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Plot Summary:
Biopic about a real eccentric ultra-patriotic British army officer and war hero called Lt. Col. Alfred D. Wintle, who fought in both World Wars against both the enemy and his higher-ups with the same passion.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Biography, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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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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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
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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
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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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The Best of Enemies (1961)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 104 min
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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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Where is the General? (1964)
Plot Summary:
Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second problem. Waclaw's platoon had to find deserter. Polish Soldier close to the castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Country Trip of Sgt. Tsybulya (1979)
Plot Summary:
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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Operation Snafu (1970)
Plot Summary:
In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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
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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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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
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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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Wolves of War (2022)
Plot Summary:
Decorated British officer Jack Wallace must lead a band of Allied commandos across enemy lines to rescue Professor Hopper, an American scientist held hostage by the Nazis. With information that could turn the tide of war, these unlikely heroes must traverse enemy territory with an untrained US civilian, avoiding brutal Nazi mercenaries and non-stop bombing – with the fate of the war resting on their shoulders, the outcome of this mission will change the world forever; failure is not an option.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond the Line (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two Allied soldiers find themselves stuck behind enemy Nazi lines and must find a way to get back home despite the temptation to accept defeat.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: War
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
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Felix Manalo (2015)
Plot Summary:
Felix Yzagun Manalo is a sprawling historical epic that traces the origin of Iglesia Ni Cristo (The Church of Christ) which is established in the Philippines from its humble beginnings in 1914 through the present day.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography
Country: Philippines
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: political
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First Light (2010)
Plot Summary:
In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Geoff'/'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot. After an intense training, he soon bonds with the flying men of his squadron. In the air, danger is great, but on the ground drinks, sports and girls, in Geoff's case Sarah, provide great comfort. However in time, the casualties exact a grueling psychological toll, until his tour of duty is ended after 18 months.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
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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 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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Hitler (1962)
Plot Summary:
The private life of Hitler revealed for the first time!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Recon (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four American soldiers in WW2, after witnessing the vicious murder of an innocent civilian at the hands of their platoon Sergeant, are sent on a reconnaissance/suicide mission led by a local partisan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Biography, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Outsider (1961)
Plot Summary:
Arizona Indian Ira Hayes' (Tony Curtis) life is a tragedy after he joins the Marines and helps raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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