Top rated technical mastery movies on TCM

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

1 The Player (1992)

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

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1992-04-03 | Mystery / Drama

Cast

Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #28 for
    vertiginous
  3. Ranked #46 for
    sly

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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 7.385
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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

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3 Cries and Whispers (1972)

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's attempted suicide, caused by his discovery of her extramarital affair. The self-loathing, suicidal Karin seems to regard her sister with revulsion. Only Anna, the deeply religious maid who lost her young child, seems able to offer Agnes solace and empathy.

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1972-12-21 | Drama

Cast

Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

Rating

rating icon 7.929
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    consoling
  2. Ranked #135 for
    with marital problems
  3. Ranked #155 for
    juxtaposition

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4 Places in the Heart (1984)

In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.

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1984-09-11 | Drama

Cast

Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse

Rating

rating icon 7.164
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #133 for
    confusing
  3. Ranked #138 for
    unfaithful partner

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5 Being There (1979)

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

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1979-12-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #81 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #93 for
    prosaic
  3. Ranked #218 for
    with political satire

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6 Funny Girl (1968)

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedian and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

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1968-09-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Barbra Streisand, Omar El-Sherif

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #48 for
    vaudevillian
  3. Ranked #110 for
    waggish

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7 In the Mood for Love (2000)

In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their respective spouses creates an intimate bond between them.

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2000-09-29 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung

Rating

rating icon 8.111
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #67 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #68 for
    like The Last Picture Show

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8 Fanny and Alexander (1982)

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.

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1982-12-17 | Fantasy / Drama

Cast

Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin

Rating

rating icon 7.757
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #88 for
    foster father
  2. Ranked #108 for
    with marital problems
  3. Ranked #137 for
    remarkable

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9 Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

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1942-07-03 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #42 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  3. Ranked #82 for
    didactic

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10 Day for Night (1973)

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

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1973-05-24 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #32 for
    with daddy issue
  2. Ranked #128 for
    flattering light
  3. Ranked #134 for
    for Valentine's Day

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Day for Night trailer
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