The Lost City of Z

2017 · 141 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.4 (3,103 votes)

Dir. James Gray · Starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen, Edward Ashley · Music Christopher Spelman

“A man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for?”

AdventureDramaHistory

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

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This film feels like a beautiful, relentless descent into an explorer's all-consuming obsession. It's a visually stunning, often melancholic journey into the heart of the unknown, where the allure of discovery battles the unforgiving wild and the passage of time. Expect a meditative, grand adventure.

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