IMDb Top Movies from 1980 Onward with 5,000+ Votes

Movies released from 1980 onward that have garnered at least 5,000 votes on IMDb. The dataset includes user ratings and genre information for these films. Its origin on Kaggle suggests it is likely a curated snapshot of IMDb's publicly available data.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in movie ratings over time based on the 1980 onward release window
• Build a content-based movie recommendation system based on genre tags
• Study the correlation between a film's popularity (vote count) and its average rating
• Filter and compare films across different genres based on the provided genre data

Strengths

• Includes films with a substantial audience sample of 5,000 or more IMDb votes
• Covers a defined modern era of cinema from 1980 onward
• Contains two core data points explicitly mentioned: ratings and genres

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

IMDb (Internet Movie Database)

Collection Method

Likely scraped or compiled from IMDb's public data

Time Range

1980 onward

Freshness

unknown

Geography

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