It’s the time of the month where we need to be looking ahead and making the truly hard decisions. You know what we mean. It’s time to prioritize time and decide which of the titles going away at the end of June on Netflix NEED to be streamed immediately. It can be overwhelming making such hard and fast decisions. We’re here to help. There are more than 40 titles whisking away into the non-streaming-stratosphere and we’ve got recommendations on a few titles you should definitely consider clearing your calendar for.

For some reason, whether it is the product placement or the endless Wilson the volleyball jokes, people seem to have forgotten about Cast Away. It isn’t Hanks’s flashiest performance, but it might be his most difficult to pull off while spending nearly all of the 143 minute film on his own. Not only that, the desert island story is as classic as they come, and we’ve all thought about what we would do in this situation, but Cast Away remains emotionally resonant, visceral and fresh.

Why Should You Watch It? Because it’s the most underrated Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks film. Stream It On Netflix

There probably isn’t enough time to watch all seven available seasons of this classic television series before July 1, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. The Mission: Impossible film franchise has ballooned over the years into a massive success for mainstream and die hard action aficionados alike, and the only positive thing Tom Cruise has going for him right now. Long before, from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, the spy thriller was a mainstay of network television with Peter Graves and a catchy theme song.

Why Should You Watch It? Time to gear up for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Stream It On Netflix

One of Hollywood’s great actors took on the role of a lifetime with the larger-than-life General George S Patton. Starting with Vietnam and increasing ever since, it has become very difficult to make an old-school patriotic war film without a cynical backlash. The portrayal of Patton isn’t only an effort to idolize, but it is impossible not to be captivated by his roughneck charms. Watch this one just for the film’s most famous scene, a rousing speech from Patton set on stage in front of the biggest American flag you’ve ever seen.

Why Should You Watch It One of the great war films ever made with a towering performance at its center. Stream It On Netflix

Playing into Hollywood’s need to find popular properties that can span across multiple films, a major motion picture franchise is currently being developed around Stephen King’s The Stand, with Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) set to direct (he wasn’t born yet when the book came out, by the way). In the mid-90s an epic four part miniseries was made to capture every nook and cranny of the 1000 page end-of-the-world fiction, and it did a pretty good job of it. Starring Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, and a pretty strange supporting turn from King himself, The Stand is a faithful (author approved) adaptation.

Why Should You Watch It? Adaptation of one of the greatest pulp novels and a precursor to the upcoming feature film series. Stream It On Netflix

As an impressionable high school junior, I adored Super Troopers, one of the first R-rated comedies my friends and I saw in the theaters and relentlessly quoted afterwards. And, besides seeing TV edit scenes while flipping channels on weekend afternoons, I haven’t seen it since. But the ridiculous antics of Thorny, Mac, Rabbit, and (of course) Farva have been forever stamped in my brain. Broken Lizard seemed to be the hottest comedy troop going, but after a few less successful films following, Super Troopers remains their best work. With a massively successful inidiegogo campaign promising a follow-up in the near future, meow is the perfect time for a revisit.

Why Should You Watch It? Endlessly quotable, one of the funniest comedies of its era. Stream It On Netflix

Terminator 2 beefed up Cameron’s sci-fi action hit in nearly every way – the sequel was bigger, added a dense mythology that has continued to grow, and Schwarzenegger came back as the hero. Terminator 3 has its defenders (including Cameron), but there is nary a soul who liked Terminator Salvation, let alone the widespread internet groan for the upcoming film. When Genesys is released on June 31, let’s all stay home instead and watch this classic in protest.

Why Should You Watch It? To replace the memory that Terminator Genesys comes out next week. Stream It On Netflix

Remaining list of films and TV series leaving Netflix on July 1, 2015:

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (Vol. 1-3)
Beauty and the Beast (Seasons 1-3)
Big Fish
Big Top Pee-wee
Bratz: Fashion Pixiez
Bratz Kids: Sleep-Over Adventure
Bowling for Columbine
The Care Bears Movie
Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie
Descent
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Fly 2
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fried Green Tomatoes
Harper’s Island (Complete Series)
Hawaii Five-O (Seasons 1-10)
Jack Frost
Knight Rider (Seasons 1-4)
The Langoliers
The Last Samurai
Louis C.K.: Hilarious
The Manchurian Candidate
Melrose Place 2.0
Melrose Place (Seasons 1-7)
Moonstruck
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Natural Born Killers: Director’s Cut
Racing Stripes
Seven Years in Tibet
She’s All That
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Space Cowboys
Three Kings
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Wings (Seasons 1-8)
X-Men: Evolution (Season 1)

Hollywood has long loved to peer into its crystal ball and imagine the many ways humanity may meet its end. Turns out grand scale destruction tends to be surprisingly cinematic, and morbidly entertaining. So in honor of the release of Darren Aronofsky’s film Noah, that most epic of apocalyptic tales and arguably the first due to its biblical origins, the Way Too Indie staff have compiled a list of our top 13 films depicting the end of the world as we know it.

12 Best Apocalyptic Films

#12 – Shaun of the Dead

When the end of the world comes in the form of a zombie apocalypse, leave it to the Brits to take it in stride and not make a fuss. Edgar Wright may not be the first to have noticed the absolute hilarity inherent in slow, dead people roaming the streets, but he certainly executes it best. Best friends and serial slackers Shaun and Ed find themselves in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Together they form a plan to win back Shaun’s put-out girlfriend, save his parents, and make their way to the Winchester, the neighborhood pub that seems about as good a place as any to ride out the end of the world. What makes this film a must-see is it’s ability to maintain placeholders on both comedy and horror “Best Of” lists, with both serious laughs and serious scares in abundance. [Ananda]

#11 – La Jetée

The pinnacle achievement of Chris Marker’s career, La Jetée (The Pier) glimpses a post-WWIII Paris in which we follow a man subjected to time travel experiments by underground mad doctors. After a harrowing testing period, he’s sent into the past where he meets the woman of his dreams. When the experiment concludes he’s given the opportunity to visit a new world by a future race of beings, but he passes it up to be with the woman. The film’s gut-wrenching ending haunts me to this day. Told entirely in still black and white photos (save for one revelatory sequence), the sci-fi experiment still stands as an unequaled landmark in the history of film. [Bernard]

#10 – Logan’s Run

Admittedly the line between apocalyptic and dystopian can get a bit blurry. And a world where what’s left of humanity are all beautiful young people scantily clad in bright colors and living pleasure-filled lives, including sex on-demand and orgy clubs, doesn’t sound half bad. So long as living past 30 isn’t a priority. This 1976 sci-fi film stars Michael York as Logan 5, a Sandman tasked with catching Runners, people who try to escape their fate of Carrousel, the ritual that involves allowing oneself to be vaporized at the age of 30 in the hope of Renewal. Logan 5 finds a strange symbol on a runner and begins asking questions of the city computer. He finds out that outside the city is a place called Sanctuary and he is asked to find Sanctuary and destroy it. Adding to his urgency, the hand crystal tracking his age begins blinking red, meaning his time has run up. So he and his new friend Jessica 6 decide to run, making the hunter the hunted. The score, with its digital bee-boo-bops, sounds like a computer synth gone haywire, and the miniature scale models of the city hardly seem worthy of the Visual Effects Oscar the film won, but it’s exactly those dated details that make Logan’s Run a fun look at the future of the past. [Ananda]

#9 – A.I. Artificial Intelligence

What could be considered a modern-day tale of Pinocchio, Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence centers on a futuristic robot that yearns to become a real boy so that his human caretaker (his mother) will love him again. Surrounding the film is an apocalypse caused by melting polar ice caps that flood major cities. While the film is a bit overlong and has a conclusion that will divide audiences, Artificial Intelligence creates an audacious fantasy world that only a collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Spielberg could produce. This dazzling visual masterpiece includes such a deeply emotional story that you won’t leave with dry eyes. [Dustin]

#8 – The Stand

I’ll be the first to say I’m beyond excited this Stephen King tome is getting a remake soon (even if Ben Affleck is no longer helming, sigh). The mini-series, which originally aired on ABC in 1994, just didn’t have the budget to do the epic tale much justice. But the elements are all there, which is why this movie can still hold its own in the realm of the apocalyptic film. The near-end of the world comes in the form of a deadly disease accidentally released by the military, offing 99% of the population. Those who are immune begin to have visions calling them to either Denver to join a mysterious old woman named Mother Abigail, or to Las Vegas to join the sinister antichrist Randall Flagg. So they trek, finding one another as they go. It’s his characters that make Stephen King’s stories so intriguing and because of it’s 6 hour length, The Stand is able to foster quite a few of them. The added element of the supernatural takes this apocalyptic tale beyond simple survival into epic good vs. evil warfare. [Ananda]

#7 – This is the End

At first glance, this self-aware film featuring celebrities playing slightly exaggerated versions of themselves, partying at James Franco’s place before a giant sinkhole starts to swallow people, seems more like a guilty pleasure inclusion on the list. But This is the End is completely worth mentioning here because the film hits all the intended comedic notes due to never taking itself too seriously. This is the End features an ending that will make you laugh until your sides hurt, resulting in one of the funniest takes to date on an apocalyptic story. [Dustin]

#6 – Melancholia

Leave it to Lars Von Trier to look at the end of the world and feel relief. Split into two parts, Melancholia begins with a wedding that ends up being a small-scale version of what’s to come. Justine (Kirsten Dunst, in her best performance to date) is the bride, and her intense depression during the ceremony leads her down a self-destructive path. At this point the titular planet (which eventually smashes into Earth, as seen in the jaw-dropping prologue and finale) is a small blue dot in the sky. In the second half, when the planet’s collision is mere days away, Justine’s now crippling depression is cured. In fact it’s her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), seen in the first half as level-headed and happy with her life, who becomes overcome with grief as she faces the end of everything. Melancholia is Von Trier at his best, accurately showing the devastating effects of depression while focusing on some truly fascinating ideas. It’s hard to think of another film that makes the apocalypse look this beautiful. [CJ]

#5 – 28 Days Later

Never standing still, Danny Boyle is a filmmaker constantly on the move, exploring different genres with each film in his catalogue. 28 Days Later is Boyle at his most vicious. Starring Cillian Murphy in a great performance, the horror-thriller journey movie is in an England overrun with zombies (they’re technically not zombies, but come on now…) on steroids: they’re capable of sprinting, making the film more intensely terrifying than creepy. Murphy’s odyssey across dilapidated, empty city streets and blood-splattered fields gets startlingly twisted and upsetting (especially in the film’s finale, where Boyle ratchets up the intensity to insane levels), but the likable actors and scattered moments of levity keep your heart in the fight. [Bernard]

#4 – Children of Men

Alfonso Cuarón’s vision of a ruinous, infertile near-future in Children of Men is a world rich with cinematic opportunity, and he seizes every one. His hero’s (Clive Owen) journey to deliver the only pregnant woman on earth to the coast of a demolished, war-torn Britain is fraught with intense, high-stakes encounters, and Cuarón’s now-textbook one-shot car chase sequence signified the emergence of one of the most influential visual filmmakers of our generation. In a time where too many filmmakers use coverage and editing to hide their shortcomings, Cuarón is a beacon when it comes to actually moving a camera. Children of Men is one of the most convincing versions of the future put to screen in movie history because it looks and sounds just like the world we know, only slightly closer to the precipice of full collapse that threatens us all. [Bernard]

#3 – Wall-E

I remember watching Wall-E back in 2008 and, even at the age of 16, I recall lighting up like a kid at Christmas. The only way to describe this movie is: utterly and completely adorable. However, we are still talking about end of the world stuff here, and amidst the terrifying depressive apocalyptic films we’ve listed, Wall-E stands alone in its ability to capture the hearts of all. In the film, a small waste collecting robot, Wall-E, embarks upon a space adventure with his new friend EVE (a sleek, yet dangerous reconnaissance robot). Together they will ultimately decide the fate of humanity, which has now resigned itself to life in space. This journey demonstrates courage, determination, love and affection–all of which we could do with witnessing a little more of.

The fact that the earth has gone to hell is not the main focus of this story, and in the face of all that has happened and that these characters are surviving, there’s nothing broken about the hearts of these two life-affirming robots. To me, Wall-E is an apocalyptic tale for the entire family and how often can you say that? [Amy]

#2 – The Matrix

Not only did The Matrix boldly inject a heavy dose of philosophy into an action movie structure, the film made a huge impact on the world of cinematography and special effects with its excellent choreographed martial arts. Case in point, the unforgettable “bullet time” scene where time suddenly slows down as the camera pans around the bullet allowing Neo to dodge it.

The film is all about questioning the reality that we think we know and entertaining the idea that it’s just an advanced computer simulation used to harvest energy from the enslaved human race in hibernation. At the age of 15 when the film was released, The Matrix had a profound impact on me being the first film that made me question perceived reality. Not only did The Matrix introduce imaginative concepts, but the film also presented them in an astonishing way, making The Matrix one of the most influential works of post-apocalyptic science fiction. [Dustin]

#1 – Dr. Strangelove

For a topic as dour as the apocalypse, it is a bit surprising that the best apocalyptic film also happens to be one of the greatest comedies ever made. Stanley Kubrick, a director who mastered every genre he worked in, ruthlessly made fun of the absurdity of the Cold War. The end of the world is triggered by one loony general’s actions, and as the president and his staff frantically scramble to avoid the inevitable Kubrick, along with his incredible cast (Peter Sellers is terrific in his three roles, but George C. Scott steals the show as Buck Turgidson), let audiences laugh at their own mutually assured destruction. Dr. Strangelove walks a fine line between satire and camp, but the complete lack of self-awareness throughout is what elevates this into a masterpiece. It’s still the gold standard of satire, and to this day no one has made the end of the world look this funny. [CJ]