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
Alphabetical order, based on the name of the subgenre:
- 50106 - Emotional Dysfunctional-Family Movies from the 1980s
- 74173 - Emotional Dysfunctional-Family Social Issue Dramas
- 3178 - Action & Adventure starring Bob Steele
- 27755 - Emotional Dysfunctional-Family TV Dramas
- 28220 - Emotional Dysfunctional-Family TV Shows
- 89173 - Emotional East Asian 20th Century Period Pieces
- 85771 - Emotional East Asian Action & Adventure
- 92526 - Emotional East Asian Action Thrillers
- 85849 - Emotional East Asian Dramas
- 85739 - Emotional East Asian Dramas based on Real Life
- 86185 - Emotional East Asian Movies
- 86210 - Emotional East Asian Movies based on Real Life
- 88899 - Emotional East Asian TV Dramas
- 4143 - Action & Adventure starring Bruce Lee
- 86515 - Emotional East Asian TV Shows
- 62707 - Emotional Eastern European Dramas
- 62192 - Emotional Eastern European Movies
- 52982 - Emotional Epics
- 52861 - Emotional Faith & Spirituality Movies
- 28045 - Emotional Faith and Spirituality
- 28152 - Emotional Faith and Spirituality based on real life
- 74596 - Emotional Faith and Spirituality set in Biblical Times
- 51283 - Emotional Family Features
- 51228 - Emotional Family Features based on children's books
- 1641 - Action & Adventure starring Bruce Li
- 83133 - Emotional Family Features based on Real Life
- 51119 - Emotional Family Features for ages 11 to 12
- 51129 - Emotional Family Features for ages 8 to 10
- 49871 - Emotional Family Life Documentaries
- 49569 - Emotional Family Life Movies
- 49121 - Emotional Family Life Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 82067 - Emotional Family Reunion Dramas
- 81559 - Emotional Family Reunion Movies
- 16134 - Emotional Fantasy Movies
- 90867 - Emotional Farsi-Language Movies
- 12339 - Baseball Movies
- 240 - Action & Adventure starring Buster Crabbe
- 52011 - Emotional Father-Daughter Comedies
- 20148 - Emotional Father-Daughter Dramas
- 84018 - Emotional Father-Daughter Dramas based on Books
- 19907 - Emotional Father-Daughter Movies
- 73661 - Emotional Father-Daughter Movies based on Books
- 69004 - Emotional Father-Daughter Social Issue Dramas
- 19850 - Emotional Father-Son 20th Century Period Pieces
- 22764 - Emotional Father-Son Comedies
- 90772 - Emotional Father-Son Documentaries
- 19482 - Emotional Father-Son Dramas
- 2321 - Action & Adventure starring Chuck Norris
- 19896 - Emotional Father-Son Dramas based on real life
- 19806 - Emotional Father-Son Movies
- 54687 - Emotional Father-Son Movies based on Books
- 19659 - Emotional Father-Son Movies based on real life
- 68882 - Emotional Father-Son Social Issue Dramas
- 27690 - Emotional Fight-the-System 20th Century Period Pieces
- 32948 - Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries
- 27281 - Emotional Fight-the-System Dramas
- 67274 - Emotional Fight-the-System Dramas based on Books
- 28085 - Emotional Fight-the-System Dramas based on real life
- 3490 - Action & Adventure starring Clint Eastwood
- 46324 - Emotional Fight-the-System Dramas from the 1980s
- 27128 - Emotional Fight-the-System Movies
- 54475 - Emotional Fight-the-System Movies based on Books
- 26892 - Emotional Fight-the-System Movies based on real life
- 46064 - Emotional Fight-the-System Movies from the 1980s
- 77198 - Emotional First-Love Comedies
- 19338 - Emotional First-Love Dramas
- 83990 - Emotional First-Love Dramas based on Books
- 19038 - Emotional First-Love Movies
- 55268 - Emotional First-Love Movies based on Books
- 4264 - Action & Adventure starring David Chiang
- 36895 - Emotional Football Dramas
- 47581 - Emotional Football Dramas based on real life
- 35732 - Emotional Football Movies
- 36822 - Emotional Football Movies based on real life
- 71572 - Emotional Forbidden-Love 20th Century Period Pieces
- 18713 - Emotional Forbidden-Love Dramas
- 56678 - Emotional Forbidden-Love Dramas based on Books
- 20671 - Emotional Forbidden-Love Movies
- 56122 - Emotional Forbidden-Love Movies based on Books
- 77144 - Emotional Forbidden-Love Period Pieces
- 2437 - Action & Adventure starring Dolph Lundgren
- 61029 - Emotional Foreign 20th Century Period Pieces
- 50143 - Emotional Foreign Action & Adventure
- 79160 - Emotional Foreign Action Thrillers
- 74787 - Emotional Foreign Biographical Documentaries
- 39141 - Emotional Foreign Biographical Dramas
- 34706 - Emotional Foreign Biographical Movies
- 22791 - Emotional Foreign Comedies
- 62089 - Emotional Foreign Coming-of-age Dramas
- 59680 - Emotional Foreign Coming-of-age Movies
- 92429 - Emotional Foreign Crime Action & Adventure
- 3847 - Action & Adventure starring Dragon Lee
- 5857 - Emotional Foreign Crime Dramas
- 74835 - Emotional Foreign Crime Thrillers
- 33208 - Emotional Foreign Documentaries
- 6637 - Emotional Foreign Dramas
- 36980 - Emotional Foreign Dramas about Marriage
- 64910 - Emotional Foreign Dramas based on Books
- 22667 - Emotional Foreign Dramas based on real life
- 81546 - Emotional Foreign Dramas for Hopeless Romantics
- 10109 - Emotional Foreign Dramas from the 1950s
- 41545 - Emotional Foreign Dramas from the 1980s
- 4609 - Action & Adventure starring Errol Flynn
- 73791 - Emotional Foreign Dramas set in Ancient Times
- 50923 - Emotional Foreign Dysfunctional-Family Dramas
- 46229 - Emotional Foreign Dysfunctional-Family Movies
- 72271 - Emotional Foreign Father-Daughter Dramas
- 72255 - Emotional Foreign Father-Daughter Movies
- 23937 - Emotional Foreign Father-Son Dramas
- 22783 - Emotional Foreign Father-Son Movies
- 38087 - Emotional Foreign Fight-the-System Dramas
- 38127 - Emotional Foreign Fight-the-System Movies
- 63651 - Emotional Foreign First-Love Dramas
- 2047 - Action & Adventure starring Fei Meng
- 59932 - Emotional Foreign First-Love Movies
- 33717 - Emotional Foreign Forbidden-Love Dramas
- 33691 - Emotional Foreign Forbidden-Love Movies
- 35144 - Emotional Foreign Gay & Lesbian Dramas
- 24467 - Emotional Foreign Gay & Lesbian Movies
- 76407 - Emotional Foreign Immigrant-Life Dramas
- 67369 - Emotional Foreign Immigrant-Life Movies
- 83880 - Emotional Foreign Medical Dramas
- 83908 - Emotional Foreign Medical Movies
- 84311 - Emotional Foreign Military 20th Century Period Pieces
- 2468 - Action & Adventure starring Fred Williamson
- 39977 - Emotional Foreign Military Dramas
- 24672 - Emotional Foreign Military Movies
- 24397 - Emotional Foreign Mother-Daughter Dramas
- 24135 - Emotional Foreign Mother-Daughter Movies
- 36971 - Emotional Foreign Mother-Son Dramas
- 26461 - Emotional Foreign Mother-Son Movies
- 26390 - Emotional Foreign Movies about Marriage
- 60734 - Emotional Foreign Movies based on Books
- 21462 - Emotional Foreign Movies based on real life
- 81547 - Emotional Foreign Movies for Hopeless Romantics
- 2630 - Action & Adventure starring Gary Daniels
- 9389 - Emotional Foreign Movies from the 1950s
- 41522 - Emotional Foreign Movies from the 1980s
- 71852 - Emotional Foreign Movies set in Ancient Times
- 84007 - Emotional Foreign Musicals
- 85301 - Emotional Foreign Musicals for Hopeless Romantics
- 80213 - Emotional Foreign Period Pieces
- 14338 - Emotional Foreign Political Dramas
- 78947 - Emotional Foreign Political Dramas based on Real Life
- 5151 - Emotional Foreign Political Movies
- 37294 - Emotional Foreign Political Movies based on Real Life
- 4814 - Miniseries
- 3295 - Action & Adventure starring Gene Hackman
- 88983 - Emotional Foreign Prison Dramas
- 88987 - Emotional Foreign Prison Movies
- 75091 - Emotional Foreign Revenge Dramas
- 71682 - Emotional Foreign Revenge Movies
- 67761 - Emotional Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 73517 - Emotional Foreign Showbiz Dramas
- 73483 - Emotional Foreign Showbiz Movies
- 78164 - Emotional Foreign Social & Cultural Documentaries
- 77164 - Emotional Foreign Social Issue Dramas
- 78165 - Emotional Foreign Sports Dramas
- 857 - Action & Adventure starring Harrison Ford
- 76152 - Emotional Foreign Sports Movies
- 72871 - Emotional Foreign Supernatural Movies
- 45628 - Emotional Foreign Thrillers
- 71780 - Emotional Foreign TV Dramas
- 71624 - Emotional Foreign TV Shows
- 70801 - Emotional Foreign WWII Dramas
- 70280 - Emotional Foreign WWII Movies
- 58726 - Emotional French Dramas
- 62524 - Emotional French Dramas based on real life
- 62186 - Emotional French Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 4215 - Action & Adventure starring Henry Fonda
- 89746 - Emotional French Independent Dramas
- 89739 - Emotional French Independent Movies
- 58722 - Emotional French Movies
- 64445 - Emotional French Movies based on real life
- 64734 - Emotional French Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
- 7284 - Emotional French-Language Dramas
- 50681 - Emotional French-Language Dramas based on real life
- 87788 - Emotional French-Language Independent Dramas
- 87805 - Emotional French-Language Independent Movies
- 10159 - Emotional French-Language Movies
- 3926 - Action & Adventure starring James Coburn
- 34803 - Emotional French-Language Movies based on real life
- 76939 - Emotional Gangster Dramas
- 76857 - Emotional Gangster Movies
- 80909 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian 20th Century Period Pieces
- 84113 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Biographical Documentaries
- 34938 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Biographical Movies
- 73510 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Comedies
- 37631 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Documentaries
- 11382 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Dramas
- 34953 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Dramas based on real life
- 2694 - Action & Adventure starring James Stewart
- 69251 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Forbidden-Love Dramas
- 45483 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Forbidden-Love Movies
- 11390 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Movies
- 23810 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Movies based on real life
- 34583 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian Social Issue Dramas
- 59205 - Emotional Gay & Lesbian TV Shows
- 58872 - Emotional German Dramas
- 82140 - Emotional German Dramas based on Real Life
- 58880 - Emotional German Movies
- 81723 - Emotional German Movies based on Real Life
- 3683 - Action & Adventure starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- 71129 - Emotional German WWII Dramas
- 70500 - Emotional German WWII Movies
- 14408 - Emotional German-Language Dramas
- 71112 - Emotional German-Language WWII Movies
- 58496 - Emotional Ghost-story Dramas
- 23718 - Emotional Ghost-story Movies
- 44688 - Emotional Girl Power Movies
- 66102 - Emotional Girl Power Movies for ages 11 to 12
- 66482 - Emotional Girl Power Movies for ages 8 to 10
- 59689 - Emotional Hebrew-Language Dramas
- 4912 - Action & Adventure starring John Liu
- 62360 - Emotional Hebrew-Language Movies
- 76270 - Emotional High School Documentaries
- 33840 - Emotional High School Dramas
- 22637 - Emotional High School Movies
- 78873 - Emotional High School Social Issue Dramas
- 92057 - Emotional High School Teen TV
- 50458 - Emotional High School TV Dramas
- 50562 - Emotional High School TV Shows
- 53264 - Emotional High School TV Teen Dramas
- 80211 - Emotional Hindi-Language Comedies
- 4709 - Action & Adventure starring John Wayne
- 83906 - Emotional Hindi-Language Crime Movies
- 58761 - Emotional Hindi-Language Dramas
- 82081 - Emotional Hindi-Language Dramas for Hopeless Romantics
- 58881 - Emotional Hindi-Language Movies
- 81626 - Emotional Hindi-Language Movies for Hopeless Romantics
- 84500 - Emotional Hindi-Language Musicals
- 21440 - Emotional Historical Documentaries
- 88531 - Emotional Historical TV Dramas
- 88414 - Emotional Historical TV Miniseries
- 88441 - Emotional Historical TV Movies
- 1894 - Action & Adventure starring Johnny Mack Brown
- 88498 - Emotional Historical TV Period Pieces
- 88394 - Emotional Historical TV Shows
- 90873 - Emotional Hong Kong Dramas
- 73844 - Emotional Hong Kong Movies
- 23801 - Emotional Immigrant-Life Dramas
- 23212 - Emotional Immigrant-Life Movies
- 74180 - Emotional Immigrant-Life Social Issue Dramas
- 12153 - Emotional Independent 20th Century Period Pieces
- 15457 - Emotional Independent Comedies
- 41008 - Emotional Independent Coming-of-age Dramas
- 1745 - Action & Adventure starring Kris Kristofferson
- 33884 - Emotional Independent Coming-of-age Movies
- 6645 - Emotional Independent Crime Dramas
- 34635 - Emotional Independent Dramas about Marriage