Gilmore Girls
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Licensing titles & growing audiences
By investing in titles from around the world, we support the broader industry and give our members more shows and movies to watch.
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By investing in titles from around the world, we support the broader industry and give our members more shows and movies to watch.
We license films and series from studios, networks, public sector broadcasters and independent production companies around the world. It gives our members more of what they love, and supports creators so they can make more series and films.
Three out of four titles on Netflix are licensed from creative partners around the world.
Over the last decade, we’ve licensed films and series from more than 3,000 companies — including public broadcasters.
We have partnerships with studios like PiperFilm in Italy, AMC in the USA, and Sony and NBCUniversal globally — to name just a few — as well as local broadcasters and networks.
Sometimes, stories arrive on Netflix years after they’ve been released. But we also invest in films and series while they’re being developed, helping producers and distributors bring more ambitious projects to the screen.
In many countries, we acquire films made for cinemas while they are still in production. Examples include C’è ancora domani, (Italy), L’Amour ouf (France), Simona Kossak (Poland) and El Cautivo (Spain).
Following a successful theatrical release in India and around the world, RRR found an even wider audience, and became an even bigger hit when Netflix licensed it in Hindi. The songs and dances created fans around the world, and the film went on to win an Oscar.
SPOTLIGHT L’Amour Ouf
“Netflix was one of the very first partners to believe in Gilles Lellouche’s bold and ambitious vision for L’Amour Ouf, and their support gave us the means to fully realize our artistic aspirations.”
Finding new favorites
When a film or TV show finds a home on Netflix, it also finds new audiences — and sometimes even adds new episodes to give fans more of what they love.
In 2023, Suits became the most popular streaming title in the U.S. for 12 consecutive weeks, 12 years after it first aired. Since 2023, the series has generated over 450M views on Netflix and continues to be watched all over the world.
After premiering as a local series on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2019, Love on the Spectrum was picked up by Netflix in 2020, introducing the show to an international audience.
Netflix later commissioned an American spin-off, Love on the Spectrum U.S., which debuted in May 2022.
Both the original series and its U.S. counterpart have earned multiple awards, including seven Primetime Emmys and an International Emmy.
Italian drama Mare Fuori first aired on Rai 2 in 2020. After Netflix acquired the series two years later, it spent more than 30 weeks in Italy’s Top 10 and reached over 10M views between 2023 and 2025.
More Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls, which we acquired seven years after its finale, found a new generation of fans on Netflix — ultimately leading to a revival collection of episodes that we co-produced.
The Canadian series Workin’ Moms, which originally aired on CBC, saw significant global interest after arriving on Netflix in 2019, generating over 75M views between 2023 and 2025.
In Brazil, the films Cidade de Deus (City of God) and Carandiru both cracked the Top 10 on Netflix more than 20 years after their original premieres.
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We give members unique access to shows and films from around the world — and help them watch in their own language.
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We depend on a strong, healthy creative industry. Which is why we help people learn new skills and advance their careers — whether they’ve worked with us or not.