Movies Like Sons o' Guns
If you liked Sons o' Guns (1936), a comedy and war movie directed by Lloyd Bacon, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Buck Privates (1941)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and warPetty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only…
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Decision Before Dawn (1951)
★ 6.8/10Also warWWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…
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Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyDisaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep…
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and warA by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…
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Carry On Sergeant (1958)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and warSergeant 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 a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to…
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Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and warTopper 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 the last rescue team—who went in to…
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Sahara (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also warAfter the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied…
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Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also warAfter his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding…
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My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyFrank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is…
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The Union (2024)
★ 6/10Also comedyA New Jersey construction worker goes from regular guy to aspiring spy when his long-lost high school sweetheart recruits him for an espionage mission.
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Wolf Hound (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also warInspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France and follows the daring…
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and warWhen 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a…
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Analyze That (2002)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyThe mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he…
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Shoulder Arms (1918)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and warAn American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
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Kelly's Heroes (1970)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and warA misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyAt the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo…
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
★ 6.8/10Also warIn March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
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The Great Raid (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also warAs World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also warBranded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…