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

1964 Directed by Stanley Kubrick

The hot-line suspense comedy

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 the nuclear strike.

Peter Sellers George C. Scott Sterling Hayden Keenan Wynn Slim Pickens Peter Bull James Earl Jones Tracy Reed Jack Creley Frank Berry Robert O'Neill Glenn Beck Roy Stephens Shane Rimmer Hal Galili Paul Tamarin Laurence Herder John McCarthy Gordon Tanner Burnell Tucker Victor Harrington

Alternative Titles

Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Insólito o: Como aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar la bomba, Dr. Fantástico, Docteur Folamour, Dr. Divnoláska aneb Jak jsem se naucil nedelat si starosti a mít rád bombu, Telefono rojo volamos hacia moscu?, ¿Teléfono rojo? Volamos hacia Moscú, Tohtori Outolempi eli: Kuinka lakkasin olemasta huolissani ja opin rakastamaan pommia, Docteur Folamour ou : comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe, Dr Folamour, Dr. Folamour, Dr Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove SOS-Πεντάγωνο Καλεί Μόσχα, Il Dottor Stranamore, Il dottor Stranamore, ovvero come imparai a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba, Hakase no ijô na aijô: Matawa watashi wa ikani shite shinpai suru no wo yamete suibaku wo aisuru you ni natta ka, 닥터 스트레인지러브, Dr. Insólito, Dr. Vreemdelust of: Hoe Ik Mijn Twijfel Overwon en de Bom Leerde Liefhebben, Dr. Strangelove eller: Hvordan jeg lærte å stoppe med å bekymre meg og å elske bomben, Doutor Estranhoamor, Доктор Стрейнджлав, или Как я научился не волноваться и полюбил атомную бомбу, Garip Doktor, 奇愛博士, Доктор Стрейнджлав, або Як я перестав хвилюватись i полюбив бомбу, Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

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Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 7

“i'm sorry too, dimitri. i’m very sorry. all right, you're sorrier than i am! but i am sorry as well. i am as sorry as you are dimitri, don't say that you're more sorry than i am because i'm capable of being just as sorry as you are! so we’re both sorry, alright?”
Review by Rida ★★★ 79

The inevitable has occurred: I've watched a hugely popular and acclaimed film and come away scratching my head, wondering what on earth is so special about it. But don't revoke my Letterboxd membership just yet: do me the favor of hearing me out first.
Dr Strangelove is obviously a sacred cow in film circles, and I can see why. It's often hilarious, sometimes visually striking, and full of excellent performances and dialogue. It's a funny film about a thoroughly unfunny situation. It's a perfect satire, really. But it left me completely cold.
Perhaps that's because I'm eighteen and therefore my memory (or even my parents' memories) doesn't extend back to a time when nuclear annihilation seemed almost imminent, and my…
Review by maria ★★★★ 5

i want the "gentlemen, you can't fight in here. this is the war room!" line tattooed on my body immediately
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 7

Absolutely outstanding farce. Like a slow-motion screwball. George C. Scott and his faces absolutely run away with this thing. Was about to say Peter Sellers was doing incredible work as Mandrake and I didn’t even realize he was also playing the President & Dr. Strangelove. What a master. I’m the first to say this movie is terrific. What’s dumber than this? Just guys being dudes.
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 4

great cinematography, great performances, and very funny. i think i was supposed to love this more and i probably will someday, just not now.
Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★½ 8

The sexual tension between President Muffley and Premier Dimitri tho
Review by CinemaClown ★★★½ 20

Despite being one of the finest examples of genre-filmmaking that's neatly crafted, superbly scripted & wonderfully performed, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is a film that I admire more than I love. I've no hesitation in calling it the ultimate black comedy or the perfect satire but I also won't deny that my experience with it was rather ordinary, regardless of the few laughs in between.
Set during the Cold War era, the story of Dr. Stangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb concerns a paranoid Air Force General who green lights a nuclear attack on Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, thus causing mass panic in the Pentagon War Room where the President, his…
Review by Aaron ★★★★★ 9

“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
Laughter is such a strange thing. We laugh because we’re happy. We laugh because we find something amusing. We laugh to displace our discomfort. We laugh because otherwise we might cry. We laugh because we don’t know how else to react. Same response, so many different triggers. The past decade has seen those non-traditional triggers frequently exploited by “cringe comedies” like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office; laughing at uncomfortable or sad situations has become all the rage. But it’s one thing to laugh at the absurdity of a politically incorrect…
Review by mia ★★★★ 1

mandrake: oh please jack give me the code, we have to stop those boys!
jack: oH pLeAsE jAcK gIvE mE tHe CoDe We HaVe To StOp ThOsE bOyS
Review by katie ★★★★ 4

Peter Sellers was a dilf
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 6

Dr. Strangelove is an awful movie...
...is what someone should say to me if they want a quick jab to the throat.
Review by Quintin 📽 Philipson ★★★★ 2

De Niro: "Let me get this straight? Do you think Dimitri on the phone is one of the funniest scenes in film?"
Me: "I do, and I'm tired pretending it's not."

Recent reviews

Review by Brett Doze ★★★★★

I was interested to see how this held up for me, as the first time I saw it was eight years ago. I think I actually got more out of it this time. Since then I've learned and seen much more about film itself and how it uses satire, and this is a perfect example of that. Some of this is downright hilarious, even if it doesn't result in all-out laughter. "You can't fight here, this is the War Room!" is honestly one of the greatest movie lines. The film really has some striking commentary on the time in which it was made, and it features a really strong ensemble. Peter Sellers is obviously great, but Sterling Hayden was so much better than I remembered too. I love the way the camera treats him throughout the film.
Review by Hal ★★★★★

still love this movie with my whole entire heart!!!!!!!!
Review by Rip89 ★★★★

The is movie is so strange, I love it. BA DUM TISSSS
Review by Ting ★★★★★

always great, best satire with finest craftsmanship
Review by qiore ★★★★★

this film has the best use of dark comedy in cinema by far. every scene has something hilarious about it and i can't get over how the actor who plays the russian ambassador is cracking up behind dr. strangelove when his nazi arm starts acting up, it make everything even funnier.
Review by Robby ★★★★★

I honestly read it more as a satirization of masculinity than the Cold War itself. Who knew that would be more prescient than the nuclear stuff 50 years later? (Women, probably.)
Maybe that's what war is: A cataclysmic masculine meltdown; guys in rooms being morons and destroying the world.
Review by yigitcan ★★★

Vaov!
Review by SUJIN_ ★★★★½

평화는 우리 손으로.
Review by blueroary123 ★★★★½

Guy who made this knows what he's doing I think
Review by lukaschou ★★★★

Why does Dr. Strangelove sound like Yoda🤔
Review by calebrocks69 ★★★★

Pretty neat to see Kubrick do a comedy as this is nothing like any of his other stuff that I’ve seen. One of the rare movies that I think I would find funnier on a rewatch. The humor is more clever and meaningful than it is laugh out loud which is not necessarily a bad thing (there are a couple pretty hilarious moments though). Pretty great in its depiction of everybody as complete goofs, it definitely gets its point across loudly. Probably would be more meaningful to me if I new more about Cold War era politics BUT still resonates with how it depicts people in power as complete idiots.
Love the bits where the president is talking to Dimitri and if I hadn’t already known that one dude played three different roles I probably wouldn’t have caught it.
Review by FrancoTV ★★★★

8/10
Excelente cinta adaptada y dirigida por Stanley Kubrick,
En lo personal, aunque por momentos sí me aburrí porque la película ha envejecido un poco mal, en general la sátira que se maneja me divirtió, y el mensaje que el director quiere transmitir se entendió muy bien.
Por un lado, en cuanto a lo bueno,
-Historia: Excelente.
-Dirección: Notable.
-Personajes: Sobresalientes.
En cuanto a lo técnico,
-Cinematografía: Está bien.
-Banda sonora: Está bien.
-Puesta en escena: Sobresaliente.
Por otro lado, en cuanto a lo malo,
-Situaciones que pecan de inverosímil: ¿Por qué no neutraliza al capitán?
En conclusión, película muy recomendada para los que gusten del género de comedia.