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Plot Summary:
Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second segment, shot with the help of the Czechoslovakia army, the soldiers pass the time during basic training and maneuvers by talking about girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
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Sound Eroticism (1986)
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In a squirming Hungarian crate factory which only employs female workers, the newly appointed fireman not only buys fire extinguishers full of petrol to save money, but also proposes the installation of an expensive, hidden camera system that would monitor the women's dressing room for the viewing pleasure of both the fireman and his boss. The new, secret daily entertainment of watching the women change their clothes at the beginning and the end of their shift soon turns into the only attractive feature of the factory in the eyes of various tradesmen, causing a boom in crate sales. The management's conflicts with the workers, however, leads to rebellion when the women find out that their naked bodies were used for marketing purposes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
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A rivalry is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise tranquil Army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. With good intentions, Col. Flanders tries to keep the piece and uses Brian Keith to work community relations. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a beat first ask questions later sheriff. The Colonel organizes a dance and encourages all in the area to attend. But instead of merriment, tensions are even higher. Tony Curtis plays a wise cracking Sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. A rebellious town leader Billy Joe Davis proclaims war against the military with his own private army. Suzanne Pleshette co-stars as the oh so lovable bar maid.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, political, independent film
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Loafing and Camouflage: I-4 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Μια παρέα νεοσύλλεκτων -που ο καθένας για τους δικούς του λόγους θέλει να πάρει απαλλαγή από το στρατό- αναγκάζεται να υπηρετήσεις ως Ι4. Η παρέα θα βρεθεί σ' ένα ακριτικό νησί με διατεταγμένη υπηρεσία: Θα πρέπει να παίξουν τους "λαγούς" και να συνηπάρξουν με τους λοκατζήδες που ετοιμάζονται για μία μεγάλη άσκηση.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
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Sergeant Körmy and the Marshall's Stick (1990)
Plot Summary:
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
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Who's That Soldier? (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Cockpit (2012)
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After getting fired from his current job as a pilot and dumped by his current wife, he seeks to find a new job. Out of desperation on the job market he disguises himself as a woman in order to get a job from Silver, a company seeking a female pilot. The lines between his female and male life as well as his personal and love life starts to become a blur which he eventually cannot handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: low brow humor, queer cinema
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Your Mother Wears Combat Boots (1989)
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An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves the college and joins the army, but the mother finds out and makes a bet with him that if she passes the basic training, he will leave the unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious
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The Black Barons (1992)
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Komedie vás přesvědčí o tom, že i na chmurné stránky naší historie je možné se dívat s nadhledem a humorem. Čo bolo, to bolo... Major Terazky vede svůj šik pétépáků od průšvihu k průšvihu vstříc světlým zítřkům. Česká filmová komedie podle románu Miloslava Švandrlíka.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
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The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983)
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A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperatly searches in superficial, fleeting sex.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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Capricious Summer (1968)
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Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, metafiction
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Girls at Arms (1975)
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A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
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Let's All Sing Around (1991)
Plot Summary:
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer camp pretended to be and what it really was about. All this produces many embarrassing situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
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1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. Sexual girls are digging a tunnel towards.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intercultural, inter cultural
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Country Trip of Sgt. Tsybulya (1979)
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On the way to Partisans camp Sgt. Tsybulya suddenly lands in the middle of German troops. Now he must find a way to return to the Red Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
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Parousiaste (2020)
Plot Summary:
Bored soldiers, hard-ass commandos, dirty boots, guard duties, a Greek mommy, an influencer, a plastic surgeon, a gambling-addicted secretary and a caravan parked right outside! Two adjoining camps in the greek border. Two commanders in the middle of a "battle" that started years ago for a woman and now erupts for the position of brigadier general. One is old-school, cold-blooded militarist and the other lenient and caring. Goulas and Skordas. Sworn enemies!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Call-up (1979)
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It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, biting, suspense
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Ah Boys to Men 4 (2017)
Plot Summary:
The fourth addition to the franchise sees the return of the army boys including Sergeant Ong, Lobang, Ken Chow and Aloysius, joined by a new female officer, as they are called back for in-camp training under the Armoured Formation of the Singapore Armed Forces. Hilarious situations happen when they are back training together and their military roles reversed. Their brotherhood is also put to the test when new enemy threats arise.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976)
Plot Summary:
Sergio Konstanza, a Swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Seargent is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, weird, cult film
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Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army (1984)
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Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Fish People (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of guys face the problems of daily life in a shared house.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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NVA (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story of young recruits doing their compulsory military service in the East German army 'NVA' prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, captivating, light, melancholic, exciting
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Ah Boys To Men (Part 1) (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ah Boys to Men (新兵正传) is a 2012–2013 Singaporean two-part comedy film produced and directed by Jack Neo, written by Neo and Link Sng and starring Wang Wei Liang, Noah Yap, Joshua Tan and Maxi Lim. It revolves around a group of army recruits in National Service in Singapore.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, thought provoking
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Shortcuts (1981)
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Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Military Academy (2007)
Plot Summary:
The movie deals with a guy who gets to join the German Bundeswehr involuntarily because a colleague loses his denial papers in order to get the chance to get down on his girlfriend. When entering the Bundeswehr he acts like a giant idiot and of course gets in one room with some of the biggest losers around. The loser turns out to be a hero and leads his loser-colleagues to win a contest with the local US army squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, light, sexy, exciting
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Tank Battalion (1991)
Plot Summary:
The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior officer along with the low discipline of his fellow conscripts only heightens the disrespect towards the new post world war two communist regime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Black Peter (1964)
Plot Summary:
Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, avant garde, sincere, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Loaf and Camouflage (1984)
Plot Summary:
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult film
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Sgt. Bilko (1996)
Plot Summary:
The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, hilarious, exciting, captivating, feel good, surprise ending, offbeat, realistic
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Daisies (1966)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house, dark comedy, mind bending, social, disturbing, cult classic