
Movies that feel likeDuck Soup (1933)
If you loved Duck Soup, the closest films we have are Stalag 17 (1953), The General (1926) and Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966). All three share Duck Soup's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Awful Truth (1937).
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If Duck Soup hit the spot, these will too

Common ground in both: spy and black and white
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Duck Soup does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spy
The difference: Sits closer to romance than Duck Soup does

Witty and playful in the same breath
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on bleakness more than on comedy


Comedy built on play, twice over

War with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Common ground: black and white
The difference: Easier on the wit than Duck Soup

War with a pulse of play, in both cases


Both are Leo McCarey's work, and they rhyme
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