Like all of its streaming brethren, Netflix doesn’t get to hold on to all of its movies forever.
When Halloween gives way to the first day of November, dozens of titles will be departing Netflix for some other streamer.
To help you make your streaming plans in the week you have left, Watch With Us has selected the five best Netflix movies to watch before they leave on November 1.
There are even a handful of true classics among them, as you’ll see below.
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‘Ali’ (2001)
Getting cast as Muhammad Ali was one of the biggest roles that Will Smith has ever had. Smith may not have won an Oscar for Ali, but it’s by far one of his best performances. The movie tracks the life story of Cassius Clay Jr. (Smith) in the years before he renamed himself Ali. Because his religious beliefs led him to refuse the Vietnam draft, Ali is stripped of his boxing title and sent to prison.
Upon his release, Ali embarks on a quest to reclaim the title he never lost. But standing in his way back to the top are epic battles against his boxing rivals, Joe Frazier (James Toney) and George Foreman (Charles Shufford).
Ali is streaming on Netflix through October 31.
‘La La Land’ (2016)
Few modern movie musicals land with the impact that La La Land had nearly a decade ago. Sebastian “Seb” Wilder (Ryan Gosling) and Amelia “Mia” Dolan (Emma Stone) are a pair of dreamers living in Los Angeles, where they are occasionally drawn into show-stopping song-and-dance numbers.
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Although Seb and Mia initially resist their mutual attraction, love is the gravity that pulls them together into a serious relationship. Unfortunately, their bond may not be enough to hold them together when the weight of their dreams threatens to destroy them.
La La Land is streaming on Netflix through October 31.
‘The English Patient’ (1996)
The English Patient won Best Picture and eight other Academy Awards, and it’s arguably the defining romantic epic of the ’90s. Ralph Fiennes plays the title character, whose real name is László Almásy. After being badly burned in a plane crash, Almásy doesn’t remember the details of his life or even his own name. But he is cared for by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), who is having an affair with a soldier named Kip (Naveen Andrews).
In flashbacks, Almásy has an adulterous affair of his own with Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas). In the present, a Canadian intelligence operative, David Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), interrogates Almásy and suspects that he may have had a role in the death of Katherine and her husband, Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth).
The English Patient is streaming on Netflix through October 31.
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‘The Running Man’ (1987)
The Running Man wasn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s first action flick, but you’ll see his non-Terminator persona develop in this Stephen King adaptation. In the dystopian future of 2017, the government has created a deadly reality show called The Running Man, which pits alleged criminals against each other in lethal battles to the death.
Ben Richards (Schwarzenegger) is an innocent man who was framed for a massacre he didn’t commit. He may also be the first contestant with a real shot at surviving The Running Man. The show’s host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), can’t allow that to happen, no matter how far he has to go.
The Running Man is streaming on Netflix through October 31.
‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ (1971)
Roald Dahl may not have been happy with the first adaptation of his book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the slightly renamed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a cinematic treasure. Gene Wilder is charmingly enigmatic during his hilarious performance as Willy Wonka, a candy maker who invites five children to tour his factory.
Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) lucks into one of the golden tickets that lets him and his grandfather, Joe (Jack Albertson), join the tour. What they don’t know is that Wonka has designed the tour as a test of character, and almost everyone is doomed to fail.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is streaming on Netflix through October 31.
