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
- 7.063
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
- 7.517
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
- 8.118
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
- 4.116
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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
- 7.6
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
- 7.534
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
- 7.176
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
- 7.363
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
- 4.5
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
- 6.47