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Movies that feel like Duck Soup (1933)

If you loved Duck Soup, the closest films we have are Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The Great Dictator (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1942). All three share Duck Soup's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Leo McCareywittyplayfulbleak

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb poster
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.3comedy Β· war

Black and white is the engine of both

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1960s show

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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The Great Dictator
1940 Β· dir. Charlie Chaplin
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.4comedy Β· war

Dictator sits at the heart of each

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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To Be or Not to Be
1942 Β· dir. Ernst Lubitsch
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· war Β· romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Leans romance where Duck Soup does not

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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The Bank Dick
1940 Β· dir. Edward F. Cline
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Not nearly as bleak as Duck Soup

Egbert SousΓ© becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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The Awful Truth
1937 Β· dir. Leo McCarey
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· romance

Both are Leo McCarey films, and they rhyme

The difference: Plays it as romance more than Duck Soup does

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

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Mon Oncle
1958 Β· dir. Jacques Tati
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7comedy

Playful war, and it commits to that

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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Genevieve
1953 Β· dir. Henry Cornelius
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.1comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

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PlayTime
1967 Β· dir. Jacques Tati
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.8comedy

Both trade on play more than on being war

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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Jojo Rabbit
2019 Β· dir. Taika Waititi
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· war Β· drama

Bleak comedy in both cases

Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

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Dumb and Dumber
1994 Β· dir. Peter Farrelly
πŸ… 69%β˜… 7.3comedy

The same preoccupation in both: cigar smoking

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.

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The Party
1968 Β· dir. Blake Edwards
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.4comedy

The same comedy instincts

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

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Airplane!
1980 Β· dir. Jim Abrahams
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

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