The ability to cruise below enemy surface ships, strike a target, and slip away without detection is a terrifying proposition that Hollywood as long taken advantage of. The first known on screen story to feature a sub was the 1915 lost spy serial The Secret of the Submarine. From then on, movies involving a submarine birthed some of the greatest military action and thrillers in classic and modern cinema. While the first film featuring a submarine began a tradition of their use in action films, care to venture a guess at what genre the second film featuring a sub belonged to? If you said heist-comedy, you’d be right. Released the same year as its espionage filled cousin, A Submarine Pirate was a silent comedy about a band of would-be pirates who board, rob, and escape an ocean liner via submarine. So if you aren’t in the mood for a nail bitter like Das Boot or Crimson Tide (but seriously, you should rent them), here are five comedies to laugh with where the story is either set on or driven by the arrival of a submarine.