5 must watch movies leaving Netflix India by October end

With October just getting started, Netflix India is set to say goodbye to a few fan-favourite films by the month’s end. Whether it’s suspense, emotion, or humour you’re after, these five movies are worth streaming while you still can.

It (Leaving October 4)
It (Chapter One) is a 2017 horror film by Andy Muschietti, adapted from Stephen King’s 1986 novel. Set in Derry, Maine, in 1989, the story follows seven kids who call themselves the “Losers’ Club.” As children in town mysteriously vanish, they discover the culprit is a shape-shifting entity feeding on fear, most often appearing as the terrifying clown Pennywise. Haunted by disturbing visions and united by shared encounters, the group gathers in “The Barrens” to confront the monster.

Blending childhood nostalgia with supernatural terror, It balances coming-of-age themes with chilling horror, showing how friendship can become a weapon against darkness. The film lays the foundation for the saga’s continuation in It Chapter Two.

It Chapter Two (Leaving October 4)
It Chapter Two (2019), directed by Andy Muschietti, concludes Stephen King’s terrifying saga. Set 27 years after the Losers’ Club first defeated Pennywise, the friends are now adults leading separate lives. When a new wave of disappearances hits Derry, Mike Hanlon calls the others back, forcing them to honour their childhood pact. Though scarred by trauma and hesitant to return, they reunite to face the shape-shifting clown, now stronger than before.

Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, and Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as Pennywise, the film combines psychological depth with supernatural horror.

She Came to Me (Leaving October 5)
Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me (2023) is a romantic comedy featuring Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, and Brian d’Arcy James. Dinklage plays Steven Lauddem, a composer paralysed by creative block while struggling to complete his comeback opera. His wife Patricia (Hathaway), once his therapist, urges him to seek inspiration outside his comfort zone. What follows is a series of quirky encounters that challenge his outlook on art, love, and life. The film mixes humour and tenderness, exploring how unexpected experiences reignite creativity.

The Royal Hotel (Leaving October 5)
The Royal Hotel (2023), directed by Kitty Green and co-written with Oscar Redding, is a tense Australian psychological thriller starring Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Toby Wallace, and Hugo Weaving. Inspired by Pete Gleeson’s documentary Hotel Coolgardie, it follows two backpackers seeking adventure who end up at a remote outback pub. At first welcomed, they slowly find themselves trapped in an environment charged with toxic masculinity, hostility, and subtle menace. The suffocating atmosphere grows more unsettling as boundaries blur, leaving the women increasingly unsafe.

The Truman Show (Leaving October 24)
Peter Weir’s The Truman Show (1998), written by Andrew Niccol, is a psychological comedy-drama starring Jim Carrey. The film follows Truman Burbank, an ordinary insurance salesman unaware his entire life is a television show broadcast worldwide. Since birth, Truman has lived on a massive soundstage where friends, family, and neighbours are all actors, and his world is carefully orchestrated by the manipulative creator Christof. Slowly, Truman notices inconsistencies—faltering sets, scripted encounters, and strange coincidences—that spark suspicion about his reality.

The film critiques media manipulation, voyeurism, and free will, while also offering a deeply human story. Both thought-provoking and poignant, The Truman Show remains a modern classic that examines authenticity in a manufactured world.