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10 Best Movies Like We Want the Colonels

If you loved We Want the Colonels, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

1940★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want the Colonels for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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

#2
The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want the Colonels for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French...

#3
Fascists on Mars

Fascists on Mars

2006★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want the Colonels for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In 1938 a group of fascists led by the general Gaetano Maria Barbagli decides to invade the planet of Mars....

#4
The Yes Man

The Yes Man

1991★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want the Colonels for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli....

#5
The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared

1959★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want the Colonels for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion fo...

#6
Whatsoeverly

Whatsoeverly

2011★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Want the Colonels for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor....

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