January is a bloodbath when it comes to Netflix's expiring-movie slate, as the streaming service will cull from its ranks a ton of worthy films. Start catching up on (or revisiting) these many, many great titles now, before they're gone come New Year's Day. Presented alphabetically! Because "ordering our lives" tops our list of resolutions.

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick's 1971 sci-fi classic charts the adventures of a young British ne'er-do-well (Malcolm McDowell) who spends his time indulging in a bit of the ol' ultra-violence.

Almost Famous

Cameron Crowe's autobiographical coming-of-age tale details a young Rolling Stone journalist's rollicking odyssey going on the road with a '70s American rock band.

American Psycho

Christian Bale is a Huey Lewis-loving yuppie with a murderous streak (or is it all in his head?) in this sterling black-comedy adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' notorious novel.

The Bourne Identity / The Bourne Supremacy

Matt Damon is an amnesiac super-spy looking to regain his memory—and fight back against the corrupt powers that created him—in these, the first two installments in the ongoing Jason Bourne franchise.

Conan the Barbarian

Arnold Schwarzenegger's first truly great role is as legendary barbarian king Conan in this superb John Milius-directed fantasy, in which he's pitted against James Earl Jones and a long-locked, crazy-eyed Thulsa Doom.

Gladiator

Russell Crowe's betrayed soldier seeks revenge against Joaquin Phoenix's emperor—and fights a tiger for good measure—in Ridley Scott's influential historical epic.

The Graduate

May-December romance is in the air in Mike Nichols' 1967 dramedy about a young man (Dustin Hoffman) who's seduced by an older woman (Anne Bancroft), only to shortly thereafter fall in love with her daughter.

Jackass: The Movie

Johnny Knoxville and company's initial big-screen outing delivers exactly what it promises: puerile practical jokes and self-injurious stunts of an hysterical sort.

Jerry Maguire

Tom Cruise is a sports agent with a heart—and a cute girlfriend (Renée Zellweger) with an even cuter comedic-relief son (Jonathan Lipnicki)—in this full-of-quotable-lines Cameron Crowe rom-com.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider / Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Angelina Jolie grabs her guns and goes spelunking for mythical treasure in her two outings as the famous—and famously buxom—video-game heroine.

Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version

Few films can match the epic visual grandeur of David Lean's 1962 classic based on the life of T.E. Lawrence. Watch it on the biggest screen you can find.

The Machinist

Christian Bale loses a drastic amount of weight—such that he eventually resembles an emaciated skeleton—in this mystery about a factory worker suffering from troubling insomnia.

Million Dollar Baby

An Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Director (Clint Eastwood), Actress (Hillary Swank) and Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman), this superior boxing drama charts the unlikely partnership between a female pugilist and a cranky trainer.

Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible II

Tom Cruise engages in exciting espionage courtesy of directors Brian De Palma and John Woo, respectively, in these first two film chapters of the long-running TV-based series.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

A holiday trip home from New York to Chicago becomes a hilarious nightmare for Steve Martin's executive after he's forced to travel with John Candy's talkative salesman in this 1987 John Hughes comedy.

Rambo I – III

Sylvester Stallone dons a red bandana and kills—and kills, and then kills some more—in the first three chapters of his iconic series about PTSD-inflicted war hero John Rambo.

Risky Business

Tom Cruise slides across the floor in his underwear and goofs around with hookers and pimps in this star-making romantic-comedy vehicle for its headliner.

Rocky I – V

Before he was a crotchety trainer in Creed, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa was the ultimate underdog-makes-good hero, as detailed in these unforgettable boxing dramas (well, save for the lame Rocky V).

Rosemary's Baby

Mia Farrow's got a baby on the way, and it may not be what she thinks, in this supernatural thriller co-starring John Cassavetes and directed by Roman Polanski.

Serpico

Al Pacino has rarely been better than in Sydney Lumet's 1973 cop drama, about a real-life NYPD officer who goes undercover to expose corruption within his department.

The Sum of All Fears

Ben Affleck may not've made anyone forget about Harrison Ford, but he does an sturdy job embodying Tom Clancy's CIA hero Jack Ryan in this under-heralded 2002 adaptation co-starring Morgan Freeman.

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day-Lewis is a father figure of terrifying, tyrannical madness in this early-20th-century oil-industry character study from Boogie Nights and Inherent Vice director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Trading Places

Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd wind up switching social-hierarchy spots to hilarious ends in this still-relevant John Landis comedy about the haves and have-nots.

The Virgin Suicides

The disappearance of a teenage beauty (Kirsten Dunst) is the catalyst for this dreamy meditation on desire, fantasy and longing from director Sophia Coppola.

Zoolander

Before he struts back onto the runway in February, re-enjoy the initial adventures of Ben Stiller's one-expression-fits-every-occasion male model superstar Derek Zoolander.

Nick Schager Nick Schager is a NYC-area film critic and culture writer with twenty years of professional experience writing about all the movies you love, and countless others that you don’t.

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