Discover hidden gems you won't find recommended anywhere else: Over 1,700 critically acclaimed movies on Wikipedia, from 83 countries, across 19 genres, dating back to the 1910s.
When the movie recommendation algorithms keep failing me, I turn to Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd lists, and strangers on Reddit. Other than noticing that they all seem to keep recommending the same group of movies, I still often leave disappointed even when they are highly rated.
Then I started to notice a pattern among the few movies I totally enjoyed: when I looked them up on Wikipedia, every single article stated that the film had received acclaim from critics.
And that got me wondering: what if there are many more like them on Wikipedia, and I would enjoy all of them? Hell yeah.
So I wrote a Python script and let it do its thing on my old Thinkpad laptop for 12 hours on the entire 150GB English archive of Wikipedia. The result? Over 1,700 films, from 83 countries, across 19 genres, dating back to 1910s. And here is the best part: I don't see most of them being recommended elsewhere!
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