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Movies that feel likeDon't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

If you loved Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!, the closest films we have are Stalag 17 (1953), Duck Soup (1933) and Mediterraneo (1991). All three share Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Boy and His Dog (1975).

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Stalag 17
1953 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 91%★ 7.9comedy · drama · war

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

The difference: Played as drama first

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

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Duck Soup
1933 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 91%★ 7.7comedy · war

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

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Mediterraneo
1991 · dir. Gabriele Salvatores
🍅 80%★ 7.4comedy · romance · war

One thread runs through both: world war ii

The difference: Leans further into romance

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

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To Be or Not to Be
1942 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 96%★ 8.1comedy · war · romanceMax

Comedy built on bleakness, twice over

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 90%★ 7.3comedy · drama · war

War with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

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The General
1926 · dir. Clyde Bruckman
🍅 92%★ 8.1comedy · war · romancePrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: general

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009 · dir. Grant Heslov
🍅 51%★ 6.2comedy · warStarz

Playful comedy in both cases

A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

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M*A*S*H
1970 · dir. Robert Altman
🍅 86%★ 7.3comedy · drama · war

Both lean on bleakness more than on war

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.

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Hot Shots!
1991 · dir. Jim Abrahams
🍅 83%★ 6.7action · comedy · war

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.

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Three Kings
1999 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 94%★ 7.1action · comedy · war

Both lean on play more than on war

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

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🍅 98%★ 8.3comedy · war

Common ground: general

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 it.

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A Boy and His Dog
1975 · dir. L.Q. Jones
🍅 80%★ 6.4drama · science fiction · comedyPrime Video

Both run bleak where it counts

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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