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Plot Summary:
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, spoof, parody
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Our Miss Fred (1972)
Plot Summary:
Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a gaggle of randy English schoolgirls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)
Plot Summary:
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of funny events, Giuseppe falls in love, and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
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Get Along, Mate (1981)
Plot Summary:
Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Io non scappo... fuggo (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
Plot Summary:
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, sad, independent film
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A Coming-Out Party (1961)
Plot Summary:
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film
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Operation Snafu (1961)
Plot Summary:
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, vintage
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Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
Plot Summary:
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fun
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Max & Leon (2016)
Plot Summary:
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible means to avoid going in the battle zone… This will lead the duo to demented and wild adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, buddy comedy
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The Odd Squad (1982)
Plot Summary:
Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Carry on England (1976)
Plot Summary:
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, spoof, parody
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
Plot Summary:
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, cult film
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Balkan Express 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks , trying to make some money in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spoof, black comedy, parody
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Dad's Army (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Halt, Or I'll Miss! (1998)
Plot Summary:
It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 89 min
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Le diable rose (1988)
Plot Summary:
Double-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called "Le Diable Rose" in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Till Death Us Do Part (1968)
Plot Summary:
The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, controversial, cynical, sitcom, semi serious, biting
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Balkan Express (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spoof, black comedy, dark comedy, parody
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Which Way to the Front? (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis), one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's war against Hitler. Byers does not takes "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, cult film
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)
Plot Summary:
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, feel good
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The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
Plot Summary:
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, freeze frame
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McHale's Navy (1964)
Plot Summary:
The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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D-Day Assassins (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1944, group of rebellious American soldiers known as "The Filthy Thirteen" parachute into Normandy to carry out a deadly mission.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I. to play the part of Winston Churchill. Their take on the war depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, semi serious, feel good, absurd, offbeat, realistic, alternative comedy
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The Roses of the Desert (2006)
Plot Summary:
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Matter of Resistance (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, compassionate, sincere, atmospheric, anthology, fast paced
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Dad's Army (2016)
Plot Summary:
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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How I Won the War (1967)
Plot Summary:
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, black comedy, parody, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, thought provoking, intellectual
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Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
Plot Summary:
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: cult classic, parody, spoof, cult film