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10 Best Movies Like The Tanks Are Coming

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

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#1
Kelly's Heroes

Kelly's Heroes

1970★ 7.4

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

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

#2
Stripes

Stripes

1981★ 6.6

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

Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his bare...

#3
Carry On Sergeant

Carry On Sergeant

1958★ 6.4

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

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 the...

#4
Sahara

Sahara

1943★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Tanks Are Coming for fans of War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion ...

#5
Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Tanks Are Coming 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
No Time for Sergeants

No Time for Sergeants

1958★ 7.3

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

Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?...

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