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10 Best Movies Like Carmen

If you loved Carmen, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Bent

Bent

1997★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carmen for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to b...

#2
Inland Empire

Inland Empire

2006★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carmen for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural f...

#3
Abigail

Abigail

2024★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carmen for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is n...

#4
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

2025★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carmen for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood ...

#5
The Best You Can

The Best You Can

2025★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carmen for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, ...

#6
Gypsy

Gypsy

1962★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carmen for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee....

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