The Top 100 Movies of All Time
I got to spend some time with my son this past summer. He’s growing up and has his first job this year so my opportunities for spending blocks of time with him are dwindling. He is a budding cinephile so one of the way we connect is discussing movies.
While he was down here we started discussing “the best movies” and what the criteria for inclusion might be. I was recalling that conversation last week and decided to try and do some data collection and machine learning to create a Top 100 Movies of All Time List.
I collected reviews, ratings, data sets – all the data I could get my hands on that had numerical representations of “movie scores”. I normalized that data and then ran it through some machine learning techniques that I have been studying the last few months.
The Top 100 Movies of All Time:
| Rank | Movie Name | Year |
| 9.56 | Shawshank Redemption, The | 1994 |
| 9.38 | Godfather, The | 1972 |
| 9.32 | Usual Suspects, The | 1995 |
| 9.27 | Schindler’s List | 1993 |
| 9.19 | Godfather: Part II, The | 1974 |
| 9.19 | Seven Samurai | 1954 |
| 9.18 | Rear Window | 1954 |
| 9.17 | Band of Brothers | 2001 |
| 9.16 | Casablanca | 1942 |
| 9.15 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 |
| 9.13 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | 1975 |
| 9.13 | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 |
| 9.13 | Third Man, The | 1949 |
| 9.11 | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | 2002 |
| 9.10 | Lives of Others, The | 2006 |
| 9.10 | North by Northwest | 1959 |
| 9.10 | Paths of Glory | 1957 |
| 9.09 | Fight Club | 1999 |
| 9.08 | Double Indemnity | 1944 |
| 9.08 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 |
| 9.07 | Cosmos | 1980 |
| 9.07 | Dark Knight, The | 2008 |
| 9.07 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 |
| 9.06 | Yojimbo | 1961 |
| 9.05 | Big Sleep, The | 1946 |
| 9.04 | All About Eve | 1950 |
| 9.04 | Spirited Away | 2001 |
| 9.03 | Chinatown | 1974 |
| 9.03 | Notorious | 1946 |
| 9.02 | Amelie | 2001 |
| 9.02 | M | 1931 |
| 9.01 | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | 1977 |
| 9.01 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 |
| 9.00 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 |
| 9.00 | Maltese Falcon, The | 1941 |
| 9.00 | Matrix, The | 1999 |
| 9.00 | Thin Man, The | 1934 |
| 8.99 | Goodfellas | 1990 |
| 8.99 | Touch of Evil | 1958 |
| 8.99 | Black Mirror | 2011 |
| 8.99 | Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers | 1993 |
| 8.98 | Memento | 2000 |
| 8.98 | Silence of the Lambs, The | 1991 |
| 8.98 | Princess Bride, The | 1987 |
| 8.98 | Rashomon (Rashômon) | 1950 |
| 8.98 | Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) | 1997 |
| 8.97 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 |
| 8.97 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 |
| 8.97 | Decalogue, The (Dekalog) | 1989 |
| 8.97 | City Lights | 1931 |
| 8.97 | Ran | 1985 |
| 8.97 | Sting, The | 1973 |
| 8.97 | Philadelphia Story, The | 1940 |
| 8.97 | It Happened One Night | 1934 |
| 8.96 | Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave | 1995 |
| 8.95 | On the Waterfront | 1954 |
| 8.95 | General, The | 1926 |
| 8.95 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 |
| 8.95 | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The | 1948 |
| 8.94 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 |
| 8.94 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 |
| 8.94 | When We Were Kings | 1996 |
| 8.94 | Inception | 2010 |
| 8.94 | American Beauty | 1999 |
| 8.93 | Cinema Paradiso | 1989 |
| 8.93 | His Girl Friday | 1940 |
| 8.93 | American History X | 1998 |
| 8.92 | Grand Illusion | 1937 |
| 8.92 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 |
| 8.92 | Vertigo | 1958 |
| 8.92 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 |
| 8.91 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 |
| 8.91 | Bicycle Thieves | 1948 |
| 8.91 | Modern Times | 1936 |
| 8.91 | The Return of the King | 2003 |
| 8.90 | Song of the Little Road | 1955 |
| 8.90 | Boot, Das (Boat, The) | 1981 |
| 8.90 | Jean de Florette | 1986 |
| 8.90 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 |
| 8.90 | The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 |
| 8.90 | Great Escape, The | 1963 |
| 8.89 | 400 Blows, The | 1959 |
| 8.89 | Blade Runner | 1982 |
| 8.89 | Man for All Seasons, A | 1966 |
| 8.88 | Intouchables | 2011 |
| 8.88 | Citizen Kane | 1941 |
| 8.88 | Lady Eve, The | 1941 |
| 8.88 | Duck Soup | 1933 |
| 8.88 | Thin Blue Line, The | 1988 |
| 8.88 | Stop Making Sense | 1984 |
| 8.88 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 |
| 8.88 | Manchurian Candidate, The | 1962 |
| 8.88 | Fawlty Towers | 1979 |
| 8.87 | World of Apu, The | 1959 |
| 8.87 | Hustler, The | 1961 |
| 8.87 | Ikiru | 1952 |
| 8.86 | Celebration, The (Festen) | 1998 |
| 8.86 | Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The | 1966 |
| 8.86 | Henry V | 1989 |
| 8.86 | Creature Comforts | 1989 |
The ratings have been rounded for display purposes but the movies are in the right order. I tried to find a mix of data ( 1-10 stars, 1-100 percent ranking, thumbs up or down); from critics and movie goers.
The biggest part of this project was collating and cleaning data. It is not as sexy as Machine Learning but just as important. Without clean data and quality feature engineering even the best deep learning algorithms are not particularly useful.
If you have data you need cleaned up…