Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Rose

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

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#1
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin...

#2
Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948★ 6.7

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

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

#3
Conflict

Conflict

1945★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister....

#4
The Naked City

The Naked City

1948★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder....

#5
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

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

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#6
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe...

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