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Movies that feel like Wolf Totem (2015)

If you loved Wolf Totem, the closest films we have are Labyrinth of Lies (2014), The Girl with the Needle (2024) and Borg vs McEnroe (2017). All three share Wolf Totem's epic and contemplative 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 Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 67% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jean-Jacques Annaudepiccontemplative

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Labyrinth of Lies
2014 Β· dir. Giulio Ricciarelli
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.3drama Β· history

Epic and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to history than Wolf Totem does

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 Β· dir. Magnus von Horn
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5drama Β· history

Drama with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Borg vs McEnroe
2017 Β· dir. Janus Metz
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.9drama Β· history

Contemplative adventure in both cases

The Swedish BjΓΆrn 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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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2001 Β· dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1adventure Β· drama Β· history

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

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 Promised Land
2023 Β· dir. Nikolaj Arcel
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7action Β· drama Β· history

Common ground: historical drama

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?

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The Lost City of Z
2017 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· drama Β· history

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Seven Years in Tibet
1997 Β· dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
πŸ… 57%β˜… 7.1adventure Β· drama Β· history

Jean-Jacques Annaud working the same nerve twice

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
2009 Β· dir. Jingle Ma Choh-Sing
β˜… 6.6adventure Β· drama Β· action

The same adventure instincts

When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and brutal wartime strategy. Mulan loses dear friends to the enemy's blade as she rises to become one of her country's most valuable leaders β€” but can she win the war before her secret is exposed?

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The Walk
2015 Β· dir. Robert Zemeckis
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.3history Β· drama Β· adventure

Both working the same drama territory

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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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 Β· dir. Frank Lloyd
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6adventure Β· drama Β· history

Adventure approached the same way

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

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Silence
2016 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.2drama Β· history

Drama in the same key

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

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Fitzcarraldo
1982 Β· dir. Werner Herzog
πŸ… 78%β˜… 7.9drama Β· adventure

Both know what they want from adventure

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

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