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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Foreign
- 20562 - Cerebral Foreign Father-Son Dramas
- 19351 - Cerebral Foreign Father-Son Movies
- 27326 - Cerebral Foreign Fight-the-System Dramas
- 27828 - Cerebral Foreign Fight-the-System Movies
- 90871 - Cerebral Foreign Forbidden-Love Dramas
- 89960 - Cerebral Foreign Forbidden-Love Movies
- 90596 - Cerebral Foreign Gay & Lesbian Dramas
- 68543 - Cerebral Foreign Gay & Lesbian Movies
- 2250566 - Korean TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 92158 - Cerebral Foreign Historical Documentaries
- 17590 - Cerebral Foreign Horror Movies
- 10979 - Cerebral Foreign Movies
- 49313 - Cerebral Foreign Movies about Art & Design
- 89099 - Cerebral Foreign Movies based on Books
- 22644 - Cerebral Foreign Movies based on real life
- 23477 - Cerebral Foreign Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 81663 - Cerebral Foreign Movies for Hopeless Romantics
- 700 - Cerebral Foreign Movies from the 1980s
- 65224 - Cerebral Foreign Mysteries
- 82678 - Cerebral Foreign Period Pieces
- 68188 - Cerebral Foreign Political Documentaries
- 10393 - Cerebral Foreign Political Movies
- 16524 - Cerebral Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 67529 - Cerebral Foreign Showbiz Documentaries
- 44401 - Cerebral Foreign Showbiz Dramas
- 39999 - Cerebral Foreign Showbiz Movies
- 45460 - Cerebral Foreign Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 28836 - Cerebral Foreign Steamy Romance
- 45434 - Cerebral Foreign Supernatural Movies
- 1769574 - Russian TV Shows
- 5727 - Cerebral Foreign Thrillers
- 60789 - Cerebral French Art House Movies
- 65130 - Cerebral French Comedies
- 61047 - Cerebral French Crime Movies
- 64555 - Cerebral French Documentaries
- 58787 - Cerebral French Dramas
- 90232 - Cerebral French Dramas based on Real Life
- 58769 - Cerebral French Movies
- 64614 - Cerebral French Movies based on real life
- 62391 - Cerebral French Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 1476847 - Middle Eastern TV Shows
- 90556 - Cerebral French Showbiz Dramas
- 64114 - Cerebral French Showbiz Movies
- 91819 - Cerebral French Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 61950 - Cerebral French Thrillers
- 64957 - Cerebral French-Language Art House Movies
- 16013 - Cerebral French-Language Comedies
- 8926 - Cerebral French-Language Crime Movies
- 44609 - Cerebral French-Language Documentaries
- 54169 - Cerebral French-Language Dramas based on real life
- 90461 - Cerebral French-Language Dysfunctional-Family Movies
- 34875 - Cerebral French-Language Movies based on real life
- 90603 - Cerebral French-Language Showbiz Dramas
- 50868 - Cerebral French-Language Showbiz Movies
- 15969 - Cerebral French-Language Thrillers
- 83649 - Cerebral German Biographical Documentaries
- 11567 - Russian Movies
- 76179 - Cerebral German Biographical Movies
- 62572 - Cerebral German Documentaries
- 91749 - Cerebral German Documentaries about Art & Design
- 61830 - Cerebral German Dramas
- 62424 - Cerebral German Movies
- 91603 - Cerebral German Movies about Art & Design
- 78869 - Cerebral German Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 89129 - Cerebral German-Language Art House Movies
- 78002 - Cerebral German-Language Biographical Documentaries
- 76180 - Cerebral German-Language Biographical Movies
- 45262 - Cerebral German-Language Documentaries
- 15975 - Cerebral German-Language Dramas
- 6546 - Cerebral German-Language Movies
- 58741 - Spanish Movies
- 1476848 - Belgian TV Shows
- 11806 - Cerebral Italian Movies
- 69250 - Cerebral Korean Movies
- 74881 - Cerebral Middle Eastern Documentaries
- 64516 - Cerebral Middle Eastern Dramas
- 64246 - Cerebral Middle Eastern Movies
- 67710 - Cerebral Middle Eastern Political Movies
- 60279 - Irish TV Shows
- 36698 - Cerebral Romantic British Dramas
- 36330 - Cerebral Romantic British Movies
- 85809 - Cerebral Romantic East Asian Dramas
- 86274 - Cerebral Romantic East Asian Movies
- 36612 - Cerebral Romantic Foreign Dramas
- 36392 - Cerebral Romantic Foreign Movies
- 63108 - Cerebral Romantic French Art House Movies
- 59190 - Cerebral Romantic French Dramas
- 63498 - Cerebral Romantic French Movies
- 64608 - Cerebral Romantic French-Language Art House Movies
- 35531 - Cerebral Romantic French-Language Dramas
- 36312 - Cerebral Romantic French-Language Movies
- 16020 - Cerebral Russian Movies
- 60778 - Cerebral Scandinavian Art House Movies
- 81444 - Cerebral Scandinavian Biographical Documentaries
- 80162 - Cerebral Scandinavian Biographical Movies
- 78575 - Cerebral Scandinavian Documentaries
- 11484 - Cerebral Scandinavian Dramas
- 92940 - Cerebral Scandinavian Independent Dramas
- 92421 - Cerebral Scandinavian Independent Movies
- 60449 - Cerebral Spanish Movies
- 53831 - Cerebral Spanish-Language Dramas
- 54017 - Cerebral Spanish-Language Movies
- 38686 - Cerebral Suspenseful British Movies
- 80238 - Cerebral Suspenseful British Movies based on Books
- 52283 - Cerebral Suspenseful British TV Dramas
- 79483 - Cerebral Suspenseful British TV Dramas from the 1990s
- 52239 - Cerebral Suspenseful British TV Mysteries
- 52647 - Cerebral Suspenseful British TV Shows
- 79362 - Cerebral Suspenseful British TV Shows from the 1990s
- 38951 - Cerebral Suspenseful Foreign Movies
- 64399 - Cerebral Suspenseful French Movies
- 40647 - Cerebral Suspenseful French-Language Movies
- 2691923 - Japanese TV Series
- 90929 - Chilling British Crime Movies
- 91071 - Chilling British Horror Movies
- 90926 - Chilling British Movies
- 90864 - Chilling Foreign Crime Movies
- 90998 - Chilling Foreign Crime Thrillers
- 90903 - Chilling Foreign Movies
- 90950 - Chilling Foreign Thrillers
- 91013 - Chilling Suspenseful British Movies
- 90957 - Chilling Suspenseful Foreign Movies
- 76239 - Chinese 20th Century Period Pieces
- 68267 - Chinese Action & Adventure based on real life
- 9774 - Chinese Action & Adventure from the 1970s
- 70450 - Chinese Action & Adventure set in Ancient Times
- 71132 - Chinese Action & Adventure set in Imperial China
- 44006 - Chinese Action Comedies
- 65412 - Chinese Action Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 43847 - Chinese Action Thrillers
- 61233 - Chinese Adventures
- 76732 - Chinese Assassination Movies
- 92069 - Chinese Biographical 20th Century Period Pieces
- 89385 - Chinese Biographical Action & Adventure
- 79098 - Chinese Biographical Dramas
- 90482 - Chinese Biographical Martial Arts Movies
- 59293 - Chinese Biographical Movies
- 61553 - Chinese Children & Family Movies
- 8668 - Chinese Crime Action & Adventure
- 5265 - Chinese Crime Movies
- 6634 - Chinese Crime Movies from the 1980s
- 6460 - Chinese Crime Thrillers
- 17873 - Chinese Documentaries
- 68278 - Chinese Dramas based on real life
- 23611 - Chinese Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 8639 - Chinese Dramas from the 1980s
- 89169 - Chinese Dramas set in Ancient Times
- 78146 - Chinese Dramas set in Imperial China
- 24394 - Chinese Father-Son Dramas
- 19187 - Chinese Father-Son Movies
- 27717 - Chinese Fight-the-System Movies
- 31397 - Chinese Gangster Action & Adventure
- 76989 - Chinese Gangster Action Thrillers
- 77056 - Chinese Gangster Dramas
- 76882 - Chinese Gangster Martial Arts Movies
- 31504 - Chinese Gangster Movies
- 76851 - Chinese Gangster Movies from the 1980s
- 14920 - Chinese Ghost-story Movies
- 14891 - Chinese Hit-man Action & Adventure
- 61504 - New Zealand TV Shows
- 14838 - Chinese Hit-man Movies
- 88851 - Chinese Independent Dramas
- 84460 - Chinese Independent Movies
- 49537 - Chinese Kung Fu Action & Adventure
- 49601 - Chinese Kung Fu Action & Adventure from the 1970s
- 64074 - Chinese Kung Fu Action Comedies
- 45909 - Chinese Kung Fu Action Thrillers
- 77685 - Chinese Kung Fu Comedies
- 49223 - Chinese Kung Fu Movies
- 49507 - Chinese Kung Fu Movies from the 1970s
- 58799 - Chinese Martial Arts Movies
- 62811 - Chinese Martial Arts Movies from the 1970s
- 90786 - Chinese Martial Arts Movies set in Ancient Times
- 70464 - Chinese Martial Arts Movies set in Imperial China
- 15214 - Chinese Military Action & Adventure
- 81246 - Chinese Military Dramas
- 15368 - Chinese Military Movies
- 80408 - Chinese Mixed Martial Arts
- 36857 - Chinese Movies based on real life
- 23558 - Chinese Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 7582 - Chinese Movies from the 1970s
- 7609 - Chinese Movies from the 1980s
- 70406 - Chinese Movies set in Ancient Times
- 70286 - Chinese Movies set in Imperial China
- 85085 - Chinese Musicals
- 78091 - Chinese Mysteries
- 82352 - Chinese Period Pieces
- 5304 - Chinese Political Dramas
- 10091 - Chinese Political Movies
- 14758 - Chinese Revenge Action & Adventure
- 15139 - Chinese Revenge Action & Adventure from the 1970s
- 43222 - Chinese Revenge Action Thrillers
- 15035 - Chinese Revenge Dramas
- 60019 - Chinese Revenge Martial Arts Movies
- 59855 - Chinese Revenge Martial Arts Movies from the 1970s
- 14757 - Chinese Revenge Movies
- 14853 - Chinese Revenge Movies from the 1970s
- 22968 - Chinese Serial-Killer Movies
- 61933 - Chinese Showbiz Movies
- 64812 - Chinese Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 45244 - Chinese Sports Action & Adventure
- 12751 - Chinese Sports Movies
- 43911 - Chinese Spy Action & Adventure
- 64754 - Chinese Spy Martial Arts Movies
- 40671 - Chinese Spy Movies
- 42041 - Chinese Supernatural Action & Adventure
- 46424 - Chinese Supernatural Horror Movies
- 42826 - Chinese Supernatural Movies
- 45241 - Chinese Supernatural Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 71970 - Chinese WWII Movies
- 46921 - Classic British Crime Movies
- 48391 - Classic British Crime Thrillers
- 47177 - Classic British Dramas
- 57166 - Classic British Dramas based on Books
- 47938 - Classic British Dramas based on classic literature
- 57972 - Classic British Dramas from the 1940s
- 53599 - Classic British Movies based on Books
- 47816 - Classic British Movies based on classic literature
- 48087 - Classic British Movies from the 1940s
- 47454 - Classic British Movies from the 1970s
- 47599 - Classic British Mysteries
- 91410 - Classic British Space-Travel TV Action & Adventure
- 91416 - Classic British Space-Travel TV Shows
- 56031 - Classic British Spy Movies
- 58009 - Classic British Supernatural Movies
- 47321 - Classic British Thrillers
- 91436 - Classic British Time Travel TV Shows
- 91426 - Classic British TV Action & Adventure
- 91388 - Classic British TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 52117 - British TV Shows
- 56307 - Classic Dark British Dramas
- 46961 - Classic Dark British Movies
- 57629 - Classic Dark British Movies based on Books
- 29311 - Classic Dark Foreign Dramas
- 32697 - Classic Dark Foreign Movies
- 51457 - Classic Dark Foreign Movies from the 1920s
- 82216 - Classic Dark Foreign Silent Movies
- 84336 - Classic Dark Foreign Silent Movies from the 1920s
- 82093 - Classic Dark German Movies
- 56143 - Classic Dark Italian Dramas
- 49604 - Classic Dark Italian Movies
- 82169 - Classic Dark Italian-Language Dramas
- 82199 - Classic Dark Italian-Language Movies
- 56934 - Classic Dark Suspenseful British Movies
- 30109 - Classic Emotional Foreign Dramas
- 82444 - Classic Emotional Foreign Dramas from the 1950s
- 32020 - Classic Emotional Foreign Movies
- 47642 - Classic Emotional Foreign Movies from the 1950s
- 82369 - Classic Emotional Italian Movies
- 52148 - British TV Dramas