WANT to find the very best Christmas telly this year? Netflix is brimming with festive goodness, but it’s not always easy to find.
Well it turns out there are secret Netflix codes that can guide you to exactly what you’re looking for.
One of the best things about Netflix is the vast number of extremely specific movie and TV show categories.
You might have seen these pop up on your home screen – and different ones will come and go.
This makes it difficult to track down the exact ones you want.
It’s the same story for Christmas categories: they won’t all appear in your feed at once.
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But if you have a list of Netflix Christmas category codes to hand, you can stick them into Netflix to get the exact festive line-up you’re looking for.
The Sun has trawled into the Netflix Christmas catalogue to track down some of the very best codes.
But first, here’s how to use them.
HOW TO USE CATEGORY CODES ON NETFLIX
You’ve got two ways to use Netflix codes.
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The most conventional way is for when you’re on a web browser, like a laptop or PC.
Then you’ll add the code to the end of the following URL, replacing the Xs:
If you’re using a TV or the app instead, you’ll want to just enter the code into the search bar.
Just be warned: this does usually work, but we’ve found that some codes won’t populate content on the app.
However, you should find that most of the codes do work.
NETFLIX CHRISTMAS CODES – THE 2025 LIST
We’ve rounded up Christmas category codes that are currently working on Netflix.
But be warned: this could change between the time of writing and when you read this article.
Netflix may simply have deactivated a genre, preventing the code from working.
In any case, here’s our latest list of Netflix Christmas genre codes:
- Christmas Comedy Films – 1474015
- Romantic Christmas Films – 1394527
- Christmas Films – 1393372
- Feel-good Romantic Christmas Films – 1415060
- Romantic Christmas Comedy Films – 1475072
- Festive Favourites – 107985
- Christmas Family Movies – 81622297
- Christmas Kids & Family Films – 1474017
- In The Mood For Holiday Romance – 81946036
- Feel-Good Christmas Films – 1418977
- Christmas Family Comedy Movies – 1393373
- In The Mood for a Festive Soundtrack – 81946029
- Start Your Holidays Here – 81946034
- Festive Family Fun – 81351538
- Festive Fun – 393181
NETFLIX CODES – THE REAL STORY
Here’s how Netflix’s Jessica Dershowitz explains the codes…
“According to Mary Bertone of Netflix’s evidence team, these codes date back to the days when Netflix was still in its DVDs-only phase.
“At the time, Netflix.com had a public-facing genre tree that linked out to all the various types of films and TV series, each of which has its own specific ID code.
“A fan scraped the genre tree for all the codes, shared the list online, and people have been using those codes (along with the thousands more that have been added since) to this day.
“New codes are being added whenever inspiration strikes.”
There will likely be even more category codes that we haven’t spotted yet.
And Netflix might also add more over time, so keep an eye out for genres that we’ve missed.
