If You Liked The Jazz Singer, Watch These Next

Finished The Jazz Singer (1927) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Jazz Singer, most of them are drama, music.

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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026

1.Bravetown(2015)
6.7DramaMusicAlso drama and music
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
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2.Make Your Move(2013)
5.8MusicAlso music
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
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3.Killer's Kiss(1955)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso drama
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced…
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4.TÁR(2022)
7.1MusicDramaAlso music and drama
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
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5.A Taste of Honey(1961)
7.1DramaAlso drama
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
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6.I Never Sang for My Father(1970)
6.7DramaAlso drama
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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7.tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)
7.6DramaMusicAlso drama and music
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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8.Skin(2009)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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9.Great Balls of Fire!(1989)
6.3DramaHistoryMusicAlso drama and music
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
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10.A Kid Like Jake(2018)
6.0DramaAlso drama
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows…
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11.A Chorus Line(1985)
6.2DramaMusicAlso drama and music
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and…
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12.Swing Kids(1993)
6.7MusicDramaAlso music and drama
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
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13.Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould(1993)
7.0DramaMusicAlso drama and music
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
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14.My Zoe(2019)
6.5DramaScience FictionAlso drama
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes…
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15.Ragtime(1981)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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16.What Maisie Knew(2013)
7.1DramaAlso drama
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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17.The Pumpkin Eater(1964)
6.7DramaAlso drama
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
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18.The Secret Life of Bees(2008)
7.5FamilyAdventureDramaAlso drama
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's…
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19.Beyond the Sea(2004)
6.3DramaMusicAlso drama and music
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
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20.The Wanderers(1979)
7.0DramaAlso drama
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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