A dataset containing information about films, how popular they were, and the extent to which they feature women.
Format
A data frame with 841 rows and 24 variables:
- title
The movie's title
- year
The year of the movie's US theatrical release
- release_date
The exact date of the movie's US theatrical release
- runtime
The length of the movie in hours
- genre5
The movie's primary genre per IMDB, fit into one of 5 broad categories
- genre_detailed
The verbatim genre description per IMDB
- rated
The movie's MPA rating (G, PG, PG-13, R, or NC-17) as an ordered factor
- director
The name of the movie's director(s)
- writer
The name of the movie's screenwriter(s)
- actors
A comma-separated string of leading actors in the film
- language
The movie's language(s), per IMDB
- country
The country(ies) in which the movie was produced
- metascore
The movie's score on MetaCritic, ranging from 0 to 100
- imdb_rating
The movie's rating on IMDB, ranging from 0 to 10
- imdb_votes
The number of users who submitted a rating on IMDB
- imdb_id
The unique identifier for the movie at IMDB
- studio
The studio(s) who produced the movie
- bechdel_binary
A logical indicating whether the movie passed the Bechdel test
- bechdel_ordinal
A more granular measure of the bechdel test, indicating not just whether the movie passed or failed but how close it got to passing if it did fail
- us_gross
The movie's US gross in 2013 US dollars
- int_gross
The movie's international gross in 2013 US dollars
- budget
The movie's budget in 2013 US dollars
- men_lines
The proportion of spoken lines that were spoken by male characters
- lines_data
The raw data used to calculate
men_lines; see Source for more information
Source
These data are aggregated from several sources. Metadata is gathered from
IMDB. Other information, particularly about the lines, is collected from
The Pudding. The data
regarding the Bechdel Test, as well as about finances, comes from
FiveThirtyEight and its associated R package (fivethirtyeight and its
dataset, bechdel).