Top five movies and shows Netflix users should watch before they leave this week includes 'greatest film ever'
Netflix is doing some spring cleaning and waving goodbye to several movies to make room for more, but UNILAD RANKED has caught some of the top titles just before they leave.
In response to the clearout, What's On Netflix has released a list of which titles are set to go and when.
While this is hardly set to have much of an impact on the amount of time you sit scrolling through categories trying to work out what you really want to watch, you should pay attention because the list contains some absolute hits which you'll probably miss.
So this week's UNILAD RANKED is bringing you the top five movies on Netflix's 'on the way out' list for May 1 - giving you a grand total of six days to get watching before they go.
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Now, Boiling Point - starring Adolescence's Stephen Graham - is on the list, however, it's the limited series not the film set to leave the platform - so don't come at me, and making the fifth place instead is an even more hard-hitting watch.
5) Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
In order of Rotten Tomatoes score, Dallas Buyers Club makes it into this week's top five with a tomatometer of 91 and mirroring popcornmeter of 91.
Written by Craig Borten (Shantaram) and Melisa Wallack (Mirror Mirror), the biographical drama was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Demolition). The producers are Robbie Brenner (Barbie) and Rachel Winter (The Space Between).
The film stars the legendary Matthew McConaughey (True Detective), Jared Leto (Requiem for a Dream) and Jennifer Garner (13 Going on 30).
The release is set in the mid-1980s and centers around a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS who establishes a club to try and support others struggling to receive treatment.
The script for the film was reportedly turned down 'over one hundred times,' according to IMDB.
Filmed across just 25 days, the movie's budget was so low the money given for makeup was reportedly only $250. Despite this, the film went on to win the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
One Twitter user wrote: "Seen @DallasBuyers Club! Great story,astoundin performances by @JaredLeto & @McConaughey! Finally a film that makes one think."
Another user named Mike: "So, in my quest to watch movies I’ve missed over the years, I noticed DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, so I watched it last night. What a powerful movie, with amazing performances. Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it."
So, don't be like Mike, make sure you see Dallas Buyers Club before it leaves Netflix on May 1.
However, if you have seen it already and don't fancy it again, have you seen the fourth on the list?
4) Blade Runner (1982)
Coming in with a strong tomatometer of 94 and popcornmeter of 90 - a median of 92 - the 1982 release is an oldie but a goldie.
With a screenplay by Hampton Fancher (The Minus Man) and David Peoples (Unforgiven), the film was directed by none other than Ridley Scott (Gladiator II) and produced by Michael Deeley (The Italian Job).
It stars Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark), Rutger Hauer (Nighthawks) and Sean Young (Fatal Instinct).
The sci-fi film centers around a former policeman turned special agent who's sent on a mission to stop a group of threatening artificial beings, but will something - or someone - jeopardize the assignment?
Sir Ridley Scott reportedly regards the movie as one of his most complete and personal and it certainly went down a treat with viewers too.
"I'm a huge fan," one Twitter user wrote.
A second wrote: "It's genre defining cinema, a must watch."
3) Whiplash (2014)
Crashing into the top three is Whiplash with a tomatometer of 94 and matching popcornmeter of 94 too.
The psychological drama was written and directed by Damien Chazelle (La La Land) and produced by Jason Blum (The Invisible Man), Helen Estabrook (The Front Runner), Michel Litvak (Nightcrawler) and David Lancaster (Eye in the Sky).
It stars Miles Teller (The Gorge) and J.K. Simmons (Invincible), playing the roles of a music student and teacher, both striving for perfection to destructive degrees.
Despite being dubbed one of the best films of not just the 21st Century but of all time by some, writer and director Chazelle reportedly struggled so much to get funding for the film he turned it into a short and submitted it to 2013's Sundance Film Festival.
He later secured its funding after winning the Short Film Jury Award and the film was shot in just 19 days.
The nail-biter saw Teller literally slapped, alongside doing 'probably 99 percent of the drumming' editor Tom Cross told The Hollywood Reporter and the film saw Simmons won a staggering 47 awards for his role as Fletcher.
As one Twitter user said: "I don't clap when airplanes land but I clapped at this ending. Top 5 movie of all time."
"Still having nightmares," another added.
A third resolved: "One of the best movies ever."
And the runner up on this week's UNILAD RANKED channels a similar level of energy but in a very different way...
2) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
The animated superhero release scored a solid tomatometer of 95 and popcornmeter of 94 - a median of 94.5.
Written by Phil Lord (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) and Dave Callaham (The Expendables), the release was also produced by Lord and Miller alongside Amy Pascal (Venom), Avi Arad (Morbius) and Christina Steinberg (Bee Movie).
Featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales - a.k.a. Spider-Man - the movie is the sequel to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and is the second film in the Spider-Verse franchise.
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K Thompson, it stars Shameik Moore (Dope) as the voice of Morales, Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) as the voice of Gwen Stacy - a.k.a Spider-Woman - and Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) as Jeff Morales.
The movie sees Spider-Man reunite with Spider-Woman, the superheroes joining forces not only with each other but unexpectedly coming across a whole other set of potential allies - but does that mean they'll all be able to work together smoothly as a team?
A 14-year-old animator named Preston Mutanga reportedly caught the attention of Lord and Miller with a Twitter video recreating the entire film's trailer with Lego, so much so, he was hired to animate the sequence within the Lego universe - Earth-13122.
"This soundtrack still goes hard," one Twitter user wrote.
Another added: "This is a work of art."
Thankfully, while the film is leaving Netflix, it's reportedly officially coming to Disney+ on May 1 instead - *wipes brow*.
But what about the number one film set to leave the platform which has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score?
1) Schindler's List (1993)
With a near-perfect tomatometer of 98 and similarly mega popcornmeter of 97, Schindler's List comes in at the top spot with a median of 97.5.
Written by Steven Zaillian, Schindler's List is based on Thomas Keneally's 1982 historical novel Schindler's Ark.
It's directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Spielberg alongside Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig.
The movie is based on the true story of a factory full of Jewish workers and factory businessman Oskar Schindler - the owner gradually realizing what is happening to Jews at the hands of the Nazis in German-occupied Poland during WW2. The question is - how will he react?
Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley.
So alike was Fiennes to his character of Amon Göth, a survivor named Mila Pfefferberg - who's portrayed in the film - reportedly began shaking uncontrollably when she was first introduced to him on set.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter last year, Spielberg reflected on the movie as being the work he's 'proudest of'.
And despite being released over 20 years ago, the hard-hitting film has stayed with viewers - one Twitter user stating: "A truly special film."
"It's a masterpiece I cried fr," another added.
And a final resolved: "I mean imo it's the greatest movie ever created and I know I'm not alone there. Even those who don't have it 1, it's very rare to find this not in a top 10-15."
Well, about the top of a top five? So, don't miss out, catch the titles before they leave Netflix US as quick as you can...
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Poppy Bilderbeck