About watched.club

Almost every day, another film on Letterboxd reaches the milestone of being watched by one (or two, or eight) million Letterboxd members. The Million Watched Clubs keep track: which films have made it, when they joined and how fast they got there. This site is those clubs as data: every film's road to a million, the records set along the way, and which film is about to reach one million watches next.

A film joins the One Million Watched Club on the day a million Letterboxd members have marked it as watched. The Two Million club follows the same rule at two million, and so on up to eight. Each club is a list on Letterboxd, kept by one member who watches the counts and adds films as they cross.

This site is where those lists are taken apart and looked at. The club pages show who is in, in what order, and how each club has grown. Every film has a page of its own, tracing its path from release to one million and beyond. The records section builds on the statistics the lists already keep and gives them room: the fastest films to a million, the most watched directors and actors, the decades, countries and genres that make it.

None of this is information you could not find on Letterboxd yourself. What this site adds is the view across: the trends and comparisons that only show once the data is laid out in one place.

I joined Letterboxd in 2012. In January 2021, Letterboxd announced that Inception had joined the One Million Watched Club. I couldn't find a list, so I made one myself. That first year brought 40 films; 2025 brought 222. The club stands at 817 today.

From very early on, Letterboxd promoted and featured the list, and a growing part of the online film community and the film industry came to care about it. Other members started clubs for the higher thresholds, and there is now one for every million up to eight.

What kept me at it was the statistics. Which film makes it how fast, and why. Which directors are the most watched. Whether popularity and quality can go hand in hand. And what the list's own growth says about how Letterboxd has grown and about what people are watching: a handful of films a month at the start, several a week now.

Keeping the list running smoothly means collecting a lot of data points: keeping an eye on the films about to reach a million, updating the records and stats, keeping track of the milestones above. For years the numbers sat in a spreadsheet that only I could see. This site is that spreadsheet, opened up.

This website takes the films, and the time and order in which they reached a milestone, from the following lists:

• One Million Watched Club — list by Alexander
• Two Million Watched Club — list by Clipping3
• Three Million Watched Club — list by Logan Pham
• Four Million Watched Club — list by RemyTheBest1
• Five Million Watched Club — list by will1011
• Six Million Watched Club — list by holo
• Seven Million Watched Club — list by jason harris
• Eight Million Watched Club — list by Elithefilmnerd

Milestone dates come from the lists' own annotations or from their comments, and are an approximation where neither is available.

The aggregated and in-context stats come from Letterboxd, as do the reference lists: the Top 500, the Oscar winners and the box office rankings are all published Letterboxd lists, taken as they stand. Ratings, likes and fans appear here only in medians and rankings, such as a club's typical rating or the films with the highest share of likes.

For a film's rating, its reviews and everything else about it, go to its page on Letterboxd. Every film here links to it.

Thanks to everyone who runs a club list: Clipping3, Logan Pham, RemyTheBest1, will1011, holo, jason harris, Elithefilmnerd. Thanks also to Jab, who ran the first Two Million list, and to Erik Larson, who ran the first Four Million list. The clubs above one million are theirs, not mine, and without their care this site would have nothing to say about them.

I want to thank the people who keep the threads going by reporting a film across the line, correcting a date or spotting one that is close: Kyle Belback, LGriffin2k, East Hastings, Matthew L. Brady, Abdou, Django_567, aPeRsOn, Pedro, smellovision, Juaben Rodriguez, Jonathan Paula, Hershey, Jackson Watkins, Samuel Schmidt, benjihudson, Caden Hammond, Ez_pz, Michael Griffiths, Mondasian, Bharadwaj Seepana, ABCDEFGHIJ, Onecutedino, Max Hechtman, Charlie, Fallen_Fox, mcbmovies, among many others. A good share of the dates on this site exist because one of them wrote a comment.

And thanks to the Letterboxd crew, especially Jack Moulton.

Letterboxd is a trademark of Letterboxd Limited. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to them. It does not try to copy what Letterboxd does: it takes what the clubs are made of, the watched counts and the club lists, and leaves the rest where it is. Film titles, poster art and any other material remain the property of their respective owners, and links out lead to the original pages on letterboxd.com.

The look of this site is deliberately close to Letterboxd's. It pays homage rather than copies. It stays close because I think of this as an extension of the clubs there.

Film details — titles, release dates, directors, cast, countries, languages — come from TMDB, through its API. This site is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

This site is run by Alexander Huth as a private, non-commercial project. You can reach me at hello@watched.club. The site carries no advertising, sells nothing and collects no personal data.

If you believe any information here is inaccurate, or you hold rights to material shown on this site and want it removed, please write to the address above, stating what and where. Factual errors will be corrected. Material will be removed at the request of the rights holder, and no formal notice is required.

The figures are compiled by me from publicly available pages and are provided as they are. They may be wrong, stale or missing, and nothing here should be relied on for anything that matters.