imdb-tsv

Trimmed IMDb TSV snapshots, packaged for direct load into the graph schema defined in schema.cypher (Kùzu-style CREATE NODE TABLE / CREATE REL TABLE).

Source

Downloaded on 2026-07-07 from the official IMDb dataset mirror: https://datasets.imdbws.com/

The three source files used were:

name.basics.tsv.gz → name.basics.trimmed.csv.zst
title.basics.tsv.gz → title.basics.trimmed.csv.zst
title.principals.tsv.gz → title.principals.trimmed.csv.zst

Processing

The official IMDb TSVs are tab-separated and contain extra columns beyond what schema.cypher declares. Each source file was lightly processed (header kept, columns projected to the ones the schema references, field names renamed to match the Cypher property names) and recompressed with zstd (.zst). No row filtering, no value rewriting — the row counts and order match the upstream dump.

File	Rows (incl. header)	Source columns kept
`name.basics.trimmed.csv.zst`	15,468,443	`nconst`, `primaryName`, `birthYear`, `deathYear`
`title.basics.trimmed.csv.zst`	12,623,654	`tconst`, `primaryTitle`, `startYear`, `runtimeMinutes`
`title.principals.trimmed.csv.zst`	100,343,239	`nconst`, `tconst`

Column renames applied during trimming:

name.basics: nconst → nconst, primaryName → primaryName, birthYear → birthYear, deathYear → deathYear (no rename; just dropped primaryProfession, knownForTitles)
title.basics: tconst → movieId, primaryTitle → title, startYear → year, runtimeMinutes → durationMins (dropped titleType, originalTitle, isAdult, endYear, genres)
title.principals: kept nconst, tconst (dropped ordering, category, job, characters)

The result is the minimal subset needed to materialize the Actor, Movie and ActedIn graph from schema.cypher via the COPY statements in copy.cypher.

Loading

Decompress the .zst files (e.g. with zstd -d) and then run copy.cypher against a database whose schema has been created from schema.cypher:

zstd -d *.zst
# create schema from schema.cypher, then:
# run copy.cypher

Provenience / licensing

Data © IMDb and its licensors. Use is subject to IMDb's non-commercial / personal-use terms for the datasets dump: https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ This repository is a redistribution of a snapshot of that data; please respect the upstream license when using these files.