Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Express

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

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#1
Dear John

Dear John

2010★ 6.8

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

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eve...

#2
The White Countess

The White Countess

2005★ 6.2

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

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 ...

#3
Firebird

Firebird

2021★ 7.4

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

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air...

#4
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016★ 6.4

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

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness....

#5
Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

1987★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Express for fans of Drama & War. 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...

#6
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965★ 7.6

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

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the O...

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