A simple project that I made in order to get accustomed to beautiful soup, matplotlib and pandas.
What I did was scraped the first 10000 movie titles that were sorted in descending order of their vote count.
I got bored with the data quite fast but here are a few interesting finds:
Arround 1940 there are a few movies that stand out from the crowd with respects to number of votes. They are also high scored, but that is quite common in old movies. Nobody watches bad old movies anymore. There are enough of bad new movies.
name year score duration votes
Casablanca 1942 8.6 102 313040
Citizen Kane 1941 8.4 119 240466
The Wizard of Oz 1939 8.1 102 224122
It's a Wonderful Life 1946 8.7 130 209862
Gone with the Wind 1939 8.2 238 170443
Modern Times 1936 8.6 87 100658
There was only one Adult-tagged movie. It turns out it was Caligula from 1979.
Also, please remember to be nice while you scrape websites.
The end result looks like this (viewing it in fullsize would be more helpfull):
