An expiring contract for Netflix means the streaming video service will lose 1,794 pieces of content, according to Mashable. Netflix’s agreement with Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal expired Wednesday, meaning customers will lose the ability to watch such morsels as Cruel Intentions and Big Daddy.

The contents of Netflix’s instant streaming catalog wax and wane all the time, but it’s rare that there is such a mass exodus from the service. Starz let its own contract with Netflix expire in February 2012, which resulted in the loss of titles like Amélie and around a thousand others.

Warner Bros. has started its own streaming service, WB Archive Instant, which is priced at $9.99 per month. If the service’s best offerings are placed front and center on the home page, shown above, we’re not entirely sold.

Netflix contacted Mashable to state that it prefers to license TV shows and movies “on an exclusive basis… [to] provide a unique experience” and emphasized that the goal of the service is to be an “expert programmer” rather than a “broad distributor.”

Netflix has expressed the possibility that Viacom Networks’ deal may also be allowed to expire. As it is, several Viacom-owned shows, including Chappelle’s Show, The Hills, Jersey Shore, Invader Zim, Angry Beavers, Ren and Stimpy, and Reno 911 are set to disappear from Netflix by May 22, according to InstantWatcher.

UPDATE: The Warner Archive has tweeted the following statement: "We aren't involved in Netflix’s business decisions & our content is drawn solely from WB's library & aren't streaming Universal/MGM content." The service asserted in another tweet directed at at fellow Twitter user that, "Just FYI, Warner Archive Instant has nothing to do with Netflix expirations and we are not adding these titles."