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1. M*A*S*H (1972–1983)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of an Army hospital in the Korean War find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation.
Stars: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr
Votes: 63,784
2. Tropic Thunder (2008)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, War
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Kahn
Votes: 448,021 | Gross: $110.52M
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 518,232 | Gross: $0.28M
4. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, War
The inmates of a German World War II prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders.
Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 12,330
5. M*A*S*H (1970)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 76,922 | Gross: $81.60M
6. Stripes (1981)
R | 106 min | Comedy, War
Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates
Votes: 80,005 | Gross: $85.30M
7. Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, War
The misadventures of a bumbling U.S. Marine named Gomer Pyle.
Stars: Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Ronnie Schell, Roy Stuart
Votes: 4,169
8. Operation Petticoat (1959)
Approved | 124 min | Comedy, Romance, War
During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill
Votes: 15,871 | Gross: $23.30M
9. Lo chiamavano Bulldozer (1978)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
After his fishing boat is "periscoped", ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents and challenge the Yanks to a football game.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Bud Spencer, Raimund Harmstorf, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Nando Paone
Votes: 6,026
10. Carry on Sergeant (1958)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, War
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 3,005
11. At War with the Army (1950)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, War
Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Jimmie Dundee
Votes: 2,623
12. Which Way to the Front? (1970)
G | 96 min | Comedy, War
Brendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Jan Murray, John Wood, Steve Franken
Votes: 1,425 | Gross: $0.40M
13. Piger til søs (1977)
100 min | Comedy, Family
Women have joined the military in Denmark but can still not do active duty in the Navy, which aggravates 3 women's unofficial visit on a Navy ship due to an unannounced exercise at sea. Trying to hide the trio leads to comical situations.
Director: Finn Henriksen | Stars: Helle Merete Sørensen, Ulla Jessen, Marianne Tønsberg, Søren Strømberg
Votes: 364
14. Shoulder Arms (1918)
36 min | Short, Comedy, War
Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood
Votes: 7,422
15. Friend of the World (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott
Votes: 89
16. Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (1984)
102 min | Comedy
Uuno is called to serve the rest of his military service. His father-in-law, Director Tuura has been appointed as a defence minister but he hasn't got any interest to free Uuno from his ... See full summary »
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Tapio Hämäläinen, Marita Nordberg
Votes: 2,467
17. Great Guns (1941)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson
Votes: 1,593
18. Bornholmer Straße (2014 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Ulrich Matthes, Rainer Bock
Votes: 870
19. Your Mother Wears Combat Boots (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves ... See full summary »
Director: Anson Williams | Stars: Barbara Eden, Hector Elizondo, Meagen Fay, David Kaufman
Votes: 247
20. Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
Approved | 126 min | Comedy
Gus Brubaker has been drafted... again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island where everyone is bored to death. So Gus decided to build a hotel and hire locals to run the place.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Margo Moore, Jack Warden
Votes: 409
21. Copak je to za vojáka... (1988)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Petr Tucek | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Karel Roden, Pavel Hejlík, Tomás Valík
Votes: 374
22. NVA (2005)
98 min | Comedy
The story of young recruits doing their compulsory military service in the East German army 'NVA' prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Director: Leander Haußmann | Stars: Kim Frank, Oliver Bröcker, Detlev Buck, Jasmin Schwiers
Votes: 1,625
23. Flådens friske fyre (1965)
105 min | Comedy, Family
Three young fishermen gets drafted by the marine. Meanwhile they also have to earn money to pay off their bankloan on their fishingboat.
Director: Finn Henriksen | Stars: Dirch Passer, Ove Sprogøe, Paul Hagen, Ghita Nørby
Votes: 616
24. The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War I, Schweik (played by Heinz Rühmann) is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as soldier, where he is assigned to be an assistent to Lt. Lukas.
Director: Axel von Ambesser | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ernst Stankovski, Franz Muxeneder, Ursula von Borsody
Votes: 648
25. Shooters (1989)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
A group of misfit U.S. Army soldiers are chosen to represent their base at the annual war games competition where they are not expected to win.
Director: Peter Yuval | Stars: Benjamin Schick, Robin Sims, Aldo Ray, Ray Essler
Votes: 58
26. Up the Creek (1958)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to a rusty destroyer whose crew is running an illegal money-making scheme.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Vera Day
Votes: 417
27. Ready, Steady, Ommm! (2013)
98 min | Comedy
Can a yoga instructor reform the Swiss military service and his father-in-law? Or it's the other way around?
Director: Oliver Rihs | Stars: Matthias Britschgi, Marco Rima, Martin Rapold, Liliane Amuat
Votes: 352
28. Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film (2008)
94 min | Action, Comedy
When super-tough Instructor Schmidt tries to turn young German boys into men, his female military boss calls his leadership skills into question.
Director: Mike Eschmann | Stars: Holger Müller, Axel Stein, Collien Ulmen-Fernandes, Hedi Kriegeskotte
Votes: 507
29. The Czar Wants to Sleep (1934)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
A sarcastic comedy about the Imperial Russian bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Faintsimmer | Stars: Mikhail Yanshin, Boris Gorin-Goryainov, Nina Shaternikova, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 142
30. Les bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974)
90 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Four young soldiers spend most of their army service under punishment for various pranks and jokes.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Jean-Guy Fechner, Gérard Filippelli, Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus
Votes: 732
31. I Dutifully Report (1958)
91 min | Comedy, War
Sequel of the adaptation of the famous satiric tale of well-intending soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek.
Director: Karel Steklý | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Svatopluk Benes, Jaroslav Marvan, Milos Nedbal
Votes: 825
32. Ein dreifach Hoch dem Sanitätsgefreiten Neumann (1969)
85 min | Comedy
Austria-Hungary, in the "good old days". Neumann, who was especially devoted to the female sex, was punished by his superiors in the provincial town of Krems.
Director: Franz Marischka | Stars: Siegfried Rauch, Alexandra Paszkowska, Christiane Rücker, Hubert von Meyerinck
Votes: 35
33. Zivot a neobycejna dobrodruzstvi vojaka Ivana Conkina (1994)
106 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Ilin
Votes: 599
34. Piefke, der Schrecken der Kompanie (1958)
87 min | Comedy
Director: Wolfgang Wehrum | Stars: Harald Juhnke, Gardy Granass, Hubert von Meyerinck, Raidar Müller-Elmau
Votes: 30
35. Watch Your Stern (1960)
90 min | Comedy
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims
Votes: 337
36. Super Bomberos (2019)
Comedy
A ragtag group with no skills is chosen to form an elite firefighting squad.
Director: Francis "Indio" Disla Ferreira | Stars: Germán Valdés III, Valentina Chacin, Chimbala, Aquiles Correa
Votes: 29
37. HD-Soldat Läppli (1960)
115 min | Comedy
Directors: Alfred Rasser, Charles-Ferdinand Vaucher | Stars: Alfred Rasser, Immy Schell, Otto Wiesely, Hermann Frick
Votes: 195
38. Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva (1990)
111 min | Comedy
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Pekka Huotari, Pertti Koivula, Jukka Puotila
Votes: 703
39. Clipped Wings (1953)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Family
Slip and Sach mistakenly enlist in the Air Force where Sach is mistakenly assigned to the WACs.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Renie Riano
Votes: 323
40. Gdzie jest general... (1964)
92 min | Comedy, War
Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces ... See full summary »
Director: Tadeusz Chmielewski | Stars: Elzbieta Czyzewska, Jerzy Turek, Boleslaw Plotnicki, Stanislaw Milski
Votes: 196
41. Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava (1997)
103 min | Comedy, War
Körmy's regiment is ordered to move into the streets of Helsinki to take over Katajannokka in a field exercise. During the operation, the mafia is causing trouble for the officers.
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Tom Pöysti, Vesa Vierikko, Pertti Koivula
Votes: 433
42. Der Hauptmann und sein Held (1955)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
A post WWII German satire of the stupidity of a military culture so often associated with that country: An intellectual, civilian type totally unsuited for the army mentality somehow lands up playing the role, to the hilt, of a hero.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Ernst Schröder, Jo Herbst, Fita Benkhoff, Ilse Steppat
Votes: 36
43. Swing It, Sailor! (1938)
Passed | 57 min | Adventure, Comedy
Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up. The object of his affection is ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: Wallace Ford, Ray Mayer, Isabel Jewell, Mary Treen
Votes: 89
44. Caught in the Foreign Legion (1950)
80 min | Comedy
Fernandel pretends to be a Duke and ends up getting mixed up with a group of parachutists.
Director: René Le Hénaff | Stars: Andrex, Luc Andrieux, Claude Arlan, Ginette Baudin
Votes: 52
45. Gripes (1943)
5 min | Animation, Short
Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military dicipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 266
46. Drei Tage Mittelarrest (1955)
95 min | Comedy
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Ernst Waldow, Grethe Weiser, Eva Probst, Ruth Stephan
Votes: 23
47. Der Reserveheld (1965)
79 min | Comedy
The famous actor Ralf Horricht is a pain in his current director's butt while shooting a comedy about the army. So Horricht believes it a joke, when he receives an induction-order as ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Luderer | Stars: Rolf Herricht, Marita Böhme, Günther Simon, Gerhard Rachold
Votes: 36
48. Zdraviya zhelayu! ili Beshenyy dembel (1990)
76 min | Comedy
Eccentric comedy about young soldier Mitya Agafonov, who carries out requirements precisely according to military regulations.
Director: Yuri Volkogon | Stars: Anton Androsov, Viktor Ilichyov, Mikhail Kononov, Nikolay Geyko
Votes: 33
49. Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (1986)
24 min | Comedy
Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hämäläinen, Mauno Blomqvist, Elli Castrén
Votes: 31