Netflix saved three of its most hotly-anticipated releases for the final few days of the year.
This month sees the launch of the fourth season of Black Mirror, season two of royal crowd-pleaser The Crown, and Will Smith blockbuster Bright.
Netflix has also added a slew of family classics ready for the holidays, including Love Actually, Back to the Future, Bridesmaids, and Monster House.
The new additions are just the latest in a swathe of exclusives to join the back catalogue over the last 12 months.
Netflix has launched a range of successful series this year, including Stranger Things 2, Orange Is The New Black, and 13 Reasons Why.
The company has also embraced its increasingly global footprint, cultivating those audiences with movies such as Okja, a film co-written by Bong Joon-ho, one of South Korea’s most prominent directors, and Welsh journalist Jon Ronson.
The critically-acclaimed film follows a young girl’s journey to recover a giant pig from a multi-national corporation.
With so many users likely to launch the video streaming service over the Christmas holidays, now seems like a pretty good time to reveal a series of hidden codes that can help to make choosing your next television binge much easier.
The numerical codes – which need to be pasted into the URL address bar in your web browser – unlock a number of hyper-specific genre categories previously only available to developers.
If you’re wondering just how “hyper-specific” Netflix genres can be, it’s probably worth pointing out that the US company has 36 separate genres for Blu-ray and 65 for Mistaken Identity.
In total, there are more than 15,000 individual genres to sort its movies and television shows.
These categories are used by the video on-demand service to work out recommendations for you, based on viewing history.
Thankfully, if you are watching online you can navigate to these sub-genres by modifying the URL in your web browser.
http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/###
The simply swap out the ### with a numbered code. For example, 5286 is the code for Sports Comedies, 10757 shows all the British Movies and 9833 shows only Reality TV.
And navigating to netflix.com/browse/genre/10118 will show you only the Comic Book and Superhero Movies available on Netflix in your region.
Here are some of the best hidden Netflix codes –
- Action Comedies (43040)
- Action Thrillers (43048)
- Art House Movies (29764)
- B-Horror Movies (8195)
- Baseball Movies (12339)
- Basketball Movies (12762)
- Boxing Movies (12443)
- British TV Shows (52117)
- Campy Movies (1252)
- Classic Musicals (32392)
- Classic TV Shows (46553)
- Country & Western/Folk (1105)
- Crime Action & Adventure (9584)
- Crime TV Shows (26146)
- Cult Horror Movies (10944)
- Deep Sea Horror Movies (45028)
- Disney (67673)
- Disney Musicals (59433)
- Dutch Movies (10606)
- Education for Kids (10659)
- Football Movies (12803)
- Foreign Action & Adventure (11828)
- Foreign Comedies (4426)
- Foreign Horror Movies (8654)
- Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy (6485)
- Gangster Movies (31851)
- Horror Comedy (89585)
- Irish Movies (58750)
- Italian Movies (8221)
- Japanese Movies (10398)
- Jazz & Easy Listening (10271)
- Kids Music (52843)
- Late Night Comedies (1402)
- Martial Arts Movies (8985)
- Martial Arts, Boxing & Wrestling (6695)
- Military TV Shows (25804)
- Mockumentaries (26)
- Movies for ages 0 to 2 (6796)
- Movies for ages 11 to 12 (6962)
- Movies for ages 2 to 4 (6218)
- Movies for ages 5 to 7 (5455)
- Movies for ages 8 to 10 (561)
- Music & Concert Documentaries (90361)
- Political Comedies (2700)
- Political Thrillers (10504)
- Psychological Thrillers (5505)
- Reality TV (9833)
- Rock & Pop Concerts (3278)
- Romantic Dramas (1255)
- Romantic Foreign Movies (7153)
- Satanic Stories (6998)
- Sci-Fi Thrillers (11014)
- Showbiz Musicals (13573)
- Soccer Movies (12549)
- Sports & Fitness (9327)
- Sports Comedies (5286)
- Sports Documentaries (180)
- Sports Documentaries (180)
- Sports Dramas (7243)
- Spy Thrillers (9147)
- Stage Musicals (55774)
- Steamy Romantic Movies (35800)
- Steamy Thrillers (972)
- Supernatural Thrillers (11140)
- TV Action & Adventure (10673)
- TV Comedies (10375)
- TV Documentaries (10105)
- TV Dramas (11714)
- TV Horror (83059)
- TV Mysteries (4366)
- Tearjerkers (6384)
- Teen TV Shows (60951)
- Travel & Adventure Documentaries (1159)
- Werewolf Horror Movies (75930)
- Zombie Horror Movies (75405)
You can also check out the full list of more than 15,000 genres here.
But if that sounds like a lot of trouble, Super Browse is a nifty little web browser add-on that does all the hard work for you.
Install this lightweight app in your Google Chrome or Firefox browser and the hidden categories will now appear in the Browse menu on the Netflix homepage.
Super Browse is available for free on both browsers.
The news comes after Netflix expanded into a further 130 new countries around the world.
“Today you are witnessing the birth of a new global Internet TV network,” said Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
“With this launch, consumers around the world – from Singapore to St. Petersburg, from San Francisco to Sao Paulo – will be able to enjoy TV shows and movies simultaneously – no more waiting.
“With the help of the Internet, we are putting power in consumers’ hands to watch whenever, wherever and on whatever device.”