There are hundreds of hidden movies on Netflix, and there’s a trick to finding them

text updated on April 1, 2023

The Netflix catalogue it varies slightly from country to countrybut there is one characteristic that does not change regardless of where you are in the world: it is gigantic, even if less vast than in the first years.

As for Italy, at the moment they would be available about 1700 films and over 600 TV seriesdivided into the usual categories: Action, Adventure, Horror, Comedy and so on, in addition of course to the inevitable New and Popular and above all Recently Added and Picked for You, which are the way Netflix tries to free us from the anxiety of having to choose. And yet it also limits us a little in our possibilities of choosing.

What are Netflix’s Alternate Genres

Because there’s so much more on the world’s largest streaming platform than we imagine, only that it’s almost all hidden behind the scenes, in hidden categories that insiders call Alternate Genres. They are the ones we would never think of, and certainly not while looking for something to watch, like Seventies Brain Movies, Silent Movies, B-Movies, Indie Intellectual Movies, Action Movies based on Sixties Novels. And seventies, and eighties, and nineties and so on.

Finding them isn’t complicated, but you need a computer, because this trick doesn’t work from the Netflix app for smartphones or smart TVs (but once found, the film can then be watched there too):

• from the browser is required access the Netflix site and click on any category, such as for example Crime Movies;

• you will notice that the address you linked to always ends with a number (that of the Crime genre is 5824);

• the key to everything is the final number, precisely which matches the category;

• by clicking on the address bar of the browser you can change that numberswitching to any of the Alternate Genres.

At this point all that remains is to discover the numbers of all the categories, That there are tens of thousands: there is a site that has cataloged them all, and simply browse through it to find their numeric codes. Not all of them are active in Italy (precisely because the Netflix catalog varies slightly from country to country), but many are: this is the case with Independent Intellectual Films (is number 551)Silent Films (53310) or Korean Dramas (1989), just to name a few.

Once you have pressed Play and started viewing on your computer, the film will obviously remain in the History e playback will continue on the app of Netflix or on the smart TV.