The Netflix catalog it changes slightly from country to countrybut there is one feature that does not change regardless of where you are in the world: it is gigantic, even if less vast than in the early years.
As for Italy, they would be available at the moment around 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 especially Recently Added and Chosen for You, which are the way through which Netflix tries to free us from the anxiety of having to choose. And yet it also limits us a little in our possibilities to choose.
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What are Netflix’s Alternate Genres
Because on the largest streaming platform in the world there is so much more than we imagine, only that it is 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 we’re looking for something to watch, like Seventies Brain Movies, Silent Movies, B-Movies, Independent Intellectual Movies, Action Movies based on Sixties Novels. And Seventies, and Eighties, and Nineties and so on.
Finding them is not complicated, but you need a computer, because this trick doesn’t work from the Netflix app for smartphone or smart TV (but once found, the film can then be seen there too):
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from the browser is required access the Netflix site and click on any category, such as for example Film Crime;
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you will notice that the address you are connected to always ends with a number (the one of the Crime genre is 5824);
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the key to everything is the final number, which in fact matches the category;
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by clicking on the address bar of the browser you can change that numberturning on to any of the Alternate Genres.
At this point all that remains is to find out the numbers of all categories, which there are tens of thousands: there is a site that has cataloged them all, and just browse it to find their numeric codes. In Italy they are not all active (precisely because the Netflix catalog varies slightly from country to country), but many yes: this is the case of Independent intellectual films (it’s number 551)Silent Movies (53310) or Korean Drama Movies (1989), just to name a few.
Once you have pressed Play and started viewing on the computer, the film will obviously remain in the History and playback can continue on the app of Netflix or on the smart tv.