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Movies that feel likeMediterraneo (1991)

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.

If you loved Mediterraneo, the closest films we have are To Be or Not to Be (1942), The General (1926) and Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966). All three share Mediterraneo'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 Cold Comfort Farm (1995).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gabriele Salvatoreswittyplayfulromanticbleak
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To Be or Not to Be
1942 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 96%★ 8.1comedy · war · romanceMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

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

The same preoccupation in both: army

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.

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

Both are built on the same subject: world war ii

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Mediterraneo 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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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 90%★ 7.3comedy · drama · war

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Trades the romance of Mediterraneo for an angle of its own

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

Bleak comedy in both cases

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

War with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into action than Mediterraneo does

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

Playful romance, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Comedy built on bleakness, twice over

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

Both lean on wit 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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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%★ 7.2comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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Johnny Stecchino
1991 · dir. Roberto Benigni
🍅 46%★ 7.2comedy

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003 · dir. Guel Arraes
★ 7.6comedy · romance

Both lean on play more than on romance

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

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