Everest Dark vs Shadows of Paradise
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4.5/10 for Shadows of Paradise). Shadows of Paradise is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 30m. Shadows of Paradise is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Everest Dark
Shadows of Paradise| Everest Dark | Shadows of Paradise | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 4.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2016 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 28m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Sebastian Lange |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | David Lynch |
Synopsis
Everest Dark
Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very…
Shadows of Paradise
Since the death of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in February 2008, long-time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and well-known film director David Lynch has been embraced as the movement’s chief international ambassador. Filmmaker Sebastian Lange, who himself was raised in the movement, presents an intimate look at this new phase in the movement’s evolution.
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