Top rated wildly improbable movies on TCM

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

1 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 7.604
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #93 for
    prosaic
  3. Ranked #217 for
    with political satire

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2 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 7.299
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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 #79 for
    stoic

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3 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

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1989-12-12 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas

Rating

rating icon 6.866
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    sexually explicit
  2. Ranked #99 for
    sassy
  3. Ranked #151 for
    eventually falling in love

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4 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

rating icon 7.982
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #55 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #83 for
    most thrilling
  3. Ranked #116 for
    like The Da Vinci Code

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5 The Snake Pit (1948)

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

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1948-11-04 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens

Rating

rating icon 7.037
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #52 for
    therapeutic
  2. Ranked #59 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #68 for
    with daddy issue

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6 Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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1969-05-25 | Drama

Cast

Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman

Rating

rating icon 7.51
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #41 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #76 for
    callow

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7 Random Harvest (1942)

An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.

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1942-12-17 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Ronald Colman, Greer Garson

Rating

rating icon 7.239
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #77 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #121 for
    cruel twist
  3. Ranked #122 for
    mawkish

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8 The Automat (2021)

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.

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2021-09-02 | Documentary / History

Cast

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mel Brooks

Rating

rating icon 7.067
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    delicious
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gleaming
  3. Ranked #1 for
    scrumptious cast

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9 The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.

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1968-11-14 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #241 for
    wayward
  2. Ranked #254 for
    with marital problems
  3. Ranked #261 for
    altruistic

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10 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 6.661
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #90 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #94 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #107 for
    waggish

Trailer

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