If you’ve ever scrolled through Netflix for hours on end and thought to yourself, “Is my favorite movie and TV show streaming service getting smaller?” then you’d be absolutely right. All Flicks (a website that collects Netflix’s entire library into an easily-searchable place), reported that Netflix’s library has shrunk by a third in the past two and a half years. In 2014, the library contained 8,103 titles. As of March 23 of this year, it offers only 5,532.
Over the past few years, more and more streaming services have come up (Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Go, etc), leading to more competition to see which company gets which movies and TV shows on their platform. As more companies want the same content, the price to have those titles on the platform increases, which means less content on the platforms themselves.
There’s some good news: Netflix has been producing more and more original content for its platform. Back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Netflix’s head of content Ted Sarandos said the platform will have over 600 hours of original content in 2016, including 31 new shows exclusive to Netflix.
This is great for Netflix and for fans of its original content. But it might dismay some longtime users of the service who go to the platform for movies and TV shows that they don’t want to buy or watch separately. After all, Netflix was the shiny new replacement for video stores like Blockbuster, so what happens when its library starts to dwindle?
But let’s not worry about this for now. Here’s what’s leaving and coming to Netflix this month.
COMING TO:
May 1
– A Study in Sherlock
– Admiral
– Ava’s Possessions
– Bring It On
– Bring It On: All or Nothing
– Easy Living (Seasons 1-3)
– El Crítico
– FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue
– Finger of God
– Gary Gulman: It’s About Time
– Great Expectations
– I Am Road Comic
– Jesus Town, USA
– Just Friends
– Kevin Hart Presents Keith Robinson: Back of The Bus Funny
– Kevin Hart Presents Lil Rel: RELevent
– Kevin Hart Presents: Plastic Cup Boyz
– LoliRock (Season 1)
– My Last Day Without You
– The Nutty Professor
– Off the Map
– Palm Trees in the Snow
– Pleasantville
– Shark Lake
– She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
– Sixteen Candles
– Sugar Coated
– Terra
– Things We Lost in the Fire
– To Catch a Thief
– Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream
– Who’s Driving Doug
May 2
– The Replacements
– Submerged
– The Keeping Room
– Shanghai Knights
– Fourth Man Out
– Marseille
– Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
– Baby Daddy (Season 5)
– Grace and Frankie (Season 2)
– Young & Hungry (Season 3)
– The Chosen Ones
– A Stand Up Guy
– Eisenstein in Guanajuato
May 11
– Chelsea
– Goosebumps
– They Look Like People
– Bleeding Heart
– We Are Still Here
– Yo Soy la Salsa
– American Dad! (Season 10)
– Kindergarten Cop 2
– Slasher (Season 1)
– A Girl Like Her
– Benders (Season 1)
May 20
– Lady Dynamite (Season 1)
– David and Goliath
– The Letters
– The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death
– Electricity
– Graceland (Season 3)
– The Last Man on the Moon
– Bloodline (Season 2)
– Chef’s Table (Season 2)
– The Do-Over
– Mako Mermaids (Season 4)
– Hell on Wheels (Season 5)
LEAVING:
May 1
– The Animatrix
– Anna Karenina
– Author! Author!
– Beware of Mr. Baker
– Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
– Broadway Idiot
– Bus Stop
– Election
– The Good Life
– Holiday Engagement
– Kiss of Death (1995)*
– Mad Hot Ballroom
– Mona Lisa Is Missing
– Ralphie May: Austin-tatious
– Terms And Conditions May Apply
– That’s What I Am
– Thérèse
– Truth or Die
– Young & Handsome: An Evening with Jeff Garlin
May 2
– Slightly Single in L.A.
– JFK: A President Betrayed
– JFK: The Smoking Gun
– Stealing Harvard
– Finding Normal
– Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
– Cracks
– Tears of the Sun
– The Score
– The Ladykillers
– Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
– The Master of Disguise
– Offender
May 15
– A Pope For Everyone
– Bratz: BFF: Best Friends Forever
– The Greatest Places: IMAX
– In Her Skin
– Inhale
– The Quest (Season 1)
– Search for the Great Sharks: IMAX
– Tiger Eyes
– Blade Runner: Theatrical Cut
– The Last Tycoon
– Peep World
– Struck by Lightning
– Ida
– Stand Off
– Black Hawk Down
– Escape from Tomorrow
– Run & Jump
– Vanishing of the Bees
– Barfi!
– These Birds Walk
– Clerks

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Blade Runner: The Theatrical Cut is one of many titles leaving Netflix this month.