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Where is the General? (1964)
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Where is the General? (1964)
Original name: Gdzie jest generał...
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second problem. Waclaw's platoon had to find deserter. Polish Soldier close to the castle.
Plot: world war two, machine gun, women in the military, castle, wine, captive, shooting, kiss, gun, wine cellar, kissing, uniform, drinking wine, general
Time: year 1945
Place: poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, humorous, realistic and sex comedy films with plots about world war two, soldier, partisan, army, uniform, machine gun and british army mostly in War, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Where is the General?: Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964), How I Unleashed World War II (1970), Dad's Army (1971), Halt, Or I'll Miss! (1998), Balkan Express (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he ...
Plot: world war two, world war, train, painting, italian abroad, wehrmacht, brother and sister, nazi occupation, nazi soldier, partisan, swastika, german army ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 224 min.
Story: How I unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa" (The adventures of Dolas the cannoneer). The film was divided into three parts: Ucieczka (The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: world war two, foreign legion, military, soldier, military life, war, polish, love letter, mistaken identity, coincidence, comedy of errors, hapless soldier ...
Time: 20th century
Place: poland, africa, europe, italy, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
Style: retro, sad, independent film
Plot: world war two, captive, pow, new world, pilot, alternate reality, past
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Style: funny
Plot: world war two, prison escape, escape, train, officer, cow, secret passageway, german occupation, sabotage, castle, pow, chess ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Dad's Army (1971)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film ...
Plot: world war two, seaside town, veteran, soldier, bomb, retirement, accident
Time: 1940s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Halt, Or I'll Miss! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.
Plot: world war two, resistance, mistaken identity, pilot, parachutist, bare chested male, woods, rural setting, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tank, bowling, castle ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. ...
Style: fun
Plot: world war two, pow, wehrmacht, french soldier, german occupation, french military, disguise, uniform, tow truck
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Balkan Express (1983)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists and thieves decide to pose as musicians under the rubric "The Balkan Express".
Style: spoof, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: world war two, partisan, holocaust, con artists, money, female nudity, train, musician, machine gun, hotel, fear, hiding place ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Operation Snatch (1962)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes. When he detects that the animals' morale ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, ape, monkey, secret mission, nazi, behind enemy lines, british army, officer, zookeeper, british officer
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cat Under a Helmet (1962)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.
Style: dark
Plot: world war two, partisan, mountain, town, woods, barber, machine gun, friend, fear, murder, death, night ...
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Merry People Die Twice (1966)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Somewhere in Bosnia in 1943 between the fourth and fifth enemy offensives column partisans withdrew across a river to free territory. At the moment of crossing the river, a group of Chetniks suddenly attack a column of partisans. In this violent ...
Style: dark
Plot: partisan, world war two, mountain, woods, husband wife relationship, police, forest, wife, ambush, duke, river, young girl ...
Time: year 1943
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis), one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's war against Hitler. Byers does not takes "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, not serious, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: world war two, three stooges, world war, military, anti hero, disorder, obsessive quest, goofy hero, escapades, misfit, war, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
I Hate Mondays (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Plot: comedy of errors, farce, airport, robbery, drunkenness, thief, one day, bad luck, coincidence, milkman, police officer, foreigner ...
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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36%
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Joey Boy (1965)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But ...
Style: independent film, gaming
Plot: world war two, prison, illegal gambling, bet, gambling, army, donkey, mule
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Get Along, Mate (1981)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
Plot: partisan, world war two, woodcutter, military training, deserter, fight
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
How I Won the War (1967)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Style: humorous, witty, clever, black comedy, parody ...
Plot: world war two, the beatles, working class, politics, war, world war, satire, british, death, ss, singer, machine gun ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: africa, europe, middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Le diable rose (1988)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Double-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called "Le Diable Rose" in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike.
Style: sex comedy
Plot: world war two, nazi, resistance, d day, nazi occupation, brothel, sex, spy, nun, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Place: normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.5
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The Odd Squad (1982)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic ...
Style: independent film, sex comedy
Plot: world war two, us military, sergeant, u.s. army, italian soldier, italian army, combat, bridge, u.s. marine corps
Time: 1940s
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Carry on England (1976)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain ...
Style: sex comedy, spoof, independent film
Plot: carry on, world war two, satire, female nudity, sex spoof, army
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Colonel Kwiatkowski (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.
Style: crying
Plot: spy, world war two, russian soldier, pretending to be someone else, wound, punched in the face, train station, deception, sidekick, child, drunkenness, drinking ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 1945, 20th century
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Country Trip of Sgt. Tsybulya (1979)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: On the way to Partisans camp Sgt. Tsybulya suddenly lands in the middle of German troops. Now he must find a way to return to the Red Army.
Plot: world war two, enemy, soldier, sergeant, red army, army, soviet, military uniform
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Coming-Out Party (1961)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a ...
Style: black and white, independent film
Plot: world war two, aviation, military prison, prison escape, prisoner, nazi, military officer, german soldier, british army, scientist, escape, disguise ...
Time: year 1961
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Io non scappo... fuggo (1970)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the ...
Plot: world war two, italian soldier, fake identity, cowardice, italian army, hitler, truce
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Liberation of Prague (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) ...
Plot: world war two, machine gun, communist, fascism, red army, concentration camp, rebellion, russian soldier, propaganda
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: czechoslovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Best of Enemies (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
Plot: world war two, airplane crash, friend, capture, british army, italian army, colonialism, desert, soccer, friendship, italian soldier
Time: year 1961
Place: ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Check Passed: No Mines (1965)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find ...
Plot: red army, world war two, partisan, landmine, danger, soldier, army, minefield, military uniform, uniform
Time: year 1944
Place: belgrade serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Our Miss Fred (1972)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: occupied france, fashion show, gay interest, world war two, female impersonator, drag, cross dressing, surrender, invasion, transvestite, actor, german soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Road West (1961)
Genre: Action, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
Plot: train, world war two, singing, train station, shooting, locomotive, abandoned building, train engineer, ammunition, explosion, bridge, woman slaps man
Time: year 1945
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Spring on the Oder (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A war drama set in Germany at the end od WWII.
Plot: world war two, russian soldier, great patriotic war, red army, russian abroad, soviet army, uniform
Time: year 1945
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
Plot: world war two, soldier, zoo, elephant, yerevan
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, armenia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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