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Movies that feel like The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

If you loved The Men Who Stare at Goats, the closest films we have are Three Kings (1999), Hot Shots! (1991) and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). All three share The Men Who Stare at Goats' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and others, checked against today's data.

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🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Grant Heslovwittyplayfulbleak
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Three Kings
1999 · dir. David O. Russell
🍅 94%7.1action · comedy · war

Common ground: kuwait

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

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Hot Shots!
1991 · dir. Jim Abrahams
🍅 83%6.7action · comedy · war

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Played as action first

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.

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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama · war

Comedy with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into drama

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

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Duck Soup
1933 · dir. Leo McCarey
🍅 91%7.7comedy · war

Both lean on wit more than on war

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

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

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! poster
7.9comedy · war

Playful comedy in both cases

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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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

War built on wit, twice over

The difference: Not nearly as bleak

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

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Jarhead
2005 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 60%7drama · war

Both keep coming back to the same thing: kuwait

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.5comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Comedy approached the same way

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
5.9comedy

Comedy in the same key

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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Stalag 17
1953 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 91%7.9comedy · drama · war

Bleak war, and it commits to that

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.

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Welcome to the South
2010 · dir. Luca Miniero
6.6comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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