*Updated 5/22

After a long day, there’s nothing more satisfying than sinking into the couch and searching for something new to stream. But do you ever just keep scrolling... and scrolling... and realize your time to chill has just been killed by so much searching?

Instead of falling into a scrollfest, stream smarter and check out the 10 most-watched films of the week on Kanopy from U.S. public library viewers in this ranked list on Letterboxd. See what everyone else is streaming from their watchlist to find your new favorite.

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1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2024 | 2hr 58min
Featuring Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon & Anaïs Demoustier

After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.

2. Solace
2015 | 1hr 41min
Featuring Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Abbie Cornish

When FBI Special Agent Joe Merriwether (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is unable to solve a series of homicides, he enlists the help of former colleague, Dr. John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), a retired physician with psychic powers. Soon, Clancy realizes that his exceptional intuitive abilities are no match against the extraordinary powers of the vicious murderer (Colin Farrell) on a mission.

3. Last Summer
2023 | 1hr 41min
Featuring Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher & Olivier Rabourdin

Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.

4. Marie Antoinette
2006 | 2hr 02min
Featuring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman & Rip Torn

An electrifying yet intimate re-telling of the turbulent life of history's favorite villainess written and directed by Academy Award® winner Sofia Coppola. Kirsten Dunst portrays the ill-fated child princess who married France's young and indifferent King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman). Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue, Marie Antoinette defied both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star, which served only to seal her fate.

5. The Promised Land
2023 | 2hr 07min
Featuring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin & Simon Bennebjerg

Set in 18th century Denmark, this epic historical drama follows Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen), a proud but impoverished war hero, as he sets out to tame the barren Jutland heath. Hoping to cultivate the land, build a colony, and gain a noble title, Kahlen faces fierce opposition from the merciless landowner Frederik Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg). Based on the novel The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen.

6. Cleaner
2025 | 1hr 37min
Featuring Clive Owen, Taz Skylar & Matthew Tuck

At a high-profile corporate gala, a heavily-armed group of terrorists take control of 300 hostages. Unbeknownst to them, a lone window cleaner witnesses the crime-in-progress, and, as it turns out, she's an ex-soldier, skilled in hand-to-hand combat and firearms.

7. Pulp Fiction
1994 | 2hr 34min
Featuring John Travolta, Uma Thurman & Samuel L. Jackson

Critics and audiences worldwide hailed this as the star-studded movie that redefined cinema in the 20th century. Writer-director Quentin Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters—including a pair of low-rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a gangster's wife (Uma Thurman), and a desperate prizefighter (Bruce Willis)—in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating adventure of violence and redemption.

8. Klute
1971 | 1hr 53min
Featuring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland & Charles Cioffi

When small-town police detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of his best friend, his only lead is a letter to prostitute Bree Daniels (Fonda). As these two very different people discover a romantic attraction to each other, Klute realizes Daniels is the murderer's real target.

9. The Housemaid
2010 | 1hr 47min
Featuring Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae & Youn Yuh-jung

An innocent young woman is hired as an upper class family housemaid. The master of the house takes advantage of his social position by slipping into the new housemaid's bed. When the woman becomes pregnant and wants to keep the baby, she is forced to have an abortion which turns her already fragile mental condition for the worse. She decides to take the matter into her own hands.

Warning: This film is unrated and may contain content that is offensive to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

10. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
2015 | 2hr 11min
Featuring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson & Jeremy Renner

Loaded with heart-pounding action and jaw-dropping stunts, prepare for the best Mission ever. With his elite organization shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt and his team race against time to stop the rise of a new global threat, The Syndicate, a dangerous network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop them, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent who may or may not be on his side as he faces his most impossible mission yet.

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