Say Goodbye To Russell Crowe's Haunting 115-Minute Drama As It Exits Netflix

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One of the most emotionally-heavy entries in Russell Crowe’s filmography will soon be leaving Netflix.

Since breaking through in Hollywood with L.A. Confidential and The Insider in the late 1990s, Crowe has remained a well-known figure in the dramatic space. Gladiator followed in 2000, with his performance as Maximus earning him his first Academy Award. He won his second Oscar for playing John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, and also earned praise for his performances in Cinderella Man, American Gangster, and The Water Diviner (which he also directed), among others. 2018's Boy Erased additionally counts among this group, but Netflix subscribers will soon say goodbye to it.

This haunting drama, which Crowe starred in with Nicole Kidman and Lucas Hedges, is leaving the platform on August 17. It’s not the only one of Crowe’s great movies being taken off Netflix next month either, as American Gangster will precede the biographical drama on August 1. Other notable movies departing Netflix next month include 27 Dresses, 48 Hrs., Ex Machina, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, and Venom: The Last Dance.

Written and directed by Joel Egerton, and based off the same-named memoir by Garrard Conley, the 115-minute-long Boy Erased stars Hedges as a fictional version of Conley named Jared Eamons. Jared is forced by his conservative Baptist parents, Crowe’s Marshall and Kidman’s Nancy, to enroll in a conversion therapy program after he’s outed for being gay. Egerton also performs in the movie as Victor Sykes, the program’s chief therapist.

Joe Alwyn, Xavier Dolan, Troye Sivan, Cherry Jones, and Flea are among the other members of Boy Erased’s cast. After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival at the beginning of September 2018, followed by the Toronto International Film Festival, the movie opened wide on November 2 of that same year alongside Bohemian Rhapsody, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and Nobody’s Fool.

Though both Boy Erased and American Gangster will be gone from Netflix by the end of August, 2025’s Nuremberg, where Crowe played Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring, will remain on the streaming service. Earlier this year, the actor appeared in Beast and The Get Out, and his upcoming movies include fellow 2026 releases The Weight and the documentary What Love Builds (another directorial effort from him), as well as Unabomber, Billion Dollar Spy, The Last Druid, and the Highlander reboot.