‘Life Upside Down’ and Every Other Movie Leaving Hulu and Netflix This Week

A handful of notable titles are cycling off streaming between Monday, 10/27 and Sunday, 11/2, spanning stand-up, indie romance, visionary sci-fi, and a storied hotel documentary. Below, you’ll find quick primers on each project—who made them, who stars in them, and what they’re about—plus exactly which platform they’re leaving and when.

‘Ralph Barbosa: Cowabunga’ (2023)

The laid-back Texas comedian riffs through everyday misadventures in this stand-up special, written and performed by Ralph Barbosa, whose dry delivery and tightly wound bits helped him break out on the club circuit and late-night TV. Expect stories about family oddities, dating, and street-racing daydreams, structured as a single, unbroken hour of live material. As with most modern specials, it’s shot simply to keep the focus on the performer’s timing and crowd interplay. This special is leaving Netflix on Friday, 10/31.

‘Life Upside Down’ (2023)

Written and directed by Cecilia Miniucchi, this ensemble dramedy follows Los Angeles gallerist Jonathan (Bob Odenkirk), his wife (Radha Mitchell), and his friend/collector (Danny Huston) as parallel romantic and professional entanglements unravel during a citywide lockdown. The film was conceived and shot remotely in 2020, leaning into video calls, empty streets, and homebound interiors to frame its trio of intersecting relationships. Editor Anne Goursaud shapes the story around missed connections and guilty secrets, while the supporting cast includes Rosie Fellner and others from the art-world orbit. ‘Life Upside Down’ is leaving Hulu on Monday, 10/27.

‘Crimes of the Future’ (2022)

Writer-director David Cronenberg returns to speculative body cinema with a near-future tale about performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), who publicly stage surgeries as art while a government investigator, Timlin (Kristen Stewart), monitors a wave of radical biological adaptation. Shot with clinical precision, the film features music by longtime Cronenberg collaborator Howard Shore and craft work from cinematographer Douglas Koch and editor Christopher Donaldson. The cast also includes Scott Speedman, weaving in corporate interests and underground movements around a mysterious new digestive evolution. ‘Crimes of the Future’ is leaving Hulu on Thursday, 10/30.

‘Dreaming Walls’ (2022)

Co-directed by Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier, this documentary peers into New York’s Chelsea Hotel during years of renovation, focusing on the artists and longtime residents who remained as the building transformed around them. With intimate access, the film layers archival echoes of the hotel’s mythic past with present-tense portraits, guided by cinematographers Joachim Philippe and Virginie Surdej and editors Alain Dessauvage and Julie Naas. The project’s executive producing team includes Martin Scorsese, underscoring the hotel’s enduring hold on cultural imagination. ‘Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel’ is leaving Hulu on Sunday, 11/2.

What will you be watching before these titles roll off—drop your picks and thoughts in the comments!