20 best movies like Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

List of the best movies like Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): The Fog of War, Buffalo Soldiers, Allegiant, The Untold History Of The United States, Aloha, Obsessive Rythms, The Girl with All the Gifts, The Dark Tower, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Dunkirk.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genredocumentary, military, biography, history
CountryUSA

Using archival footage, United States Cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, THE FOG OF WAR depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the American Vietnam War, as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:34

Set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Sgt. Ray Elwood is an American soldier stationed at a German army camp. A soldier because a judge gave him a choice between the army and jail, Ray spends much of his free time cooking cocaine for the MPs. When a soldier dies and a toxicology screen shows an alarming level of illegal narcotics, someone is sent in to investigate.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, military, history
CountryUSA

Oliver Stone documentary charted the post-WW2 history of the United States.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genremelodrama
CountryFrance, Portugal

On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:13

    In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, adventure, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:30

      A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
      Duration02:27

      The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, adventure, biography, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:25

      March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown… They were supposed to do what no man has done before – and no man imagined what would happen next…

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
      Duration02:22

      On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration04:31

      We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
      CountryNetherlands, Hungary, Belgium

      While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUSA

      Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, his staff and advisors.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genreaction, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryArgentina, Spain
      Duration01:54

      Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, drama, military, history
      CountryTurkey
      Duration02:42

      After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do: Conquer Constantinople.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genreaction, adventure
      CountryChina, USA, Hong Kong

      Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the West. His boss ordered him to go to the North Africa and win the competition, and they can control the great mineral resources of Africa. He hired the best mercenary in Africa whose name is Lauder and a former general Kabbah to help him. Yan has discovered their conspiracy, he is the only one who can stop them.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy
      CountryKazakhstan, Bulgaria

      During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in order to create super soldiers by inbreeding humans with pigs. 25 years later the hybrid Muzzles have occupied the top of the food chain, eating and farming humanity. Ex-bounty hunter Rob Justice works for the last line of human resistance - a group of survivors hiding in a nuclear bunker deep underground - and his mission is to search and destroy Muzzle Central.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, India
      Duration02:32

      Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUSA, Hungary

      In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada, New Zealand
      Duration02:01

      Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, India
      Duration02:39

        During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
        CountryCanada

        In a world where women have become asexual and are no longer giving birth to males, a quiet, unassuming housekeeper named Andrew Myers finds himself at the center of a battle to keep men from going extinct.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Mexico
        Duration02:33

        It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Romania

        When most of the population of Earth is infected by a virus and transformed into flesh eaters and blood drinking creatures, a group of hunters lead by Tao and his sword chase the vampire zombies to eliminate them. Six non-infected survivors try to find the exit of an abandoned hospital crowded of the infected creatures. Meanwhile, the military is ready to bomb the whole area.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, comedy, western, crime
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration02:05

        The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrecomedy, military
        CountryCanada, Iceland, United Kingdom, USA

        A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:50

        A US president (Gene Hackman) who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate (Ray Romano).

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, comedy, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, western, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:52

        Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryPoland

        A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland
        Duration02:07

        A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrecomedy, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Bluestone 42 is a comedy drama about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan. So what’s the average working day for a hero? Make your keen young colleague deal with the boring paperwork? Wind up your fellow employees? Flirt with the new girl on the team? Or deal with an unseen enemy who’s trying to blow you up? Bluestone 42 is a comedy drama about a bunch of soldiers who just happen to be risking their lives diffusing hidden bombs. But who says they can’t have some fun alongside the serious professional stuff? This hilarious and often surprising series follows the adventures of a bunch of diverse characters living and working together at an army base in Afghanistan. This is a show about something easily forgotten; soldiers really enjoy being soldiers, but it’s not just a show for soldiers and it’s not just about the Army: it’s also a show for anybody who has ever fallen in love, experienced status battles at work or had a fear of failure. It is packed with the lively workmate banter and relationship minefields that most people will recognise. Even if they don’t face danger on a daily basis...

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will will a huge prize.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryIsrael
        Duration01:37

        Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration01:33

        The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.




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