British movie plots — movies • qacr

A dataset containing detailed plot descriptions for 3670 British movies from 1920 to 2017 from their Wikipedia pages.

movies

Format

A data frame with 3670 rows and 7 variables. The variables are as follows:

year: Year of film release
title: Film title
director: Director of film
cast: Main cast of actors and actresses in film
genre: Genre of film
url: Wikipedia web page
plot: Film's plot from Wikipedia page

Source

The data are a subset of the Kaggle Wikipedia movie plots dataset https://www.kaggle.com/jrobischon/wikipedia-movie-plots

Note

This is a good dataset for text mining.

Examples

summary(movies)
#>       year         title             director             cast          
#>  Min.   :1920   Length:3670        Length:3670        Length:3670       
#>  1st Qu.:1951   Class :character   Class :character   Class :character  
#>  Median :1967   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  
#>  Mean   :1973                                                           
#>  3rd Qu.:2001                                                           
#>  Max.   :2017                                                           
#>     genre               url                plot          
#>  Length:3670        Length:3670        Length:3670       
#>  Class :character   Class :character   Class :character  
#>  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  
#>                                                          
#>                                                          
#>                                                          
movies[1, ]
#>   year                 title      director                             cast
#> 1 1920 The Amateur Gentleman Maurice Elvey Langhorn Burton, Cecil Humphreys
#>   genre                                                             url
#> 1 drama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Gentleman_(1920_film)
#>                                                                                                                                              plot
#> 1 In Regency Britain a young man tries to establish his father's innocence of an accused crime, by travelling to London disguised as a gentleman.