
10 Best Movies Like The Shanghai Gesture
If you loved The Shanghai Gesture, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Gilda
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shanghai Gesture for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss....

Sanjuro
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shanghai Gesture for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded sam...

Great Expectations
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shanghai Gesture for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood p...

Underworld
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shanghai Gesture for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend....

Whirlpool
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shanghai Gesture for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real...

The Thing
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shanghai Gesture for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. ...