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That feeling of joy every time Netflix uploads new content doesn’t last long.
It’s over in one binge-watching session.
So, if you’ve found yourself, in this neverending lockdown, scrolling through Netflix unable to find anything to watch, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d exhausted the platform.
Turns out there’s a whole other side to Netflix, hidden from you by algorithms that presume to know what you like.
Via The Independent, there is a solution to this – a set of codes that will unlock the stuff that you didn’t know was there.
Here’s how it works:
These codes correlate with some pretty specific genres, ranging from “Romantic Foreign Movies” to “B-Horror Movies”, and they’ve been put in one place for you to scroll through.
To visit each genre’s webpage, all you need to do is input the four-digit code into your web browser after the following address: http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/
As you’ve probably figured out, this only works on the desktop version.
I’m sorry app users, you’re on your own.
You’ll find the full list of codes here, or you can peruse the core categories and sub-categories below:
Action & Adventure (1365)
- Asian Action Movies (77232)
- Classic Action & Adventure (46576)
- Action Comedies (43040)
- Action Thrillers (43048)
- Adventures (7442)
- Comic Book and Superhero Movies (10118)
- Westerns (7700)
- Spy Action & Adventure (10702)
- Crime Action & Adventure (9584)
- Foreign Action & Adventure (11828)
- Martial Arts Movies (8985)
- Military Action & Adventure (2125)
Children & Family Movies (783)
- Movies for ages 0 to 2 (6796)
- Movies for ages 2 to 4 (6218)
- Movies for ages 5 to 7 (5455)
- Movies for ages 8 to 10 (561)
- Movies for ages 11 to 12 (6962)
- Education for Kids (10659)
- Disney (67673)
- Movies based on children’s books (10056)
- Family Features (51056)
- TV Cartoons (11177)
- Kids’ TV (27346)
- Kids Music (52843)
- Animal Tales (5507)
Classic Movies (31574)
- Classic Comedies (31694)
- Classic Dramas (29809)
- Classic Sci-Fi & Fantasy (47147)
- Classic Thrillers (46588)
- Film Noir (7687)
- Classic War Movies (48744)
- Epics (52858)
- Classic Foreign Movies (32473)
- Silent Movies (53310)
- Classic Westerns (47465)
Comedies (6548)
- Dark Comedies (869)
- Foreign Comedies (4426)
- Late Night Comedies (1402)
- Mockumentaries (26)
- Political Comedies (2700)
- Screwball Comedies (9702)
- Sports Comedies (5286)
- Stand-up Comedy (11559)
- Teen Comedies (3519)
- Satires (4922)
- Romantic Comedies (5475)
- Slapstick Comedies (10256)
Dramas (5763)
- Biographical Dramas (3179)
- Classic Dramas (29809)
- Courtroom Dramas (528582748)
- Crime Dramas (6889)
- Dramas based on Books (4961)
- Dramas based on real-life (3653)
- Tearjerkers (6384)
- Foreign Dramas (2150)
- Sports Dramas (7243)
- Gay & Lesbian Dramas (500)
- Independent Dramas (384)
- Teen Dramas (9299)
- Military Dramas (11)
- Period Pieces (12123)
- Political Dramas (6616)
- Romantic Dramas (1255)
- Showbiz Dramas (5012)
- Social Issue Dramas (3947)
The range of sub-categories alone should be enough of an indication that you’ve been missing out.
And, there are so many more.
To recap: if you wanted to check out a political documentary, you’d type http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/7018 into your browser.
Or, for an action thriller, http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/43048.
You get the drift.
Sorted.
[source:independent]
