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51. Shanghai Kiss (2007)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An Asian-American actor, living in Los Angeles, is forced to reconsider his roots as well as the possibilities afforded him by his present situation after suddenly inheriting his grandmother's home in Shanghai.

Directors: Kern Konwiser, David Ren | Stars: Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu, Joel David Moore

Votes: 5,439

52. Fist of Fury II (1977)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama

After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the ... See full summary »

Directors: Iksan Lahardi, Tso Nam Lee, Jimmy Shaw | Stars: Bruce Li, Lieh Lo, Feng Tien, Yasuhiro Shikamura

Votes: 596

53. Hanson and the Beast (2017)

110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A debt-ridden animal-breeder falls in love with a fox demon who tries to pay back her debt of gratitude for him.

Director: Yang Xiao | Stars: Shaofeng Feng, Jingfei Guo, Guangjie Li, Jing Wen

Votes: 679

54. International House (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,469

55. Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017)

45 min | Biography, Drama

Biography of legendary widow Zhou Ying who revitalized the business of Wu's family, a prominent clan in Guanzhong of Shaanxi, in late Qing Dynasty.

Stars: Li Sun, Mimi Chi-Yan Kung, Xiao Chen, Morning Chang

Votes: 254

56. Flirtation Walk (1934)

Passed | 97 min | Musical

Musical-romance with Powell as private in Hawaii involved with general's daughter Keeler. Break up to avoid scandal but reunite years later when he produces play at West Point starring her.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander

Votes: 885

57. Lan Yu (2001)

R | 86 min | Drama, Romance

A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.

Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Ye Liu, Jun Hu, He Du, Bin Li

Votes: 3,036 | Gross: $0.12M

58. Chung Kuo: China (1972)

135 min | Documentary

A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220-minute version consists of three parts. The first part, ... See full summary »

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Star: Giuseppe Rinaldi

Votes: 932

59. Two/One (2019)

100 min | Drama, Fantasy

Two men. Living on the exact opposite side of the world. When one sleeps, the other one is awake. But when they finally meet, a simple question arises: Who is the dream and who is the dreamer?

Director: Juan Cabral | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Yang Song, Zhu Zhu, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 686

60. I Wish I Knew (2010)

116 min | Documentary, History

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang, Danqing Chen

Votes: 842

61. China Cry: A True Story (1990)

PG-13 | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee, now known as Nora Lam, who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian faith.

Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julia Nickson, France Nuyen, James Shigeta, Russell Wong

Votes: 569 | Gross: $4.21M

62. Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

Unrated | 86 min | Documentary

Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Star: Edward Burtynsky

Votes: 3,068 | Gross: $0.24M

63. Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly

Votes: 1,682

64. South Sea Woman (1953)

Passed | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

AWOL marine Sgt. Jim O'Hearn is court-martialed for a variety of offenses that carry 143 years in the stockade or the death penalty but refuses to aid in his own defense.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors, Arthur Shields

Votes: 877

65. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (2010 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

3 years after Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (2007), Lynch has settled in Shanghai and is involved in an arms deal, and calls his old friend Kane to help him.

Directors: Kim Krogh, Karsten Lund | Stars: Brian Bloom, Jason Connery, Robin Atkin Downes, Matthew Yang King

Votes: 969

66. The Shanghai Story (1954)

Approved | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In post-WW2 Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists can identify a suspected spy among them but some prisoners try to outwit the interrogators and the armed guards and flee.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley

Votes: 204

67. Tell It to the Marines (1926)

Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.

Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon

Votes: 1,621 | Gross: $0.74M

68. Inspiring Generation (2014)

Action, Crime, Drama

Set in the 1930s in Shanghai, China. Drama series depicts friendships, love and patriotism of young people.

Stars: Jin Se-yeon, Park Chul-min, Kim Se-Jeong, Kim Hyun-joong

Votes: 261

69. A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994)

130 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.

Director: Shuqin Huang | Stars: Gong Li, Fang-Tsen, Shichang Da, Tung-Shing Yee

Votes: 494

70. Affair of Half a Lifetime (2003– )

Drama, Romance

Two people's paths cross at one point, but soon discover the pain caused by fate.

Stars: Ruby Lin, Qinqin Jiang, Patrick Tam, Li-Chun Lee

Votes: 97

71. Red Rose White Rose (1994)

110 min | Drama

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end ... See full summary »

Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Joan Chen, Veronica Yip, Winston Chao, Zhao Chang

Votes: 329

72. Purple Butterfly (2003)

R | 127 min | Drama, History, War

Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami, a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service.

Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Tôru Nakamura, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng

Votes: 1,346 | Gross: $0.02M

73. Two Tigers (2007)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A female hired killer arrives in China to complete a job. She ends up befriending her prostitute neighbor who she also ends up getting hire to kill. The mob and police end up chasing both of them as the action unfolds.

Director: Sandro Cecca | Stars: Andrea Osvárt, Selena Chau-yuet You, Daming Chen, Olivier Pagès

Votes: 448

74. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)

16 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

A nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clark Gong, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong

Votes: 1,976

75. International Settlement (1938)

Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Dolores Del Río, George Sanders, June Lang, Dick Baldwin

Votes: 90

76. Shanghai 1920 (1991)

137 min | Crime, Drama

Billy Fong, a Chinese boy working the Shanghai docks, becomes friends with Dawson Cole, the spoiled son of an American shipping tycoon. As adults, the friends become business partners. ... See full summary »

Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: John Lone, Adrian Pasdar, Fennie Yuen, Eric Michael Zee

Votes: 94

77. Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries

Mystery | Filming

Chinese adaptation of the Australian 'Miss Fisher' mystery series (which is based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical mystery novels) set in 1930s Shanghai.

Star: Yili Ma

78. Eternal Wave (2017)

100 min | Action, Drama

The year was 1930, when Shanghai is known as the Paris of the East with a thriving economy. However, behind the glamorous songs and dances, cruelty and terror gets out of control. From the ... See full summary »

Director: Siu-Hung Chung | Stars: Aaron Kwok, Zanilia Zhao, Hans Zhang, Simon Yam

Votes: 128

79. Families (2015)

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche, Nicole Garcia

Votes: 1,034

80. The National Tree (2009 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Drama

A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Evan Williams, Kari Matchett, Paula Brancati

Votes: 642

81. Blood Brothers (2007)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama

Set in Shanghai during the 1930s, the story is inspired by John Woo's classic work Bullet in the Head, released in 1990.

Director: Alexi Tan | Stars: Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Ye Liu, Shu Qi

Votes: 1,217

82. Springtime in a Small Town (2002)

PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance

The eight-year marriage of Liyan and Yuwen has left them both unfulfilled and distant. A visitor arrives from Shanghai, a doctor who's an old school friend of Liyan's and, unbeknownst to her husband, Yuwen's childhood sweetheart.

Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin, Xiaokeng Ye

Votes: 1,366 | Gross: $0.04M

83. Barricade (1939)

Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In China in the 1930s, a singer (Faye) and journalist (Baxter) meet on a train attacked by bandits.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 158

84. Hotel Shanghai (1997 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, War

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.

Director: Peter Patzak | Stars: Agnieszka Wagner, Nicholas Clay, James McCaffrey, Min Zhang

Votes: 34

85. The Battle of China (1944)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, History, War

The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.

Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Claire Chennault, Kai-Shek Chiang, Madame Chiang, Teh Chu

Votes: 811

86. Pacific Liner (1939)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale

Votes: 333

87. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)

Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 121

88. Lady Blue Shanghai Poem: 'It Holds the Love' (2010 Video)

7 min | Short, Romance

Through a poem, a woman feels love and happiness, as she remembers an encounter in Shanghai with a mysterious man she feels that she has known from another time, and with whom she fell in love.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clark Gong

Votes: 7

89. Eight Bells (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Marge Walker, the daughter of a steamship-line owner, stows away on one of her father's ships bound for Shanghai. Roy Dale, the captain of the ship, is in love with her as is the first ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, John Buckler, Catherine Doucet

Votes: 54

90. The Truth of Scent (2023)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the early years of the Republic of China, a young woman with supernatural powers, a number one detective and a genius magician work together to solve cases. Wen Xiang (Gong Wanyi), a ... See full summary »

Stars: Chi Yao, Kaizhong Xiao, Wanyi Gong, Ze Jia

91. The Man Who Came Back (1924)

Passed | 90 min | Drama

Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in ... See full summary »

Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: George O'Brien, Dorothy Mackaill, Cyril Chadwick, Ralph Lewis

92. Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 329

93. The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A tough ex-marine joins a smuggler shipping arms to Chinese bandits. When his old outfit takes on the outlaws,he has a change of heart.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Isabel Jewell, James Ellison, James Burke

Votes: 84

94. Sparrow (2016)

45 min | Drama, Romance, War

A CCP spy coded "Sparrow" and his colleagues fight Japanese and agency of puppet government in Shanghai during WWII.

Stars: Yifeng Li, Dongyu Zhou, Luyi Zhang, Ruoyun Zhang

Votes: 58

95. Hatred (1938)

67 min | Drama

Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat, Gina Manès

Votes: 331

96. Phantom of the Theatre (2016)

13+ | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A haunted theatre, filled with the vengeful spirits of a tragically-trapped performance troupe murdered in a fire 13 years ago, waits for the once-grand palatial playhouse to re-open with a new show - and bring in new victims.

Director: Wai-Man Yip | Stars: Ruby Lin, Yo Yang, Simon Yam, Gangshan Jing

Votes: 416 | Gross: $0.02M

97. Tillie and Gus (1933)

Passed | 58 min | Comedy

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Martin | Stars: W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop

Votes: 535

98. Roaming Lady (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Romance

Joyce Reid (Fay Wray), a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey (Ralph Bellamy) and and her ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Thurston Hall, Edward Gargan

Votes: 68

99. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)

TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.

Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei

Votes: 105

100. Burma Convoy (1941)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 68