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10 Best Movies Like Carol's Journey

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

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#1
The 13 Roses

The 13 Roses

2007★ 6.6

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

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1...

#2
The Spirit of the Beehive

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973★ 7.6

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

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenst...

#3
While at War

While at War

2019★ 7.1

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

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the ...

#4
A Call to Spy

A Call to Spy

2020★ 6.8

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

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability a...

#5
Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers

2021★ 6.8

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

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, r...

#6
Freedomfighters

Freedomfighters

1996★ 6.3

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

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria join...

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