Movies like The Great Dictator (1940)

Name: The Great Dictator
Released: 1940

8 films to watch after The Great Dictator, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

1

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

Fit 73%

Shares Comedy and War with The Great Dictator.

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 it.
2

Duck Soup (1933)

Fit 67%

Shares Comedy and War with The Great Dictator.

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
3

Schindler's List (1993)

Fit 54%

Shares War with The Great Dictator.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
4

The Pianist (2002)

Fit 52%

Shares War with The Great Dictator.

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
5

Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

Fit 46%

Shares Comedy with The Great Dictator.

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
6

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Fit 40%

Shares War with The Great Dictator.

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
7

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Fit 39%

Shares War with The Great Dictator.

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
8

Carry On Sergeant (1958)

Fit 35%

Shares Comedy and War with The Great Dictator.

Sergeant 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 Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.