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 Jun 21 2021
1 Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
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- 1995-12-13 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman
Rating
7.5
2 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
3 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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- 1967-07-18 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Rating
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7.5
4 Funny Girl (1968)
The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her second husband, Nick Arnstein.
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- 1968-09-19 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Rating
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7.3
5 Network (1976)
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
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- 1976-11-01 | Drama
Cast
- Faye Dunaway, William Holden
Rating
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7.9
6 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
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7.7
7 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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- 1955-08-26 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Rating
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7.9
8 Stagecoach (1939)
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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- 1939-03-03 | Western / Adventure
Cast
- Claire Trevor, John Wayne
Rating
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7.7
9 Chaplin (1992)
An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
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- 1992-12-17 | Drama
Cast
- Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin
Rating
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7.4
10 Detour (1945)
Al Roberts, a New York nightclub pianist, hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet his girlfriend Sue. The gambler he's riding with, Charles, unexpectedly dies. Afraid the police wouldn't believe the truth, Al takes the man's identity. In a gas station, he gives a lift to Vera, a woman that knew Charles and blackmails Al with tragic consequences.
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- 1945-11-30 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Tom Neal, Ann Savage
Rating
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7.2
