
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.

Dear John
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...

The White Countess
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 ...

Firebird
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...

The History of Love
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....

Empire of the Sun
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...

Doctor Zhivago
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...