Netflix Secret Codes Updated September 2024
What are the secret/hidden Netflix codes?
You may have heard about "secret Netflix codes" that Netflix uses, or how you can unlock hidden movies and TV shows. While this may sound like a hackers trick, it's actually not that complicated, and it's not really unlocking anything!
Netflix has a fairly large database of titles, and because they want to keep you happy, they show you movies and shows that they think you'll want to watch. What that also means is that they won't show you titles that they think you aren't interested in...
So these titles are essentially hidden from you, but they aren't being kept from you. You can access them by searching for them directly OR by browsing the genres and subgenres that Netflix uses to classify movies.
What is a Netflix Genre?
These Genres are just categories that movies and shows are grouped under. Some you've seen before, and even appear in the Netflix menus:
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- etc.
Some are crazy-specific, and we usually call these subgenres (although crazy-specific-genres might be more descriptive):
- Action & Adventure starring Chuck Norris
- Cerebral French-Language Movies from the 1950s
- Suspenseful Sci-Fi & Fantasy based on Books
- and lots more...
How to use these hidden Netflix codes
If you know the numeric code that goes with each Netflix genre/subgenre, you can get a list of all the movies on Netflix within that category. For example, the code for Spanish-Language Biographical Documentaries is 52855, and the code for Dramas directed by Sidney Lumet is 4571.
Netflix has a webpage for each genre/code, and you can either type the code in, or use the links in our list below to view those pages...it's that easy! Here's how the webpage URL are structured:
https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/52855 is the page for code 52885 (which is Spanish-Language Biographical Documentaries)
Simply change the code at the end for whichever secret Netflix code you want to view, and you'll see what's available in your country under that category!
Want to actually unlock movies that even secret codes can't give you?
Netflix has different movies that they make available in each country. Some countries have many more titles than other countries, maybe more than yours, and certainly different ones!
We've got instructions that will allow you to unlock these movies and TV shows using a VPN, allowing you to switch between countries and watch all these extra titles!
Check out our "Get American Netflix" page to learn how to watch American Netflix plus Netflix in over 50 other countries. And make sure you use the links on that page to sign-up, since we have an exclusive offer that will save you money!
Stop Missing Out! Unlock International NetflixComplete List of Netflix genre codes
We've put in the effort of finding as many of these "secret codes" as we could so we could list them here. We've currently found 28296 of them!
Sometimes a code will be slightly different in different countries, or may not even exist. If you find a code that we don't have please contact us so we can update our list!
We've got three different ways that you can view the entire list. With so many hyper-specific categories, it's hard to know how to best display them! Each genre is a link to the Netflix genre page that will open in a new window, but you will need to be logged into Netflix to view them all.
Netflix Secret Codes
We've chosen some larger Parent Genres to group these under. Because many genres are in more than one category, they will show up multiple times, making this list much longer
Wondering why "Action" shows up twice? We don't know why, but Netflix has two different codes, and shows different movies for each!
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Comedy
- 19517 - Feel-good Father-Son Comedies
- 20616 - Feel-good Forbidden-Love Comedies
- 62463 - Feel-good French Comedies
- 22839 - Feel-good French-Language Comedies
- 6875 - Feel-good Gay & Lesbian Comedies
- 54572 - Feel-good Girl Power Family Comedies
- 4149 - Campy Foreign Comedies
- 18691 - Feel-good High School Comedies
- 68915 - Feel-good Hindi-Language Comedies
- 33854 - Feel-good Independent Showbiz Comedies
- 44761 - Feel-good Indian Comedies
- 1176 - Campy Independent Crime Comedies
- 18497 - Feel-good Mid-Life-Crisis Comedies
- 20550 - Feel-good Mistaken-Identity Comedies
- 3885 - Campy Late Night Comedies
- 28018 - Feel-good Opposites-Attract Comedies
- 45731 - Feel-good Road Trip Comedies
- 35797 - Feel-good Romantic Comedies
- 36535 - Feel-good Romantic Coming-of-age Comedies
- 35787 - Feel-good Romantic Foreign Comedies
- 36331 - Feel-good Romantic High School Comedies
- 71956 - Feel-good Romantic Hindi-Language Comedies
- 35427 - Feel-good Romantic Independent Comedies
- 71440 - Feel-good Romantic Indian Comedies
- 36564 - Feel-good Romantic Mistaken-Identity Comedies
- 54119 - Feel-good Romantic Opposites-Attract Comedies
- 35558 - Feel-good Romantic Screwball Comedies
- 36616 - Feel-good Romantic Showbiz Comedies
- 6765 - Feel-good Screwball Comedies
- 11169 - Feel-good Showbiz Comedies
- 7290 - Feel-good Slapstick Comedies
- 1402 - Late Night Comedies
- 54775 - Feel-good Talking-Animal Family Comedies
- 7725 - Feel-good Teen Comedies
- 16677 - Feel-good TV Comedies
- 27288 - Feel-good Underdog Comedies
- 14721 - Feel-good Wedding Comedies
- 27218 - Fight-the-System Comedies
- 27630 - Fight-the-System Comedies from the 1970s
- 46179 - Fight-the-System Late Night Comedies
- 1119 - Cerebral Comedies
- 10197 - Filipino Comedies
- 69733 - Finnish Comedies
- 20883 - First-Love Comedies
- 20047 - First-Love Comedies from the 1980s
- 46265 - First-Love Late Night Comedies
- 12251 - Football Comedies
- 20683 - Forbidden-Love Comedies
- 44078 - Foreign Action Comedies
- 26950 - Foreign Buddy Comedies
- 17959 - Foreign Comedies about Marriage
- 23406 - Foreign Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 8269 - Foreign Comedies from the 1980s
- 19822 - Foreign Con-Game Comedies
- 84104 - Foreign Conspiracy Comedies
- 8230 - Foreign Crime Comedies
- 27776 - Foreign Dysfunctional-Family Comedies
- 19153 - Foreign Father-Daughter Comedies
- 19549 - Foreign Father-Son Comedies
- 27802 - Foreign Fight-the-System Comedies
- 19296 - Foreign First-Love Comedies
- 1474 - Cerebral Independent Comedies
- 69538 - Foreign Forbidden-Love Comedies
- 56100 - Foreign Gambling Comedies
- 77196 - Foreign Gangster Action Comedies
- 76842 - Foreign Gangster Comedies
- 39146 - Foreign Heist Comedies
- 20601 - Foreign High School Comedies
- 18099 - Foreign Immigrant-Life Comedies
- 66679 - Foreign Kung Fu Action Comedies
- 72674 - Foreign Kung Fu Comedies
- 67122 - Foreign Late Night Comedies
- 18138 - Foreign Mid-Life-Crisis Comedies
- 19728 - Foreign Mistaken-Identity Comedies
- 39767 - Foreign Mother-Daughter Comedies
- 19396 - Foreign Mother-Son Comedies
- 27451 - Foreign Opposites-Attract Comedies
- 62966 - Foreign Revenge Action Comedies
- 18978 - Foreign Revenge Comedies
- 45276 - Foreign Road Trip Comedies
- 8805 - Foreign Showbiz Comedies
- 67075 - Foreign Slapstick Comedies
- 36836 - Foreign Sports Comedies
- 67454 - Foreign Spy Action Comedies
- 45004 - Foreign Spy Comedies
- 42498 - Foreign Supernatural Comedies
- 77244 - Foreign TV Comedies
- 89212 - Foreign TV Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 28024 - Foreign Underdog Comedies
- 14591 - Foreign Wedding Comedies
- 34968 - Foreign Workplace Comedies
- 59031 - French Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 2942 - Chinese Crime Comedies
- 76763 - French Father-Daughter Comedies
- 83930 - French Independent Comedies
- 4195 - Independent Comedies
- 59690 - French Showbiz Comedies
- 79713 - French-Language Father-Daughter Comedies
- 89166 - French-Language Independent Comedies
- 88264 - French-Language Mid-Life-Crisis Comedies
- 44393 - French-Language Showbiz Comedies
- 12499 - Gambling Comedies
- 43892 - Gangster Action Comedies
- 31621 - Gangster Comedies
- 39616 - Gangster Comedies from the 1980s
- 1223 - Comedies based on Books
- 3647 - Comedies directed by Arthur Hiller
- 37230 - Gay & Lesbian Buddy Comedies
- 23390 - Gay & Lesbian Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 7401 - Gay & Lesbian Comedies from the 1980s
- 3291 - Comedies directed by Billy Wilder
- 7350 - Gay & Lesbian Cult Comedies
- 2065 - Comedies directed by Carl Reiner
- 27673 - Gay & Lesbian Dysfunctional-Family Comedies
- 1672 - Comedies directed by Charles Walters
- 46174 - Gay & Lesbian Late Night Comedies
- 782 - Comedies directed by David Dhawan
- 116 - Comedies directed by David Zucker
- 45574 - Gay & Lesbian Road Trip Comedies
- 2307 - Comedies directed by Harold Ramis
- 68564 - Gay & Lesbian TV Comedies
- 955 - Comedies directed by Herbert Ross
- 2350 - Comedies directed by Ivan Reitman
- 1817 - Comedies directed by Jules White
- 994 - Comedies directed by Mel Brooks
- 3694 - Comedies directed by Norman Taurog
- 9434 - Cult Comedies
- 1804 - Comedies directed by Norman Z. McLeod
- 10783 - German-Language Comedies
- 4893 - Comedies directed by Preston Sturges
- 3270 - Comedies directed by Vincente Minnelli
- 2514 - Comedies for ages 5 to 7
- 4186 - Comedies starring Barbra Streisand
- 14690 - Ghost-story Comedies
- 39177 - Ghost-story Comedies from the 1980s
- 55084 - Ghost-story Family Comedies
- 966 - Comedies starring Ben Stiller
- 4688 - Comedies starring Billy Bob Thornton
- 2970 - Comedies starring Bing Crosby
- 1569 - Comedies starring Burt Reynolds
- 53279 - Girl Power Family Comedies
- 3827 - Comedies starring Cedric the Entertainer
- 3910 - Comedies starring Charles Grodin
- 3146 - Comedies starring Chevy Chase
- 87817 - Golden Globe Award-winning Action Comedies
- 437 - Comedies starring D.L. Hughley
- 82873 - Golden Globe Award-winning British Comedies
- 4659 - Comedies starring Eddie Murphy
- 4986 - Comedies starring George Burns
- 82518 - Golden Globe Award-winning Comedies
- 82860 - Golden Globe Award-winning Comedies from the 1950s
- 82859 - Golden Globe Award-winning Comedies from the 1960s
- 82537 - Golden Globe Award-winning Comedies from the 1970s
- 82884 - Golden Globe Award-winning Comedies from the 1980s
- 4594 - Comedies starring George Carlin
- 82538 - Golden Globe Award-winning Crime Comedies
- 2709 - Comedies starring Govinda
- 2111 - Comedies starring Jamie Foxx
- 1002 - Comedies starring Jeff Daniels
- 3027 - Comedies starring Jerry Lewis
- 2801 - Comedies starring Jim Carrey
- 4972 - Comedies starring John Cusack
- 82591 - Golden Globe Award-winning Feel-good Comedies
- 1157 - Comedies starring John Goodman
- 2443 - Comedies starring John Ritter
- 82555 - Golden Globe Award-winning Independent Comedies
- 2644 - Comedies starring Katharine Hepburn
- 3544 - Comedies starring Kevin Kline
- 2171 - Comedies starring Larry Fine
- 82670 - Golden Globe Award-winning Opposites-Attract Comedies
- 2359 - Comedies starring Leslie Nielsen
- 82579 - Golden Globe Award-winning Quirky Comedies
- 83080 - Golden Globe Award-winning Quirky TV Comedies
- 3182 - Comedies starring Lou Costello
- 82874 - Golden Globe Award-winning Romantic Comedies
- 4074 - Comedies starring Luke Wilson
- 82763 - Golden Globe Award-winning Showbiz Comedies
- 2898 - Comedies starring Martin Lawrence
- 204 - Comedies starring Meg Ryan
- 83068 - Golden Globe Award-winning TV Comedies
- 2975 - Comedies starring Michael Caine
- 93113 - Golden Globe Award-winning Understated Comedies
- 134 - Comedies starring Nicolas Cage
- 82831 - Golden Globe Award-winning Visually-striking Comedies
- 2147 - Comedies starring Peter Sellers
- 82593 - Golden Globe Award-winning Witty Comedies
- 3806 - Comedies starring Richard Pryor
- 82558 - Golden Globe Award-winning Witty Romantic Comedies
- 82606 - Golden Globe Award-winning Witty Showbiz Comedies
- 83084 - Golden Globe Award-winning Witty TV Comedies
- 3356 - Comedies starring Robert Downey Jr.
- 83121 - Golden Globe Award-winning Workplace TV Comedies
- 17872 - Golf Comedies
- 43035 - Goofy Action Comedies
- 3552 - Comedies starring Rodney Dangerfield
- 66474 - Goofy Action Comedies for ages 11 to 12
- 43580 - Goofy African-American Action Comedies
- 6231 - Goofy African-American Comedies
- 46118 - Goofy African-American Late Night Comedies
- 70921 - Goofy Amateur Detective Comedies
- 3541 - Comedies starring Shirley MacLaine
- 40701 - Goofy Baseball Comedies
- 3572 - Comedies starring Stephen Chow
- 26271 - Goofy BBC Comedies
- 62810 - Goofy British Action Comedies
- 10568 - Goofy British Comedies
- 52127 - Goofy British TV Comedies
- 6548 - Comedies
- 713 - Comedies starring Steve Guttenberg
- 43749 - Goofy Buddy Action Comedies
- 26852 - Goofy Buddy Comedies
- 27781 - Goofy Buddy Late Night Comedies
- 26907 - Goofy Buddy TV Comedies
- 736 - Comedies starring Steve Martin
- 57536 - Goofy Canadian Comedies
- 63757 - Goofy Canadian TV Comedies
- 63776 - Goofy Cantonese-Language Action Comedies
- 62189 - Goofy Cantonese-Language Comedies
- 77762 - Goofy Cantonese-Language Kung Fu Comedies
- 2756 - Comedies starring Tom Hanks
- 27263 - Goofy Chase Comedies
- 63720 - Goofy Chinese Action Comedies
- 14263 - Goofy Chinese Comedies
- 73454 - Goofy Chinese Kung Fu Action Comedies
- 442 - Comedies starring Whoopi Goldberg
- 77652 - Goofy Chinese Kung Fu Comedies
- 18233 - Goofy College Comedies
- 21572 - Goofy College Comedies from the 1980s
- 77454 - Goofy Comedies about Fame
- 1419 - Comedies starring Woody Allen
- 18816 - Goofy Comedies about Marriage
- 35271 - Goofy Comedies about Parenthood
- 26465 - Goofy Comedies based on real life
- 23313 - Goofy Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 11154 - Goofy Comedies for ages 8 to 10
- 5321 - Goofy Comedies from the 1960s
- 5372 - Goofy Comedies from the 1980s
- 71386 - Goofy Comedies set in the Middle Ages
- 11091 - Goofy Comedies starring Ben Stiller
- 8791 - Goofy Comedies starring Dan Aykroyd
- 17583 - Goofy Comedies starring Danny DeVito
- 15420 - Goofy Comedies starring Eddie Murphy
- 77364 - Goofy Comedies starring Jackie Chan
- 90078 - Goofy Comedies starring Johnny Knoxville
- 90060 - Goofy Comedies starring Kevin Hart
- 25486 - Goofy Comedies starring Leslie Nielsen
- 51479 - Goofy Comedies starring Martin Lawrence
- 89876 - Goofy Comedies starring Owen Wilson
- 11258 - Goofy Coming-of-age Comedies
- 43242 - Goofy Con-Game Action Comedies