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Air
Why this pick
It shares Tetris’s energetic, fact-based race to secure a transformative commercial deal, driven by persuasive personalities, period detail, and underdog momentum rather than action spectacle.
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MOVIE2023 1h 58m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Argo
Why this pick
A sleek, accessible historical thriller with Tetris’s blend of institutional absurdity, high-pressure negotiation, shifting allegiances, and mounting suspense around a seemingly improbable plan.
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War Dogs
Why this pick
Its fast-moving true-story style, brash entrepreneurial gamble, and increasingly dangerous encounters with international systems echo the propulsive dealmaking side of Tetris.
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The Founder
Why this pick
For Tetris’s fascination with who truly controls a world-changing product, this is another sharply paced business story about ambition, contracts, and the moral cost of winning.
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Charlie Wilson's War
Why this pick
Its witty, adult political momentum and Cold War backdrop suit Tetris’s enjoyment of larger-than-life players trying to manoeuvre through opaque international power structures.
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01 / THE STORY
The game you couldn't put down. The story you couldn't make up.
Based on the true story of American video game salesman Henk Rogers and his discovery of Tetris in 1988. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Taron Egerton
Henk Rogers
Nikita Efremov
Alexey Pajitnov
Sofia Lebedeva
Sasha
Toby Jones
Robert Stein
Roger Allam
Robert Maxwell