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10 Best Movies Like Jailhouse Rock

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

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#1
Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender

1956★ 6.1

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

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it...

#2
Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

1957★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jailhouse Rock for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of id...

#3
Lust for Life

Lust for Life

1956★ 7.2

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

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported...

#4
Charro!

Charro!

1969★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jailhouse Rock for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Vince Hackett's gang steals a prized victory canon from Mexico and blames the deed on ex-member Jess Wade, who wants to go straight....

#5
Loving You

Loving You

1957★ 6.2

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

Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, gi...

#6
Roustabout

Roustabout

1964★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jailhouse Rock for fans of Music. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father....