Top rated most intense movies on TCM
Check out today’s highest ranked most intense movies on TCM! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best most intense movies on TCM, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.525
2 Deliverance (1972)
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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- 1972-08-18 | Drama / Adventure
Cast
- Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds
Rating
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7.32
3 The China Syndrome (1979)
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
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- 1979-03-16 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon
Rating
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7.151
4 Bullitt (1968)
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
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- 1968-10-17 | Action / Crime
Cast
- Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn
Rating
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7.158
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5 Blood Simple (1985)
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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- 1985-01-18 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- John Getz, Frances McDormand
Rating
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7.238
6 Wild at Heart (1990)
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
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- 1990-08-17 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern
Rating
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7.028
7 Seven Days in May (1964)
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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- 1964-02-01 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Rating
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7.2
8 North by Northwest (1959)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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- 1959-07-08 | Mystery / Thriller
Cast
- Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Rating
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7.983
9 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
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6.463
10 Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
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- 1964-06-19 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Kim Stanley, Margaret Lacey
Rating
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7.238
