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Each month, several films and TV shows leave Netflix’s catalogue. We provide a list of departing titles and recommend a few standouts so you can watch them before they’re gone forever (or are just available on a different site). For more comprehensive coverage of the best titles available on Netflix and elsewhere, check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now hub, which is updated throughout the month.

Blerg, blerg, blerg: 30 Rock

Jack Donaghy’s long-running quest to destroy NBC hasn’t fully come to fruition yet, but he’ll be a good way toward destroying Netflix once Liz Lemon and TGS leave the building. One of the best one-liner factories in sitcom history, 30 Rock will always be the ideal Tina Fey blend of showbiz humor and solid, character-based gags — usually both at once, as in the standout fourth-season episode “Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001.” Netflix may think its subscribers will be satisfied with the ongoing run of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but Tituss Burgess’s true fans know where he appeared first. Leaving October 1.

For all the crazy dreamers: Mulholland Drive

If you never watched a David Lynch project before Twin Peaks: The Return, you must have had a mind-melting summer. And there’s plenty more where that came from: Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece, widely considered to be one of the greatest films of the 21st century, repurposed a failed TV pilot into a hallucinatory nightmare on the grand illusion of entertainment (“No hay banda!”) and the monsters awaiting us all behind the dumpster at Winkie’s. Naomi Watts and Laura Harring will break your heart as a loopy, elliptical narrative steers you down the windy mountain roads of Lynch’s mind. Leaving October 1.

If you’re a fan of Akira Kurosawa: Kagemusha

Soldiers by the hundreds march into battle for a dead leader in Akira Kurosawa’s late-period epic, financed with the help of George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. The story, which centers on a look-alike to an emperor who is brought on to assume the throne when the real emperor dies so that his dynasty can maintain the illusion of control, is a moving query on the nature of power and honoring figureheads. Kagemusha is often overlooked in the Kurosawa canon, but its ruminative qualities and sharp color scheme should be cause for elevation. Leaving October 1.

TV Shows

(Noteworthy selections in bold.)

Leaving October 1

30 Rock: Seasons 1–7

The Bernie Mac Show: Seasons 1–5

David Attenborough’s Rise of the Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates: Season 1

Friday Night Lights: Seasons 1–5

Malcolm in the Middle: Seasons 1–7

My Name Is Earl: Seasons 1–4

One Tree Hill: Seasons 1–9

Prison Break: Seasons 1–4

The Wonder Years: Seasons 1–6

Leaving October 19

The Cleveland Show: Seasons 1–4

Leaving October 21

Bones: Seasons 5–11

Leaving October 27

Lie to Me: Seasons 2–3

Louie: Seasons 1–5

Leaving October 29

Family Guy: Seasons 9–14

Movies

(Noteworthy selections in bold.)

Leaving October 1

A Love in Times of Selfies

Across the Universe

Barton Fink

Bella

Big Daddy

Carousel

Cradle 2 the Grave

Crafting a Nation

Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest

Daddy’s Little Girls

Dark Was the Night

Day of the Kamikaze

Death Beach

Dowry Law

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

Happy Feet

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Hellboy

Kagemusha

Laura

Love Actually

Max Dugan Returns

Millennium

Million Dollar Baby

Mortal Kombat

Mr. 3000

Mulholland Drive

My Father the Hero

Patton

Picture This

The Shining

Titanic

Leaving October 27

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