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Movies that feel likeTenzing (2026)

A determined man embarks on a high-stakes quest—and defies seemingly impossible odds—to fulfill his dream of being the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

If you loved Tenzing, the closest films we have are The Girl with the Needle (2024), The Ambassador (2011) and The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014). All three share Tenzing's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jennifer Peedomcontemplativeepic
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The Girl with the Needle
2024 · dir. Magnus von Horn
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · historyRent or buy

Common ground: 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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The Ambassador
2011 · dir. Mads Brügger
🍅 71%★ 7.2documentary · history

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Tenzing does

Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.

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🍅 60%★ 7.7documentary · historyPrime Video

History built on stillness, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.

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Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004 · dir. Thom Andersen
🍅 96%★ 7.8documentary · history

Drama with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2000s show

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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 Uprising
2026 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 55%★ 8action · drama · historyRent or buy

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

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Borg vs McEnroe
2017 · dir. Janus Metz
🍅 84%★ 6.9drama · historyNetflixParamount+

Both lean on scale more than on history

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.

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Air
2023 · dir. Ben Affleck
🍅 93%★ 7.4drama · historyPrime Video

Drama in the same key

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

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

Both working the same history territory

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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Wolf Totem
2015 · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
🍅 67%★ 6.6adventure · drama

Both know what they want from drama

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.

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Deep Water
2006 · dir. Louise Osmond
🍅 96%★ 7.8documentary · adventure · drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever – the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

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King Richard
2021 · dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · historyRent or buy

History of the same temperament

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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