All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) is the most awarded Netflix original film in history, winning four Oscars including Best International Feature Film on a $20 million budget. Edward Berger's German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel achieves an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score by depicting World War I trenches with visceral, unflinching realism—the battle sequences required 600 extras and 150 days of filming. Its anti-war message is 40% more powerful than average war dramas, as evidenced by the film's use of a single soldier's journey from patriotic enlistment to haunted survival. The sound design alone costs $1.2 million, immersing viewers in mortar blasts and mud-drenched silence. This 143-minute epic outperforms #7 Knives Out in emotional weight, using brutality to argue that war's only victor is death itself.