For Netflix India’s top ten films list, the top four films are surprisingly non-Indian. And the top-ranked title is secured this time by the ‘Escape Room’ sequel titled ‘Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’ instead of last week’s ‘Looop Lapeta’, which has now moved down to seventh place.
In the second place is the slasher horror flick ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ while the supernatural action movie ‘Fistful of Vengeance’ starring Iko Uwais is placed in the third spot.
On the Netflix top ten TV shows front, this week’s top spot has again been bagged by the South Korean zombie-horror show ‘All of Us Are Dead’. In the second place is the investigative miniseries ‘Inventing Anna’. And the third spot is held by the Italian series ‘Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire’.
Here’s the full list of the top ten movies and TV shows on Netflix India this week:
TOP 10 MOVIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. The Meg
Hollywood action star Jason Statham stars as a rescue diver in this underwater sci-fi thriller which revolves around his efforts to save a crew trapped on the Pacific Ocean floor and hunted by a deadly 75-feet long megalodon shark which was earlier considered extinct.
9. Rampage
It’s a film adaptation of a video game of the same name. The movie’s plot follows an ex-soldier and primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), who joins hands with a genetic engineer to stop a mutated gorilla, a crocodile, and a wolf from wreaking havoc in Chicago.
8. The Tinder Swindler
‘The Tinder Swindler’ follows the story of three female victims of online dating who are manipulated by a scamster posing as a billionaire businessman and how the group of swindled women decides to avenge their betrayals.
7. Looop Lapeta
‘Looop Lapeta’ is an official Hindi language remake of the high concept German thriller film ‘Run Lola Run’ (1998). The film revolves around a woman named Savi (Taapsee Pannu) and her desperate attempts to get hold of Rs. 50 lakhs in order to save her love interest Satya (Tahir Raj Bhasin) from getting into serious trouble. In a race against time, will Savi be able to get the money and save her boyfriend Satya?
6. Shyam Singha Roy
It’s a psychological period romantic drama movie that revolves around the intriguing concept of reincarnation. The film features Nani in a double role. One story is set in modern-day Hyderabad where he plays an aspiring film director, and the other story is set in 1970s Bengal where he is portrayed as a revolutionary writer called Shyam Singha Roy. How these two timelines relate to each other forms the film’s crux.
5. Sooryavanshi
Sooryavanshi is the fourth movie that belongs to Rohit Shetty’s cop universe film series comprising Singham and Simmba films. Sooryavanshi revolves around the titular cop DCP Veer Sooryavanshi (Akshay Kumar), who heads the Anti-Terrorism Squad and his attempt to avert a terrorist attack in Mumbai. The film also features Katrina Kaif, Ajay Devgn, Ranveer Singh, and Jackie Shroff in important roles.
4. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
The documentary film revolves around an investigation into the tragic crashes of two Boeing 737 Max passenger airliners which resulted in many fatalities and how the cause might have been allegedly related to the precedence of profit over safety.
3. Fistful of Vengeance
A spin-off film of martial arts show ‘Wu Assassins’, the Netflix supernatural action flick features Indonesian actor Iko Uwais (The Raid) as a superpowered assassin Kai Jin and revolves around his mission to save the world from deadly ancient powers.
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
It’s a sequel to the 1974 slasher film ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. The plot revolves around a business trip of a group of aspiring entrepreneurs which becomes their worst nightmare when they cross paths with the dreaded serial killer Leatherface. The presence of the infamous 1973 massacre’s sole survivor also comes into play as a plot device.
1. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
A sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller movie ‘Escape Room’, the film revolves around a group of six people and their desperate efforts to survive another series of even deadlier escape rooms by realizing what they have in common.
TOP 10 SERIES ON NETFLIX INDIA THIS WEEK
10. One of Us Is Lying
Based on a 2017 novel of the same name, the show revolves around five high school students Simon, Addy, Cooper, Bronwyn, and Nate, who are under detention. Things take an interesting turn when Simon dies under mysterious circumstances and the remaining four become prime suspects.
9. Money Heist
The show follows a hostage situation plotline masterminded by an enigmatic genius and his attempt to pull off a virtually impossible heist with the help of his skilled team. Volume-1 part-5 of the show began streaming on Netflix from 3rd September while the second volume came out on 3rd December.
8. Squid Game
The show follows the story of 456 people, who have somewhat failed in their lives, and they are invited to participate in a dangerous survival game called ‘Squid Game’. The winner of the game will take home a huge amount. Despite being quite brutal and repulsive, it’s being called by many a compelling watch.
7. Fishbowl Wives
Based on the manga series “Kingyo Tsuma” by Kurosawa R, the series follows the lives of six disparate women leading unhappy married lives in their affluent penthouse apartment and how they resort to infidelity for want of getting out of their fishbowl (trapped) lives.
6. Dark Desire
The Mexican thriller web series revolves around a married woman named Alma who is a law school professor by profession. After suspecting her husband of infidelity, she secretly gets romantically involved with Dario, a college student, and a mechanic. However, she gets more than what she bargained for as the events lead to tragic consequences.
5. Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein
It’s a psychological thriller show that revolves around a small-town man (Tahir Raj Bhasin) with simple ambitions. But his life goes haywire when the daughter (Anchal Singh) of a powerful politician (Saurabh Shukla) falls in love with him and is hellbent on ‘acquiring’ at any cost. His desperate attempt to regain control over his own life and to reunite with his love interest (Shweta Tripathi) forms the show’s underlying story.
4. Space Force
The space program-based comedy-drama series features Steve Carell in the role of General Mark Naird, the first Chief of Space Operations of Space Force whose mission is to institute a sixth branch of the armed forces – the U.S. Space Force along with his team.
3. Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire
Adapted from Marco Missiroli’s 2019 novel Fedeltà, the Italian series starring Michele Riondino and Lucrezia Guidone explores the relationship between a Milan-based married couple – a college professor Carlo and an estate agent Margharita, and the marital discord owing to the wife’s suspicions of her husband’s unfaithfulness.
2. Inventing Anna
The miniseries is inspired by an article by Jessica Pressler which was published in America’s New York magazine. It follows a journalist’s investigation into a woman named Anna Delvey, who was able to manipulate New York’s affluent class into believing that she is a German heiress.
1. All of Us Are Dead
Based on the webtoon ‘Now at Our School’, it’s a South Korean show where high school students are forced to fight a zombie outbreak in a battle for survival, in order to avoid becoming the infected creatures themselves. Killing or getting killed are the only two options left for them.
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