The most famous movies and TV

Game of Thrones is the most famous film or television title in the world for August 2026, a score of 28.5 for a series about seven noble families fighting over Westeros that ended its run in 2019. Stranger Things, set in Hawkins, Indiana, in 1983, is second at 26.8, and Breaking Bad, the story of New Mexico chemistry teacher Walter White, third at 26.7. The two are separated by a tenth of a point.

Television takes the first four places. Money Heist, the Spanish series that arrived on Antena 3 in 2017 with a plan to rob the Royal Mint, is fourth at 25.4 and the highest-placed title from outside the United States. The first films come next, and both are Christopher Nolan's: Oppenheimer fifth at 25.3 and Inception sixth at 25.2. The Dark Knight, his Gotham film, is eleventh, which gives Nolan three of the fifteen.

The middle of the table mixes formats freely. The Boys, the series about vigilantes hunting corrupt superheroes, is seventh. Toy Story, the 1995 film that changed how animation was made, is eighth, Fast & Furious ninth, and House of the Dragon, the Targaryen prequel, tenth. The Big Bang Theory, which ran on CBS from 2007 to 2019, is twelfth.

The last three show how long attention can last. Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson's 1994 thriller, is thirteenth. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Miloš Forman's 1975 drama with Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, is fourteenth, half a century after release. Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Nickelodeon series that launched in 2005, closes the fifteen at 22.2. Only 65 titles were measured in the scope, a small pool compared with the people lists, and the scores are lower across the board, but the order within it is stable and worldwide.