How TV Roulette works

TV Roulette is a small independent app from Code Mint Studios. You set four filters, spin once, and we hand you a single title from the Netflix catalog in the country you chose — not a shelf of thumbnails to get lost in.

The four filters

Everything the wheel can land on has to pass four gates: movies or TV, genre (or All), quality, and watch region. Change any of them and you are drawing from a different pool. Leave them untouched and you are asking for “something decent from my country’s catalog.”

Genre is optional on purpose. All is the right starting point when you are tired. A specific genre is the right starting point when the room already knows it cannot sit through horror, or only wants comedy.

Watch region is the catalog, not the language

Netflix licenses titles by country. We try to guess yours from your connection, and each language homepage has a fallback (United States, Spain, Germany, Portugal, or Turkey). You can override that in the dropdown. The language switcher only changes our copy. It does not swap libraries.

If you use a VPN, match the dropdown to the Netflix country you can actually open. We do not follow the VPN ourselves. That mismatch is the usual reason a Watch link fails.

Quality is a score band

High quality keeps public scores toward the top of the scale. When genre is All, we also prefer more recent years so the first spin feels current. Pick a genre and older well-liked titles can come back in.

Low quality aims at roughly the 2–6 band. That is a so-bad-it’s-fun setting, not a broken wheel. Use it when the group asked for chaos. Skip it when someone asked for a comfort watch.

What a spin actually does

We take the pool that survived the filters and pick one title at random. In a session we try not to serve the same title twice under the same filters. We cannot see your Netflix history, so we may still suggest something you finished last year.

You get a poster, a synopsis, extra details when the lookup works, a trailer when a public database has one, and a link toward Netflix. If you do not like it, spin again. Two quick nos usually mean the filters are wrong, not that you need a twelfth roll.

Where the titles come from

We are not inside your Netflix profile. Catalog search uses a third-party availability API. Details and trailers often come from public movie databases. In a couple of large English-language regions, with genre left on All, we can serve from lists we maintain of crowd-pleasers and infamous flops.

That mix is the honest version of “community taste.” It is not a live vote on every title on earth. Plots and posters are licensed or third-party data. The original writing on this site is the how-to pages, the FAQ, and the guides.

What this is not

Not Netflix. Not a search box for a film you already named. Not a promise that a title will still be there tomorrow — windows expire. Not a ranking of cinema, even when quality is set to high.

If you want a specific title, type it into Netflix. If you want the evening to start, set the four filters to match the room and spin.

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