Netflix Secret Codes Updated November 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
Alphabetical order, based on the name of the subgenre:
- 90557 - Movies directed by Claude Miller
- 24007 - Movies directed by Craig Clyde
- 85338 - Movies directed by D.A. Pennebaker
- 17377 - Movies directed by Daniel Zirilli
- 39989 - Movies directed by Danny Boyle
- 47602 - Movies directed by Danny Lerner
- 67986 - Movies directed by Danny Pang
- 84892 - Movies directed by Darren Doane
- 77232 - Asian Action Movies
- 3686 - Dark Experimental Movies
- 10992 - Movies directed by David DeCoteau
- 68969 - Movies directed by David Fincher
- 72063 - Movies directed by David M. Evans
- 17691 - Movies directed by Dennis Dugan
- 1100 - Movies directed by Devendra Goel
- 5847 - Movies directed by Don Bluth
- 71577 - Movies directed by Edward Burns
- 68994 - Movies directed by Edward Zwick
- 61455 - Movies directed by Errol Morris
- 88783 - Movies directed by Ethan Coen
- 2454 - Dark Foreign Action & Adventure
- 17668 - Movies directed by Franco Zeffirelli
- 10137 - Movies directed by Frank Lloyd
- 11158 - Movies directed by Frank Oz
- 69006 - Movies directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
- 11393 - Movies directed by Fred Zinnemann
- 10812 - Movies directed by Fritz Lang
- 7593 - Movies directed by George A. Romero
- 91678 - Movies directed by George P. Cosmatos
- 60172 - Movies directed by Gillian Armstrong
- 37425 - Movies directed by Gore Verbinski
- 52 - Dark Foreign Gay & Lesbian Dramas
- 68939 - Movies directed by Guillermo del Toro
- 10367 - Movies directed by Hal Hartley
- 7683 - Movies directed by Henry Levin
- 34765 - Movies directed by Herman Yau
- 23807 - Movies directed by Howard Deutch
- 6387 - Movies directed by Howard Hawks
- 23676 - Movies directed by James Cameron
- 10536 - Movies directed by James Foley
- 90642 - Movies directed by Jay Chapman
- 74648 - Movies directed by Jay Roach
- 2382 - Dark Foreign Movies
- 22609 - Movies directed by Jean Negulesco
- 6139 - Movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard
- 24743 - Movies directed by Jim Jarmusch
- 85008 - Movies directed by Joe Berlinger
- 68810 - Movies directed by Joe Johnston
- 69815 - Movies directed by Joe Swanberg
- 5849 - Movies directed by Joel Coen
- 8567 - Movies directed by Joel Schumacher
- 7738 - Movies directed by John Frankenheimer
- 74527 - Movies directed by John Gray
- 2135 - Dark Foreign Movies from the 1940s
- 11112 - Movies directed by John Schlesinger
- 61696 - Movies directed by John Singleton
- 9158 - Movies directed by John Woo
- 9633 - Movies directed by Johnnie To
- 68953 - Movies directed by Jon Turteltaub
- 17339 - Movies directed by Joseph Ruben
- 75199 - Movies directed by Julian Jarrold
- 79396 - Movies directed by Kaige Chen
- 23164 - Movies directed by Kar Wai Wong
- 76630 - Movies directed by Kathryn Bigelow
- 2154 - Dark Foreign Movies from the 1950s
- 5786 - Movies directed by Ken Annakin
- 13915 - Movies directed by Ken Burns
- 68690 - Movies directed by Ken Kwapis
- 77925 - Movies directed by Keoni Waxman
- 9110 - Movies directed by Kevin Connor
- 90654 - Movies directed by Kevin MacDonald
- 21156 - Movies directed by Kevin Smith
- 11586 - Movies directed by Ki-duk Kim
- 11842 - Movies directed by Lars von Trier
- 10273 - Movies directed by Lasse Hallström
- 2178 - Dark Foreign Movies from the 1960s
- 6181 - Movies directed by Leo McCarey
- 40367 - Movies directed by Leslie Small
- 6862 - Movies directed by Lewis Gilbert
- 13916 - Movies directed by Luc Besson
- 89563 - Movies directed by Luis Mandoki
- 63048 - Movies directed by Madhur Bhandarkar
- 9347 - Movies directed by Mahesh Bhatt
- 7047 - Movies directed by Mani Ratnam
- 74547 - Movies directed by Mark Atkins
- 11654 - Movies directed by Martin Scorsese
- 2204 - Dark Foreign Movies from the 1970s
- 85339 - Movies directed by Marty Callner
- 9578 - Movies directed by Mel Brooks
- 7253 - Movies directed by Michael Apted
- 69304 - Movies directed by Michael Bay
- 74843 - Movies directed by Michael Drumm
- 23740 - Movies directed by Michael Feifer
- 8373 - Movies directed by Michael Haneke
- 33504 - Movies directed by Michael Hoffman
- 69152 - Movies directed by Michael Moore
- 5478 - Movies directed by Michael Schultz
- 2220 - Dark Foreign Movies from the 1980s
- 9018 - Movies directed by Michael Winterbottom
- 84836 - Movies directed by Michel Gondry
- 6298 - Movies directed by Mick Jackson
- 85109 - Movies directed by Mike Hodges
- 7532 - Movies directed by Mike Leigh
- 16373 - Movies directed by Mike Newell
- 9608 - Movies directed by Mike Nichols
- 23147 - Movies directed by Mira Nair
- 10903 - Movies directed by Neil Jordan
- 24124 - Movies directed by Nicolas Roeg
- 3155 - Dark Foreign Psychological Movies
- 10108 - Movies directed by Orson Welles
- 1000 - Movies directed by Otto Preminger
- 17876 - Movies directed by Oxide Pang Chun
- 35315 - Movies directed by Patrice Leconte
- 9382 - Movies directed by Paul Schrader
- 75120 - Movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
- 10541 - Movies directed by Paul Verhoeven
- 90434 - Movies directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
- 79129 - Movies directed by Paul Weitz
- 17687 - Movies directed by Penelope Spheeris
- 3960 - Chinese Movies
- 3367 - Dark Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 89473 - Movies directed by Peter Berg
- 10264 - Movies directed by Peter Jackson
- 5354 - Movies directed by Peter Weir
- 9921 - Movies directed by Phillip Noyce
- 91084 - Movies directed by Prakash Jha
- 10164 - Movies directed by Prakash Mehra
- 9071 - Movies directed by Priyadarshan
- 69297 - Movies directed by Quentin Tarantino
- 11639 - Movies directed by Randal Kleiser
- 6304 - Movies directed by Renny Harlin
- 4410 - Dark Foreign War Movies
- 83030 - Movies directed by Ric Burns
- 10117 - Movies directed by Richard A. Colla
- 11182 - Movies directed by Richard Attenborough
- 29056 - Movies directed by Richard Gabai
- 9372 - Movies directed by Richard Linklater
- 24106 - Movies directed by Richard Quine
- 11740 - Movies directed by Ridley Scott
- 17409 - Movies directed by Rob Cohen
- 10175 - Movies directed by Robert Tai
- 60205 - Movies directed by Robert Vince
- 3958 - Dark French-Language Political Movies
- 7319 - Movies directed by Robert Wise
- 7001 - Movies directed by Robert Zemeckis
- 81453 - Movies directed by Rocco Urbisci
- 9019 - Movies directed by Roger Spottiswoode
- 10915 - Movies directed by Roland Emmerich
- 5359 - Movies directed by Roman Polanski
- 8254 - Movies directed by Ronny Yu
- 91498 - Movies directed by Ryan Polito
- 6745 - Movies directed by Sam Raimi
- 69143 - Movies directed by Satish Kaushik
- 2051 - Dark French-Language Thrillers
- 91657 - Movies directed by Scott L. Montoya
- 7089 - Movies directed by Sean McNamara
- 74929 - Movies directed by Shannon Hartman
- 69224 - Movies directed by Shawn Levy
- 22862 - Movies directed by Shyam Benegal
- 9540 - Movies directed by Spike Lee
- 75041 - Movies directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
- 91794 - Movies directed by Stephen Sommers
- 6703 - Movies directed by Steve Miner
- 31433 - Movies directed by Steven R. Monroe
- 4539 - Dark Gay & Lesbian Dramas
- 33033 - Movies directed by Stewart Raffill
- 17753 - Movies directed by Stuart Gillard
- 9213 - Movies directed by Sydney Pollack
- 74681 - Movies directed by Takashi Shimizu
- 11505 - Movies directed by Takeshi Kitano
- 21715 - Movies directed by Ted Post
- 84895 - Movies directed by Todd Phillips
- 23243 - Movies directed by Todd Verow
- 42847 - Movies directed by Tom Gries
- 10027 - Movies directed by Tony Bill
- 808 - Dark German-Language Movies from the 1970s
- 25508 - Movies directed by Tyler Perry
- 17404 - Movies directed by Uwe Boll
- 10615 - Movies directed by Vikram Bhatt
- 8424 - Movies directed by Vittorio De Sica
- 8659 - Movies directed by Volker Schlondorff
- 7645 - Movies directed by Walter Hill
- 10820 - Movies directed by Walter Lang
- 10090 - Movies directed by Wayne Wang
- 9907 - Movies directed by Wes Craven
- 5870 - Movies directed by William Friedkin
- 2225 - Dark Historical Documentaries
- 8321 - Movies directed by William Wyler
- 37484 - Movies directed by Wilson Yip
- 5191 - Movies directed by Wolfgang Petersen
- 6878 - Movies directed by Woody Allen
- 90707 - Movies directed by Yen-ping Chu
- 25419 - Movies directed by Yimou Zhang
- 77136 - Movies directed by Yuen Woo-ping
- 23335 - Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 52840 - Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead based on Books
- 71375 - Movies for ages 5 to 7 set in Biblical Times
- 1064 - Dark Independent Comedies
- 71272 - Movies for ages 5 to 7 set in the Victorian Era
- 70526 - Movies for ages 8 to 10 set in Biblical Times
- 70696 - Movies for ages 8 to 10 set in the Victorian Era
- 81495 - Movies for Hopeless Romantics
- 81501 - Movies for Hopeless Romantics based on Books
- 81764 - Movies for Hopeless Romantics for ages 11 to 12
- 82035 - Movies for Hopeless Romantics for ages 8 to 10
- 81995 - Movies for Hopeless Romantics from the 1980s
- 10146 - Movies on Blu-ray from the 1980s
- 70102 - Movies set in Ancient Times
- 232 - Dark Independent Dramas
- 70210 - Movies set in Biblical Times
- 70717 - Movies set in Colonial America
- 71089 - Movies set in Imperial China
- 70770 - Movies set in the Edwardian Era
- 70068 - Movies set in the Middle Ages
- 70069 - Movies set in the Victorian Era
- 82476 - Movies starring 50 Cent
- 17538 - Movies starring Aaron Eckhart
- 88538 - Movies starring Abigail Breslin
- 6159 - Movies starring Adam Baldwin
- 2829 - Dark Independent Dramas based on Books
- 21268 - Movies starring Adam Beach
- 6312 - Movies starring Adam Sandler
- 17526 - Movies starring Adrian Paul
- 9877 - Movies starring Adrien Brody
- 74849 - Movies starring Agnes Bruckner
- 79935 - Movies starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- 84129 - Movies starring Ajay Devgn
- 10618 - Movies starring Akshay Kumar
- 17510 - Movies starring Akshaye Khanna
- 7468 - Movies starring Alan Arkin
- 6998 - Satanic Stories
- 1763 - Dark Independent Movies
- 9250 - Movies starring Alan Bates
- 6900 - Movies starring Alan Rickman
- 9856 - Movies starring Alfre Woodard
- 85442 - Movies starring Alice Cooper
- 88895 - Movies starring Alicia Witt
- 66057 - Movies starring Alida Valli
- 6605 - Movies starring Ally Sheedy
- 68327 - Movies starring Alyssa Milano
- 90080 - Movies starring Amanda Plummer
- 91068 - Movies starring Amber Heard
- 4694 - Dark Independent Mysteries
- 71929 - Movies starring Ameesha Patel
- 69101 - Movies starring Amrish Puri
- 33797 - Movies starring Amy Adams
- 69190 - Movies starring Amy Irving
- 33451 - Movies starring Amy Madigan
- 66016 - Movies starring Amy Smart
- 10817 - Movies starring Andie MacDowell