
Movies that feel likeThe Great Dictator (1940)
If you loved The Great Dictator, the closest films we have are Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The Bed Sitting Room (1969) and M*A*S*H (1970). All three share The Great Dictator'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 I'm All Right Jack (1959).
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If The Great Dictator hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: satire
The difference: Trades the ideas of The Great Dictator for an angle of its own

Witty where it counts, playful underneath
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Bleak and darkly funny in the same breath
The difference: Easier on the ideas than The Great Dictator


One thread runs through both: satire
The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Great Dictator does

Two things both keep coming back to: nazi and jewish ghetto
The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Great Dictator does

The same hand behind both of them: Charlie Chaplin

Comedy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii



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