Ratings: Overrated Turkish movies on IMDb

Hi Angelo Pilla,

I'm assuming that you are referring to an advanced search like this one.
Highest Rated Feature Films Released 1970 to 1979 With At Least 1,000 Votes
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?count=250&num_votes=1000,&release_date=1970,1979&sort=u...

IMDb only considers votes from regular users when ranking films. You will not see The Chaos Class (1975) in the IMDb Top 250 (http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?ref=ft_250) or in the IMDb Top 1000 (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?count=250&groups=top_1000&sort=user_rating,desc&title_t...).

IMDb is aware of attempts at vote stuffing and adjusts their algorithms to discount attempts to distort the results of user ratings. IMDb does not disclose who is a regular user and their methods to filter out vote stuffing to make it more difficult to counter those measures.

Hi Angelo Pilla,

I was simply using the IMDb Top 250 and Top 1000 as an example.

I believe what would be helpful if IMDb allow users to sort by Weighted Rating (which is used to determine the IMDb Top 250) as opposed to the average user rating. Unfortunately, the Weighted Rating is only computed for films with 25,000 or more regular users.

If one assumes that only half of the votes are from regular users, you can approximate sorting by Weighted Rating by setting the minimum number of votes to 50,000.

Highest Rated Feature Films Released 1970 to 1979 With At Least 50,000 Votes
62 titles.
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?count=250&num_votes=50000,&release_date=1970,1979&sort=...

You may wish to experiment with the minimum number of votes to get the kind of results you desire.