If you loved The Men Who Stare at Goats, try Buffalo Soldiers

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Buffalo Soldiers has roughly 6.9× fewer votes than The Men Who Stare at Goats — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats

2009 · dir. Grant Heslov

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Buffalo Soldiers

2002 · dir. Gregor Jordan

What they share

Theyboth carry the pitch black, unhinged mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Men Who Stare at Goats, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Buffalo Soldiers is

West Germany, 1989, army base sirens. Soldiers smuggling goods in duffel bags. A dark comedy emerges from Gregor Jordan's direction.

If you loved The Men Who Stare at Goats, try Buffalo Soldiers

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Buffalo Soldiers

What they share

What Buffalo Soldiers is

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