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Movies that feel likeGood Morning, Vietnam (1987)

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.

If you loved Good Morning, Vietnam, the closest films we have are Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), Hot Shots! (1991) and Mediterraneo (1991). All three share Good Morning, Vietnam'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 In Darkness (2011).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Barry Levinsonwittyplayfulcontemplativebleak
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Criterion Channel

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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! poster
★ 7.8comedy · war

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Good Morning, Vietnam does

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.

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

Both lean on bleakness more than on comedy

The difference: Trades the stillness of Good Morning, Vietnam for an angle of its own

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

Witty war in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Good Morning, Vietnam does

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

Drama built on play, twice over

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

Bleak comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: 54 years apart, and the 1930s show

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

War with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Apocalypse Now
1979 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 91%★ 8.4drama · warParamount+

Common ground in both: vietnam war and vietnam

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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Jarhead
2005 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 60%★ 7drama · warNetflixStarz

Contemplative drama in both cases

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.

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The Counterfeiters
2007 · dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · war

War with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

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Shame
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 67%★ 8war · drama

A 1960s answer to the same itch

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

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In Darkness
2011 · dir. Agnieszka Holland
🍅 88%★ 7.3drama · war

Drama of the same temperament

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv (formerly Poland).

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