Netflix to drop over 80 streaming options starting Jan. 1

SALT LAKE CITY — If you're planning to stay home New Year's Day and stream classic movies on Netflix, you may be out of luck.

More than 80 movies and a handful of TV shows — including "Titanic," "Top Gun" and some seasons of "Saturday Night Live" — will no longer be available for streaming through the site as of Wednesday, according to a post on Reddit.

It was not clear who posted the list, but a search on Netflix for many of the titles reveals that they will indeed expire Wednesday for Netflix's nearly 40 million streaming subscribers. The company's DVD customers — it has about 7 million in the U.S. — may still order the discs in the mail.

Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a representative told CNET that the company routinely adds and deletes titles from its streaming service due to licensing contracts for exclusive content.

The list of streaming movies due to expire includes such favorites as "Being John Malkovich," "Braveheart," "Do the Right Thing," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Flashdance," "Roman Holiday," "Platoon" and "War Games."

(It also includes "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" and "Killer Klowns From Outer Space.")

Among the TV shows being purged from Netflix's streaming menu: the original "Dark Shadows," "Mr Bean" and "The Kids in the Hall."

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List of titles Netflix will drop:

TV shows expiring January 1, 2014:

• Dark Shadows (original from late 1960s)
• Saturday Night Live The 2000s
• Mr Bean
• The Kids In The Hall
• Perfect 10 Model Boxing (Volume 1)

Movies expiring December 29, 2013:

• Transformers Dark Of The Moon

Movies expiring January 4, 2014:

• Alice In Wonderland (1951 Disney)
• Immortals
• Dynamite Warrior

Movies expiring January 1, 2014:

• The Rundown
• Brick
• Being John Malkovich
• Back To School
• Battle Of Britain
• Born On the Fourth Of July
• Braveheart
• Body Of Evidence
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Man On The Moon
• Lionheart
• 1492: Conquest Of Paradise
• Killer Klowns From Outer Space
• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
• FX
• Do The Right Thing
• Desperado
• Up In Smoke
• Can't Hardly Wait
• Capote
• Biloxi Blues
• Seed Of Chucky
• Jarhead
• As Good As It Gets
• In The Name Of The Father
• Inside Deep Throat (documentary)
• I'm Gonna Get You Sucka
• In Like Flint
• Hard Target
• Foxy Brown
• Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell
• Gallipoli
• Half Baked
• Flashdance
• 50 First Dates
• For Love Of The Game
• The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
• The Bad News Bears
• The Russia House
• The Secret Of Nimh
• Revenge OF The Ninja
• Roman Holiday
• Rob Roy
• Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
• Remo Williams
• Requiem For A Dream
• Quigley Down Under
• Pumpkinhead
• Platoon
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico
• October Sky
• Mystery Men
• The Skulls
• Titanic
• Ronin
• Romeo And Juliet (1968)
• Tales From The Crypt: Bordello Of Blood
• Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
• The Woman In Red
• Top Gun
• Street Fighter
• TNT Jackson
• Serpico
• Seed Of Chucky
• Scary Movie
• Running Scared
• Troll II
• True Grit (1969)
• War And Peace
• Talk Radio
• War Games
• We Were Soldiers
• What Dreams May Come
• Windtalkers
• World Trade Center
• The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
• The Odd Couple (1968)
• The Mask Of Zorro
• The Great Train Robbery
• The Faculty
• The Dream Team
• Best Of Times
• Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
• Species

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