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Movies that feel likeThe Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

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.

If you loved The Men Who Stare at Goats, the closest films we have are Three Kings (1999), Duck Soup (1933) and Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966). All three share The Men Who Stare at Goats' 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).

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Grant Heslovwittyplayfulbleak
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Three Kings
1999 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 94%★ 7.1action · comedy · war

Common ground: kuwait

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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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★ 7.8comedy · war

Bleak comedy in both cases

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

War built on wit, twice over

The difference: Played as action first

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

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into drama

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

Bleak war, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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

War with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Both run bleak where it counts

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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Jarhead: Law of Return
2019 · dir. Don Michael Paul
★ 5.7warRent or buy

War in the same key

The difference: Less witty, more its own thing

Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator, is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously surviving the crash, Jackson is taken captive by a group of Hezbollah militiamen. A squad of elite soldiers, led by Gunnery Sergeant Dave Torres, risk their own lives in the hopes of saving an ally they've never met.

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Tropic Thunder
2008 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 82%★ 7.1action · comedy · warApple TV+Paramount+

The same comedy instincts

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

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

Both working the same comedy territory

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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