JustWatch Streaming Charts: January 2026

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 film 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 is often different in various regions – select the streaming services they are interested in and get recommendations based on their preferences and searches. Consumers can then use the JustWatch apps available for their Smart TV, streaming device, smartphone or tablet so as to always have new suggestions available on what’s hot on every streaming platform.

Based on user interest – as dictated by searches and recommendations – JustWatch is able to put together Top Ten charts of movies and TV shows across all streaming services operating in each country, every month. These are the films that consumers in the United States have been more interested in over the past few weeks.

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

Taking a look at the Top Ten Movies chart it’s clear that audiences are still catching up to last year’s biggest and most talked-about films, like Sinners, F1 or One Battle After Another – not a bad thing at all, obviously, as many of those are nominated in multiple categories in the upcoming 98th Academy Awards. When it comes to recent and new releases Netflix delivered a solid one-two punch with the latest Knives Out and The Rip, as expected. It’s great to see less promoted films, such as Train Dreams and Bugonia, continuing to attract well-deserved attention too.

When it comes to TV shows things were rather predictable: the latest seasons of Fallout, The Night Manager, Landman, Stranger Things and The Pitt attracted the most interest – as was the case last month too – but, with some of them concluding their runs, others are bound to take their places come February. Proving that the Game of Thrones brand is still strong, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms drew enough attention despite its subject matter not being nearly as ambitious. Pluribus is unsurprisingly still on people’s radar, but so is PONIES, an unassuming but immensely enjoyable production worth checking out. Sometimes low-key is the key, you know?