Movies Like Rookies Go to War (1974)

Rookies Go to War is a 1974 comedy film from Claude Zidi with a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Rookies Run Amok and Stadium Nuts.

Comedy

Rookies Run Amok

1971

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

5.6

MagicScore

Stadium Nuts

1972

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.

6.0

MagicScore

Charlots Go to Spain

1972

Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.

5.2

MagicScore

The Big Store

1973

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

6.2

MagicScore

The Four Charlots Musketeers

1974

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

5.3

MagicScore

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2

1974

4.7

MagicScore

The Visitor

2008

A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.

6.2

MagicScore

Standard Operating Procedure

2008

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

6.8

MagicScore

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

1974

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

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

#11

'71

2014

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

6.8

MagicScore

#12

Good Guys Wear Black

1978

The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.

5.1

MagicScore

#13

I Am Not Your Negro

2017

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

7.7

MagicScore

#14

United Red Army

2007

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.

6.3

MagicScore

#15

Fallen Art

2004

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

The Long Gray Line

1955

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Purple Hearts

2022

An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

8.1

MagicScore

#18

From Here to Eternity

1953

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

7.3

MagicScore

#19

The Caine Mutiny

1954

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

7.2

MagicScore

#20

In Harm's Way

1965

A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Rookies Go to War?

The top films similar to Rookies Go to War by MovieMagicScore are Rookies Run Amok (5.6), Stadium Nuts (6.0), Charlots Go to Spain (5.2). Each shares comedy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Rookies Go to War worth watching?

Rookies Go to War holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10 from 82 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Rookies Go to War?

Rookies Go to War (1974) is a comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filipelli.

Where can I find more recommendations like Rookies Go to War?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Rookies Go to War

This ranked list pairs Rookies Go to War (1974), a comedy film from Claude Zidi, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Gérard Rinaldi 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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