Netflix's weekly top 10 lists are always worth a look, not just because they often reveal really unexpected gems that the streaming platform has managed to resurrect. For example, Flixpatrol Reports that "Alpha" (a film that was absolutely neglected after the initial release) made it the top 10 of Netflix in many countries on April 6, 2025 and continued to be shown in most of the world on Sunday.

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Directed and co-written by Albert Hughes ("From Hell", "Eli's Book"), "Alpha" is an adventure for survival in 2018 in which a young young man from the icy era is separated from his tribe and must join a similarly unpleasant wolf to stay alive. Cody Smith-Mekfay Arrve ("Dawn on the Planet of Monkeys", "X-Men: Apocalypse") and óahanes Haukur óahanesson ("Game of Thrones", "Vikings: Valhala"), the film is a fun and exciting adventure. As such, it is good to see that streaming gave this mainly forgotten film a new chance to find its audience.

Posted about 20,000 years ago, Alpha focuses on a young tribal hunter named Keda (Smith Mekfay), son of his group's head, Tau (Johansson). The ceda is separated from Tau and the tribe after a hunting accident, but fortunately, he saves and hangs out with the injured wolf, which turns out to be a legendary Astver called alpha. Lost and vulnerable in the desert, ceda and alpha go on a long, slow journey to safety. During their travels, they encounter many environmental dangers, including a series of endangering encounters with predatory paleolithic animals.

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During his theater race, the atmosphere for the survival of the Stone Age film attracted enough film films to make a touch of over $ 97 million on the global treasurer against a $ 51 million budget. Given that The mysteries of film mathematics And the road Movie box officeThis left "Alpha" well under his point of break ... and thus, from any potential sequel conversations.

Of course, the fans of prehistoric survival films can always dream. Alpha's budget was practically nothing compared to what was known that streaming platforms were investing in their price. ("Electrical Situation" has just become the most expensive Netflix film Always, with his budget, he has reported that he is an incredible $ 320 million.) Who knows, if the film continues to be popular with users of the streaming platform, maybe Netflix will consider making a relatively inexpensive adventure movie.

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