
Movies that feel likeTo Be or Not to Be (1942)
If you loved To Be or Not to Be, the closest films we have are The General (1926), Mediterraneo (1991) and Duck Soup (1933). All three share To Be or Not to Be'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 The Palm Beach Story (1942).
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If To Be or Not to Be hit the spot, these will too

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Bleak comedy, and it commits to that
The difference: Easier on the romance than To Be or Not to Be

Common ground: world war ii
The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than To Be or Not to Be does

Ernst Lubitsch working the same nerve twice
The difference: Sits closer to crime than To Be or Not to Be does

Ernst Lubitsch directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

War with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Both lean on romance more than on romance

Playful comedy in both cases

Romance built on romance, twice over

Both are built on the same subject: polish resistance

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