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. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
Last Update Jan 12 2021
1 The Hurt Locker (2008)
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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- 2008-10-10 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie
Rating
7.3
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
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- 1964-01-29 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
Rating
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8.2
3 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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- 1986-02-07 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Woody Allen, Michael Caine
Rating
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7.6
4 The African Queen (1952)
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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- 1952-01-07 | Adventure / Romance
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
Rating
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7.4
5 The Black Stallion (1979)
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
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- 1979-10-13 | Adventure / Family
Cast
- Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney
Rating
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7.2
6 Guys and Dolls (1955)
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
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- 1955-12-23 | Comedy / Crime
Cast
- Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons
Rating
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6.8
7 The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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- 1968-06-26 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway
Rating
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6.9
8 Red River (1948)
Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
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- 1948-08-26 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Rating
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7.4
9 M*A*S*H (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
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- 1970-02-18 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould
Rating
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7.1
10 Pillow Talk (1959)
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.
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- 1959-10-07 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Rock Hudson, Doris Day
Rating
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7.2
