15 Movies Like Merry-Go-Round
Loved Merry-Go-Round? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Gabriel's Inferno: Part III
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Gabriel's Inferno
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Maria's Lovers
A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Romance of Ida
Eighteen year old Ida returns home after being raised by nuns, but her father isn't too pleased. Determined to see her married, he publishes an ad and offers suitors a generous dowry.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.

The Sleeping Dictionary
In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when they fall in love, both colonists and natives object to their plans to marry.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

The Magic of Ordinary Days
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Gabriel's Inferno: Part II
Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but his realization comes a moment too late. Julia is done waiting for the well-respected Dante specialist to remember her and wants nothing more to do with him. Can Gabriel win back her heart before she finds love in another's arms?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Time Is Up
Vivien, an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy, a troubled young man, are involved in an accident that forces them to reclaim their lives one minute at the time.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Satantango
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.

Return Ticket
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.

Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.

Not Easily Broken
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Merry-Go-Round.

Dealer
A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.

Feels Like Home
Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi. The more she becomes the lost girl the more she finds out about the family - and understands that her life is on the line.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.

Stars of Eger
This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Merry-Go-Round.