50 Fun Facts About Netflix Movies

In Netflix's Bird Box, what must Sandra Bullock's character wear whenever she goes outside to stay alive?

A blindfold is the only defence, because anyone who looks at the film's unseen entities dies. Netflix said 89 million households watched the film in its first four weeks.

Which director made the Netflix gangster epic The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as a mob hitman?

Martin Scorsese delivered the longest film of his career at 209 minutes, using digital effects to make De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci appear younger.

Which actor plays detective Benoit Blanc in Netflix's Greek island whodunit Glass Onion?

Daniel Craig's detective was at the heart of a $469 million deal, the sum Netflix paid in 2021 for the rights to two Knives Out sequels.

Which action star plays John Hartley alongside Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot in Netflix's Red Notice?

Dwayne Johnson's Hartley chases the thief of a jewelled egg, one of three that the film says Mark Antony gave Cleopatra as a wedding gift.

In Netflix's satire Don't Look Up, what do two astronomers find heading straight for Earth?

A comet big enough to end civilisation drives the plot, which director Adam McKay meant as an allegory for the threat of climate change.

Which actor plays Sherlock Holmes opposite Millie Bobby Brown in Netflix's Enola Holmes?

Henry Cavill's warm portrayal prompted a lawsuit: the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that a Sherlock who shows emotion about his relationships was still under copyright.

Netflix's El Camino follows which Breaking Bad character on the run after the show's finale?

Jesse Pinkman, played again by Aaron Paul, ends the film starting over in Alaska. Filming began in secret in New Mexico and lasted nearly 50 days.

Which former US president executive-produced Netflix's Leave the World Behind through Higher Ground Productions?

Barack Obama had put the source novel on his 2021 summer reading list, and he gave director Sam Esmail his thoughts on the screenplay while it was being written.

Netflix released The Cloverfield Paradox by surprise immediately after which televised event in 2018?

The Super Bowl carried a surprise trailer saying the film would stream as soon as the game ended. Even the cast only learned of the plan that morning.

Ron Howard's Netflix drama Hillbilly Elegy adapts a memoir by which later US vice president?

JD Vance published his memoir in 2016, and Imagine Entertainment won the film rights at an auction the following year.

Chris Hemsworth plays mercenary Tyler Rake, sent to rescue a kidnapped boy in Dhaka, in which Netflix film?

Extraction was adapted from the graphic novel Ciudad, and its director Sam Hargrave also appears on screen as one of the mercenaries.

Which actor plays fake boyfriend Peter Kavinsky in Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before?

Noah Centineo's Peter proposes the pretend romance to make his ex-girlfriend jealous. The film adapts Jenny Han's novel, first optioned by Will Smith's production company.

Which actress plays Elle Evans, who falls for her best friend's older brother, in Netflix's The Kissing Booth?

Joey King's teen rom-com grew out of a novel that teenage author Beth Reekles first published on the story-sharing site Wattpad.

Which Netflix drama won Alfonso Cuarón Oscars for both directing and cinematography?

Roma was actually filmed in colour and converted to black and white afterwards, and it draws on Cuarón's own childhood in a Mexico City neighbourhood.

Which actress won an Oscar as divorce lawyer Nora Fanshaw in Netflix's Marriage Story?

Laura Dern won the only Oscar from the film's six nominations, playing the high-profile lawyer hired after the couple had agreed to split without lawyers.

Which song from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters won the Oscar for Best Original Song?

Golden is performed in the film by the girl group Huntrix, and the soundtrack became the first to place four songs in the Billboard Hot 100's top ten at once.

Which actress plays Adam Sandler's wife in Netflix's yacht whodunit Murder Mystery?

Jennifer Aniston plays a hairdresser hooked on mystery novels. Netflix said 30.9 million households watched in the first 72 hours, at the time its biggest opening weekend for a film.

Which Hollywood veteran plays Santa Claus in Netflix's family adventure The Christmas Chronicles?

Kurt Russell's Santa has a familiar Mrs. Claus: she is played by Goldie Hawn, his partner off screen since 1983.

Netflix's zombie heist film Army of the Dead sends mercenaries to empty a casino vault in which city?

Las Vegas has been overrun by zombies, and the crew must recover $200 million from the vault before the military drops a nuclear bomb on the city.

In Netflix's Bright, Will Smith's LAPD officer is partnered with a member of which mythical race?

Orcs are outcasts in the film's Los Angeles: Joel Edgerton's Nick Jakoby, the first orc police officer in the US, is detested by fellow officers and by his own kind.

In which Netflix film does Ryan Reynolds's time-travelling pilot team up with his 12-year-old self?

The Adam Project spent a decade in development: it began in 2012 with Tom Cruise attached to star, then stalled until Netflix acquired the rights.

Which Netflix thriller pits Ryan Gosling's CIA agent Sierra Six against Chris Evans's mercenary?

The Gray Man sends its hero on the run after he uncovers his own superior's corrupt secrets; its $200 million budget ranks among Netflix's largest.

In Bong Joon-ho's Netflix film Okja, what kind of genetically modified animal is Okja?

A super pig bred by a corporation is raised for ten years by a teenage girl before the company comes to collect; the film competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Guillermo del Toro's animated Netflix Pinocchio moves the wooden puppet's story to which historical setting?

Fascist Italy gives the tale a darker edge: a strict government official, having seen the puppet revive, wants to turn him into a soldier.

Netflix's All Quiet on the Western Front, winner of four Oscars, follows a teenage soldier from which country?

Germany made this version itself, the third film of Erich Maria Remarque's novel after the 1930 and 1979 ones, and it won the Oscar for Best International Feature.

Which composer does Bradley Cooper play in the Netflix biopic Maestro, which he also directed?

Leonard Bernstein's marriage to Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan, is the film's centre; Cooper's large prosthetic nose drew criticism before release.

Netflix's survival drama Society of the Snow recreates a 1972 plane crash in which mountain range?

The Andes crash stranded a Uruguayan rugby team on a glacier. The film cast Uruguayan and Argentine newcomers and was shot mainly in Spain's Sierra Nevada.

Which actress leads a team of immortal mercenaries in Netflix's action film The Old Guard?

Charlize Theron plays Andromache of Scythia, known as Andy, in a film that Greg Rucka scripted from his own comic book series.

Netflix's interactive film Bandersnatch let viewers steer the plot within which anthology series?

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker built it from 250 segments of footage, which gave viewers over one trillion possible paths and five main endings.

What breed is Monchi, the family dog in Netflix's animated The Mitchells vs. the Machines?

Pug sounds for Monchi came from Doug the Pug, a real dog popular on social media, in what is believed to be a first for an animated film.

Which New Zealand director won the Best Director Oscar for Netflix's western The Power of the Dog?

Jane Campion's award was the film's only win from twelve Oscar nominations, the first time since The Graduate that a film took Best Director and nothing else.

Which British actor plays the warlord known as the Commandant in Netflix's Beasts of No Nation?

Idris Elba's war drama opened in cinemas and online on the same day, so four of America's largest theatre chains boycotted it.

Which actor plays Pope Benedict XVI opposite Jonathan Pryce's future Pope Francis in Netflix's The Two Popes?

Anthony Hopkins's Benedict confides his plan to abdicate to the cardinal who will succeed him, and both lead actors earned Oscar nominations.

Netflix's Mank follows screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz as he drafts the script of which Hollywood classic?

Citizen Kane brought Mankiewicz a screenwriting Oscar shared with Orson Welles. Director David Fincher filmed a script his late father Jack had written.

Which comedian plays Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman in Netflix's courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7?

Sacha Baron Cohen plays the Yippies' co-founder in a film first planned for cinemas by Paramount, then sold to Netflix because of the pandemic.

Which director made Netflix's Da 5 Bloods, about four ageing Black veterans who return to Vietnam?

Spike Lee sends the veterans back for two things: the remains of their fallen squad leader and a locker of gold bars they buried during the war.

Which Black Panther star plays ambitious trumpeter Levee in Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom?

Chadwick Boseman died during post-production in August 2020, which made the role his final film appearance.

Which Hollywood icon does Ana de Armas play in Netflix's Blonde, adapted from a Joyce Carol Oates novel?

Marilyn Monroe's life is told here as fiction rather than biography, and the result was the first NC-17-rated film released exclusively on a streaming service.

Which movie star plays himself as Ali Wong's new boyfriend in Netflix rom-com Always Be My Maybe?

Keanu Reeves turns up as celebrity chef Sasha's new love interest, and the double date that follows with her childhood friend Marcus is a disaster.

In which Netflix drama does Adam Sandler play an NBA scout who discovers a raw talent in Spain?

Hustle was produced by LeBron James through his SpringHill Company, and current and former NBA players and coaches appear throughout the film.

Which director's Netflix space opera Rebel Moon began as a Star Wars pitch to Lucasfilm?

Zack Snyder pitched the idea to Lucasfilm soon after Disney bought the studio in 2012; the finished film also draws on Akira Kurosawa and Heavy Metal magazine.

In Netflix's animated Klaus, what job is the spoiled Jesper sent to do on a remote northern island?

Postman is a punishment posting: Jesper's father, the Royal Postmaster General, gives him an ultimatum to post 6,000 letters from the island within a year.

In Netflix's Nyad, Annette Bening's marathon swimmer sets out for Florida from which country?

Cuba to Florida took the real Diana Nyad five attempts between 1978 and 2013, and the swim has never been formally ratified for lack of independent observers.

In Netflix's A Christmas Prince, an American journalist falls for the heir to which fictional kingdom?

Aldovia's royal family lets the journalist in when she is mistaken for the young princess's new tutor; she had already fought the prince for a taxi at the airport.

Which sibling duo made Netflix's western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a film of six frontier tales?

The Coen brothers based the film on western short stories they had written over two decades or more, and it won the screenplay prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Netflix's Oscar-winning documentary Icarus turned into an exposé of sports doping in which country?

Russia was not the plan: director Bryan Fogel began with an experiment on drug testing, until his adviser, the head of Moscow's anti-doping laboratory, fled and turned whistleblower.

Netflix's Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher was filmed in a kelp forest off which country?

South Africa's False Bay, near Cape Town, is where the filmmaker went free-diving in cold water and spent a year forming a bond with a wild common octopus.

Which director made Netflix's documentary 13th, about race and mass incarceration in the United States?

Ava DuVernay named it after the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as punishment for convicted criminals, the exception her film examines.

Which actress won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar as a lawyer in Netflix's musical Emilia Pérez?

Zoe Saldaña plays the lawyer who helps a Mexican cartel leader disappear and transition; the film led that year's Oscars with 13 nominations and won two.

Glass Onion, Netflix's Knives Out sequel, takes its title from a song by which band?

The Beatles supplied the title when the film's writer-director went through the songs on his phone; its glass sculptures of a walrus and strawberries nod to two more of the band's songs.