While you may not be too sorry to see the Tom Cruise car-racing stinker Days of Thunder removed from your Netflix library, you may have already missed your chance to watch the 1957 war classic The Bridge on the River Kwai, Steven Spielberg's epic historical drama The Color Purple and the much-loved Ben Stiller fashion parody, Zoolander, which were all removed by the Netflix gods earlier this month.
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