Netflix Secret Codes Updated December 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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Crime
- 7273 - Critically-acclaimed Mind-bending Crime Movies
- 10101 - Critically-acclaimed Quirky Crime Comedies
- 6967 - Critically-acclaimed Quirky Crime Dramas
- 9415 - Critically-acclaimed Quirky Crime Movies
- 6879 - Critically-acclaimed Quirky Crime Thrillers
- 92900 - Critically-acclaimed Scandinavian Crime Movies
- 7390 - Critically-acclaimed Scary Crime Movies
- 79883 - Critically-acclaimed Spanish-Language Crime Movies
- 81140 - Critically-acclaimed Suspenseful True Crime Movies
- 81012 - Critically-acclaimed True Crime Dramas
- 80953 - Critically-acclaimed True Crime Movies
- 81074 - Critically-acclaimed True Crime Movies based on Books
- 8015 - Critically-acclaimed Understated Crime Dramas
- 7299 - Critically-acclaimed Understated Crime Movies
- 16763 - Critically-acclaimed Understated Crime Thrillers
- 42673 - Critically-acclaimed Understated Foreign Crime Movies
- 83622 - Critically-acclaimed Understated French Crime Movies
- 8003 - Critically-acclaimed Violent Crime Thrillers
- 88025 - Critically-acclaimed Violent East Asian Crime Movies
- 40739 - Critically-acclaimed Violent Foreign Crime Movies
- 74905 - Critically-acclaimed Violent Foreign Crime Thrillers
- 8121 - Critically-acclaimed Violent Independent Crime Movies
- 81015 - Critically-acclaimed Violent True Crime Movies
- 11612 - Critically-acclaimed Visually-striking Crime Dramas
- 10648 - Critically-acclaimed Visually-striking Crime Movies
- 12195 - Critically-acclaimed Visually-striking Crime Thrillers
- 5217 - Critically-acclaimed Witty Crime Dramas
- 6864 - Critically-acclaimed Witty Crime Movies
- 6821 - Critically-acclaimed Witty Independent Crime Movies
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Documentaries
- 70850 - Critically-acclaimed WWII Documentaries
- 39150 - Cycling Documentaries
- 88817 - Czech Documentaries
- 84268 - Dance Documentaries
- 90445 - Dance Music & Concert Documentaries
- 84220 - Dance Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 78432 - Danish Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 6120 - Dark Biographical Documentaries
- 76602 - Dark Biographical Drug Documentaries
- 50195 - Dark Biographical Family Life Documentaries
- 90431 - Dark Biographical Music & Concert Documentaries
- 25059 - Dark Biographical Political Documentaries
- 49150 - Dark Biographical Slice of Life Documentaries
- 62695 - Dark British Documentaries
- 67685 - Dark British Historical Documentaries
- 78087 - Dark British Military Documentaries
- 52435 - Dark Business Documentaries
- 66448 - Dark Business Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 26823 - Dark Conspiracy Documentaries
- 23798 - Dark Documentaries from the 1980s
- 25698 - Dark Drug Documentaries
- 35620 - Dark Dysfunctional-Family Documentaries
- 50614 - Dark Family Life Documentaries
- 51633 - Dark Family Life Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 26745 - Dark Fight-the-System Documentaries
- 28383 - Dark Fight-the-System Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 10265 - Dark Foreign Documentaries
- 91219 - Dark Foreign Political Documentaries
- 24985 - Dark Gay & Lesbian Documentaries
- 67670 - Dark German Documentaries
- 44791 - Dark Immigrant-Life Documentaries
- 75206 - Dark Immigrant-Life Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 5477 - Dark Military Documentaries
- 51931 - Dark Military Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 5349 - Historical Documentaries
- 90449 - Dark Music & Concert Documentaries
- 49680 - Dark Nature & Ecology Documentaries
- 6910 - Dark Political Documentaries
- 54329 - Dark Political TV Documentaries
- 39016 - Dark Prison Documentaries
- 4006 - Military Documentaries
- 26104 - Dark Science & Nature Documentaries
- 79636 - Dark Showbiz Documentaries
- 49114 - Dark Slice of Life Documentaries
- 49287 - Dark Slice of Life Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 10575 - Dark Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 76753 - Dark Sports Documentaries
- 46573 - Dark TV Documentaries
- 70451 - Dark WWII Documentaries
- 45047 - Deep Sea Documentaries
- 62137 - Deep Sea Documentaries for ages 11 to 12
- 64152 - Deep Sea Documentaries for ages 5 to 7
- 59097 - Deep Sea Documentaries for ages 8 to 10
- 48966 - Deep Sea TV Documentaries
- 83336 - Depression Era Documentaries
- 89310 - Depression Era Historical Documentaries
- 76684 - Dinosaur Documentaries
- 76628 - Dinosaur Science & Nature Documentaries
- 68960 - Dinosaur TV Documentaries
- 48776 - Documentaries about Art & Design
- 30585 - Documentaries about Cats & Dogs
- 77633 - Documentaries about Fame
- 8274 - Documentaries about Food
- 42809 - Documentaries about Horses
- 35169 - Documentaries about Parenthood
- 14998 - Documentaries about Royalty
- 79822 - Documentaries directed by Alex Gibney
- 13911 - Documentaries directed by Bruce Brown
- 91216 - Documentaries directed by Errol Morris
- 90875 - Documentaries directed by Joe Berlinger
- 13917 - Documentaries directed by Michael Apted
- 82952 - Documentaries directed by Ric Burns
- 23555 - Documentaries directed by Werner Herzog
- 58698 - Documentaries for ages 11 to 12
- 22807 - Documentaries for ages 5 to 7
- 8681 - Documentaries for ages 8 to 10
- 81570 - Documentaries for Hopeless Romantics
- 18845 - Drug Documentaries
- 90417 - Drug Music & Concert Documentaries
- 19883 - Drug Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 23648 - Dutch Documentaries
- 92428 - Dutch Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 27424 - Dysfunctional-Family Documentaries
- 33086 - Dysfunctional-Family Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 87566 - East Asian Documentaries
- 5161 - Foreign Documentaries
- 92440 - East Asian Political Documentaries
- 86239 - East Asian Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 69960 - Eastern European Biographical Documentaries
- 36921 - Eastern European Documentaries
- 64622 - Eastern European Historical Documentaries
- 28385 - Eco- Documentaries
- 26957 - Eco- Science & Nature Documentaries
- 33161 - Eco- Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 55200 - Eco- TV Documentaries
- 44585 - Emotional African-American Documentaries
- 74797 - Emotional Biographical Crime Documentaries
- 49410 - Emotional Biographical Family Life Documentaries
- 89190 - Emotional Biographical Fight-the-System Documentaries
- 90390 - Emotional Biographical Music & Concert Documentaries
- 40986 - Emotional Biographical Political Documentaries
- 68553 - Emotional Biographical Spiritual Documentaries
- 50599 - Emotional Biographical Sports Documentaries
- 70940 - Emotional Biographical WWII Documentaries
- 84327 - Emotional British Biographical Documentaries
- 68152 - Emotional British Documentaries
- 68029 - Emotional Business Documentaries
- 76190 - Emotional Business Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 93043 - Emotional Canadian Documentaries
- 25540 - Emotional Crime Documentaries
- 40356 - Emotional Crime Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 76318 - Emotional Dysfunctional-Family Documentaries
- 49871 - Emotional Family Life Documentaries
- 49121 - Emotional Family Life Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 90772 - Emotional Father-Son Documentaries
- 32948 - Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries
- 74787 - Emotional Foreign Biographical Documentaries
- 33208 - Emotional Foreign Documentaries
- 78164 - Emotional Foreign Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 84113 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Biographical Documentaries
- 37631 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Documentaries
- 76270 - Emotional High School Documentaries
- 21440 - Emotional Historical Documentaries
- 24186 - Emotional Military Documentaries
- 38899 - Emotional Military Historical Documentaries
- 68439 - Emotional Military Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 90466 - Emotional Music & Concert Documentaries
- 91467 - Emotional Nature & Ecology Documentaries
- 21725 - Emotional Political Documentaries
- 25749 - Emotional Political Historical Documentaries
- 78743 - Emotional Scandinavian Documentaries
- 40645 - Emotional Science & Nature Documentaries
- 50256 - Emotional Slice of Life Documentaries
- 6270 - Emotional Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 54008 - Emotional Spiritual Documentaries
- 40952 - Emotional Sports Documentaries
- 1 - African-American Crime Documentaries
- 49024 - Emotional TV Documentaries
- 70608 - Emotional WWII Documentaries
- 22544 - End-of-the-World Documentaries
- 72329 - End-of-the-World TV Documentaries
- 69558 - Exciting Biographical Documentaries
- 74580 - Exciting Biographical Sports Documentaries
- 81334 - Exciting British TV Documentaries
- 92986 - Exciting Car & Motorsport Documentaries
- 10129 - Exciting Documentaries
- 78414 - Exciting Foreign Documentaries
- 1777 - Biographical Documentaries from the 1960s
- 1791 - Biographical Documentaries from the 1970s
- 1824 - Biographical Documentaries from the 1980s
- 24097 - Exciting Historical Documentaries
- 4462 - Biographical Spiritual Documentaries
- 69841 - Exciting Nature & Ecology Documentaries
- 50178 - Exciting Nature & Ecology TV Documentaries
- 67657 - Exciting Science & Nature Documentaries
- 72197 - Exciting Science & Technology Documentaries
- 10229 - Exciting Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 40754 - Exciting Sports Documentaries
- 69824 - Exciting Travel & Adventure Documentaries
- 40058 - Exciting TV Documentaries
- 3394 - British Documentaries
- 6367 - Experimental Documentaries
- 8869 - Experimental Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 3661 - British Historical Documentaries
- 48765 - Family Life Documentaries
- 49277 - Family Life Historical Documentaries
- 90463 - Family Life Music & Concert Documentaries
- 50470 - Family Life Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 49431 - Family Life TV Documentaries
- 81821 - Family Reunion Documentaries
- 81581 - Family Reunion Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 78215 - Family-friendly Biographical Documentaries
- 16456 - Family-friendly Documentaries
- 61889 - Farsi-Language Documentaries
- 24265 - Fashion Documentaries
- 33560 - Fashion Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 20286 - Father-Daughter Documentaries
- 852494 - International Documentaries
- 75069 - Father-Daughter Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 19862 - Father-Son Documentaries
- 32923 - Father-Son Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 32955 - Feel-good Biographical Documentaries
- 90470 - Feel-good Biographical Music & Concert Documentaries
- 40556 - Feel-good Biographical Showbiz Documentaries
- 3652 - Biographical Documentaries
- 89554 - Feel-good Dance Documentaries
- 11087 - Feel-good Documentaries
- 81355 - Feel-good Documentaries for ages 11 to 12
- 4495 - Campy Documentaries
- 36465 - Feel-good Foreign Documentaries
- 90432 - Feel-good Music & Concert Documentaries
- 34896 - Feel-good Showbiz Documentaries
- 49070 - Feel-good Slice of Life Documentaries
- 53950 - Feel-good TV Documentaries
- 27106 - Fight-the-System Documentaries
- 90441 - Fight-the-System Documentaries from the 1980s
- 27277 - Fight-the-System Historical Documentaries
- 90394 - Fight-the-System Music & Concert Documentaries
- 33201 - Fight-the-System Science & Nature Documentaries
- 27992 - Fight-the-System Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 54575 - Fight-the-System TV Documentaries
- 12691 - Football Documentaries
- 9875 - Crime Documentaries
- 10814 - Foreign Biographical Documentaries
- 49997 - Foreign Biographical Documentaries about Art & Design
- 88823 - Foreign Biographical Family Life Documentaries
- 34812 - Foreign Biographical Political Documentaries
- 88254 - Foreign Biographical Sports Documentaries
- 67163 - Foreign Business Documentaries
- 88569 - Foreign Business Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 84229 - Foreign Dance Documentaries
- 49466 - Foreign Documentaries about Art & Design
- 67033 - Foreign Documentaries about Food
- 80940 - Foreign Documentaries for ages 11 to 12
- 80941 - Foreign Documentaries for ages 8 to 10
- 68825 - Foreign Experimental Documentaries
- 50621 - Foreign Family Life Documentaries
- 60574 - Foreign Fight-the-System Documentaries
- 6227 - Foreign Historical Documentaries
- 45681 - Foreign Immigrant-Life Documentaries
- 10596 - Foreign Military Documentaries