As the world’s most popular streaming platform, Netflix is ubiquitous to our daily lives. It is a service that is stacked with movies and shows which enhance our pleasure after a day’s work.
Now, the Netflix recommendation page is one of Netflix’s main features. Whenever you want to watch something on Netflix, but have nothing in mind, you will often turn to the Netflix recommendation list, hoping to find something good to watch. But, if you regularly use Netflix’s recommendation tab, you will have noticed that the recommendation and categories is not that great.
However, what you may not know is that there are codes that you can type in to get movie categories that you actually want to watch. Yes, you read that right. Netflix has secret codes which can help sort out movies into categories that you like. These codes date back to the earliest days of the site.
Secret Codes
Below are some secret codes to the most common genres:
For action movies, type in 1365 and get a list of all action movies on Netflix.
Family friendly movies – 783
Comedy – 6548
Documentaries – 6839
Scary/horror movies – 8711
Classic movies – 31574
Cult movies – 7627
Drama – 5763
Foreign movies – 7462
Romantic movies – 8883
Sports movies – 4370
Thrillers – 8933
TV Shows – 83
Sci-Fi – 1492
Anime – 7424
Music – 1701
For even more specific categories in these genres, you can get more codes here.
How to Use the Codes
Using the codes is relatively easy. All you need to do is open your browser, type in “netflix.com/browse/genre/” and then add the ID code at the end of the URL. So, for example, if you want to watch a Thriller, you will type “netflix.com/browse/genre/8933” and then click search or enter. And if you’re going to watch a specific kind of thriller, say psychological thriller, rather than search with the main thriller code, you will instead search with the psychological thriller code, which is 5505; so netflix.com/browse/genre/5505.
There you have it. Use these codes and enjoy your Netflix binge-watch.