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Movies that feel like Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

If you loved Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!, the closest films we have are Stalag 17 (1953), Duck Soup (1933) and PlayTime (1967). All three share Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British 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.

7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gérard Ourywittyplayfulbleak

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Stalag 17
1953 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 91%7.9comedy · drama · war

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

The difference: Played as drama first

After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.

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Duck Soup
1933 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 91%7.7comedy · war

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

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PlayTime
1967 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 98%7.8comedy

Paris shapes both of them

The difference: Without the same bleakness

Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.

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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama · war

Comedy with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

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Mediterraneo
1991 · dir. Gabriele Salvatores
🍅 80%7.4comedy · romance · war

One thread runs through both: world war ii

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.

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M*A*S*H
1970 · dir. Robert Altman
🍅 86%7.3comedy · drama · war

Both lean on wit more than on war

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.

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🍅 98%8.3comedy · war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: general

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%7.7comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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To Be or Not to Be
1942 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 96%8.1comedy · war · romance

War built on bleakness, twice over

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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Fail Safe
1964 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 93%8thriller · drama · war

Common ground: bomber

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

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A Boy and His Dog
1975 · dir. L.Q. Jones
🍅 80%6.4drama · science fiction · comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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Rome, Open City
1945 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 100%8drama · war

Both are built on the same subject: nazi occupation

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

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