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10 Best Movies Like The Naked Ape

If you loved The Naked Ape, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Codes of War

The Codes of War

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Naked Ape for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

War stories about family, ethics and honor include the true story of two U.S. Marines who in a span of six seconds, must stand their ground to stop a suicide truck bomb, a Navy Cor...

#2
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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

1964★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Naked Ape for fans of Comedy & War. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 ...

#3
The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared

1959★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Naked Ape 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...

#4
Sleeper

Sleeper

1973★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Naked Ape for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government reg...

#5
Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Naked Ape for fans of Comedy & War. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue th...

#6
Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

1991★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Naked Ape for fans of Comedy & War. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing th...

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