10 Most Popular Netflix Movies Streaming Right Now (May 19-25)

Brett Favre is most famous for his time as a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, but his star has dimmed lately due to some recent scandals involving the misuse of welfare funds and inappropriate sexting.

Untold: The Fall of Favre focuses on the football player’s recent tribulations and paints a not-so-flattering portrait of a man once considered a wholesome icon.

Mark Wahlberg has portrayed action heroes who have saved the world countless times, but in Instant Family, the actor faces his most challenging role yet — a new dad to a 15-year-old daughter. 

The 2018 dramedy stars Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as Pete and Ellie Wagner, who are eager to adopt a child. They get more than they bargained for when they adopt teen Lizzie (Isabela Merced), who insists they adopt her younger brother and sister if they want her to live with them. The Wagners agree and all of a sudden, they have an instant family to take care of — and love.

Once streaming exclusively on Peacock, The Wild Robot leaps to Netflix and instantly becomes the most-watched family film on the streamer.

It’s easy to understand why, as the critically acclaimed animated movie, about a helper robot named Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) who befriends curious animals Brightbill (Kit Connor), Fink (Pedro Pascal) and more on a faraway island, is a low-key charmer. 

It’s no surprise that this new Vince Vaughn comedy shot straight to No. 1 soon after it debuted — it’s sweet and reassuring, and it follows a formula that made Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias big hits in the late ‘80s.

Vaughn stars as Joe, who tries to get over his mother’s death by opening a restaurant with Italian grandmothers as cooks. The restaurant is a success, but can Joe find a way to reconcile with his loss and move on with his life?

High school is terrifying enough, but add in a masked killer systematically slaughtering prom queen candidates, and you may just want to drop out and take a GED test instead.

Prom Queen is the latest movie in Netflix’s Fear Street franchise, and while it’s not quite as good as 1994 or 1978, it still has enough appeal for enough viewers to make it onto this list.

The latest true-crime documentary to place on Netflix’s most popular movies list is A Deadly American Marriage, which tells the true story of Jason Corbet and Molly Martens, a married couple whose domestic bliss ended in murder.

Utilizing interviews with detectives involved in the case, A Deadly American Marriage weaves a spellbinding narrative that is both fascinating and chilling. It’s not that big of a surprise that Netflix subscribers can’t get enough of it.

Only a zany DreamWorks animated children’s film can unite a vocal cast that includes Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Parsons and Rihanna. In Home, aliens called the Boov have taken over Earth and sent many humans to Australia to live.

Gratuity “Tip” Tucci (Rihanna) was left behind in all the chaos, and she’s desperate to find her mother. Can a rogue Boov, Oh (Parsons), help the little girl? Or will he follow orders and send her to live with the other humans?

Those Minions just can’t be stopped! Those lovable lemmings return with their master, Gru (Steve Carell), for yet another brightly colored adventure. This time around, Gru and his new family must go into hiding after an old classmate, Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell), wants to turn his son, Gru Jr. (Tara Strong), into a super-villain cockroach.

Hijinks ensue as Gru and his family assume new, mundane identities in bland suburbia to avoid being detected by Maxime. But Le Mal is craftier than Gru gives him credit for, and he’ll have to defend his family at any cost.

Live your Top Gun fantasy with Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds, a documentary that follows six pilots as they train to become part of the elite Thunderbird team. The Thunderbirds typically perform elaborate maneuvers in the air for paid spectators, but that doesn’t make the job any less dangerous.

Air Force Elite reveals what compels a person to risk their life to fly a jet at 400 mph, and how the Thunderbirds inspire others to pursue their dreams, no matter if it’s on land, sea or, in this case, air.

Based on the true story of Christian music singer Jeremy Camp (KJ Apa), I Still Believe chronicles Camp’s burgeoning music career and love affair with Melissa Henning (Britt Robertson). When Melissa finds out she has cancer, Jeremy’s love only intensifies, even if his faith in God is tested.

I Still Believe is like one of those mid-2000s Nicholas Sparks movies, only with more religion and even less restraint. It’s no shock that it’s one of Netflix’s most-streamed movies for the week.