What's Leaving Netflix in November 2026: 7 Movies to Watch Before They Go, Most by Halloween Night

The last trick-or-treater is gone, the porch light is off, and you scroll past Speed again, the way you have all year, promising yourself you'll get to it eventually. Eventually is Saturday. On Netflix's own November list, Speed, Nightcrawler, Starship Troopers, Under the Skin and Steel Magnolias all leave the US service on November 1, so Halloween night is your safe last chance.

Here's the short answer, checked against Netflix's official Tudum list and trade coverage as of October 27, 2026. Everything below is still included with any US Netflix subscription right now. No rentals, no add-ons. That changes on the dates listed, and Netflix hasn't said where these titles go next, so if one matters to you, watch it this week rather than counting on finding it somewhere else.

Everything Leaving Netflix in November 2026 (US)

Title	Leaves Netflix (US)	Right now
13 Going on 30, 42, American Sniper, Black Adam, Catch and Release, Eat Pray Love, Fast Five, Hitch, Jumanji (1995)	Nov. 1	Included
Nightcrawler, Pompeii, Speed, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Starship Troopers (1997), Steel Magnolias, Under the Skin	Nov. 1	Included
Broadchurch (all three seasons)	Nov. 1	Included
The End of the F***ing World (series)	Nov. 5	Included
Safe Haven	Nov. 6	Included
The Lost City	Nov. 9	Included
The Big C (all four seasons)	Nov. 14	Included
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), The Shallows	Nov. 15	Included
Saw X, True Romance	Nov. 19	Included
The Resident (series)	Nov. 20	Included
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life	Nov. 25	Included

One honest footnote: What's on Netflix keeps a longer, preliminary list that adds titles such as The Warriors, Selma, Moonage Daydream and Paddington in Peru. Some of its entries come from the site's own tracking rather than a Netflix announcement, so we've kept them out of the table until Netflix confirms them. If one of those is on your list, assume the clock is running.

Even the official list is a lot of homework. So here are the seven worth rearranging your week for, in the order they disappear, with one scene to wait for in each.

1. Speed (1994)

Leaves November 1. Start the night easy. Jan de Bont's bus movie is a pure machine: a bomb, a speedometer, and a needle that can't drop below 50. The detail that makes it better on a rewatch is the opening, where Keanu Reeves's SWAT cop works a bomb in a stalled elevator. De Bont, the cinematographer of Die Hard, suggested that opening because he had once been trapped in an elevator while working on that film. You can feel a real fear behind it.

Wait for: Dennis Hopper on the phone, purring "Pop quiz, hotshot." Joss Whedon, brought in a week before filming to rework the dialogue, is credited with the line, and with turning Jack from a wisecracking hotshot into the polite, earnest cop Reeves plays.

2. Starship Troopers (1997)

Leaves November 1. In 1997 a lot of people watched this and saw a dumb, gorgeous bug movie. Paul Verhoeven was making fun of them. He told The Guardian he borrowed from Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will for the cheerful recruitment reel that opens the film, and added, "No one saw it at the time." He also cast actors whose faces looked, in his words to Interview Magazine, "kind of sculptures," like heroes on a poster.

Wait for: any battle that ends with the camera pulling back to reveal the footage is now a recruitment ad. Once you see the trick, the whole movie turns into a smile with teeth.

3. Nightcrawler (2014)

Leaves November 1. Los Angeles at 3 a.m., sodium lights on wet asphalt, and Jake Gyllenhaal's Lou Bloom chasing police scanners with a cheap camcorder. Gyllenhaal lost more than 20 pounds for the part and told Variety he pictured Lou as permanently hungry, "like a coyote that comes down from the hills at night." Look at his face in the first scenes: the cheekbones are doing half the acting.

Wait for: the car crash where Lou drags a victim's body a few feet into better light before he starts filming. It's the moment the movie stops being about a weirdo and starts being about the people who buy his footage.

4. Under the Skin (2013)

Leaves November 1. If you want something genuinely eerie for Halloween night, this is the one. Scarlett Johansson plays an alien driving a van around Scotland, picking up men. As Roger Ebert's site reported, Jonathan Glazer hid cameras in the van and had Johansson pick up non-actors who didn't know, at first, that they were being filmed. The crew stopped and asked permission only when the conversation was worth keeping. So when a man in the passenger seat fumbles a compliment, that awkwardness is real.

Wait for: the beach. A family is in trouble in the surf, a baby is crying on the rocks, and Johansson watches without blinking. It's the coldest scene on this list, and the rest of the movie spends its running time slowly melting that ice.

5. Steel Magnolias (1989)

Leaves November 1. Here's where the night peaks. Robert Harling based the story partly on his sister, Susan Harling Robinson, who died in 1985 of complications from type 1 diabetes. Julia Roberts plays Shelby, the character modeled on her. Knowing that, the beauty-parlor banter between Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis plays like a brother writing down how the women in his family sounded, so he'd never forget.

The film was shot in Natchitoches, Louisiana, in the summer of 1988, and the house where much of it was filmed later became a bed and breakfast. Wait for: the graveside scene. Sally Field's grief cracks wide open, and then the women save her the only way they know how, with a joke that lands on Ouiser. You will laugh while you're still crying, and that's the whole movie in one minute.

6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Leaves November 15. A colder kind of comfort for the week after Halloween. David Fincher's thriller won the Oscar for Best Film Editing, and you can feel the cutting in the way research scenes (photos, files, archives) move like chase scenes. Rooney Mara's Lisbeth Salander barely raises her voice and still owns every room.

Wait for: the opening titles. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Karen O's cover of "Immigrant Song" plays over figures drowning in black ooze. Blur Studio's Tim Miller told Art of the Title that Fincher approved the look by saying it was "like a nightmare of Lisbeth's." Watch it as her bad dream and the movie that follows makes more sense.

7. True Romance (1993)

Leaves November 19. End the list with a love story, even a blood-spattered one. Quentin Tarantino wrote it, Tony Scott directed it, and the cast is a parade: Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as the newlyweds on the run, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt on a couch, and Dennis Hopper facing off with Christopher Walken in the famous "Sicilian scene." Hopper later said the only improvised lines in that scene were two vegetable insults: "eggplant" and "cantaloupe." Tarantino wrote the rest.

Spoiler warning: the next paragraph discusses the ending.

Scott shot the film in story order, and by the last days he had fallen in love with Clarence and Alabama. Tarantino's script killed Clarence. Scott let them both live. Knowing that, the final beach scene feels less like a Hollywood cop-out and more like a director refusing to say goodbye.

Why a Leaving List Hits Differently

There's a funny thing about these seven. Almost all of them are about time running out: a bus that can't slow down, a young woman who risks her health to have a baby, a cameraman racing the police to the scene, two kids on the run who know the mob is right behind them. A leaving list does the same thing to us. The movie we ignored for a year suddenly matters because it has a date stamped on it. That's a little silly, but it's also the truth about how we love things. We notice them when they're about to go.

So pick one for Saturday. Under the Skin if you want a chill, Speed if you want a crowd on the couch, Steel Magnolias if you want to call your mom afterward. If you'd rather stay up even later, our list of movies for when you can't sleep picks up where Nightcrawler leaves off. And if True Romance leaves you wanting another pair of outlaws with a heart, try our review of One Battle After Another.

And when you rewatch Speed on Saturday, keep your eyes on that first elevator, swaying over the shaft. It started as a cinematographer's own bad afternoon, stuck between floors on the set of Die Hard.