Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

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.

Genres: Drama, Adventure

What to watch after Embrace of the Serpent

• Birds of Passage (2018) — Same subject: indigenous
• Fitzcarraldo (1982) — Same subject: amazon rainforest
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) — Same subject: amazon rainforest, indigenous peoples
• Burden of Dreams (1982) — Same subject: amazon rainforest
• Broken Embraces (2009)
• The Salt of the Earth (2014) — Same subject: nature