The international top 20 films includes: The Invisible Man, Contagion, Parasite, Onward, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, Joker, Bloodshot, The Platform, 1917, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dolittle, Charlie’s Angels, Black Widow, Fantasy Island, Outbreak/Epidemia, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Jojo Rabbit, The Hunt and Knives Out.

Briefly about the methodology

Wikipedia currently has over 52 million articles in over 300 languages. Despite the impressive number of articles, not all topics can be written in this free encyclopedia. At the same time, the community of each language version has the ability to decide which topic can be described in the encyclopedia, and which is not (for example, article must be notable). In addition, each language version can describe the same topic in its own way – it all depends on the quantity and quality of the authors (Wikipedia users who edit articles).

Almost every Wikipedia article has an aligment to certain categories. Additionally, based on the content, you can specify the subject of the article – for this you can, for example, use semantic relations in Wikidata or DBpedia. More details on the automatic article classification process can be found in various scientific works (e.g. Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment in Different Topics).

This article selected the most-developed language versions of Wikipedia with over 1 million articles, including English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish and other. After the classification of articles, only those that are dedicated to individual films. As a result for English Wikipedia 147216 articles about films were found, Italian – 69660 films, French – 66106 films, German – 40862 films, Russian – 32095 films, Portuguese – 27423 films, Spanish – 26860 films, Japanese – 20854 films, Polish – 20323 films, Chinese – 11491 films and Arabic – 10433 films.

As mentioned earlier, every Wikipedia article can have different language versions, so we can find out different names of the same object (film). Using open data on Wikipedia article views we can find out how many times a given article has been viewed on specific days. After collecting data for viewing all Wikipedia articles on films in the appropriate language versions March 2020 ranking of the most viewed was made. First, the positions of films in the ranking are shown, which were obtained by adding up the page views from different language versions for a given film. Later, the most popular films are shown for only one language version of Wikipedia.

1st place – The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man – 2020 film by Leigh Whannell, in March 2020 the film was on the 1st place in English, on the 4th place in Chinese, on the 12th place in Russian, on the 22nd place in Arabic, on the 24th place in Spanish, on the 54th place in French, on the 62nd place in German, on the 139th place in Italian and on the 886th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

2nd place – Contagion

Contagion – 2011 film by Steven Soderbergh, in March 2020 the film was on the 1st place in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, on the 2nd place in English, Chinese and on the 12th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

3rd place – Parasite

Parasite – 2019 film directed by Bong Joon Ho, in March 2020 the film was on the 1st place in Chinese, on the 2nd place in French, Portuguese, on the 3rd place in Spanish, on the 4th place in German, English, Italian, on the 8th place in Russian, on the 11th place in Arabic, on the 16th place in Japanese and Polish Wikipedia.

4th place – Onward

Onward – 2020 computer-animated film directed by Dan Scanlon, in March 2020 the film was on the 3rd place in English, on the 14th place in Spanish, on the 18th place in Portuguese, on the 29th place in Russian, on the 35th place in French, on the 48th place in Arabic, on the 64th place in Chinese, on the 71st place in Japanese, on the 127th place in Italian and on the 205th place in German Wikipedia.

5th place – Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker – 2019 Star Wars film directed by J. J. Abrams, in March 2020 the film was on the 5th place in Russian, on the 6th place in German, on the 7th place in Italian, on the 8th place in Portuguese, on the 9th place in French, on the 10th place in Spanish, on the 11th place in Polish, on the 13th place in Chinese, on the 17th place in English, on the 50th place in Japanese and on the 332nd place in Arabic Wikipedia.

6th place – Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey – 2020 American superhero film, in March 2020 the film was on the 6th place in Chinese, on the 7th place in Russian, on the 9th place in Portuguese, on the 10th place in English, on the 11th place in Spanish, on the 24th place in Japanese, on the 34th place in French, on the 49th place in German, on the 58th place in Italian and on the 99th place in Polish Wikipedia.

7th place – Joker

Joker – 2019 film by Todd Phillips, in March 2020 the film was on the 6th place in Spanish, on the 8th place in Arabic, on the 10th place in German, Italian, Chinese, on the 13th place in English, Russian, on the 20th place in Polish, on the 22nd place in French and Japanese Wikipedia.

8th place – Bloodshot

Bloodshot – 2020 film by Dave Wilson, in March 2020 the film was on the 5th place in Chinese, on the 7th place in English, on the 9th place in Russian, on the 16th place in Spanish, on the 38th place in Portuguese, on the 90th place in French, on the 92nd place in German, on the 95th place in Italian and on the 2360th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

9th place – The Platform

The Platform – 2019 film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, in March 2020 the film was on the 2nd place in Spanish, Italian, on the 3rd place in German, on the 12th place in English, on the 20th place in Arabic, on the 468th place in French, on the 4412th place in Chinese and on the 7162nd place in Russian Wikipedia.

10th place – 1917

1917 – 2019 British war film by Sam Mendes, in March 2020 the film was on the 7th place in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, on the 10th place in French, on the 16th place in Arabic, English, Italian, Russian, on the 50th place in Polish, on the 56th place in German and on the 78th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

11th place – Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog – 2020 film directed by Jeff Fowler, in March 2020 the film was on the 5th place in Spanish, Portuguese, on the 11th place in English, on the 18th place in Russian, on the 21st place in Chinese, on the 84th place in Arabic, on the 87th place in French, on the 106th place in Polish, on the 176th place in Italian, on the 285th place in Japanese and on the 411th place in German Wikipedia.

12th place – Dolittle

Dolittle – 2020 film directed by Stephen Gaghan, in March 2020 the film was on the 5th place in English, on the 60th place in Russian, on the 90th place in Chinese, on the 122nd place in Portuguese, on the 189th place in Arabic, on the 194th place in Spanish, on the 231st place in French, on the 579th place in Polish, on the 583rd place in Italian, on the 585th place in German and on the 609th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

13th place – Charlie’s Angels

Charlie’s Angels – 2019 American film by Elizabeth Banks, in March 2020 the film was on the 9th place in English, on the 52nd place in Chinese, on the 64th place in French, on the 90th place in Italian, on the 154th place in Spanish, on the 161st place in Russian, on the 222nd place in Portuguese, on the 251st place in German, on the 317th place in Japanese and on the 1802nd place in Polish Wikipedia.

14th place – Black Widow

Black Widow – 2020 film directed by Cate Shortland, in March 2020 the film was on the 15th place in English, on the 22nd place in Russian, on the 25th place in Chinese, on the 53rd place in Italian, on the 63rd place in French, on the 73rd place in Portuguese, on the 111th place in Polish, on the 116th place in Arabic, on the 127th place in Spanish, on the 147th place in Japanese and on the 199th place in German Wikipedia.

15th place – Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island – 2020 film directed by Jeff Wadlow, in March 2020 the film was on the 6th place in English, on the 186th place in Russian, on the 402nd place in Chinese, on the 1057th place in Italian, on the 1670th place in French, on the 2382nd place in Spanish, on the 3643rd place in Portuguese and on the 7396th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

16th place – Outbreak/Epidemia

Outbreak/Epidemia – 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, in March 2020 the film was on the 12th place in German, on the 18th place in English, on the 20th place in Portuguese, on the 22nd place in Spanish, on the 25th place in Japanese, on the 51st place in Polish, on the 72nd place in Russian, on the 73rd place in Italian, on the 112th place in French and on the 131st place in Chinese Wikipedia.

17th place – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – 2019 film, in March 2020 the film was on the 12th place in Italian, on the 14th place in Russian, on the 18th place in Chinese, on the 19th place in Spanish, on the 22nd place in German, on the 26th place in English, on the 32nd place in Portuguese, on the 39th place in Polish, on the 57th place in French, on the 63rd place in Japanese and on the 179th place in Arabic Wikipedia.

18th place – Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit – 2019 American film directed by Taika Waititi, in March 2020 the film was on the 12th place in Spanish, on the 20th place in Russian, on the 21st place in English, on the 32nd place in Italian, on the 34th place in Portuguese, on the 43rd place in German, on the 53rd place in Chinese, on the 59th place in Polish, on the 100th place in French, on the 505th place in Arabic and on the 632nd place in Japanese Wikipedia.

19th place – The Hunt

The Hunt – 2020 film directed by Craig Zobel, in March 2020 the film was on the 8th place in English, on the 145th place in Chinese, on the 312th place in French, on the 438th place in Italian, on the 529th place in Spanish, on the 665th place in German, on the 721st place in Russian and on the 6823rd place in Arabic Wikipedia.

20th place – Knives Out

Knives Out – 2019 film directed by Rian Johnson, in March 2020 the film was on the 10th place in Russian, on the 17th place in Italian, on the 22nd place in English, on the 33rd place in Portuguese, on the 41st place in Chinese, on the 43rd place in Spanish, on the 55th place in French, on the 83rd place in Polish, on the 130th place in German and on the 964th place in Japanese Wikipedia.

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