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"Secret" Netflix Categories...

BirdOPrey5

Staff member
Administrator
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Full story is here: Use These Secret Codes to Unlock Netflixs Hidden Categories

But cliff notes is that if you watch Netflix on your computer where you can see the URL in your browser then you may know when you browse a category the URL is something like:

Code:
http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/26065
Where the ID is the number at the end, in this example: 26065

Apparently netflix has hundreds more categories then you can find when browsing. For example this URL:

Code:
http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/7
Is for "Showbiz movies based on real life."



People with too much times on their hands have gone to great lengths to document these hundreds of extra categories, but beware, some change and some aren't available in the USA.

Two sites that attempt to document them all are:
NetFlix Streaming by Alternate Genres (Main List)
and
The Netflix ID Bible Every Category on Netflix s On Netflix?

Seemed interesting to me.

Gritty Italian Movies
anyone?
 

KJK

wine taster
VIP
Lol @ some of the comments:

"Whatever you do, don’t watch Old Boy under cult classics."
 

BirdOPrey5

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I saw this under "Experimental Movies" I'm not going to watch it now but I have it queued, looks promising despite poor ratings.

 
I don't get it..are these hard to find movies? Or are they not available titles for the average joe searching, but they are available on netflix and you can only find them searching by hand? WTF is champagne room? Pr0N?
 

whiskey tango

warmonger
VIP
They have different listings for different regions. Also, they don't list all categories. They kinda rotate every once in a while.
 

BirdOPrey5

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Administrator
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I don't get it..are these hard to find movies? Or are they not available titles for the average joe searching, but they are available on netflix and you can only find them searching by hand? WTF is champagne room? Pr0N?
If you knew what you wanted to watch you could use the search and find any of these movies by searching for its name.

But if you don't know what you want to watch you end up browsing through their basic categories and realize you're only seeing a small fraction of the total Netflix library.

Reading these categories might spark your interest in seeing something new, something you never knew existed so you would never have searched for otherwise.

Yes I assumed when someone asked about "Champagne Room" they meant "adult" but Netflix doesn't have any porn... so I gave them the ID for gay & lesbian dramas I think.
 
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