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Movies that feel like Stalag 17 (1953)

If you loved Stalag 17, the closest films we have are Duck Soup (1933), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) and Lifeboat (1944). All three share Stalag 17's bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 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.

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.

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Billy Wilderwittyplayfulcontemplativebleak
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Duck Soup
1933 Β· dir. Leo McCarey
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· war

Common ground in both: spy and black and white

The difference: None of the stillness Stalag 17 is built on

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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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966 Β· dir. GΓ©rard Oury
β˜… 7.9comedy Β· war

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

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.

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Lifeboat
1944 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.6war Β· drama

One thread runs through both: world war ii

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.

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Paisan
1946 Β· dir. Roberto Rossellini
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6drama Β· war

Contemplative where it counts, bleak underneath

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

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Rome, Open City
1945 Β· dir. Roberto Rossellini
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8drama Β· war

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Sabrina
1954 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Billy Wilder directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Stalag 17 does

After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.

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Ivan's Childhood
1962 Β· dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8drama Β· war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spy

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

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Nights of Cabiria
1957 Β· dir. Federico Fellini
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1drama Β· comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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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Shame
1968 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 67%β˜… 8war Β· drama

War built on bleakness, twice over

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

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A Boy and His Dog
1975 Β· dir. L.Q. Jones
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4drama Β· science fiction Β· comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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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The Longest Day
1962 Β· dir. Ken Annakin
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.7war Β· action Β· drama

Common ground: black and white

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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