Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber and Nazi supporter, breaks out of a British POW camp in India and treks to the holy city of Lhasa where he's employed as an instructor to the young 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante.

Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 drama biography movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.1/10 from 168,554 votes and runs 2h 16m.