‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie This Week: Here Is the Rest of the Top 10

Whether you’re catching a brand-new hit or revisiting a comfort classic, this week’s U.S. Top 10 on Netflix is a fun mix of true-crime intrigue, animated icons, and star-studded whodunits. Below, you’ll find quick primers that tell you what each title is about and who’s behind it—so you can decide what to press play on next.

Per your request, we’ve laid this out as a countdown from 10 to 1, preserving the exact order of the U.S. Top 10 you provided. Each entry includes core plot points, key cast and crew, and useful background details—no filler.

10. ‘Shrek Forever After’ (2010)

The fourth entry in the franchise finds Shrek making a fateful deal with Rumpelstiltskin that rewrites history and drops him into an alternate Far Far Away where ogres are hunted and he and Fiona never met. The voice cast features Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots, Julie Andrews as Queen Lillian, and John Cleese as King Harold, with Walt Dohrn voicing Rumpelstiltskin.

Directed by Mike Mitchell and written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, the film continues the series’ adaptation of William Steig’s book ‘Shrek!’. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it reunites composer Harry Gregson-Williams and editor Nick Fletcher, and closes the original four-film arc before the later return of the universe in ‘Puss in Boots’ spinoffs.

9. ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (2005)

Tim Burton’s re-imagining of Roald Dahl’s novel follows Charlie Bucket’s Golden Ticket tour through Willy Wonka’s fantastical factory, where each misbehaving child meets a candy-coated comeuppance. Johnny Depp plays Wonka, with Freddie Highmore as Charlie, David Kelly as Grandpa Joe, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket, and Deep Roy portraying every Oompa-Loompa. Christopher Lee appears as Dr. Wilbur Wonka, the chocolatier’s stern father.

Written by John August and scored by Danny Elfman, the production famously built practical sets on Pinewood’s 007 Stage—including a working chocolate river—and trained live squirrels for Veruca Salt’s nut-room scene. The film was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, The Zanuck Company, Plan B Entertainment, and others, and released by Warner Bros.

8. ‘Escape Room’ (2019)

Six strangers are lured into a series of elaborately themed rooms where solving puzzles is the only way to survive, and every “clue” has a deadly twist. Taylor Russell leads as physics student Zoey Davis, with Logan Miller as Ben, Deborah Ann Woll as Amanda, Jay Ellis as Jason, Tyler Labine as Mike, Nik Dodani as Danny, and Yorick van Wageningen as the enigmatic Gamemaster.

Directed by Adam Robitel, the film was written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik from a story by Schut. Shot with a focus on practical set-piece rooms—an oven, an upside-down billiards bar, a winter cabin—the thriller was produced by Original Film and released by Sony’s Columbia Pictures, launching a franchise that continued with a sequel.

7. ‘Wind River’ (2017)

Set on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, the story pairs a U.S. Fish & Wildlife tracker with an FBI agent investigating the killing of a young Indigenous woman. Jeremy Renner stars as tracker Cory Lambert and Elizabeth Olsen as Agent Jane Banner, alongside Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, and Graham Greene in key supporting roles.

Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, the film explores the broader crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women while maintaining a tightly constructed mystery. Its stark atmosphere is underscored by a score from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, and the production emphasizes on-location shooting to capture the harsh, snowbound setting central to the investigation.

6. ‘Shrek 2’ (2004)

After their honeymoon, Shrek and Fiona travel to the kingdom of Far Far Away to meet her parents, only to clash with the Fairy Godmother’s plans for Prince Charming—and to gain a new ally in the swashbuckling Puss in Boots. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz reprise their roles, joined by Antonio Banderas as Puss, Julie Andrews as Queen Lillian, John Cleese as King Harold, Jennifer Saunders as the Fairy Godmother, and Rupert Everett as Prince Charming.

Directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon, the film’s screenplay credits include Adamson, Joe Stillman, J. David Stem, and David N. Weiss, adapting characters from William Steig’s ‘Shrek!’. The DreamWorks Animation production built out the series’ fairy-tale pastiche with bigger set-pieces and musical cues that became franchise staples.

5. ‘Shrek the Third’ (2007)

With King Harold ill, Shrek sets off to find a proper heir—Arthur “Artie” Pendragon—while Prince Charming plots a coup in Far Far Away. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy return, with Justin Timberlake voicing Artie and a gallery of fairy-tale heroines (including Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty) rallying alongside Fiona.

Chris Miller directs with Raman Hui as co-director, from a screenplay by Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Chris Miller, and producer Aron Warner, based on a story by Andrew Adamson. The film continues DreamWorks Animation’s blend of contemporary humor and mythology riffs, expanding the ensemble and deepening Fiona’s warrior-leader arc ahead of ‘Shrek Forever After’.

4. ‘Shrek’ (2001)

The franchise opener follows ogre Shrek’s reluctant quest—with motormouth Donkey—to rescue Princess Fiona from a dragon-guarded tower and reclaim his swamp from Lord Farquaad’s fairytale refugees. Mike Myers voices Shrek, Eddie Murphy is Donkey, Cameron Diaz plays Fiona, and John Lithgow is Farquaad.

Co-directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, the film was written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman, inspired by William Steig’s ‘Shrek!’. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and PDI/DreamWorks, it helped establish the studio as a major animation player, blending fairy-tale parody with character-driven storytelling and pop-culture gags that shaped the series.

3. ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ (2025)

Adapted from Richard Osman’s bestselling novel, this mystery-comedy follows four friends at a retirement village who meet weekly to examine cold cases—until a fresh murder lands on their doorstep. Helen Mirren stars as Elizabeth Best, Pierce Brosnan as Ron Ritchie, Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim Arif, and Celia Imrie as Joyce Meadowcroft, with David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Richard E. Grant, Tom Ellis, Geoff Bell, Paul Freeman, Sarah Niles, and Ingrid Oliver rounding out the ensemble.

Directed by Chris Columbus, the screenplay is by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote. The production involves Amblin Entertainment, Jennifer Todd Pictures, and Maiden Voyage, with Thomas Newman composing and Don Burgess serving as cinematographer. The adaptation preserves the novel’s amateur-sleuth charm while restructuring clues and character threads for a feature-length whodunit.

2. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ (2025)

This animated musical-fantasy centers on Huntr/x, a K-pop girl group who moonlight as demon hunters protecting their fandom from supernatural threats—especially a rival boy band secretly made of demons. The English-language voice cast includes Arden Cho as Rumi, May Hong as Mira, Ji-young Yoo as Zoey, Ahn Hyo-seop as Jinu, Yunjin Kim as Celine, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun; several roles feature separate singing voices to match the performance-driven setting.

Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans from a screenplay by Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Kang, and Appelhans, the film is produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Netflix, with animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks and a score by Marcelo Zarvos. Its world-building blends K-pop concert energy with urban-fantasy lore, introducing original songs and stylized action built around stagecraft and choreography.

1. ‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ (2025)

This true-crime documentary investigates a wave of anonymous, abusive messages that targeted Michigan teens Lauryn Licari and her then-boyfriend, Owen, upending their school and prompting a multilayered investigation. Interviews and digital evidence trace how suspicion shifted before an unexpected perpetrator came into focus, reshaping the narrative around the case and its fallout for the families involved.

Directed by Skye Borgman, the film is produced by Ross M. Dinerstein and Rebecca Evans, with executive producers including Borgman, Ross Girard, Tom Forman, David Metzler, Justin Sprague, and Alysia Sofios. Produced by Campfire Studios in association with Terminal B TV, the documentary assembles first-person accounts and official records to piece together the timeline and the techniques used in the catfishing campaign.

Share your thoughts: which of these titles did you watch this week, and what should everyone queue up next?