Movies Like Two Colonels (1963)

Two Colonels is a 1963 comedy film from Steno with a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Battle of the Bulge: Winter War and Wunderland.

Comedy

Battle of the Bulge: Winter War

2020

Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers must defend a vital supply depot from being captured by attacking German soldiers.

6.0

MagicScore

Wunderland

2018

Christmas 1944, The Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been ordered to hold a vital road junction against the German aggressors. Cappa and his men must find their faith and strength to stand against their enemy in the epic fight know as "The Battle of The Bulge."

5.4

MagicScore

Kelly's Heroes

1970

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

7.3

MagicScore

Valkyrie

2008

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

6.9

MagicScore

Von Ryan's Express

1965

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

7.1

MagicScore

Story of G.I. Joe

1945

War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.

6.4

MagicScore

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

6.4

MagicScore

My Fair Lady

1964

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

7.5

MagicScore

Buffalo Soldiers

2002

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

Broadway Bill

1934

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

6.0

MagicScore

#11

O Coronel e o Lobisomem

2005

Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf.

5.4

MagicScore

#12

Daddy Day Camp

2007

Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.

4.9

MagicScore

#13

Scent of a Woman

1992

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

7.8

MagicScore

#14

Fort Apache

1948

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

The Christmas Tango

2011

At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

Burnt by the Sun

1994

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...

7.0

MagicScore

#17

The Little Colonel

1935

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.

6.5

MagicScore

#18

Rio Lobo

1970

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

6.4

MagicScore

#19

Seraphim Falls

2007

The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, far from the comforts and codes of civilisation, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.

6.4

MagicScore

#20

The Lost City of Z

2017

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

6.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Two Colonels?

The top films similar to Two Colonels by MovieMagicScore are Battle of the Bulge: Winter War (6.0), Wunderland (5.4), Kelly's Heroes (7.3). Each shares comedy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Two Colonels worth watching?

Two Colonels holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10 from 81 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Two Colonels?

Two Colonels (1963) is a comedy film directed by Steno, starring Totò, Walter Pidgeon, Nino Taranto.

Where can I find more recommendations like Two Colonels?

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About movies like Two Colonels

This ranked list pairs Two Colonels (1963), a comedy film from Steno, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Totò take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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