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
- 7.604
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
- 7.299
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
- 6.866
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
- 7.982
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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
- 7.037
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
- 7.51
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
- 7.239
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
- 7.067
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
- 6.7
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
- 6.661