10 Must-See Movies Expiring From Netflix in January 2019

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Photo credit: Paramount Pictures

From Esquire

While Netflix adds countless new movies to its streaming lineup every month, it also makes room by letting go of some old titles. While that doesn't mean they're gone for good (you never know when these movies will come back) you should watch them before they leave the streaming service in January.

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Photo credit: Columbia Pictures

Bram Stoker's Dracula (January 1)

Francis Ford Coppola directs this lush adaptation of the classic gothic horror novel, with an ingenious Gary Oldman as the shape-shifting Transylvanian count who wreaks havoc on innocent Londoners.

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Photo credit: Warner Bros.

Interview With a Vampire (January 1)

Another sexy vampire flick, this one is slightly more homoerotic. Tom Cruise stars as the devious vampire Lestat, with Brad Pitt as his existential eternal companion, in this adaptation of the bestselling Anne Rice novel.

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Photo credit: Universal Pictures

Love Actually (January 1)

We hope you got your Love Actually fix over the Christmas season, because Richard Curtis's equally beloved and loathed romantic comedy will face the Netflix chopping block at the beginning of the new year.

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Photo credit: Columbia Pictures

Marie Antoinette (January 1)

Sofia Coppola breathed fresh air into the stuffy costume genre, with Kirsten Dunst leading a brilliant cast to tell the tale of the infamous French queen who lost her head. (But first: She dances to The Cure.)

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Photo credit: Paramount Pictures

The Godfather (January 1)

Francis Ford Coppola's groundbreaking mafia classic-as well as its great sequel and the mediocre third film in the trilogy-will sleep with the fishes on January 1. Or, you know, it just won't be able to stream here.

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Photo credit: Warner Bros.

The Shining (January 1)

Jack Nicolson stars as a writer who slowly loses his sanity while serving as the winter caretaker for a spooky old hotel in Stanley Kubrick's horrifying (and brilliant) adaptation of Stephen King's novel.

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Photo credit: RADiUS-TWC

It Follows (January 13)

Think of it as the worst possible STD: After she sleeps with the new man she's seeing, a young woman learns that she will now be followed by a mysterious and deadly being that will stop at nothing to kill her-that is, unless she passes it on to someone else.

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Photo credit: Buena Vista Pictures

Armageddon (January 14)

Bruce Willis leads a rag-tag group of oil drillers who are tasked with flying into space, landing on an asteroid that's headed for earth, and destroying it from the inside before it makes collision with our planet. Catch it before it leaves Netflix, otherwise you're definitely gonna miss this thing.

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Photo credit: Lucasfilm

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (January 18)

The first stand-alone Star Wars feature stars Felicity Jones as a resistance member who, along with a band of freedom fighters, must intercept the plans for Darth Vader's deadly Death Star.

Photo credit: New Line Cinema
Photo credit: New Line Cinema

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (January 19)

The first of Peter Jackson's acclaimed Tolkien trilogy stars Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, an unassuming hobbit who must trek across Middle Earth with a group of elves, dwarves, and humans in order to destroy the evil relic known as Sauron's ring.


Below, the full list of movies and shows leaving Netflix in January:

January 1

Beethoven's Christmas Adventure

Blade

Blade II

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Catwoman

Face/Off

Finding Neverland

Friday Night Lights

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

I Am Ali

Interview with the Vampire

Into the Wild

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Kung Fu Panda

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Fifteenth Year

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Seventeenth Year

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Sixteenth Year

Like Water for Chocolate

Love Actually

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Marie Antoinette

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Parents

Million Dollar Baby

Monsters vs. Aliens

Mortal Kombat

Rent

Sharknado

Sharknado 2: The Second One

Sharknado 3

Sharknado: The 4th Awakens

Sharknado 5

The 6th Day

The Godfather

The Godfather: Part II

The Godfather: Part III

The Green Mile

The Iron Giant

The Princess Diaries

The Queen of the Damned

The Reaping

The Shining

January 4

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

January 13

It Follows

January 14

Armageddon

January 18

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

January 19

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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