IMDb Top 10,000 adjusted to my specifications (Part I)

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A little number game. What have I done?
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On April 9, 2023 I pulled data from IMDb ( www.imdb.com/interfaces/ ). Now the data does not all fit in a csv or excel file. That's why I decided to use Power Pivot to filter out the film types (movie, short, tv-MiniSeries, tv-Movie) that are most important to me. So I had a list of over 90,000 films. (I only included films with at least 250 votes and a rating of 2.5).
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Basically, my focus is on the type "movie".
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Therefore, in the first step of my specification, I assigned malus points (penalty points, minus points) for "shorts", "tv-MiniSeries" and "tv-Movies" as well as for the genres "Adult" and "Documentary". In the case of the "shorts", the penalty points even increased the shorter the film is. In my opinion, I only accept a film that is longer than 5 minutes.
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In the second step, I gave plus and minus points depending on data ("most favorite movies" and "most official lists") on ICM ( www.icheckmovies.com/ ).
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In the third step, I then also added a weighting by year to account for the significant distortion of timeliness in online vote counts. This weight was "votes x (1+((1977 minus the release year of the movie)/100)". I copied this great idea (adapted a bit at my discretion) from the Letterboxd user Prof. Ratigan.
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I chose the year 1977 because from 1977 the VHS format for video recorders became more and more established and the home video recorder market became established as a result.
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In the fourth step, I used the IMDb formula* for the "weighted rating" to adjust the film rating I had already specified.
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*weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = my specified average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = my specified number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 10,000 (currently 999)
C = the minimum vote across the whole report (currently 4.9)
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And now the following is the result, have fun with it.

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  1. 1 new

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  2. 2 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  3. 3 new

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  4. 4 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  5. 5 new

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  6. 6 new

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
  7. 7 new

    12 Angry Men

    1957, in 30 top lists Check
  8. 8 new

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  9. 9 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  10. 10 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  11. 11 new

    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 28 top lists Check
  12. 12 new

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  13. 13 new

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  14. 14 new

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  15. 15 new

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  16. 16 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  17. 17 new

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  18. 18 new

    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  19. 19 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  20. 20 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  21. 21 new

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  22. 22 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  23. 23 new

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  24. 24 new

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  25. 25 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  26. 26 new

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 25 top lists Check
  27. 27 new

    Cidade de Deus

    2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check
  28. 28 new

    La vita è bella

    1997 — a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful, in 22 top lists Check
  29. 29 new

    The Green Mile

    1999, in 15 top lists Check
  30. 30 new

    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
  31. 31 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  32. 32 new

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  33. 33 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  34. 34 new

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  35. 35 new

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  36. 36 new

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  37. 37 new

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  38. 38 new

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  39. 39 new

    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check
  40. 40 new

    Léon

    1994 — a.k.a. Léon: The Professional, in 23 top lists Check
  41. 41 new

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  42. 42 new

    The Pianist

    2002, in 21 top lists Check
  43. 43 new

    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  44. 44 new

    Seppuku

    1962 — a.k.a. Hara-Kiri, in 16 top lists Check
  45. 45 new

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  46. 46 new

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  47. 47 new

    Gisaengchung

    2019 — a.k.a. Parasite, in 22 top lists
    Check
  48. 48 new

    The Prestige

    2006, in 14 top lists Check
  49. 49 new

    Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

    1988 — a.k.a. Cinema Paradiso, in 19 top lists Check
  50. 50 new

    Hotaru no haka

    1988 — a.k.a. Grave of the Fireflies, in 21 top lists Check