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This is code red, guys. I repeat, this is CODE RED.

Netflix has pressed the self-destruct button on your watchlist, and it is not playing around anymore. Many of us are looking forward to a fresh start on January 1st, 2026, but let us tell you it isn’t just that; it is the execution date for a staggering number of titles.

Some of the biggest films of the last decade are packing up. That includes your comfort rewatches, award season favourites, and only so many cult hits. All of these are headed for the chopping block. And they are not even trying to space them out. It’s a New Year’s Day disaster.

Before you have even finished that leftover cake, Tenet will be gone. Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending action puzzle is getting erased from the platform. And right behind it? Elvis. Yep, Baz Luhrmann’s sweaty yet glittery biopic has already left the building. You had a year. That was it.

And just when you thought that was dramatic enough, The Hangover trilogy is also vanishing in one clean sweep. No need to sing praises for this one, as many of us have the script by heart. Sadly, that’s all we’ll have to rely on.

Then there is Ocean’s 8. A movie where the plot doesn’t matter because the cast is so elite it makes your screen feel expensive. Gone. Say goodbye to Dreamgirls, too! No, really, say goodbye. Because once this one is gone, you won’t be getting that Beyoncé monologue again unless you go hunting.

It gets worse. Scarface, Taxi Driver, and The Green Mile are all being wiped off, like Netflix is trying to start a fight with film history itself. You want gangster epics? Psychological classics? Not on this platform anymore.

Oh, and in case you thought it was just adult drama leaving, the Kung Fu Panda trilogy is also out. That’s right, all three films. This departure also includes the two Karate Kid movies. Thank god, Cobra Kai is still there.

Family favourites? Paddington 2 will be gone too, along with Casper and The Goonies. You had your chance to rewatch them. Netflix gave you years. Now they are yanking the blanket.

And don’t even get us started on Fifty Shades. If you were waiting to hate-watch Christian Grey all over again with your friends for the laughs and the gasps, you have less than 72 hours to make it happen.

Now, let’s move to the shows. Lost is leaving. The full series. If you haven’t gotten closure, you are not getting it from Netflix. And Mr Robot leaves a few days later. One of the best finales of the last decade, and they are snatching it.

So no, you don’t have a few weeks. You have hours. You have barely enough time to queue them up. This is not a drill, people!

Watch them now. Or don’t, but you’ll be complaining about it later.

Every movie and series leaving Netflix this week

January 1st

• 12 Strong (2018)
• 2Guns (2013)
• 47 Ronin (2013)
• 8 Mile (2002)
• A Little White Lie (2023)
• Agatha Christie’s Crooked House (2017)
• Amr’s in Trouble (2019)
• All Eyes on Him (2020)
• Aloha (2015)
• Annie (1982)
• Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom (2023)
• Ashman (2021)
• Baby Driver (2017)
• Battleship (2012)
• Blue Beetle (2023)
• Blue Crush (2002)
• Blue Streak (1999)
• Bridesmaids (2011)
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Casper (1995)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Clear and Present Danger (1994)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
• Coach Carter (2005)
• Collateral (2004)
• Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
• Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
• Death Becomes Her (1992)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• DJ Cinderella (2019)
• Doctor Sleep (2019)
• Dracula (1979)
• Dreamgirls (2006)
• Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)
• Elvis (2022)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Fatman (2020)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
• Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
• Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
• Fletch (1985)
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
• Ghost (1990)
• Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
• Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
• Happy Christmas (2014)
• Hancock (2008)
• Here Comes the Boom (2012)
• High Plains Drifter (1973)
• How to be Single (2016)
• Hulk (2003)
• I Love You, Man (2009)
• Identity (2003)
• In the Heights (2021)
• Inside Man (2006)
• Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019)
• Isn’t It Romantic (2019)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
• Just Mercy (2019)
• K-Pax (2001)
• Kicking & Screaming (2005)
• Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
• Kingpin (1996)
• King Richard (2021)
• Knocked Up (2007)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
• Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
• Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life (2003)
• Liar Liar (1997)
• Life of the Party (2018)
• Limitless (2011)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Meet Joe Black (1998)
• Miracles from Heaven (2016)
• Mr Peabody and Sherman (2014)
• National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
• Non-Stop (2014)
• Ocean’s 8 (2018)
• Paddington 2 (2018)
• Parenthood (1989)
• Premonition (2007)
• Rango (2011)
• Red Dragon (2002)
• R.I.P.D. (2013)
• Robin Hood (2010)
• Runaway Bride (1999)
• Safe House (2012)
• Self/Less (2015)
• Scarface (1983)
• Shark Tale (2004)
• Sinister II (2015)
• Sister Act (1992)
• Sister Act 2 (1993)
• Slender Man (2018)
• Star Trek (2009)
• Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
• Spookley: The Square Pumpkin (2004)
• Spy Game (2001)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
• Tenet (2020)
• The Beast (2020)
• The Bridesmaids (2011)
• The Book of Eli (2010)
• The Boy Next Door (2015)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• The Golden Child (1986)
• The Goonies (1985)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• The Hangover (2009)
• The Hangover Part 2 (2011)
• The Hangover Part 3 (2013)
• The Interpreter (2005)
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• The Karate Kid (1984)
• The Karate Kid II (1986)
• The Karate Kid III (1989)
• The Land Before Time (1988)
• The Last Stand (2013)
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
• The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
• The Little Things (2021)
• The Longest Yard (2005)
• The Martian (2015)
• The Mask (1994)
• The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution (2023)
• The Nun (2023)
• The Nun II (2023)
• The Other Guys (2010)
• The Phantom Thread (2017)
• The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
• The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
• The Sentinel (1977)
• The Strangers (2008)
• The Sweetest Thing (2002)
• The Way Back (2020)
• Tower Heist (2011)
• Traffic (2000)
• Training Day (2001)
• True Grit (2010)
• We’re The Millers (2013)
• When a Stranger Calls (2006)
• White Chicks (2004)
• White House Down (2013)
• White Noise (2005)
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

January 2nd

• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

January 3rd

• Side Dish (2018)

Series

January 1st

• 100 Days My Prince
• Hotel Del Luna
• Lost (Seasons 1-6)
• Star Trek: Prodigy (Season 2)
• Tacoma FD (Seasons 1-4)

January 4th

• Mr Robot (Seasons 1-5)