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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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Crebinsky (2011)
Plot Summary:
Torrential rains cause the swollen river, whose waters inundate a village. The current drags the cow Crebinsky and his brothers, who miraculously reappear alive in a place on the coast. Installed there at the foot of a lighthouse, which brings survive by sea. Isolated military conflicts, the brothers created their own world: a particular universe made of realism and fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
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Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin (1962)
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Antonio, seguendo le indicazioni della "Smorfia", dategli in sogno da una zia monaca "attraversa l'Alto Adige" e arriva a Berlino Ovest per incontrare il magliaro Giuseppe e fare fortuna. Ma Antonio e somigliantissimo all'ammiraglio Canarinis, criminale di guerra ricercato. Greta, figlia dell'ammiraglio gli offre 20 milioni per far finta di essere il padre e Antonio accetta. Ma quando scopre che lo aspetta una condanna a morte grazie alla testimonianza di Giuseppe, pagato da Greta, rivele la verità agli americani e riesce a convincerli con l'aiuto della... Smorfia. Ma ci sono sempre i russi che, catturati i due, vogliono fare decifrare i codici segreti americani. La smorfia e la zia monaca (defunta) danno una mano ad Antonio e i guai sembrano finiti, ma le sorprese sono sempre in agguato.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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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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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975)
Plot Summary:
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
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Toto Macario by Night (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Two Marines and a General (1965)
Plot Summary:
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Adolf and Marlene (1977)
Plot Summary:
When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Beasts (1971)
Plot Summary:
A film made for Italian television. A series of eight episodes put together in which Lando Buzzanca plays a variety of weird characters. Episode 1: Il Salvatore (The Saviour) A reporter tries to stop a man from killing himself, only to get the TV crew's attention. Episode 2: La Voce Del Sangue (The Blood Voice) An engineer tries to get his wife to act as a prostitute to satisfy His Excellency, only to find out his "daughter" has been sent in her place. Episode 3: Il Fachiro (The Fakir) A fakir is forced to accomplish excessively terrible deeds in order to satisfy the public, and he is then exploited by his own family. Episode 4: Una Bella Famiglia (A Nice Family) A father of two children lives in luxury, thanks to the illegal activities of his wife (IE: A prostitute). Episode 5: Il Caso Apposito (The Apposito Case) The head of a major corporation is accused of nepotism and is forced to corrupt the visiting inspectors, and the only surviving rival is forced to kill himself in order to.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: sex comedy, grotesque
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Caprice Italian Style (1968)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anthology, spiritual, crying, detective, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, italian comedy
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
Plot Summary:
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 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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The Best of Enemies (1961)
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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
Plot tags:
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Hotel Lux (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Liechtenstein, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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Anni ruggenti (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, suspect him to be the inspector and a very important member of the Party. The misunderstanding leads to a number of equivocals until Omero reveals his identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Two Marshals (1961)
Plot Summary:
Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Antonio Capurro, un ladruncolo travestito da prete, viene arrestato dal maresciallo Cottone. In seguito, durante un bombardamento il lestofante riesce a impossessarsi della divisa del poliziotto, lasciandogli l'abito talare. Inizia così una serie di comiche disavventure per i due, che devono eludere i nazi-fascisti che occupano il paese e nascondere i soldati alleati che stanno arrivando di nascosto. Alla fine, il paese verrà liberato ed Antonio sfuggirà ancora una volta al poliziotto.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Fascist (1961)
Plot Summary:
1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to "Federale". They travel by a sidecar trough the disastrous Italy, near to the final collapse, under bombings and in agony. Nevertheless the bad situation, they manage to build up a kind of friendship. Primo, even if the signals of final destruction are near, doesn't lose his trust in the regime. The end is near.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie, historical drama, italian 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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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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The Annuity (1972)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Galipeau has a brother, Emile, whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy and who dreams of owning a house. He has just examined Louis Martinet, an old man who, according to him, is in the last stages. That is why he advises Emile to purchase Martinet's house for an annuity. Unfortunately for the Galipeaus, not only does Martinet recover but, month after month, year after year, the "dying man" proves hale and hearty as well! Whereas the greedy Galipeaus fall from the frying pan into the fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, cult classic, 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
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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We Want the Colonels (1973)
Plot Summary:
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political
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The Lady Medic (1976)
Plot Summary:
A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Nurse in the Military Madhouse (1979)
Plot Summary:
A story about a singer/showgirl who poses as a nurse to recover some stolen paintings, which for some reason are hidden in a military insane asylum.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy
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Cefalonia (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags:
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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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We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Plot Summary:
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sad, touching, realistic, semi serious, italian comedy
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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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Mediterraneo (1991)
Plot Summary:
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there. Actually, the island isn't deserted and when the Greeks understand that those Italians are harmless, they came out of their hiding places in the mountains and continue their peaceful lives. Soon the soldiers discover that being left behind in a God-forgotten Greek island isn't such a bad thing, after all.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sad, art house, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, intercultural, sentimental