I love Netflix. And so do millions of other people. There are so many choices of what to watch, it’s almost overwhelming. But the “standard” Netflix content categories that you normally see on the screen are often too broad to really make a specific selection. However, when you know this little trick and the proper category codes, you can choose EXACTLY the type of movie you want to watch.

You know if you just go to Netflix.com to choose something to watch, you get the standard list of categories such as Action, Drama, Comedy, Documentary, etc. Those categories are sometimes just way too broad! What if you want to watch a political documentary? or an Irish movie? or a Korean TV show? You can actually find those things on Netflix, if you know this little trick!

You just have to go on your computer, open a web browser such as Chrome or Firefox, and type this in the address bar at the top:

http://netflix.com/browse/genre/xxxxx

BUT – instead of that series of Xs at the end, type a number. The number you put there will depend on what you want to watch. To use the examples I mentioned above, let’s say you want to watch a political documentary. That number is 7018. So you would enter this address in your web browser:

http://netflix.com/browse/genre/7018

When you do that, Netflix offers up all kinds of choices (this image only shows a few of the options):

Then you just go to Netflix on your TV, search for the name of the movie you want, and watch it.

For an Irish movie, the code is 58750, so you would enter http://netflix.com/browse/genre/58750. That gives us loads of Irish movies:

And for Korean TV shows, the address would be http://netflix.com/browse/genre/67879 and you would get even more choices:

So here it is – a list of all the codes for the “other” Netflix categories:

Action & Adventure: 1365

Now you definitely can’t complain that there’s nothing to watch!