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If you’re considering signing up for or switching down to Netflix’s advertising tier in the US in 2026, it used to be the case that you had to worry about hundreds of titles being unavailable to watch. While there are still a number of big hitters, this list has come down considerably over the past year. Here’s a look at the few dozen movies and series still blocked on the ad tier as of July 2026.
Launched in November 2022, Netflix’s ad tier had several drawbacks. The biggest issue was that many major titles, including Netflix Originals, remained unavailable to watch and were still blocked. When the ad tier first launched, 5.1% of titles were unavailable (326 of 6,324). A few months later, in February 2023, it was 5.4% of the library (348 titles out of 6,444 available). On February 7, 2024, only 175 titles were unavailable in the Netflix US library, representing a 50% decrease from the previous year. As of December 2024, the percentage has decreased again, to 151 titles, representing 2% of the overall library of 7,381 titles (a fall from 2.1% in November 2024).
Now, thanks to some big new deals with Sony Pictures and DreamWorks Animation Television, as of 2026, just 38 titles (0.46%) of the 8,306 titles in the Netflix library are blocked.
House of Cards is unavailable on the Netflix ad tier.
List of Netflix Originals Unavailable on Netflix’s Advertising Tier
Let’s begin with the Netflix Originals blocked on the ad tier. Until 2025, Peaky Blinders was on this list, although it is now available on all Netflix tiers. It also used to be that all of the DreamWorks series were unavailable on Netflix’s ad-tier, but that’s no longer the case for all but two of them.
The remaining Netflix Original titles unavailable include:
- 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (Seasons 1-2)
- Diary of a Gigolo (Season 1)
- El marginal (Seasons 1-4)
- High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule (Mini-series)
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- House of Cards (Seasons 1-6)
- Spy Kids: Mission Critical (Seasons 1-2)
- Wizards: Tales of Arcadia (Season 1)
List of Licensed Movies Unavailable on Netflix US Advertising Tier
This list has thankfully gotten a lot smaller thanks to a new deal between Sony Pictures and Netflix in April 2026, making all their Pay-1 window movies and library titles available in the ad-tier.
- Arizona (2018)
- Ballerina (2016)
- Benedetta (2021)
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
- Boyhood (2014)
- Brighton Rock (2010)
- Clown (2014)
- Deadstream (2022)
- Dear Santa (2020)
Frances Ha
- Frances Ha (2012)
- Gold (2016)
- Hands of Stone (2016)
- Life in a … Metro (2007)
- Lion (2016)
- Official Secrets (2019)
- Playing with Fire (2019)
- Prevenge (2016)
- Red Joan (2019)
- The D Train (2015)
- The Founder (2016)
- The Inmate (2018)
- The Postcard Killings (2020)
- The Secret of the Greco Family (2022)
- The Wretched (2019)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)
- Tulip Fever (2017)
- Viral (2016)
- Wildlife (2018)
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- Wind River (2017)
- You Cannot Hide (2020)
List of Licensed Series Unavailable on Netflix’s Advertising Tier
On the series side, there are two notable holdouts, with those being Universal Television and some select AMC titles being unavailable on the ad-tier.
- Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale (Season 1)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Season 1)
- You Cannot Hide (Season 1)
Were there any titles you were disappointed to find that weren’t available on Netflix’s advertising tier? Let us know in the comments.
