The following is a list of films set wholly or partially in Shanghai.
| Shanghai Express[1] | 1932 | Marlene Dietrich | |||
| Charlie Chan in Shanghai | 1935 | James Tinling | Warner OlandKeye Luke Irene Hervey | ||
| The Leathernecks Have Landed | 1936 | ||||
| Daughter of Shanghai | 1937 | Robert Florey | Anna Mae WongCharles Bickford Buster Crabbe | Phillip Ahn who plays "Kim Lee" Was Anna Mae Wong's childhood friend.This is Natalie Schaefer's (Gilligan's Island) movie debut | |
| Think Fast, Mr. Moto | 1937 | Norman Foster (director) | Peter Lorre | ||
| Le Drame de Shanghaï[2] | 1938 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Filmed in France and Saigon | ||
| Shadows Over Shanghai | 1938 | Charles Lamont | James Dunn, Ralph Morgan Robert Barrat | ||
| The Shanghai Gesture | 1941 | Josef von Sternberg | |||
| The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | Not set wholly or partially in Shanghai | ||
| 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 | ||||
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| 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 Shanghai | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Wish Dragon | 2021 | Jackie Chan, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jimmy O. Yang |