PlayStation Store Is Delisting 551 StudioCanal Movies in September 2026 — No Refunds Offered

If you’ve bought movies through the PlayStation Store over the years, this one’s worth paying attention to. Sony has officially confirmed that 551 StudioCanal films and TV shows will be removed from the PlayStation Store — and from users’ personal libraries — on September 1, 2026. No refunds will be offered. The titles being pulled include some genuinely well-known films: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Paddington, Paddington 2, Moonlight, Silver Linings Playbook, Manchester by the Sea, Pan’s Labyrinth, Apocalypse Now, the first three Rambo films, Bridget Jones’ Diary, and many more.

This isn’t a case of games going offline — this is purchased movies, films that users paid real money for through Sony’s marketplace, disappearing from their libraries permanently with no compensation.

Why Is This Happening?

The removals are the result of expired licensing agreements between Sony and French production company StudioCanal. When a digital storefront sells a movie, it’s doing so under a licensing deal with the studio that owns the film. If that deal ends and isn’t renewed, the storefront loses the right to distribute the content — including to customers who already “purchased” it. The word “purchased” does a lot of heavy lifting in these situations, because what customers actually bought was a licence to access the film under certain conditions, not the film itself. When the licence between Sony and StudioCanal lapsed, Sony’s ability to provide access to those films ended along with it.

Sony officially stopped selling new movies through the PlayStation Store back in 2021, shortly after the PS5 launched. But existing purchases remained accessible through the My Videos app on PlayStation consoles for years afterward. That changes on September 1, when all 551 affected titles disappear from both the store and users’ libraries simultaneously.

The Complete List of Movies and Shows Being Removed

The full delisting covers 551 titles across multiple genres, decades, and languages. StudioCanal’s French headquarters means the library has a significant French-language component, but the English-language catalogue is substantial too. Here are the highlights most PlayStation users are likely to recognise:

Major English-language films being removed include: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (both the standard and remastered versions), Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Silver Linings Playbook, Pan’s Labyrinth, Paddington, Paddington 2, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Baby, The Imitation Game, Room, Hell or High Water, The Big Sick, Logan Lucky, Carol, The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine, Under the Skin, Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block, Four Lions, Sightseers, Saint Maud, Free Fire, Kill List, High-Rise, Source Code, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Deer Hunter, Angel Heart, Cliffhanger, Robocop (2014), Total Recall, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Sleepy Hollow, Highlander, The Wicker Man (1973), This Is Spinal Tap, The Graduate, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo 3, Train to Busan, Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Moonrise Kingdom, Inside Llewyn Davis, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, The Boy and the Beast, The Red Turtle, and Early Man, among many others.

TV shows being removed include: Versailles Seasons 2 and 3, Baron Noir all three seasons, Taboo Season 1, American Gods Season 1, Gomorrah Seasons 2 through 4, ZeroZeroZero Season 1, Years and Years Season 1, The Young Pope Seasons 1 and 2, and several others.

The full list of 551 titles is extensive and spans horror, drama, action, animation, documentary, and international cinema. If you’re unsure whether any of your PlayStation movie purchases are affected, it’s worth checking your library before September 1.

Sony Is Not Offering Refunds

This is the part that’s understandably drawing the most anger. Sony has confirmed that customers who purchased any of the 551 affected StudioCanal titles through the PlayStation Store will not receive refunds. The films will simply disappear from libraries on September 1 with no compensation for the money spent.

Sony isn’t alone in handling things this way — this is unfortunately standard practice across digital storefronts when licensing deals expire. Microsoft, Apple, and Vudu have all had similar situations in the past. But standard practice doesn’t make it feel any less wrong when you’re the person who paid $14.99 for a movie that’s about to vanish. The fundamental issue is that the concept of “buying” a digital movie has always been more of a long-term rental agreement than true ownership, and most users reasonably didn’t read it that way when they made the purchase.

The Bigger Conversation This Is Sparking

The StudioCanal delisting is landing in a context where digital media ownership has already been a growing point of frustration for gamers and entertainment consumers alike. The situation echoes what happened with Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew in 2024, where a purchased game became completely unplayable after the servers went offline — an event that directly sparked the Stop Killing Games initiative and renewed debate about what “owning” digital content actually means legally.

With movies, the argument is slightly different — most of these films are available through streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Peacock, so losing them from the PlayStation Store doesn’t mean losing access to the films themselves. That context matters. But it doesn’t change the principle: people paid money for something they were told they owned, and Sony is removing it without compensation. The distinction between “access to a film” and “the right to watch a film you paid for on a specific platform” is exactly the kind of fine print that consumers are increasingly pushing back against.

It’s also worth noting that Sony discontinued movie sales on PlayStation Store in 2021, which makes this situation slightly more contained than it might otherwise be — the window for new purchases had already closed. But for users who built up a digital movie library during the PS3 and PS4 era, September 1 is going to be an unpleasant day.

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StudioCanal Movies Leaving PlayStation Store on September 1, 2026

• 1 – Life on the Limit
• 10 jours sans maman
• 10 Minutes Gone
• 13 Minutes
• 30 jours max
• 388 Arletta Ave
• 68 Kill
• ’71
• 99 Homes
• A Bigger Splash
• A Dangerous Man
• A Date For Mad Mary
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• A Good Man
• A Most Violent Year
• A Prophet
• A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy
• A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures
• A War
• A.C.A.B
• About A Zombie
• Across The Waters
• Acts of Violence (2017)
• African Safari
• Aftershock
• Age of Shadows
• Ahmed Sylla – Avec un grand A | Season 1
• AHMED SYLLA – DIFFERENT | Season 1
• Alan Partridge
• All in Good Time
• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
• Alone
• Amazing Grace
• American Gods | Season 1
• And Soon the Darkness
• Angel Heart
• Angel of Death
• Animal Kingdom
• Another Day/Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
• Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
• April and the Extraordinary World
• Asura – The City of Madness
• At Any Price
• Attack the Block
• Awaydays
• Axelle Laffont – Hypersensible | Season 1
• Babies
• Back to Burgundy
• Backtrace
• Bagdad Café
• Bait
• Bandidas
• Bangkok Adrenaline
• Barbacoa de amigos
• Baron noir | Season 1
• Baron noir | Season 2
• Baron noir | Season 3
• Baseline
• Beasts Of The Southern Wild
• Beautiful Boy
• Bedevilled
• Before I Go to Sleep
• Bel Ami
• Below the Surface | Season 1
• Bérengère Krief – Spectacle | Season 1
• Beyond
• Beyond The Border
• Big Ass Spider!
• Big Eyes
• Big Game
• Biutiful
• Blood Alley
• Blood Glacier
• Blood Moon
• Blue Valentine
• Boule & Bill
• Braquo | Season 4
• Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
• Bridget Jones’s Baby
• Brighton Rock
• Brillantissime
• Broken
• Broken City
• Bunny and the Bull
• Byzantium
• Café Society
• Caged
• Cannibal
• Capital in the 21st Century
• Captivity
• Carlos The Jackal
• Carnage
• Carol
• Casa De Mi Padre
• Cave
• Cell 211
• Chanson Douce
• Charlie & Boots
• Charlie Casanova
• Charlie’s Country
• Che: Part 1
• Che: Part 2
• Chernobyl Diaries
• Cherry Tree
• Chevalier
• Chic
• Chinese Puzzle
• Chloe
• Cliffhanger
• Clown
• Cockneys Vs Zombies
• Coco Before Chanel
• Code Name: Geronimo – The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
• Cold Blood
• Cold Pursuit
• Colette (2018)
• Color Out of Space
• Comedown
• Compliance
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Courted (L’hermine)
• Crossing Lines | Season 1
• Crossing Lines | Season 2
• Crossing Lines | Season 3
• Cruzando la oscuridad
• Cuban Fury
• Dark Vengeance
• Darkland
• Day Of The Dead
• De Palma
• De plus belle
• Dead Drop
• Dead Night
• Dead of Night
• Deadly Assassin
• Deadly Crossing
• Death Riders
• Deathgasm
• Delicacy
• Demi-sœur
• Dépression et des potes
• Der Nebelmann
• Detachment
• Detroit
• Deux Moi
• Dheepan
• Diary of the Dead
• Diên Biên Phú
• Django – Nur der Colt war sein Freund
• Docteur Knock – Ein Arzt mit gewissen Nebenwirkungen
• Dog Pound
• Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
• Doubt
• Dragged Across Concrete
• Dragon Blade
• Driven to Kill
• Drug War
• Early Man
• Eden
• Eden Lake
• El Niño
• Elle l’adore
• End of Watch
• Engrenages | Season 6
• Engrenages | Season 7
• Éperdument
• Épouse-moi mon pote
• Ernest et Célestine
• Evil Dead
• Evil Dead 2
• Exeter
• Experimenter
• F
• False Flag | Season 1
• Family for Rent
• Fast Girls
• Five (2016)
• Five | Season 1
• Florence Foresti Épilogue
• Fog in August
• Fonzy
• Force of Execution
• Four Lions
• Free Fire
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• From the Land of the Moon
• Game Of Death
• Gangsterdam
• Gauguin
• Generation Um…
• Genius
• Girlhood
• God Bless America
• Gold
• Gomorra | Season 2
• Gomorra | Season 3
• Gomorra | Season 4
• Gomorrah
• Goodbye Berlin
• Grand départ
• Guy
• Halal Daddy
• Hard Kill
• Haunter
• He Named Me Malala
• He Who Dares
• Heidi
• Hell or High Water
• Hellions
• Highlander
• High-Rise
• Hollywoo
• Hot Fuzz
• Hôtel Normandy
• How To Talk To Girls At Parties
• Hush
• I Give It a Year
• I Saw the Devil
• In Fear
• In Harmony
• In Safe Hands
• In the Loop
• In the Valley of Elah
• In Their Sleep
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Intruders (2016)
• Is Anybody There?
• Isao Takahata And His Tale Of The Princess Kaguya
• Jacob’s Ladder
• Jalouse
• Johnny English Reborn
• Johnny English Strikes Again
• Journeyman
• Julia’s Eyes
• Kalinka
• Kill List
• Kill Your Friends
• King of Thieves
• Kings
• Knight of Cups
• Knockout
• Krisha
• La 317e Section
• La Cité de la Peur
• La folle histoire de Max et Léon
• La grande vadrouille
• La Guerre des Mondes | Season 1
• La stratégie de la poussette
• Labyrinth of Lies
• L’aile ou la cuisse
• L’Amie Prodigieuse | Season 1
• Larry Crowne
• L’Ascension
• Last Night
• Le Bureau des Légendes | Season 2
• Le Bureau des Légendes | Season 3
• Le corniaud
• Le Correspondant
• Le Crabe-Tambour
• Le grand mechant renard (& autres contes)
• Le Redoutable
• Le talent de mes amis
• Le Vieux qui ne voulait pas fêter son anniversaire
• Leap Year
• Legend (2015)
• Leon – The Director’s Cut
• Les affamés
• Les bronzés
• Les bronzés font du ski
• Les Cowboys
• Les hommes du feu
• Les Paris du Globe Cooker | Season 1
• Les Sauvages | Season 1
• Livid
• Logan Lucky
• Lou!
• Love, Marilyn
• Ma bonne étoile
• Ma maman est en Amérique, elle a rencontré Buffalo Bill
• Macbeth
• Madame
• Man On A Ledge
• Man Up
• Manchester by the Sea
• Manuscripts Don’t Burn
• Mauvaises herbes
• Maximum Conviction
• Mia and The White Lion
• Microbe & Gasoline
• Midnight Sun
• Midnight Sun | Season 1
• MILF – Ferien mit Happy End
• Milius
• Mindhorn
• Mindscape
• Minutes Past Midnight
• Mirror Mirror
• Mon chien Stupide
• Mon ket
• Mon Roi
• Mood Indigo (Theatrical Cut)
• Moonlight
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Mr. Nobody
• Muck
• Murder on the Orient Express
• My Week With Marilyn
• Nach einer wahren Geschichte
• Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart
• Nikita
• Nina Forever
• Non-stop
• Nox | Season 1
• On the Edge
• Once Fallen
• One Nation, One King
• Open House
• Orcs!
• Orphan
• Our Day Will Come
• Our Kind of Traitor
• Out of Nothing
• Outrage: Way of the Yakuza
• Outside the Law
• Pachamama
• Paddington
• Paddington 2
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Partners In Crime
• Parts Per Billion
• Paul & die Schule des Lebens
• Pension complète
• Perfect Sense
• Perrier’s Bounty
• PETIT VAMPIRE
• Pilgrimage
• Platane | Season 1
• Platane | Season 2
• Platane | Season 3
• Playmobil: The Movie
• Poker d’as pour Django
• Police
• Potiche
• Premature
• Prêt à tout
• Primaire
• Problemos
• Radioactive
• Ragnarok
• Raisons d’état – Director’s Cut
• Rambo 3
• Rambo First Blood
• Rambo First Blood Part 2
• Rampart
• Red Heat
• Redeemer
• Remember
• Replace
• Reprisal
• Return of the Hero
• Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion
• Rise of the Footsoldier
• Rise Of The Footsoldier: Extreme Extended Edition
• Robocop (2014)
• Room
• Rosewood Lane
• Rubber
• Rush
• Rust And Bone
• S.M.A.R.T. Chase
• Sahara
• Saint Maud
• Samba
• Sammys Abenteuer 2
• Samsam
• Santa Claus – The Movie
• Searching For Sugar Man
• Section zéro | Season 1
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
• Seoul Station
• Serena
• Sharknado
• Shaun the Sheep Movie
• Sightseers
• Silence
• Silent House
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Sink or Swim
• Situation amoureuse : c’est compliqué
• Six Bullets
• Six femmes pour l’assassin
• Sleepy Hollow
• Sol (2020)
• Soldier of Vengeance
• Song of the Sea
• Song To Song
• Source Code
• Southbound
• Special Forces
• Splice
• Spread
• Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
• Street Wars
• Studio 54
• Studio 54 – Director’s Cut
• Submarine
• Survival of the Dead
• Sushi Girl
• Swallows and Amazons (2016)
• Taboo | Season 1
• Tad: The Lost Explorer
• Take This Waltz
• Tekken
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Remastered)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Accidental Spy
• The Admiral: Roaring Currents
• The Apparition
• The Ardennes
• The Army Of Crime
• The Assassin
• The Assault
• The Awakening
• The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years
• The Big Blue – The Director’s Cut
• The Big Sick
• The Bling Ring (2013)
• The Boy and the Beast
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• The Breadwinner
• The Burma Conspiracy
• The Chamber
• The Child In Time
• The Commuter
• The Company You Keep
• The Congress
• The Dark Valley
• The Deer Hunter
• The Devil’s in the Details
• The Dino King
• The Dinosaur Project
• The Door
• The Double
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• The End
• The Evil in Us
• The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec (English Dubbed)
• The Factory
• The Founder
• The Free State of Jones
• The Ghost
• The Giver
• The Graduate
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• The Gunman
• The Hexecutioners
• The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window and Disappeared
• The Hunt
• The Imitation Game
• The Keeper
• The Kings of Summer
• The Land of the Enlightened
• The Last Exorcism
• The Last Exorcism Part II
• The Lawyer | Season 1
• The Look of Love
• The Lookout
• The Losers
• The Lost City of Z
• The Lost Prince
• The Mercy
• The Monster Project
• The Night Clerk
• The Orphanage
• The Outlaw
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• The Program
• The Red Turtle
• The Sense of an Ending
• The Shameless
• The Silent House (La Casa Muda)
• The Son of Bigfoot
• The Speak
• The Student and Mr. Henri
• The Suspect
• The Take
• The Tourist
• The Two Faces of January
• The Wait (L’attesa)
• The Wall
• The Wave
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• The Wild Life
• The World is Yours
• The Young Pope | Season 1
• The Young Pope | Season 2
• Them / Ils
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Thunder and the House of Magic
• Tickled
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• To the Wonder
• Total Recall
• Tour de France
• Traders
• Traffic
• Train to Busan
• Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
• Transpecos
• Trauma Center
• Trust Me | Season 1
• Tunnel | Season 2
• Tyrannosaur
• Under the Skin
• Universal Soldier
• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
• Universal Soldier: Regeneration
• Unknown
• Urban Warfare
• Vehicle 19
• Venise n’est pas en Italie
• Vernon Subutex | Season 1
• Versailles | Season 2
• Versailles | Season 3
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Violence of Action
• Viva
• Vox Lux
• W.E.
• We Are Still Here
• We Are Your Friends
• Welcome Aboard
• Whiteout
• Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
• Without Name
• Wo ist Albert?
• Wolf
• Wolf Creek
• Wolfcop
• Wonderstruck
• Worry Dolls
• Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
• Yardie
• Years and Years | Season 1
• Yellowbird
• You Were Never Really Here
• Your Sister’s Sister
• Youth
• ZeroZeroZero | Season 1

Source: Kotaku

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