With Netflix's Ad-Tier, Here Are 258 Movies And TV Shows You Can't Watch

The basic with ads tier on Netflix may be cheaper, but you'll be locked out from some of the streaming service's content.

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Netflix has introduced a new tier to its lineup for customers. Titled “Basic with ads,” users pay $7 a month to watch the streaming service’s content in 720p with ads. However, due to licensing rights, there are more than a few movies and TV shows not included in this plan. In fact, there are over 250 titles that are simply locked away from those using the ad tier.

The new ad-tier does a very good job at hiding content you can’t access from your home screen. Occasionally, in the Top 10 sections, you’ll see a movie with a red lock in the upper-right hand corner of the image. However, there’s no real easy way to find all the content you can’t watch with an ad-tier account.

So we went through Netflix’s search, for hours, to find every movie and TV show we were locked out of, and there were a lot of surprises. Licensing agreements can be a bit tricky, and most of the time, we have no clue as to what the details are, but there were some obvious things we figured out along the way.

Basic with ads users will notice the lock icon on the upper-right hand corner of the image.

First and foremost, there is a lot of Netflix Original content you cannot access with this basic with ads account. The majority of it is tied to Dreamworks Animation. Boss Baby, Trollhunter, Madagascar, and more are locked. Of course, given that these are aimed at younger audiences, perhaps Netflix is looking into a way to make sure only age-appropriate ads are played.

Back in March, Amazon purchased MGM, so Prime Videos’ movie catalog is growing by leaps and bounds. What’s the biggest franchise to come out of MGM? Bond, James Bond. Most likely because of the new ownership of 007, Netflix can only include the Daniel Craig Bond movies in tiers without ads.In addition to Amazon-owned content, we found content from Telemundo locked as well.

On the straight-to-digital side of things, there are a surprising number of John Travolta and Sylvester Stallone movies from the past two decades that are locked out, and these are movies you may have never heard of before.

In order to watch all of these shows and movies, you’ll have to upgrade your plan. There are three tiers higher than basic with ads, and none of them are ad-supported, but of course, you’ll have to pay more. There’s basic for $10 a month, which is the same as basic with ads but without the ads. There’s standard for $15.50 a month, which bumps up the HD quality to 1080p. And there’s premium for $20, which bumps the quality up to 4K UHD, though it’s worth noting that every title isn’t available in 4K. It’s also worth pointing out that basic with ads is the only tier where you can’t download content on a supported device to watch later.

Below, you’ll find every TV show and movie locked for Netflix’s basic with ads plan.

Note: This list applies to Netflix in the United States. Each country has their own licensing agreements and outside of the US, there may be items on this list that are watchable or items that are locked that are watchable in the US. Additionally, because there’s no easy way to see what items are locked to ad-tier subscribers, there may be a select few missing from our list.

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17 Great Movies And Shows Not Available On Netflix Basic With Ads Tier

Movies

21
28 Days
30 Minutes or Less
The Age of Adaline
Alpha and Omega
The Alpinist
American Murder: The Family Next Door
American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules
American Ultra
August: Osage County
Backtrace
The Bad Guys
Bad Words
A Baker and the Beauty
Battle: Los Angeles
Ben is Back
Big Eyes
Birth of the Dragon
Blackhat
Blade of the 47 Ronin
Blair Witch
Blue Jasmine
Blood and Bone
The Book of Henry
The Bounty Hunter
Casino Royale (2006)
El Chema
Children of the Sea
Cleaner
Contraband
Crimson Peak
Daddy Day Camp
The Danish Girl
Darkest Hour
Delta Farce
Dope
Doom Annihilation
Dracula Untold
Dragonheart: Vengeance
The Duff
Effie Gray
Empire State
Endless Love
Escape from Planet Earth
Falsa Identidad
Father Christmas is Back
Father Stu
Final Score
Fireworks
Five Feet Apart
The Forest
Funan
Geronimo: An American Legend
Get On Up
The Giver
Good Girls
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Good on Paper
Grand Daddy Day Care
The Green Inferno
Hail, Caesar!
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight: Extended Version
Hell or High Water
Hop
How High 2
The Hurt Locker
Honey Girls
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Imitation Game
Imposters
Incarnate
The Interpreter
The Interview
It Follows
Jarhead: Law of Return
Jem and the Holograms
Jexi
John Carpenter’s Vampires
Justice
King of Thieves
A Knight’s Tale
Labyrinth
Land of the Lost
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Legend (2015)
Les Misérables (2012)
Linewatch
The Little Rascals
The Little Vampire
LOL
Loving
Lowrider
Made of Honor
Man on a Ledge
Margin Call
The Mask of Zorro
Missing Link
The Mist
MFKZ
A Monster Calls
Morbius
Mr. Right
The Munsters
Nocturnal Animals
Notting Hill
Oblivion
Okko’s Inn
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Paddington
The Phantom Thread
Pineapple Express
Piranha (2010)
The Poison Rose
Pope Francis: A Man of his Word
Puerto Ricans in Paris
Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale
Quantum of Solace
Rambo (2008)
Rambo: Last Blood
Ratchet & Clank
Raw
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Retribution
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Riot
Road House
Robin Hood (2010)
RV
Rush
St. Vincent
Savages
Scary Movie V
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Seven Pounds
Seventh Son
The Shack
She’s Funny That Way
Shooter
Siberia
Sing 2
Skyfall
Snatch
Sorry to Bother You
Soul Plane
Speed Kills
The Spy Next Door
State of Play
Steve Jobs
Still Alice
The Stolen
S.W.A.T. Under Siege
The Take
Take the Ball Pass the Ball
Term Life
That’s My Boy
Trading Paint
Tremors: Shrieker Island
Undercover Brother 2
Umma
Uncharted
Undefeated
Unfriended
In a Valley of Violence
Vampires vs. The Bronx
Vice
Victoria & Abdul
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Walking Tall
Walk of Shame
Wanted
We Die Young
Welcome to Sudden Death
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Wild Card
Wish Upon a Unicorn
Woman in Gold
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
XV Beyond the Tryline
The Yeti Adventures
You Cannot Hide
The Young Messiah
Zathura
The Zookeeper’s Wife

TV Shows

3Below: Tales of Arcadia
The Adventures of Puss in Boots
All Hail King Julien
All Hail King Julien: Exiled
All Hail King Julien: Happy Birthday to You!
American Murder: The Family Next Door
Archibald’s Next Big Thing
Arrested Development
Ash vs. Evil Dead
The Boss Baby: Back in Business
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
The Boss Baby: Get That Baby!
Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-O-Rama
Dawn of the Croods
Diary of a Gigolo
Dinotrux Happy Birthday to You
Dinotrux Supercharged
Dirty John
Dragons: Race to the Edge
Dragons: Rescue Riders
Dragons Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon
Dragons: Rescue Riders Huttsgalor Holiday
Dragons Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space!
El Final Del Paraiso
Fast & Furious: Spy Racers – Homecoming
Friday Night Lights
Gabby’s Dollhouse
Go Dog Go
The Good Place
Greenleaf
High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule
House of Cards
The Inmate
Jenni Rivera: Mariposa De Barrio: La Serie
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Knight Rider
Knight Rider 2000
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
The Last Kingdom
The Magicians
Malverde: El Santo Patrón
Marlon
Minions & More 1
Monster High: Electrified
New Girl
No Te Puedes Esconder
Peaky Blinders
Playing with Fire
Queen of the South
She-Ra and the Princess of Power
The Sinner
Spirit: Riding Free
Spirit: Riding Free – Pony Tales
Spirit: Riding Free – Ride Along Adventure
Spirit: Riding Free – Riding Academy
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-A-Ween
Stargate: SG-1
Team Zenko Go
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Trollhunters: Happy Birthday to You
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Trolls: The Beat Goes On
Uncoupled
Unsolved: Tupac & Biggie
Vampire Academy
Van Helsing
VeggieTales in the City
Voltron: Legendary Defender
Wizards: Tales of Arcadia
Wyonna Earp

All of the Netflix Originals listed below are already included in the TV Shows and Movies sections above and not part of the 250+ movies and TV show count.