When the poet Robert Frost wrote “Nothing gold can stay,” he wasn’t talking about the tragedy that happens at the end of each month as a handful of streaming television and movie titles disappear from Netflix. But never the less, no sentiment better captures our feelings of bittersweet sorrow as we say goodbye to timeless coming-of-age movies like The Breakfast Club or romantic comedies like You've Got Mail.
So get started on making the most of your Christmas vacation by binge streaming all these titles before they make like the year 2014 and disappear on Jan. 1. But don’t cry too hard for their farewell, because starting New Year’s Day, the entirety of Friendswill be there for you to console you in this time of loss.
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- A Mighty Heart (2007)
- A River Runs Through It (1992)
- Backdraft (1991)
- Bad Boys (1995)
- Batman (1989)
- Beethoven (1992)
- Beethoven's 2nd (1993)
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Boyz n the Hood (1991)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
- Carrie (1976)
- D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Far and Away (1992)
- G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Seasons 1–2 (1983–1986)
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Good Burger (1997)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Happy Gilmore (1996)
- Hitch (2005)
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
- Kiss the Girls (1997)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Love Actually (2003)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- My Girl (1991)
- My Girl 2 (1994)
- Red Dawn (1984)
- Rocky IV (1985)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Saved! (2004)
- Scary Movie 2 (2001)
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Stargate (1994)
- Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless (2010)
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan! (1978)
- The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- The Company Men (2010)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- The Longest Yard (1974)
- The Mighty Ducks (1992)
- The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
- The Parent Trap (1998)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- The Wedding Planner (2001)
- Titanic (1997)
- Tombstone (1993)
- Transformers: Generation 1, Seasons 1–4 (1984–1987)
- Turner and Hooch (1989)
- You've Got Mail (1998)
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