Last Chance to Stream: Top Netflix Flicks Leaving December 2024!
The Best Movies Leaving Streaming Services in December 2024
As the year comes to a close, streaming services are purging their libraries to make room for new content. While that means plenty of exciting additions in 2025, it’s also a chance to catch some great movies before they disappear forever. Here are the best movies leaving streaming services in December 2024.
Editor’s Pick: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Leaving Criterion Channel: Dec. 31
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
Raiders of the Lost Ark is an iconic adventure film that has captured the hearts of audiences for decades. The movie follows Indiana Jones, a daring archaeologist, as he embarks on a perilous journey to find the Ark of the Covenant. With its blend of action, humor, and memorable characters, Raiders of the Lost Ark is a must-watch before it leaves the Criterion Channel.
The Wicker Man
Leaving Criterion Channel: Dec. 31
Directed by: Robin Hardy
Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee
Oddly perfect for the holidays in a twisted sort of way, The Wicker Man is a horror classic whose influence is still thriving today. The movie follows a police officer who’s tasked with heading to a remote island to conduct an investigation about a girl who’s been reported missing. What he finds instead is a society that follows an old pagan religion, with views he can’t make heads or tails of. But as their behavior gets stranger, he starts to wonder how much danger he might be in.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Leaving Criterion Channel: Dec. 31
Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Adam Driver
The slightly more official Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, may have just come out in theaters, but the best evocation of New York’s folk scene in the 1960s remains the Coen brothers’ excellent Inside Llewyn Davis. The movie follows Llewyn Davis, a struggling folk musician in the 1960s who’s tragically talented but exactly on the wrong side of the line to make it big. The film follows Llewyn’s eternal quest to get his foot in the door of the industry without sacrificing the artistic integrity that he thinks lies in the soul of folk music, no matter what anyone around him says.
This melancholy masterpiece about chasing art and passion no matter where it takes you is one of the brothers’ best films ever, and features an absolutely incredible central performance by Oscar Isaac that’s some of the finest acting work of the 2010s. So if you need a little extra dose of folk music before or after seeing Timothée Chalamet’s version of Dylan, this is the perfect place to stop.
