Top rated mercurial movies on TCM

Check out today’s highest ranked mercurial movies on TCM! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best mercurial movies on TCM, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

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1966-06-22 | Drama

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #36 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #48 for
    deservedly won awards

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2 Cabaret (1972)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

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1972-02-13 | Music / Drama

Cast

Liza Minnelli, Michael York

Rating

rating icon 7.386
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #7 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #15 for
    deservedly won awards
  3. Ranked #15 for
    decadent

Trailer

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3 The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.

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1982-12-17 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver

Rating

rating icon 6.656
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #90 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #95 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #107 for
    waggish

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4 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

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1967-08-14 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    outside the laws
  2. Ranked #88 for
    break new ground
  3. Ranked #100 for
    reinventing the wheel

Trailer

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5 The French Connection (1971)

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

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1971-10-09 | Action / Crime

Cast

Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey

Rating

rating icon 7.525
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #15 for
    hard-nosed
  3. Ranked #39 for
    vehicular carnage

Trailer

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6 La Ceremonie (1995)

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

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1995-08-30 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire

Rating

rating icon 7.297
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    True Crime
  2. Ranked #72 for
    rhythmic continuity of character development
  3. Ranked #80 for
    stoic

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7 Julia (1977)

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

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1977-10-01 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #46 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #69 for
    soggy

Trailer

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8 Get Shorty (1995)

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

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1995-10-20 | Comedy / Thriller

Cast

John Travolta, Gene Hackman

Rating

rating icon 6.463
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #123 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #143 for
    like The Hateful Eight
  3. Ranked #160 for
    sly

Trailer

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9 The Night of the Iguana (1964)

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Info

1964-08-06 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Richard Burton, Ava Gardner

Rating

rating icon 7.117
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    flirtatious
  2. Ranked #67 for
    femme fatale
  3. Ranked #86 for
    sassy

Trailer

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10 The King and I (1956)

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

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1956-06-29 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    resonant vocal
  2. Ranked #54 for
    great soundtrack
  3. Ranked #68 for
    deservedly won awards

Trailer

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