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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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I Hate Mondays (1971)
Plot Summary:
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
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The Road West (1961)
Plot Summary:
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 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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Cat Under a Helmet (1962)
Plot Summary:
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark
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Merry People Die Twice (1966)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in Bosnia in 1943 between the fourth and fifth enemy offensives column partisans withdrew across a river to free territory. At the moment of crossing the river, a group of Chetniks suddenly attack a column of partisans. In this violent attacks, a lot of partisan dies. Manage to cross the river and so be saved from bullets, only few partisans as a young partisan Radojica young nurse partisan Milica. Radojica and Milica cut off from his brigade, moving in their difficult and arduous hike over the mountains in the hope that they will meet again with the brigade. In this wandering, they will encounter a series of tragic-comic situations. Since the departure of Radojice in prison and subsequent flight to several grisly encounter with the Chetniks, to find the brigade and brave and daring capture of the entire Chetnik detachments and Chetnik duke who was responsible for the attack on the partisans.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark
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Colonel Kwiatkowski (1995)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: crying
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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
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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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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Check Passed: No Mines (1965)
Plot Summary:
October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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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
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
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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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
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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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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Balkan Express (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spoof, black comedy, dark comedy, parody
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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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The Liberation of Prague (1977)
Plot Summary:
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the next day, the 5th of May, the uprising begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Spring on the Oder (1968)
Plot Summary:
A war drama set in Germany at the end od WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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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