List of films set in Shanghai
The following is a list of films set wholly or partially in Shanghai.
| Title | Year Released | Director | Starring | Notes |
| Shanghai Express | 1932 | Marlene Dietrich | ||
| The Leathernecks Have Landed | 1936 | |||
| Le Drame de Shanghaï | 1938 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Filmed in France and Saigon | |
| The Shanghai Gesture | 1941 | Josef von Sternberg | ||
| The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles | |
| Fist of Fury | 1972 | Bruce Lee | ||
| Shanghai 13 | 1984 | Andy Lau | ||
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1984 | Harrison Ford | Begins in fictional Club Obi-Wan in Shanghai | |
| Shanghai Surprise | 1986 | Madonna, Sean Penn | ||
| Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | ||
| Shanghai 1920 | 1991 | John Lone, Adrian Pasdar | ||
| ' | 1991 | Stephen Chow | ||
| Center Stage | 1991 | Stanley Kwan | ||
| Fist of Legend | 1994 | Jet Li | Remake of Fist of Fury | |
| Tian Di | 1994 | Andy Lau | ||
| The Phantom Lover | 1995 | Leslie Cheung, Jacklyn Wu | ||
| Shanghai Triad | 1995 | Zhang Yimou | ||
| A Romance in Shanghai | 1996 | Fann Wong | ||
| Shanghai Grand | 1996 | Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, Ning Jing | ||
| Temptress Moon | 1996 | Chen Kaige | Leslie Cheung and Gong Li | Also known as Feng yue |
| Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | ||
| Eighteen Springs | 1998 | Ann Hui On-wah | Also known as Bansheng yuan | |
| Flowers of Shanghai | 1998 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Also known as Haishang hua | |
| Shanghai Noon | 2000 | Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson | ||
| Suzhou River | 2000 | Lou Ye | Also known as Suzhou he | |
| Shanghai Panic | 2002 | Andrew Y-S Cheng | Also known as Wo men hai pa | |
| Code 46 | 2003 | Michael Winterbottom | Tim Robbins | |
| Purple Butterfly | 2003 | Lou Ye | Zhang Ziyi | Also known as Zi hudie |
| Shanghai Knights | 2003 | Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson | Sequel to Shanghai Noon | |
| ' | 2003 | One scene set in Shanghai, but was shot on a set | ||
| ' | 2004 | |||
| Kung Fu Hustle | 2004 | Stephen Chow | Also known as Gongfu | |
| Everlasting Regret | 2005 | Stanley Kwan | ||
| The White Countess | 2005 | Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson | ||
| Fearless | 2006 | Ronny Yu | Jet Li | |
| Perhaps Love | 2005 | Peter Chan | ||
| ' | 2006 | Tom Cruise | ||
| The Postmodern Life of My Aunt | 2006 | Ann Hui | ||
| The Painted Veil | 2006 | Edward Norton, Naomi Watts | ||
| Ultraviolet | 2006 | Milla Jovovich | Partially shot in Shainghai | |
| ' | 2007 | Features the Oriental Pearl Tower | ||
| Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | Based on the novella by Eileen Chang | |
| The Longest Night in Shanghai | 2007 | Masahiro Motoki, Zhao Wei | ||
| Shanghai Kiss | 2007 | Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere | ||
| ' | 2009 | |||
| 2010 | Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong | |||
| Shanghai | 2010 | Chow Yun-fat, John Cusack, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe | ||
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | 2010 | Wayne Wang | Li Bingbing, Jun Ji-hyun | Based on the novel by Lisa See, many scenes filmed at the Peninsula Shainghai on the Bund |
| The Last Tycoon | 2012 | Chow Yun-fat, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng | ||
| Shanghai Calling | 2012 | Daniel Henney | ||
| Looper | 2012 | Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt | ||
| Skyfall | 2012 | Daniel Craig | 23rd James Bond film | |
| Penguins of Madagascar | 2014 | |||
| Her | 2014 | |||
| Geostorm | 2017 |