
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.
If Stalag 17 hit the spot, these will too

Common ground in both: spy and black and white
The difference: None of the stillness Stalag 17 is built on

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

One thread runs through both: world war ii

Contemplative where it counts, bleak underneath

Contemplative drama in both cases

Billy Wilder directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Leans harder into romance than Stalag 17 does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

War built on bleakness, twice over

Playful comedy, and it commits to that
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Common ground: black and white
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