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10 Best Movies Like Carnaval

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

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#1
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Lady Driver

Lady Driver

2020★ 6.4

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

When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the d...

#6
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

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