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Movies that feel like Borg vs McEnroe (2017)

If you loved Borg vs McEnroe, the closest films we have are King Richard (2021), Labyrinth of Lies (2014) and The Girl with the Needle (2024). All three share Borg vs McEnroe's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Janus Metzcontemplativeepic
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King Richard
2021 · dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green
🍅 90%7.5drama · history

The same two preoccupations: sports, and tennis

The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

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Labyrinth of Lies
2014 · dir. Giulio Ricciarelli
🍅 83%7.3drama · history

Common ground: a true story

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

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The Girl with the Needle
2024 · dir. Magnus von Horn
🍅 93%7.5drama · history

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

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Steve Jobs
2015 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 85%7.2drama · history

Both keep coming back to the same thing: biography

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2001 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 95%8.1adventure · drama · history

Both are built on the same subject: sports

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Borg vs McEnroe does

The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain Russell has imposed an unprecedented land tax on its citizens. Outraged, Bhuvan, a rebellious farmer, rallies the villagers to publicly oppose the tax. Russell offers a novel way to settle the dispute: he challenges Bhuvan and his men to a game of cricket, a sport completely foreign to India. If Bhuvan and his men can defeat Russell's team, the tax will be repealed.

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The Walk
2015 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 83%7.3history · drama · adventure

One thread runs through both: biography

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

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The Post
2017 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 88%7.2drama · history

Contemplative and epic in the same breath

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

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Coach Carter
2005 · dir. Thomas Carter
🍅 63%7.4drama · history

Contemplative drama in both cases

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

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The Lost City of Z
2017 · dir. James Gray
🍅 87%6.6adventure · drama · history

Both lean on scale more than on history

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

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The Founder
2016 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 80%7.2drama · history

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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Darkest Hour
2017 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 84%7.4drama · history

History with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

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Invictus
2009 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 76%7.3drama · history

Drama approached the same way

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

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