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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
Plot tags:
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Operation Snatch (1962)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes. When he detects that the animals' morale is slipping, he hatches a plan to go behind the German lines to "kidnap" a new ape for his charges to lift their spirits before the Germans find out about their condition and use it as propaganda.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Joey Boy (1965)
Plot Summary:
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974)
Plot Summary:
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, entertaining, controversial
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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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Two Colonels (1963)
Plot Summary:
During the WWII Italians and English take and retake a village between the Albanian and Greek borders. It happens so often that not only do they use the same hotel as their headquarters, but also they find the time to become friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, surprise ending
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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 Eastern Front (2020)
Plot Summary:
A dwindling group of German soldiers battle to return to their lines on the harsh Eastern Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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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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Atlantic Wall (1970)
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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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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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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The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Plot Summary:
Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 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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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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Strange Gardens (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Two Men Went to War (2002)
Plot Summary:
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, War, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Monsieur Batignole (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating