---
license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- movies
- letterboxd
- web-scraping
- recommendation-systems
- cinema
- film-analysis
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# Letterboxd Movies Dataset

## Dataset Description

A comprehensive dataset of movies scraped from Letterboxd, including genres, ratings, runtime, countries, and detailed movie characteristics.

This dataset contains **16246 movies** with **28 features** each, scraped from Letterboxd. It's perfect for:

- 🎬 Movie recommendation systems
- 📊 Film industry analysis
- 🤖 Machine learning projects
- 📈 Rating prediction models
- 🔍 Movie discovery algorithms

## Dataset Structure

### Features

| Column | Type | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| title | object | Movie title |
| year | float64 | Movie year |
| decade | int64 | Movie decade |
| decade_category | object | Movie decade category |
| movie_era | object | Movie movie era |
| age_years | float64 | Movie age years |
| age_category | object | Movie age category |
| runtime | float64 | Movie runtime |
| runtime_category | object | Movie runtime category |
| runtime_percentile | object | Movie runtime percentile |
| is_feature_length | bool | Movie is feature length |
| genres | object | Movie genres |
| primary_genre | object | Movie primary genre |
| genre_count | float64 | Movie genre count |
| genre_diversity | object | Movie genre diversity |
| is_single_genre | bool | Movie is single genre |
| country | object | Movie country |
| country_category | object | Movie country category |
| language | object | Movie language |
| is_english | bool | Movie is english |
| title_length | int64 | Movie title length |
| title_complexity | object | Movie title complexity |
| word_count | int64 | Movie word count |
| title_runtime_ratio | float64 | Movie title runtime ratio |
| runtime_efficiency | object | Movie runtime efficiency |
| production_scale | object | Movie production scale |
| is_recent | bool | Movie is recent |
| is_classic | bool | Movie is classic |


### Statistics

- **Total Records**: 16,246
- **File Size**: 3.41 MB
- **Data Quality**: 99.1% complete
- **Year Range**: 1888 - 2029
- **Average Runtime**: 108.5 minutes

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("codealchemist01/letterboxd-movies")

# Access the data
df = dataset['train'].to_pandas()
print(df.head())
```

## Data Collection

The data was collected through web scraping of Letterboxd.com using ethical scraping practices:
- Respectful rate limiting
- Robots.txt compliance
- No personal user data collected

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

```
@dataset{letterboxd_movies_2025,
  title={Letterboxd Movies Dataset},
  author={Kutay Ahin},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/codealchemist01/letterboxd-movies}
}
```

## License

This dataset is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal License.