Top rated totally incomprehensible movies on TCM

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

1 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 7.063
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scrumptious cast
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sense of grandeur
  3. Ranked #1 for
    individualistic acting

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2 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 7.517
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #41 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #78 for
    callow

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3 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 8.118
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #65 for
    symmetry plots
  3. Ranked #70 for
    like The Last Picture Show

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4 Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue

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1981-08-07 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Bo Derek, Richard Harris

Rating

rating icon 4.116
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #11 for
    pin-up girl
  2. Ranked #89 for
    young nubile actor
  3. Ranked #111 for
    sex crazy

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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 #82 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #89 for
    prosaic
  3. Ranked #221 for
    with political satire

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6 Malcolm X (1992)

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

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1992-11-18 | Drama / History

Cast

Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett

Rating

rating icon 7.534
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    hagiography
  2. Ranked #79 for
    natural light
  3. Ranked #108 for
    teaching tool

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7 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 7.176
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #134 for
    confusing
  3. Ranked #138 for
    unfaithful partner

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8 Blow-Up (1966)

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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1966-12-18 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave

Rating

rating icon 7.363
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #92 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #151 for
    obtuse

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9 The Silver Chalice (1954)

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.

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1954-12-20 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli

Rating

rating icon 4.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #69 for
    soggy
  3. Ranked #78 for
    with sleight of hand

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10 Get Shorty (1995)

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

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1995-10-20 | Comedy / Thriller

Cast

John Travolta, Gene Hackman

Rating

rating icon 6.47
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #123 for
    devil-may-care
  2. Ranked #143 for
    like The Hateful Eight
  3. Ranked #156 for
    sly

Trailer

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