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Netflix does two things that can be incredibly frustrating.
The first is using an algorithm to try and predict what you want to watch. If someone comes into your home, be it a nephew or friend, and puts on a Christmas movie, you’ll have to wade through snow and tinsel for weeks trying to find something decent to watch.
In the process, it also hides content from you.
There are ways to unlock it – head here for more on that.
The second thing is removing content without warning so that when you eventually get around to watching that movie you saved to your list, it’s gone.
Well, not today.
Today you’ll be warned, with The Huffington Post’s list of films about to exit the streaming service.
We picked five to look out for:
Inception
This sci-fi action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan questions what’s real, what isn’t, and how ideas can start out small and then take over.
It’s a classic and you’ve probably already seen it twice, but if you’re keen to watch it again, you’d better get on that before March 31.
Molly’s Game
In this biographical crime film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, a skier with her sights set on the Olympics suffers a career-ending injury and has to figure out what to do with her life.
She finds her way into an underground poker league and rises in the ranks.
This is disappearing from your list on March 31.
Taxi Driver
This is one of those films that you have to watch at least once in your lifetime.
It’s a psychological thriller written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese in which a Vietnam veteran with insomnia takes a job as a taxi driver in New York City. He starts to obsess over the crime in the area and fixates on a sex worker played by Jodie Foster.
It’s leaving Netflix on March 31.
Silver Linings Playbook
This romantic comedy written and directed by David O. Russell follows two people living with mental illness who meet and decide to compete in a dance competition.
It will be leaving your screen on March 16.
Ghost Rider
Eh, why not?
It’s a bit of fun from the early days of the Marvel cinema franchise in which a teen trades his soul to a demon in hopes of curing his father’s cancer. His father dies anyway.
He then grows up to become a stunt driver (Nicolas Cage), at which point the demon reappears and forces him to become a flame-covered bounty hunter called the Ghost Rider.
You have until March 26 to get your Nicolas Cage fix.
You can check out the full list of vanishing films here.
[source:huffpost]
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