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Movies that feel likeThe King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

In this hilarious arcade showdown, a humble novice goes head-to-head against the reigning Donkey Kong champ in a confrontation that rocks the gaming world to its processors! For over 20 years, Billy Mitchell has owned the throne of the Donkey Kong world. No one could beat his top score until now. Newcomer Steve Wiebe claims to have beaten the unbeatable, but Mitchell isn't ready to relinquish his crown without a fight. Go behind the barrels as the two battle it out in a vicious war to earn the title of the true King of Kong.

If you loved The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, the closest films we have are Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997), Riding Giants (2004) and Nostalgia for the Light (2010). All three share The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is We Live in Public (2009).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Seth Gordoncontemplative
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Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
1997 · dir. S.R. Bindler
🍅 84%★ 7.6documentary

One thread runs through both: competition

Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.

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Riding Giants
2004 · dir. Stacy Peralta
🍅 93%★ 7.8documentary

Contemplative documentary, and it commits to that

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.

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Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · dir. Patricio Guzmán
🍅 100%★ 7.6documentary

Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

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Marwencol
2010 · dir. Jeff Malmberg
🍅 98%★ 7.5documentary

Both lean on stillness more than on documentary

After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 96%★ 7.4documentary

Documentary approached the same way

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

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Dogtown and Z-Boys
2002 · dir. Stacy Peralta
🍅 92%★ 7.6documentary

Documentary of the same temperament

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing.

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We Live in Public
2009 · dir. Ondi Timoner
🍅 80%★ 7.1documentary

Both play documentary straight

In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broadcast online. Soon, Harris and his girlfriend embark on their own subterranean adventure, with cameras streaming live footage of their meals, arguments, bedroom activities, and bathroom habits. This documentary explores the role of technology in our lives, as it charts the fragile nature of dot-com economy.

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Kumaré
2012 · dir. Vikram Gandhi
🍅 60%★ 7.5documentary

Both working the same documentary territory

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A documentary about a man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona. At the height of his popularity, the Guru Kumaré must reveal his true identity to his disciples and unveil his greatest teaching of all.

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The Gleaners and I
2000 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 93%★ 7.7documentary

Documentary in the same key

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

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🍅 65%★ 7.2documentary

The same documentary instincts

An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.

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Lost in La Mancha
2002 · dir. Louis Pepe
🍅 94%★ 7.3documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.

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Overnight
2003 · dir. Mark Brian Smith
🍅 78%★ 7.1documentary

Both are documentary through and through

Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.

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