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title: Most popular movies on IMDb
date: "2006-11-30T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - top-10-lists
wp_id: 171
description: I shared a dataset of the top 1000 most popular IMDb movies, including ratings and vote counts. I marked which ones I've watched to help analyze popular but lousy films, available via an embedded spreadsheet and Excel download.
keywords: [imdb, movie ratings, datasets, google spreadsheets, cinema, excel]
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<p>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.</p>
<p>This list, incidentally, is part of my source for the post on <a href="/blog/popular-lousy-movies/">popular lousy movies</a>.</p>
<iframe width='500' height='800' frameborder='0' src='http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=poz40xh4E1ufRC7YturhxJQ&output=html&gid=0&single=true&widget=true'></iframe>
<p>Here is the <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=poz40xh4E1ufRC7YturhxJQ&output=xls">Excel list of Top 1000 movies on IMDb</a>.</p>

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## Comments

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- **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

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