Best war comedies - Charts
Best war comedies
1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Italy, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
2. The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Karel Steklý
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Eva Svobodová
3. The Great Dictator (1940)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie
4. The Good Soldier Schweik 2: Beg to Report, Sir (1957)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Karel Steklý
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Svatopluk Beneš
5. The General (1926)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
6. Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
France / UK, Comedy / War
Directed by: Gérard Oury
Cast: Bourvil, Louis de Funès
7. Divided We Fall (2000)
Czech Republic, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jan Hřebejk
Cast: Bolek Polívka, Csongor Kassai
8. Springman and the SS (1946)
Czechoslovakia, Animation / Short
Directed by: Jiří Trnka, Jiří Brdečka
9. Hot Shots! 2 (1993)
USA, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges
11. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
USA / UK, Comedy / War
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
12. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
South Korea, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Kwang-hyeon Park
Cast: Ha-kyun Shin, Jae-yeong Jeong
14. Underground (1995)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
15. Shoulder Arms (1918)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
16. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny
18. No Man's Land (2001)
Bosnia-Herzegovina / France, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Danis Tanović
Cast: Branko Djuric, René Bitorajac
19. Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
France / Italy, Comedy / War
Directed by: Robert Lamoureux
Cast: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy
21. Life Is a Miracle (2004)
Serbia and Montenegro / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Slavko Stimac, Nataša Tapušković
22. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
23. Memories (1995)
Japan, Animation / Anthology
Directed by: Kōji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura
Cast: Kōichi Yamadera, Shigeru Chiba
24. Will Not End Here (2008)
Croatia / Serbia, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Vinko Brešan
Cast: Ivan Herceg, Nada Šargin
25. Train of Life (1998)
Belgium / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu
Cast: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus
27. The Seventh Company Outdoors (1977)
France, Comedy / War
Directed by: Robert Lamoureux
Cast: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy
30. The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
France, Comedy / War
Directed by: Robert Lamoureux
Cast: Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy
32. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jindřich Polák
Cast: Petr Kostka, Jiří Sovák
33. How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Poland, Comedy / War
Directed by: Tadeusz Chmielewski
Cast: Marian Kociniak, Zdzislaw Kuzniar
35. Malena (2000)
Italy / USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro
36. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
UK, Comedy / War
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg
37. When the Wind Blows (1986)
UK, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Jimmy T. Murakami
Cast: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills
38. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
USA / Yugoslavia, War / Action
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas
40. Everybody Go Home (1960)
Italy / France, War / Drama
Directed by: Luigi Comencini
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Eduardo De Filippo
41. Der falsche Feldmarschall (1930)
German Empire / Czechoslovakia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Vlasta Burian, Alexander Roda-Roda
43. Vietcong: Real Life (2016)
Czech Republic, Short / War
Directed by: Petr Esterka
Cast: Petr Esterka, Petr Purmenský
44. Falstaff (1965)
Spain / Switzerland, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau
47. To Be or Not to Be (1983)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Alan Johnson
Cast: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft
49. Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
China, Drama / War
Directed by: Wen Jiang
Cast: Wen Jiang, Yihong Jiang
50. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: James McKechnie, Vincent Holman
51. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani
52. The Great War (1959)
Italy / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman
55. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
USA, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason
56. West Beirut (1998)
Lebanon / France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Ziad Doueiri
Cast: Mohamad Chamas, Carmen Lebbos
57. A Perfect Day (2015)
Spain, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Fernando León de Aranoa
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins
58. The Tour (2008)
Serbia / Bosnia-Herzegovina, War / Comedy
Directed by: Goran Markovic
Cast: Tihomir Stanic, Mira Furlan
59. The Carabineers (1963)
France / Italy, War / Comedy
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Pascale Audret, Barbet Schroeder
60. Operation Petticoat (1959)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis
61. M.A.S.H. (1970)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Robert Altman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould
62. My Best Enemy (2011)
Austria / Luxembourg, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Wolfgang Murnberger
Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich
66. Three Kings (1999)
USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: David O. Russell
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg
67. Father Goose (1964)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
68. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
70. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
USA / Mexico, Western / Comedy
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood
72. Le Mille-pattes fait des claquettes (1977)
France, Comedy / War
Directed by: Jean Girault
Cast: Francis Perrin, Roger Miremont
73. The Password is Courage (1962)
UK, War / Comedy
Directed by: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy
74. Švejk v ruském zajetí (1926)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Svatopluk Innemann
Cast: Karel Noll, Ferenc Futurista
75. Blbec z Xeenemünde (1962)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jaroslav Balík
Cast: Václav Sloup, Jan Pivec
76. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: James Coburn, Dick Shawn
79. The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Peter Farrelly
Cast: Zac Efron, Russell Crowe
80. Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
USA, Comedy / War
Directed by: George Marshall, Ray McCarey
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
81. Two Men Went to War (2002)
UK, Comedy / War
Directed by: John Henderson
Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Derek Jacobi
82. Their Finest (2016)
UK / Sweden, War / Romance
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin
83. Mister Roberts (1955)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney
84. The Shortest Day (1963)
Italy, Comedy / War
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Gino Cervi, Aldo Fabrizi
85. Curveball (2020)
Germany, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Johannes Naber
Cast: Sebastian Blomberg, Virginia Kull
86. The Corporal and Others (1965)
Hungary, Comedy / War
Directed by: Márton Keleti
Cast: Tamás Major, Imre Sinkovits
87. Bal-Can-Can (2005)
Republic of Macedonia / Italy, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Darko Mitrevski
Cast: Vlado Jovanovski, Nikola Kojo
88. The Heifer (1985)
Spain, Comedy / War
Directed by: Luis García Berlanga
Cast: Alfredo Landa, Santiago Ramos
89. How the War Started on My Island (1996)
Croatia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Vinko Brešan
Cast: Vinko Brešan, Senka Bulic
90. The Last Circus (2010)
Spain / France, War / Drama
Directed by: Álex de la Iglesia
Cast: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre
91. Bon voyage (2003)
France, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu
94. Italian Soldiers (2001)
Italy, Comedy / Documentary
Directed by: Francesco Cabras
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Hurt
97. The Good Soldier Švejk (1925)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Karel Noll, Antonie Nedošinská
98. Mediterraneo (1991)
Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono
99. Intervention divine - Une chronique d'amour et de douleur (2002)
France / Morocco, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Elia Suleiman
Cast: Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader
100. Narodni heroj Ljiljan Vidić (2015)
Croatia / Serbia, Comedy / War
Directed by: Ivan-Goran Vitez
Cast: Stjepan Peric, Dragan Despot