Films like The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) is comedy, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Also comedy and war. 8.0/10

Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish…
Tropic Thunder (2008)

Also comedy and war. 6.7/10

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to…
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

Also comedy and war. 7.0/10

During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret…
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Also comedy and war. 8.1/10

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop…
Hot Shots! (1991)

Also comedy and war. 6.6/10

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 Great Dictator (1940)

Also comedy and war. 8.3/10

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)

Also comedy and war. 6.7/10

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman…
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

Also comedy and war. 7.5/10

Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes…
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

Also comedy and war. 6.5/10

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue…
Three Kings (1999)

Also comedy and war. 6.6/10

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…
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

Also comedy and war. 7.3/10

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.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

Also comedy and war. 7.9/10

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…
War Machine (2017)

Also comedy and war. 5.6/10

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley…
M*A*S*H (1970)

Also comedy and war. 6.9/10

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould…
Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Also comedy and war. 7.4/10

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Which Way to the Front? (1970)

Also comedy and war. 4.7/10

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and…
The General (1926)

Also comedy and war. 7.9/10

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly…
1941 (1979)

Also comedy and war. 5.8/10

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Biloxi Blues (1988)

Also comedy and war. 6.3/10

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.
Catch-22 (1970)

Also comedy and war. 6.7/10

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
My Dead Friend Zoe (2024)

Also comedy and war. 6.3/10

Merit, a U.S. Army veteran suffering from PTSD, is repeatedly tortured by visions of her deceased friend and company buddy Zoe. After her Afghanistan service in 2016, she attends…
Valiant (2005)

Also comedy and war. 5.7/10

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets…
A Perfect Day (2015)

Also comedy and war. 6.7/10

Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war…
Underground (1995)

Also comedy and war. 7.7/10

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels…