In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

Midnight Diner

2019

Chinese

5.4

♡ 5

55%

Tony Ka Fai Leung Director

Li Zhang as Along

Wenli Jiang as Ms. Jin

Jingwen Wang as Qin Qin

Yishang Zhang as Si Si

When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Patrons enjoy home cooking and delicious stories at a master chef's small, overnight, counter-only restaurant.

The Last Tycoon

2012

Chinese

6.5

♡ 9

61%

Jing Wong Director

Yun-Fat Chow as Cheng Daiqi

Xiaoming Huang as Cheng Da Qi

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung as Hong Shou Ting

Yasuaki Kurata as Nishino

Cheng, a young man who is set up by the chief of police, must leave the life he knows and Qiu, the woman he loves, to start again. After escaping prison Cheng quickly and violently moves his way up the ladder of Shanghais criminal underworld to become on the most powerful mob bosses in Shanghais history. But fame and notoriety take their toll when Cheng finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. Matters are only made worse when he bumps into the love of his life QIU, along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?

Dead Pigs

2018

Chinese

6.7

♡ 2

97%

Cathy Yan Director

Zazie Beetz as Angie

Vivian Wu as Candy Wang

David Rysdahl as Sean Landry

Mason Lee as Wang Zhen

A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.

Miraculous: A New Cycle Miraculous World: Shanghai, The Legend of Ladydragon

2021

French

7.3

♡ 27

Thomas Astruc Director

Rebecca Shoichet as Fei Wu / Renren / Ladydragon / Ladybear / Ladymantis / Ladysnake / Ladymonkey / Ladyeagle / Ladyhorse / Ladytiger

Ben Diskin as Nooroo

Max Mittelman as Plagg

Philece Sampler as Sabine Cheng

On school break, Marinette heads to Shanghai to meet Adrien. But after arriving, Marinette loses all her stuff, including the Miraculous that allows her to turn into Ladybug!

Flowers of Shanghai

1998

Chinese

7.3

♡ 11

93%

Hsiao-Hsien Hou Director

Michelle Reis as Emerald

Vicky Wei as Jasmin

Carina Lau as Pearl

Tony Chiu Wai Leung as Wang Lingsheng

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower houses” are reserved for the male elite of the city. Since Chinese dignitaries are not allowed to frequent brothels, these establishments are the only ones that these men can visit. They form a self-contained world, with its own rites, traditions and even its own language. The men don’t only visit the houses to frequent the courtesans but also to dine, smoke opium, play mahjong and relax. The women working there are known as the “flowers of Shanghai”.

The General Died at Dawn

1936

English

6.5

♡ 1

100%

Lewis Milestone Director

William Frawley as Brighton

J.M. Kerrigan as Leach

Gary Cooper as O'Hara

Philip Ahn as Oxford

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

The Shanghai Story

1954

English

5.8

♡ 1

Frank Lloyd Director

Edmond O'Brien as Dr. Dan Maynard

Paul Picerni as Mr. Emilio De Verno

John Alvin as Mr. Warren

Victor Sen Yung as Sun Lee

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

The Boxer from Shantung

1972

Chinese

7.0

♡ 8

84%

Cheh Chang Director Fat Wan

Fat Wan as

Pak-Kwong Ho as

Li Ching as Chin Ling-tzu

Hark-On Fung as Tan's assistant

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Manufactured Landscapes

2006

English

7.2

♡ 5

84%

Jennifer Baichwal Director

Edward Burtynsky as Self

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

Heroes of the East

1978

Chinese

7.5

♡ 5

79%

Chia-Liang Liu Director

Lung Chan as

Chia-Hui Liu as Ho Tao

Nobuo Yana as Japanese spear expert

Yasuaki Kurata as Takeno, Japanese ninjutsu expert

Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful martial arts masters, each an expert in a different discipline, ranging from karate to samurai to ninjitsu.

Temptress Moon

1996

Chinese

6.6

♡ 6

62%

Kaige Chen Director

Xun Zhou as Nightclub girl Li Gong

Li Gong as Ruyi

Jie Zhou as Woman on Zephyr Lane

Leslie Cheung as Zhongliang / Ruyi's brother-in-law

Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.

The Wasted Times

2016

Chinese

6.9

♡ 9

20%

japanese occupation of china

shanghai, china

Er Cheng Director

Wallace Chung as

Tadanobu Asano as Watabe

Ziyi Zhang as Xiao Liu

Gillian Chung as Xiao Wu

Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army.

Soulmate

2016

Chinese

7.3

♡ 28

100%

Kwok Cheung Tsang Director

Dongyu Zhou as Li Ansheng

Sichun Ma as Lin Qiyue

Gang Cai as Qiyue's dad

Toby Lee as Su Jiaming

The films spans two decades as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became inseparable until they met a boy who ended up tearing their lives apart.

Shanghai

2010

English

6.3

♡ 25

4%

nazi collaborationism

Mikael Håfström Director

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Conner

Benedict Wong as Juso Kita

Rinko Kikuchi as Sumiko

Ken Watanabe as Tanaka

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Empire of the Sun

1987

English

7.7

♡ 110

77%

90%

Action

atomic bomb

based on novel or book

Steven Spielberg Director

John Malkovich as Basie

Ben Stiller as Dainty

Nigel Havers as Dr. Rawlins

Christian Bale as Jim

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932

English

6.9

♡ 6

86%

Frank Capra Director

Walter Connolly as Jones

Barbara Stanwyck as Megan

Robert Bolder as Missionary

Clara Blandick as Mrs. Jackson

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Saturday Fiction

2019

Chinese

6.6

♡ 2

48%

Ye Lou Director

Mark Chao as

Ayumu Nakajima as

Tom Wlaschiha as Saul Speyer Li Gong

Li Gong as Yu Jin

Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave danger.

Shanghai Fortress

2019

Chinese

4.4

♡ 31

24%

Action

alien

alien invasion

based on novel or book

future

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

shanghai, china

War

Hua-Tao Teng Director

Weimin Tang as Committee Member Lu Han

Lu Han as Jiang yang Qi Shu

Qi Shu as Lin lan

Godfrey Gao as Yang Jiannan

Set in the future, the city of Shanghai battle to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.

Stalin's James Bond

2017

German

6.4

♡ 1

Michael Trabitzsch Director

Michael Rotschopf as Actor

Adolf Hitler as Self

Joseph Stalin as Self

Vladimir Haustov as Self - Historian - Moscow

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.

Collections

Sort

View

Search

The White Countess

Midnight Diner

The Last Tycoon

Dead Pigs

Miraculous: A New Cycle Miraculous World: Shanghai, The Legend of Ladydragon

Flowers of Shanghai

The General Died at Dawn

The Shanghai Story

The Boxer from Shantung

Manufactured Landscapes

Heroes of the East

Temptress Moon

The Wasted Times

Soulmate

Shanghai

Empire of the Sun

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Saturday Fiction

Shanghai Fortress

Stalin's James Bond