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A directory of Netflix's “secret” categories
- bhaumik 11y agomany more: http://ogres-crypt.com/public/NetFlix-Streaming-Genres2.html http://ogres-crypt.com/public/NetFlix-Streaming-Genres2.html
- Zikes 11y agoI don't understand Netflix's aversion to letting me find shows I'm interested in. It's so hard to just browse the full catalog, even by really general categories like "Action" or "Comedy". When I pull up the Netflix app on my console all I get are 20-25 movies in each category, plus my Queue and a few recommendations.
- theseatoms 11y agoIt seems that they're trying to prevent users from realizing how light their catalog really is.
- tigeba 11y agoThis seems like the logical reason for the lack of an "Oscar Winning Movies" category.
- klapinat0r 11y agoI agree, and it's really a shame. However, wasn't there such a category once? At least in 2009 there was (recall seeing various winners from 2009 in a "Oscar" category)
- ynezz 11y agoWe've this category in Czech mutation.
- soylentcola 11y agoI dunno...I find the selection to easily surpass what I'd find available on basic cable on any given day. If it cost $30-50/mo (or whatever they charge for a pretty basic cable package these days) I'd reconsider but for under $10/mo I find it to fill that gap of "something to flick through and find something I wouldn't mind watching" quite nicely.
- theseatoms 11y agoDon't get me wrong. I'm a subscriber and will likely continue to be. I agree that Netflix is a better deal for the consumer than most cable packages, but they're constantly competing for content with Hulu, Amazon, HBO, YouTube, etc.
- Zikes 11y agoYouTube and Twitch have grown to become about 90% of my video consumption. The increasingly cheap pro-sumer quality A/V equipment and software have made the production values go up significantly in recent years, making the regular production of high-quality shows much more viable.
- theseatoms 11y agoAny recommendations? :)
- Zikes 11y agoOh it's really all about personal preference. I mostly subscribe to tech news & reviews and "let's play" type gaming content, along with some cooking/woodworking/metalworking stuff. Off the top of my head I mostly watch MKBHD, Tested, Cinemassacre, CynicalBrit, Lazy Game Reviews, Frank Howarth, and enough smaller channels to fill in the gaps. Edit: Oh and LinusTechTips, I can't believe how long it took me to get on board with that channel.
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- JustSomeNobody 11y agoFirst: I love me some Netflix. But that doesn't mean I think they can't improve, so: Second: I don't see how this is the case ("...prevent users from realizing how light their catalog really is.". Looking at what they show me when I search or browse already makes the selection look anemic. Using a few of these codes helped me find stuff I didn't know was there.
- gnicholas 11y agoExactly. Given how expensive content is to license/produce, their goal is not to have tons of stuff you want to watch right now. They want to have just enough stuff that you don't leave (either because of the current catalog, or because a new season of HoC or something else you care about is around the corner). They structure their site so that you don't realize that they don't want to make you super happy—they just want to keep you barely happy.
- ctdonath 11y agoSad, given it was once the prime example of "long-tail" content providers - giving customers the hope that everything would be available eventually, no matter how obscure. Now I'm resigned to them providing "more than I'd like to watch than I have time for", and expecting to go elsewhere for "I want to watch this, now who has it" content.
- zo1 11y agoIt may seem counter-intuitive, but that is what I think it is as well. So, they "show" you only small snippets that they think is relevant to you, in order for you to not have to "need" a full view or search into their catalog. It's like expecting a TV channel to show you a full listing of all the things that they've ever played, or are currently playing. You'd then quickly realize how tiny of a selection it really is, with all the repeats and what not. Netflix's movie selection is really abysmal. After finally cutting the cord, going full-legal and all that. And then: "Hmm, I'd really like to watch movie X", and then you search for it on Netflix, thinking oh it's some relatively-semi-popular movie from half a decade ago, it should be on Netflix. But nope, they recommend you sign up for a DVD plan instead where you can get that movie. Don't even expect one of the "new blockbuster" movies on Netflix, not going to happen. For that have to fork out a pay-per-view amount of $$ on Amazon Prime/Google Play/Itunes.
- profinger 11y agoHonestly, I had to scroll down like 10 categories just to find my queue. Netflix is screwing with us, I think...
- neogodless 11y agoOMG I forgot Netflix has a queue. Of course that was everything when I rented DVDs from Netflix. Then I vaguely remember adding movies to my "streaming" queue, but I feel like that went away entirely. So apparently there is a way to get back to that?! I think searching for movies online (while cross-referencing Rotten Tomatoes) and building a queue could greatly enhance my Saturday nights!
- david_shaw 11y agoIt's generally referred to as "My List" now, and it's available on all the major platforms I use (iOS app, webapp, Fire Stick app, PS3 app).
- ergothus 11y agoI'm equally confused by their continued practice of making it harder to see my queue. I mean, these are shows I've said I want to see, why make it hard to find? Add to that that they haven't created an "add to my queue when new episodes come out" option and how shows have been on/off availability rapidly and Netflix isn't nearly as useful as it used to be.
- sandworm101 11y agoThe best shows are those that don't fit a particular category, or that grow to move between categories. Lots of great british TV bounces between comedy and drama (sherlock, cuffs). Some American shows cannot be pinned to a specific age range (simpsons). I still laugh when I see TopGear listed as "informational/other" by my cable company. Also ... (i just noticed) Australian Movies 5230 Belgian Movies 262 Korean Movies 5685 Latin American Movies 1613 Middle Eastern Movies 5875 New Zealand Movies No Canada? No Canada comedy, no Canada movies, nothing? Belgian but not Canadian? Look to the end of your favorite shows. Look for the "Canadian film tax credit" statement before saying there aren't any canadian shows.
- spike021 11y agoFWIW, I've seen several Canadian shows. One in particular IIRC is The Transporter series. I don't know how much more there is, but there's definitely more. I think Flashpoint is also on there, which IIRC is produced by a Canadian studio.
- treve 11y agoRobocop too, right?
- sandworm101 11y agoThey do have plenty of canadian content. I was just surprised not to see any acknowledgement in their list of categories. If you want to cover everything filmed in canada, that is a very very long list. X-Files, X-men, twilight, the latest godzilla ... it will take a while. But if you expand to to all "canadian content" then be ready for a shock. The first season of the new Doctor Who was a partial CBC production.
- NDizzle 11y agoMaybe Netflix is claiming Trailer Park Boys now. That is totally Canadian. It's not a rocket appliance.
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- overcast 11y agoShould have removed the ?ref=producthunt , since this posted on Hacker News.
- dang 11y agoGood point. Done.
- mpdehaan2 11y agoIt would be nice if Netflix made it easier to browse content rather than choosing what categories to display and show to you. It can get stuck thinking your really like a genre, and the recommendation engine can penalize you too much for too many likes or dislikes. Now that the website is a bit more focused towards streaming-on-computer it's somewhat harder to browse and prepare a queue. It feels that some content is cheaper to stream and it wants to present that content first, and also that they don't really want you to be aware of the size of the catalog either. Tempting to go back to DVD plan for a while, really, which I would do if the US Post Office was remotely reliable. If only there was a way to rent-stream BlueRay/DVD ISOs securely to a Netflix app, and have their whole catalog legally available and not bifurcated into streaming and non-streaming, that would be really cool.
- rblatz 11y agoI have found the USPS to be extremely reliable. What issue have you had, and have you reported thos issues to your local post office?
- Finnucane 11y agoIndeed--we use the dvd service routinely (most of their movies aren't available for streaming), and it is almost always two-day turnaround on disks. (One day in each direction)
- ergothus 11y agoReliability varies with branch. I've been generally quite content with the USPS, but my current home has: * mail regularly misdelivered (1-2 piece of mail/month, including small packages that fit in the mailbox). Who knows what mail I've missed that went to someone else's house. * They won't deliver larger packages to my house (busy street), BUT the office remains ignorant of this despite regular visits and I usually have to get bumped up to a manager before they "find" my package after insisting it is on the truck. * ...But they do deliver packages on Sunday (When Amazon is paying them to) * Package slips aren't always given. Followup slips DEFINITELY don't happen. After being happy with the USPS most of my life, I now have all my amazon packages delivered to a locker because it's easier to always have a small amount of inconvenience than have general convenience (UPS and FedEx to the house direct) mixed with extreme inconvenience (USPS making me wait longer to get the package, at hours that don't work well with a 9-5 work schedule)
- davidclopez 11y ago| Satanic Stories 6998 What a missed opportunity.
- petke 11y agoI got existed for: "Dark Comedies 869". Man its difficult to find these kinds of movies. Unfortunately there was not 869 of them but just 6. I have seen them all. One of them was amazing; "Sightseers" if anyone wants a movie tip.
- WolfeReader 11y ago869 is the search code in the URL, not the number of results to return.
- petke 11y agook
- carb 11y agoI get 28 results for Dark Comedies. Do you want me to share the list with you?
- glitcher 11y agoI've always longed for better filtering/sorting options on the home screen. Currently I believe you have to go into one of the category screens to have sorting options. My other pet peeve with Netflix is the duplication of content across several of the home screen categories. Some are almost identical at times, just in different orders.
- e40 11y agoI would love to sort on rating, and I've never seen a way to do that. It would be the single biggest thing that would increase my use of Netflix.
- Gustomaximus 11y agoYep, I dream of setting a ">200 ratings under 4 stars" type filter. Would make finding new films much easier.
- ctdonath 11y agoThere's a whole lot more than the OP lists. Things like http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/5614 http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/5614 "Movies starring Kyle MacLachlan" and http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/5612 http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/5612 "Comedies from the 1920s".
- joesmo 11y agoIt'd be nice if these categories weren't hidden, but at this point, the Netflix UI has gotten so useless that if the service was a little more expensive, it wouldn't be worth the price. Basic UI features that I'd expect from even an alpha quality service like filtering by star rating simply don't exist. Up until today and this post, proper categories did not exist. The whole Netflix UI experience has consisted of scrolling through endless lists of garbage to occasionally find one or two interesting movies/shows. And when I say garbage, I really mean garbage: movies with one or two stars, deservingly so. I understand that if Netflix allowed filtering by star rating they might only list a few hundred 4 and 5 star movies across the whole service, but it'd be best to let the consumer decide how to deal with that fact rather than hiding everything in a giant pile of shit. I find their star ratings to be very close to accurate and this is the strength of the service. Unfortunately, their discovery UI is so horrific, it negates any strength Netflix has otherwise. If I know what I want to watch, Netflix is great, otherwise I prepare for half an hour of scrolling the same bullshit list of crap looking for anything decent and ultimately giving up.
- kevinschumacher 11y agoNot sure if I'm crazy here, but I thought that the star ratings they show on the UI are their prediction of how much you will like the movie (i.e., they think you will give this movie 2 stars). Anyone know?
- loumf 11y agoThe rotten tomatoes website has good enough filtering which includes an "available on Netflix" option.
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- fastball 11y agoMost of these categories aren't 'hidden'. If you select one of the main genres on Netflix, almost all of them will then have a "sub-genre" picker which, as far as I can tell, includes most if not all of these. Sure, this site lets you see them all at once without having to choose a parent genre first, but it doesn't seem like that big of deal.
- paxtonab 11y agoIt is easier to browse this list than it is to browse a Netflix genre...
- mschuster91 11y agoEh, anyone here by chance who knows how to watch the Avengers movies and the Men in Black movies in Germany? They don't appear in the catalog, but searching shows "Based on The Avengers" and the other MCU films, for example.
- sireat 11y agoCheck Reddit Netflix subreddit there are a bunch of ways of getting the full catalog there is a neat software which makes it seamless although a regular vpn is just as good
- NathanCVoss 11y agoJust by guessing a couple numbers I found more: Goofy Crime Movies: http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/10001 http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/10001
- Torn 11y agoNice. I'm surprised someone hasn't setup a script to enumerate them all. The ids all seem less than 6 digits
- aaronsnoswell 11y agoCan someone explain what this is? Non-netflix user here.
- click170 11y agoAs you can see from other comments here, the Netflix UI is quite bad. This is a list of categories that many people feel the UI hides from them, in that they're hard to find. If you use Netflix on your computer you can use this list to access those sub-categories.
- joshmn 11y agoTime for a Chrome extension.
- amag 11y agoNice! I've missed this since Netflix started to dumb-down the list of categories displayed for a movie a while back.
- Ennergizer 11y agoNetflix Secret Categories are also available in Simkl for Netflix Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simkl-for-netflix-hulu-cr/dbpjfmehfpcgmlpfnfilcnhbckmecmca https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simkl-for-netflix-... with random Netflix search and watched\to watch filters