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Netflix’s South Korean sci-fi disaster epic The Great Flood has officially wrapped up its crucial first 91 days on the platform, and what a wave it made.
Starring Kim Da-mi and Park Hae-soo, the time-looping survival thriller not only topped the charts upon its release, but it also had serious legs, sticking around in the daily Top 10s worldwide for months. More importantly, while Korean titles have appeared on the TV list for a few years now, this is the first Korean movie to break into the all-time top 10 on both the new metric and the old metric.
Now that its 91-day premiere window has closed (the all-important metric Netflix uses to calculate its Most Popular lists), The Great Flood has officially cemented its legacy. The blockbuster finishes its run as the fifth-most-watched non-English movie of all time on Netflix. It finished just shy of the fourth position, last year’s action movie Exterritorial, at 91.7M views, and ahead of the 2023 film Nowhere, which got 85.7M views.
The finalized stats are as follows:
- Hours Viewed: 157,300,000
- Views: 86,600,000
Where did The Great Flood perform best?
Thanks to data from FlixPatrol, we can see exactly where the movie resonated most by tracking how many days it spent on each country’s daily Netflix Top 10 lists.
The undisputed standout market was Vietnam. The Great Flood remained in the Vietnamese Top 10 for an absolutely staggering 75 days—meaning it was among the most-watched movies in the country for almost its entire 91-day record-keeping window.
The film performed exceptionally well across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America. Here is a look at the best-performing regions where the film spent over a month in the Top 10:
- Vietnam: 75 days
- Morocco: 44 days
- Hong Kong: 39 days
- Taiwan: 39 days
- Egypt: 36 days
- South Korea: 36 days
- Nigeria: 35 days
- Philippines: 35 days
- Thailand: 35 days
- Turkey: 35 days
Other massive markets included Oman, Peru, and Venezuela (33 days each), as well as Colombia, Ecuador, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia (32 days).
Breaking into the English-dominated markets is notoriously difficult for international features, but The Great Flood managed to cross over and hold its own. The film spent a very respectable 11 days in the daily Top 10 lists in both the United States and the United Kingdom. For a non-English sci-fi thriller, spending over a week and a half in these highly competitive regions is a testament to strong word-of-mouth and the universal appeal of a high-stakes disaster flick.
It saw a similarly solid, albeit shorter, run in parts of Europe, clocking 11 days in Norway and Sweden, 10 days in Denmark and Iceland, and 5 days in Ireland (which happened to be its shortest overall run on the board).
With its 91-day window now closed, The Great Flood joins the elite ranks of international heavyweights like Troll, Society of the Snow, and Nowhere.
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