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:
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:
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?
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
Apparently netflix has hundreds more categories then you can find when browsing. For example this URL:
Code:
http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/7
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?