. Our weekly report breaks down the week's movements with genuine editorial perspective, and our blog publishes a daily analysis devoted to one specific title, its production context, the reasons behind its success and what it reveals about the current landscape. That is where the bulk of our real work lives.

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