Spring is in full swing, and with the passing of one month and the arrival of a new one comes yet another shakeup in the Netflix catalog. Several of the greatest films of all time will be leaving the service next month, so whether you’re a sci-fi nerd, a comic-book die-hard, or an Oscar junkie, take note because this is your last chance to catch these movies on streaming for a while. Here are the best movies leaving Netflix in May 2025.
‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’
Leaving May 1
When sci-fi nerds talk about the hallmarks and thematic preoccupations of their favorite genre, odds are they’re talking about Blade Runner. An utter masterpiece of cyberpunk, the film follows Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), an officer with the title of “Blade Runner”, and the task of killing Replicants — androids that are almost impossible to distinguish from people.
Less an action thriller than a meditative art film, Ridley Scott’s best movie contemplates what it means to be human in a world where technology has evolved enough to seem identical. Empathy, Blade Runner posits, might be the key. This is all before getting into the breathtaking visuals or eerily prescient world-building. The film, available on Netflix in the form of Ridley Scott’s “Final Cut”, leaves the service on May 1.
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Release Date
June 25, 1982
Runtime
117 minutes
‘Schindler’s List’
Leaving May 1
As impossible as it seems today, there was once a time when Steven Spielberg was seen as a director who was all style and no substance. That all changed with Schindler’s List, an emotionally eviscerating portrait of the Holocaust. Liam Neeson has never been better as the titular Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved a thousand Jewish refugees by employing them in his factories. Nor has Ralph Fiennes as Nazi Party officer Amon Goeth, one of the most casually terrifying screen villains of all time.
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It’s a startlingly mature and restrained work that proved Spielberg’s naysayers wrong once and for all and won him Oscars for Best Picture and Director. If you want to check out one of the saddest films of all time on Netflix, May 1 is your last chance.
Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ Trilogy
Leaving May 1
Even in an era in which comic-book films seemingly dominate the multiplexes, few still hold a candle to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. Before moviegoers got a taste of Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland as the web-slinger, an entire generation grew up on the endearingly awkward Tobey Maguire, who almost immediately proved one of the most inspired casting decisions for a comic book film ever.
The rogue gallery in Raimi’s trilogy still dominates most in the genre, with Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin being nothing short of utter perfection, and Alfred Molina’s complex work as Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 was arguably Oscar-worthy. Spider-Man 3 was a bit of a disappointing conclusion, but it still had its moments, and the trilogy as a whole, which leaves Netflix on May 1, holds up like gangbusters.
Release Date
May 3, 2002
Runtime
121 Minutes
‘Whiplash’
Leaving May 1
Arguably no indie film from the 2010s has held the kind of lasting legacy of Whiplash, which launched the directorial career of Damien Chazelle and won the criminally underrated J.K. Simmons an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Simmons plays Terrence Fletcher, a music instructor by way of Full Metal Jacket, and his contentious relationship with his newest pupil, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller).
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Determined to become one of the great jazz drummers, Neiman pushes himself past his emotional limits and subjects himself to constant verbal abuse from Fletcher, leading to a fascinating meditation on the line between perfection and obsession. It all leads to a stunning mic drop of an ending, one of the best of the 2010s, and May 1 is your last chance to see that unfold on Netflix.
Release Date
October 10, 2014
Runtime
107 Minutes
For a complete list of films leaving Netflix in May 2025, see the list below:
May 1
- 99 Homes (2014)
- A Man Wanted (2017)
- About Time (2012)
- Always (1989)
- Annie (2014)
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
- Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
- Definitely, Maybe (2008)
- Erin Brockovich (2000)
- Europa Report (2013)
- Friday (1995)
- Fury (2014)
- Heroes (1977)
- King Kong (2005)
- Little Fockers (2010)
- Maid in Manhattan (2002)
- Meet the Parents (2000)
- Meet the Fockers (2004)
- Next Friday (2000)
- Notting Hill (2000)
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Queen and Slim (2019)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
- Spider-Man (2002)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
- Tank (1984)
- The Adolf Eichmann Trial (2011)
- The Frozen Ground (2013)
- The Good Shepherd (2006)
- The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
- The Road to El Dorado (2000)
- The Secret of My Success (1987)
- The Whale (2022)
- The Wiz (1978)
- This Is 40 (2012)
- Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)
- Waterworld (1995)
- Wedding Crashers (2005)
- Whiplash (2014)
- Woody Woodpecker (2017)
- You, Me and Dupree (2006)
May 4
- Family Blood (2018)
- Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
- Rowdy Fellow (2014)
- Thammudu (1999)
- Three (2012)
May 5
- The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
May 6
- Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres (2022)
- Sí, Mi Amor (2020)
- Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2022)
May 7
- Emergency Travel (2019)
- Red Card (2017)
- Si Doel the Movie (2018)
- Si Doel the Movie 2 (2019)
May 8
- Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2022)
May 9
- Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)
- The Lost City (2022)
May 10
- Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)
- Rambo (2008)
- Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
- The Great Magician (2011)
May 13
- Bigger Than Africa (2018)
- Journey of an African Colony (2018)
May 14
- Borrego (2022)
- Dilan 1990 (2018)
- Dilan 1991 (2019)
May 15
- Crossroads (2002)
- Hamid (2018)
- Trolls Band Together (2023)
May 16
- Mutt (2023)
- The Sum of All Fears (2002)
- Tully (2018)
May 19
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