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Plot Summary:
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Soldier in the Rain (1963)
Plot Summary:
Sentemental military comedy revolves around two contemporary army buddies, Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter (Jackie Gleason), a smooth operator, who supply Sergeant Eustis Clay (Steve McQueen) idolizes and hopes will join him as a civilian in a private business enterprise. Clay endeavors to be a player in the military, just like Slaughter, but it seems as though Clay still has a lot to learn from his mentor. They are joined by Tuesday Weld as a shrill dizzy blonde teenager named Bobby Jo Pepperdine and Tony Bill as bumbling Private First Class Jerry Meltzer, McQueen's screwball sidekick.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Sadsacks Go to War (1974)
Plot Summary:
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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McHale's Navy (1962)
Plot Summary:
McHale's Navy is an American sitcom that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated from an hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962. Universal commissioned the colorization of the series in the 1980s for syndication in hope of reviving its popularity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense, captivating, slapstick
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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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A Man Called Sarge (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers lead by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, biting, spoof, suspense
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How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Plot Summary:
How I unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa" (The adventures of Dolas the cannoneer). The film was divided into three parts: Ucieczka (The escape), Za bronią (Following the arms) and Wśród swoich (Among friends).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 224 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Honey Sweet Love... (1994)
Plot Summary:
A British commander falls in love with a local Sicilian girl during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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On the Double (1961)
Plot Summary:
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spy comedy
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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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In the Army Now (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, not serious, slapstick, absurd, realistic, witty, parody, funny, feel good
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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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South Pacific (2001)
Plot Summary:
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush (Glenn Close) and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque (Rade Serbedzija). The war is tearing them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious
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Ensign Pulver (1964)
Plot Summary:
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, homoerotic
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Privates on Parade (1983)
Plot Summary:
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, entertaining, independent film
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Stripes (1981)
Plot Summary:
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, cult classic, intense, not serious, hilarious, sex comedy, funny, light, parody
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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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The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Plot Summary:
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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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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Castle Keep (1969)
Plot Summary:
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, retro, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, historical drama
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Guy X (2005)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Canada, Iceland, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, offbeat, biting, black comedy, suspense
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The Vultures (1984)
Plot Summary:
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light, suspense, surprise ending
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Into the Sun (1991)
Plot Summary:
Paul Watkins (Michael Paré) is an American pilot stationed in the Middle East, who is taken away from his normal duties of protecting the skies to show an actor everything he needs to know about being a pilot in the Air Force. The actor, Tom Slade (Anthony Michael Hall), is about to start filming an Air Force movie and wants to "get the feeling" for the part. When Watkins takes Slade for a ride in an F-16 fighter, some other American jets are attacked and the pair comes to the rescue. However, it does not go according to the plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Action, Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, action comedy, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, fast
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Snow and Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Plot Summary:
During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie being sent on a senseless and dangerous mission.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, witty, funny, black and white, cute, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light
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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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The Pentagon Wars (1998)
Plot Summary:
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, disturbing, semi serious, satirical, dark comedy, clever, biting, suspense
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Tobruk (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, realistic
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For the Moment (1993)
Plot Summary:
This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, sentimental, serious, independent film, sexy, enigmatic, feel good, breathtaking, unusual plot structure