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Show HN: IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant
- snprbob86 15y agoAwesome! Anyway you could link into my Netflix account to show/short-by my ratings? I'd also like to filter to only see unrated ones.
- ptarjan 15y agoGreat idea. That'll be a bit longer project, but we'll see.
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- dylanrw 15y agoMajor Win.
- wicknicks 15y agoCool :) I spend a lot of time finding good TV shows. Wish I could do a join between the IMDB database and the Netflix one: Show me all the TV shows which score more than 8.5 on IMDB and are on instant watch on Netflix.
- ptarjan 15y agoThats a really good idea. That'll be next.
- adelevie 15y agoIf the best camera is the one you have with you, a corollary could be the best movies are available on Netflix Instant Streaming.
- rudiger 15y agoA corollary is a statement that follows readily from a previous statement; I'd say this is more of analogue.
- joejohnson 15y agoWhen sorting by rank, there seem to be a lot missing. Why does it start with "8 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? Are all 250 really available?
- AdamTReineke 15y agoBecause they aren't available on Instant Play.
- wicknicks 15y agoGood catch. The Godfather (imdb: 2, 3); Shawshank Redemption (imdb: 1); The dark knight (imdb: 1) are not available on instant watch. The blog post says "All the IMDB 250 that are available on Netflix Instant.", not "IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant" as the HN post (which I interpreted as all 250 movies).
- biot 15y agoThe title is somewhat misleading. Think of it like "Venn diagram intersection of Netflix Instant and IMDB top 250".
- cma 15y agoHis logo should be a venn diagram
- biot 15y agoToy Story 3 is in there twice, with ratings 34 and 143. On another note, it's amazing seeing all the movies in here which aren't available in Canada.
- agilo 15y agoThere are services that get you a US IP allowing you to have access to all those unavailable titles. Haven't tried any myself though.
- biot 15y agoI have an under-utilized Linode instance that could presumably do the same via ssh tunneling, and at about 1GB/movie (incoming and outgoing) it should still be under the transfer limits. Though I was under the impression that Netflix also required a credit card with a US billing address. Not an insurmountable challenge, but I'd have to look at the hassle:benefit ratio if that is the case.
- gommm 15y agoI'm using a French credit card on Netflix and my vps in the US with ssh tunneling for the ip. Haven't had any problem.
- ciopte7 15y agotoy story 3 is listed twice at 34 and 143.
- jdvolz 15y agoYou might want to double check "Gladiator" because I'm pretty sure the one on IMDB isn't the one available on Netflix instant. :) I told my wife this was one of the most important web pages I'd looked at in a long time.
- mortenjorck 15y agoSame thing for Heat. I was expecting Al Pacino and ended up with Joe Dallesandro.
- jdvolz 15y agoWhich is strange because I'm pretty sure I watched the Al Pacino version of Heat on Netflix instant in the least 6 months. Edit: I just checked and it's not on instant, but I'm pretty sure I watched it on instant recently.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoNetflix routinely adds films to Instant Watch that it will only keep for N months, presumably to keep an interesting stream of new titles available while saving costs on licensing.
- alexqgb 15y agoIf you use Twitter, you can follow @queuenoodle (http://twitter.com/#!/queuenoodle http://twitter.com/#!/queuenoodle). It'll let you know when titles are expiring about a week in advance.
- Terretta 15y agoIt's not to save costs on licensing. It's because those titles are going in and out of licensing 'windows' and Netflix isn't allowed to offer them.
- wahnfrieden 15y ago
- rickdale 15y agoThis is an awesome list. One of my big faults with netflix is that one account can be accessed by an entire family, but the genres don't mix and match and instead of rating a movie, they tell you what you might think of it. A list like this really helps.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoYou can split a NF account into several, and even optionally give each account their own separate DVD queues (so you can partition "3 DVDs a month" into 1 per 3 person household, if you want to). This also sections off ratings from each other's accounts.
- state_machine 15y agoUnfortunately, you can't section off separate streaming queues though.
- wahnfrieden 15y agoAh really? Good to know, thanks. That's too bad :/
- icefox 15y agoEven worse the other queues can't easily find out if movies in their queue are streamable which is really irritating when I get a dvd that I could have streamed.
- wslh 15y agoAre they on Torrent? :-)
- nikcub 15y agoperhaps he could fill in the gaps with tube site links
- RayVR 15y agoThe Pianist in the imdb top 250 is not the one listed on this page. lol.
- ptarjan 15y agoAll fixed :) Now I make sure the year matches as well as the title.
- RayVR 15y agoMaybe you should rewrite to check the year of the film, not just the name.
- ptarjan 15y agoGreat idea. Done.
- alanthonyc 15y ago"Toy Story 3" is at number 34 and number 143.
- esrauch 15y agoI just checked the actual list and Toy Story 3 is rank 34 and the original Toy Story is at 143. He probably stripped something like a [a-zA-Z] regex to improve misses that are actually hits because of slightly different punctuation or spacing. Toy Story 2 isn't on the top 250 at all, nor any of the Die Hard sequels, and Terminator 2 is named "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" on IMDB so there the above explanation seems like the most plausible to me. Based on my cursory examination none of the other movies would have missed in that way if hes just ignoring digits.
- ptarjan 15y agoThanks for the bug reports. I'm now extracting the Year from the IMDB page and making sure the Netflix matches correctly on the year or else I throw out the row. The main problem, is the first search result for "Toy Story" on netflix search was "Toy Story 3".
- alanthonyc 15y agoThanks for this page. I was putting off watching "Fargo" again until I saw that it was expiring tomorrow.
- officemonkey 15y agoIt's sad that "Toy Story 2" didn't make the cut. I think it's a stronger movie than the original with a better villain, a bit of Shakespearean mistaken identity, new characters that you care about, and foreshadowing for the final movie (Stinky Pete asks "Is Andy going to take you to college?" and claims they'll all end up in a landfill.) The climatic scene at the Airport is almost as good as the "Bird Rescue" scene in "A Bug's Life" (which I contend is one of the best action scenes in any animated movie). In fact, the only thing I don't like about it is how easy Woody gives up on Andy. Woody is, in my opinion, Andy's surrogate father and probably should have come up with "Come with me to Andy's House" much sooner. (With all this obsession about Pixar movies, can anyone tell I have a three-year old?)
- wahnfrieden 15y agoSlight off-topic, but does anyone know of a good way to export ratings out of Netflix? I've only been able to find broken tools for this in the past. It shouldn't be too hard to scrape this myself, but I'd rather avoid redundant programming :) Ever since they removed the "Friends" feature, I've wanted to get my ratings into something else that I can share with others.
- cma 15y agoAdd amazon affiliate links for missing ones =)
- webwright 15y agoWould be nice to have genre and year. Great job, tho!
- ptarjan 15y agoGreat idea. Coming right up. Year was easier than Genre. I'll but that one on the back-burner.
- mmaunder 15y agoAwesome!!! Thanks Paul!
- ptarjan 15y agoWow, this submission totally blew up while I was out for dinner. Thanks so much! You're invigorated me to put some more effort into it. I'm working on the feature requests. :) Check back soon.
- jdq 15y agoTitle should be: IMDB Top 250 THAT are available on Netflix Instant. It's not a list of 250 movies as it seems many believe.
- ptarjan 15y agoSorry :( I can't edit the title now. I thought IMDb 250 was a known enough list.
- esrauch 15y agoI'm well aware of the list and I originally read the title as "All of the top 250 are now available on netflix instant".
- hugh3 15y agoI thought so too. And I thought "Awesome!" Then I got disappointed. Oh well, at least now I know to watch Rashomon before the 20th of June.
- thewordpainter 15y agosurprisingly, i don't think it is. it's a nice little resource that IMDB tucks away -- why is the only mention in the bottom footer? fyi, we've always had our eye on doing something similar with http://gorankem.com http://gorankem.com (currently just music discovery) ... we could apply our same ranking methodology to tv shows & their episodes, but movies are a different breed. we compare apples-to-apples (no WALE vs. The Godfather) so if/when we get there, it'll be (e.g.) rank your favorite tarantino films...
- CrazedGeek 15y agoCould you do one for the Bottom 100 as well? That would be almost as awesome.
- ptarjan 15y agohaha, I bet netflix has more of those... If you make me a JSON function like this I'll do it ;) http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=be88edc0c37f8565d9ac982c277b6389&_render=json http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=be88edc0c37f8565d9...
- wahnfrieden 15y agoIf there's a way, it would also be very nice to also have a version of the top 250 filtered to remove films from the past decade or two. Recent movies get a lot more attention from voters on IMDB so it's a bit biased (most especially for titles from the last couple years).
- hugh3 15y agoIt's not too bad in that regard, with a couple of bizarre exceptions (Inception is the ninth best film ever made? Really?) But overall it's a better and more historically diverse list than I would have expected.
- twakefield 15y agoThis is great, thanks. I've been lamenting about how bad Netflix instant selection is. This list brings some evidence to the contrary. Netflix should have done something like this...it takes me too long to find a decent movie using their UI.
- jerf 15y agoIf you think Netflix selection is bad, try the Hulu movie selection. If you want movies from the 1930s-1950s, they've got you covered. I have not yet found even one movie they have that is of the calibre of Toy Story 3, which Netflix has right now through Starz. I believe Hulu is pursuing a strategy whereby they can say with a straight face that they've got "thousands of movies", but they really hardly have any. We've been trying Hulu Plus with a free month trial and we will not be signing up. It's pathetic next to Netflix and it plays commercials. If you aren't an 18-24 year old preferably-male, Hulu is barren, and frankly you've got poor coverage even then.
- makeee 15y agoI've love to be able to see / sort by rotten tomatoes score as well.
- kleiba 15y agoThis is cool! Perhaps in 20 years time or so, Germany will have a service similar to Netflix... (and then, 10 years later, even something like Netflix instant). Good for you, sad smiley for us :-(
- vdm 15y agos/Germany/Europe/ . :( from Ireland.
- madh 15y agoCool. I'm surprised that this list isn't on http://instantwatcher.com http://instantwatcher.com. For those who don't know, Instant Watcher is a phenomenal resource for Netflix fans.
- mvzink 15y agoWait, how is Oldboy in the top 250?