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10 Best Movies Like Hotel Shanghai

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

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#1
Shanghai

Shanghai

2010★ 6.1

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

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 de...

#2
Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

1987★ 7.5

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

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 lo...

#3
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958★ 6.8

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

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the m...

#4
King Rat

King Rat

1965★ 7.1

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

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners ...

#5
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

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

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and ...

#6
Hammett

Hammett

1982★ 6.2

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

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit...

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