Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Triad

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

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#1
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997★ 6.4

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

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bump...

#2
The Boxer from Shantung

The Boxer from Shantung

1972★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Triad for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection i...

#3
Shanghai

Shanghai

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Triad 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...

#4
Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine

1981★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Triad for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence whil...

#5
Prison on Fire

Prison on Fire

1987★ 7.0

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

Lo Ka Yiu, a young ad designer who is sentenced to jail for manslaughter, has gotten himself in trouble with the corrupted wardens and fellow inmates of Triad background. Chung Tin...

#6
Safe

Safe

2012★ 6.5

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

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level...

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