7News: Netflix genre codes: How to find 'hidden' movies and TV shows

Appeared in: 7news.com.au

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05 December 2019

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WhistleOut helps 7News discover the secret of hidden Netflix codes

What we need are Netflix’s secret codes.
These secret codes open up a wealth of shows we’d likely never otherwise find. And we’re not just talking about the typical genres you might expect, like ‘comedies’ or ‘dramas’. We’re also talking about super niche categories we’d never search for like ‘Coming-of-age-dramas-based-on-books’, or ‘Visually-striking-imaginative-movies’.

So how do we do it? Easy. It’s as simple as logging into our Netflix accounts and entering www.netflix.com/browse/genre/xxxx into the URL, then replacing the ‘xxxx’ with the number that corresponds to the particular Netflix subcategory.

There are a lot of these secret codes. Like, thousands of them. And sometimes you can simply have too much choice, so here’s a shortlist we’ve pulled together to try out over the Chrissy period.

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