If you look at the IMDb titles with a 9+ rating and 50K votes this decade, there are only 4 entries. Every single one of them is an Indian TV series. Title Votes Rating Aspirants 316,390 9.1 Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story 166,400 9.2 Sandeep Bhaiya 76,586 9.1 Sapne Vs Everyone 74,342 9.3 This is a new phenomenon. Last decade, there was only one Indian TV series in the same list: TVF Pitchers. ...
I always wondered why old movies are rated so high on IMDb. For example, 12 Angry Men (1954) with just ~900K votes ranks about as high as Inception (2010) with ~2M votes. Few people I know have seen 12 Angry Men. So where does this high rating come from? My theories were: Old movies really are that good. IMDb’s algorithm is biased towards old movies. People remember older movies fondly. Actually, it’s none of these. It’s selection bias. ...
Snow White (2025) is an outlier on the IMDb. With a rating of 1.8 and ~362K votes, it’s one of the most popularly trashed movies. Prior to Snow White the frontier of popular bad movies was held by the likes of Radhe, Batman & Robin, Fifty Shades of Gray, etc. Snow White sets a new records. Snow White (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6208148/ IMDb explorer: https://sanand0.github.io/imdb/ LinkedIn
The IMDb Top 250, as a source of movies, dries out quickly. In my case, I’ve seen about 175/250. Not sure how much I want to see the rest. When chatting with Col Needham (who’s working his way through every movie with over 40,000 votes), I came up with this as a useful way of finding what movies to watch next. Each box is one or more movies. Darker boxes mean more movies. Those on the right have more votes. Those on top have a better rating. The ones I’ve seen are green, the rest are red. (I’ve seen more movies than that – just haven’t marked them green yet :-) ...
“Scraping” is extracting content from a website. It’s often used to build something on top of the existing content. For example, I’ve built a site that tracks movies on the IMDb 250 by scraping content. There are libraries that simplify scraping in most languages: Perl: WWW::Mechanize Python: BeautifulSoup Ruby: HPricot PHP: XPath (built-in) Javascript: jQuery on env.js on Rhino But all of these are on the server side. That is, the program scrapes from your machine. Can you write a web page where the viewer’s machine does the scraping? ...
I watch a lot of movies. Over the last year, I’ve watched over 250 movies (and read 50 books, but that’s another story). Other than making time to watch movies, my biggest problem is figuring out what to watch next. The IMDb top 250 is a good guideline, and I’m running my way down the list. Twofifty.org has been useful to track what I’ve seen as well. But I have interests outside of the IMDb Top 250, and I need a way of tracking these. ...
Here are the top 1000 most popular movies on the Internet Movie database, along with their ratings and number of votes. I've also marked whether I've seen them or not, as of today. This list, incidentally, is part of my source for the post on popular lousy movies. Here is the Excel list of Top 1000 movies on IMDb. Comments Arch 1 Dec 2006 10:14 am: Your site is too good.I browse thru so many blogs every other day, but hav found nothing as entertaining and as informative as this one. U must be really gifted fella…Y dont u post some pics of ur kid … err 1 Dec 2006 10:04 pm: is to do. S Anand 1 Dec 2006 10:35 pm: Thanks, Arch. I haven’t gotten around to posting any family stuff. No specific reason. Maybe I will… Michelle 5 Dec 2006 12:36 pm: You have been writing movies, do you have top 10 books? DeuceLee 11 Dec 2009 2:37 am: Hi, I really love your imdb top 1000. Seriously it’s great info. Can you get an updated version from imdb and swivel? Looks like it’s been a while (2006). :-) Andreas Beer 20 Oct 2010 4:38 pm: Dude, you seriously should watch Yojimbo! Masterpiece! :D
If you plot all movies by their number-of-votes on IMDb and their rating on IMDb, you get the chart below. Movies with more votes usually have a higher rating. I was interested two things: Which are the unpopular, but good (highly-rated), movies? Which are the popular, but lousy, movies? The answer to the first question is: there are no unpopular good movies. The cluster of dots on the top-left (in red) are not movies – they’re TV shows (Band of Brothers, Pride and Prejudice, Arrested Development). ...
On the IMDb top 250, you normally see a correlation between the number of votes and the rating for a movie. Better rated movies are more watched. The outliers are interesting. The movies that are popular despite not having a high rating are: The Matrix The Sixth Sense Gladiator Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith Pirates of the Caribbean I can understand why The Sixth Sense, Pirates of the Caribbean and especially The Matrix are on this list – geeks would have watched these and voted on IMDb, though their voting need not have been high. But why are Gladiator and Sixth Sense on that list? ...
These are movie quotes. How many titles can you guess? (Use IMDb titles.) Comments Dhar 21 Jan 2006 1:55 am: Hmmm, I got 30 / 40. Nice one! ritzkini 21 Jan 2006 6:02 am: good one ! jake 21 Jan 2006 11:02 am: hey good quiz, i got 31: “seen me everyday for 16 years” should read “seen me everyday for 13 years”. S Anand 21 Jan 2006 11:02 am: Correction: “seen me everyday for 16 years” should read “seen me everyday for 13 years”. Another corrigendum 21 Jan 2006 12:55 pm: there’s a ’the’ mismatch in one of the answers S Anand 21 Jan 2006 1:14 pm: Oh, which quote? joe 21 Jan 2006 8:59 pm: why does the all time hits change? i remember seeing bill gates at 200 now it is done to 198. S Anand 21 Jan 2006 10:52 pm: I removed some duplicate entries last week (i.e. people accidentally clicking twice). Parshu 2 Feb 2006 6:37 am: how did you create this thng, when i type a name if right it becomes green and score gets updated. Kindly help me out with this technique. So i can too develop something on similar lines S Anand 2 Feb 2006 5:33 pm: The logic for turning stuff green is the onKeyUp function in those boxes. If what’s typed matches the encrypted answer, I turn the style.background attribute to green, and increment the quizCount element (which is just a span element) by 1. Hope it doesn’t sound Greek… just see the source. Ravi 3 Oct 2006 6:40 am: Good one anand. I got 34. I think i got the other 6 also but somehow not getting the names in the right format. These movies are sequels & have long names with colon etc. jb 2 Nov 2006 1:55 pm: nice Natasha & co 19 Nov 2006 6:36 am: my entire family working on this quiz for about 45 mins got 30/40! wooooo!!!! Kirsten 21 Nov 2006 11:34 am: Me n me family worked on this for lyk 30mins n we got 35/40 nice quiz…enjoyed it!!! cheers!! Kirsten & co 21 Nov 2006 11:35 am: woo! tibi 4 Jan 2007 1:41 am: i need the answers to ‘How do you solve a problem like Maria?’, ‘Everyone’s innocent in here, don’t you know that?’ and ‘How can you do that, look at me like you haven’t seen me everyday for 16 years.’ please, if you could help me… i like men 23 Jan 2007 7:22 pm: uh 40 out of 40 thats a pisser journalism7thperiod 23 Jan 2007 7:23 pm: notting hill? what kind of homo movie is that? if you ever quote that in real life kill yourself now!!! Anonymous 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: cool quiz Saibal 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: I got 36/40.. Dan 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: I got 40/40 ! how sad am I ! lol, but cool quiz ! look forward to the next one :-D chunk 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: some of these dont work when the title is right. huge nerd 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: good quiz i got 40 of 40 only after about 20 entires on the final question, not in imdb form. star wars: episode I - the phantom menace. otherwise awesome. Matthew 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: I got 40/40! Just shows how gib a movie buff i am. liz 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: i totally blanked out on some Batfred 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: Nice one, some real tough ones for once too. I had to google the rest after 34/40 as the frustration was strating to annoy me. Trevor Spence 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: Not good having double films! could the person that made this not think of 40 quotes from 40 different films! rhys 20 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: what is the answer to “there can only be one” is it the jet li movie “the one” Sam 19 Sep 2008 3:16 pm: Nice one know some of the other answers but cant place them george 5 Feb 2009 11:49 pm: what if there really is no spoon Larry Buesy 13 Feb 2009 7:17 pm: didn’t know much Jodie 16 Feb 2009 3:03 am: Man that was hard!!! Conner Darcy Rankin 25 Mar 2009 4:40 am: whats the answer to … How do you solve a problem like Maria?… really sweet quiz apart from this one question!!!!!! Jq 30 Sep 2010 8:21 pm: Some very neat ones ! Inflatable Bed 3 Dec 2010 1:35 am: the most memorable movie quote that i could think of is the one on Forest Gump ‘:~ KingViz 23 Dec 2011 11:27 am: Question 9 - the title absolutely does not start with “The…” Colette Cullen 10 Aug 2011 11:41 am: Great quiz (23/40)but where are the answers?
Da Vinci Code trailers. Comments Sai 15 Dec 2005 9:56 pm: Anand, tell us a bit about Infosys consulting. They seem to be on a big expansion drive. Hows it out there? S Anand 16 Dec 2005 7:32 am: I can mail you, Sai. What’s your e-mail ID? S Anand 16 Dec 2005 9:39 am: BTW, the del.icio.us tag on “The Da Vinci Code” is an anagram: c i con thee david. Sai 16 Dec 2005 7:42 pm: Anand it is [email protected] Sai 16 Dec 2005 7:46 pm: Thanks!
IMDb Torrent linker – a GreaseMonkey script that shows torrents available when you browse the IMDb.
You can download an up-to-date copy of the entire Internet Movie database, and use software like MovieDb to view it remotely on your computer. My current project: watch the entire top 250 films. Comments Cell Burner 22 Sep 2008 6:28 am: Suppose I want to download the entire imdb site, will downloading everything from the link you have given also give images of the movies? Because without images, I don’t know what the point is. I came across another method to download imdb, as a TomeRaider (not Tombraider) ebook, and that is only 157 MB, so I am not sure if it contains images as well.
Google video. Not very relevant yet, but probably will be, once movies are included. Could rival IMDb, maybe search movie scripts also. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 25 Jan 2005 12:00 pm: Good to see all the new Google Items from your page S Anand 25 Jan 2005 12:00 pm: Thanks, Adi. I get most of my updates from the Google Weblog Anonymous 25 Jan 2005 12:00 pm: Really Cool
Lord of the Rings now tops the IMDb Top 250.
Scotland’s wonderful. We left on Friday night at 10:30PM on a ‘coach’, as they call it. A bus, really. We would’ve gone by rail, except that because of the recent flooding, trains weren’t available to Scotland. The coach was far too uncomfortable to sleep, until exhaustion overcame me at around 2AM. We reached Edinburgh at 7AM. (Incidentally, it’s pronounced Edinburough, though if you heard a Scot say it, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s ‘Edinbarra’) ...
It turns out that I’ve seen 9 out of the top 10 movies according to the Internet Movie Database. As of today, the list read: Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Schindler’s List, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Star Wars, Godfather: Part II, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dr. Strangelove (which I haven’t seen).