Embrace of the Serpent vs Trango

Trango has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.7/10 for Embrace of the Serpent). Trango is the shorter watch at 1h 59m compared with 2h 5m. Embrace of the Serpent is the older of the two (2015 against 2025). Both are adventure, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Embrace of the Serpent posterEmbrace of the Serpent2015 VS Trango posterTrango2025
Embrace of the SerpentTrango
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 9.0/10
Year20152025
Length2h 5m1h 59m
GenresAdventure, DramaAdventure, Documentary, Drama, History
Country–Norway
DirectorCiro GuerraChristopher Carvasal
Main castJan Bijvoet, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü MigueeRobert Caspersen, Stein P. Aasheim, Dag Kolsrud, Hans Christian Doseth, Per Ludvig Skjerven

Synopsis

Embrace of the Serpent

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

Trango

Inspired by one of the greatest achievements in climbing history, mountaineer Robert Caspersen and his team embark on an expedition to the Himalayas, to become the first to summit one of the world's tallest rock faces, Trango Pulpit.

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