Movies and TV shows set in shanghai china – page 2

List of movies set in shanghai china

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Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Zhou Ying is sold to the powerful Shen family by her foster father, yet successfully escapes by sneaking into merchant Wu Ping’s palanquin. The Wu family agreed to take her in after witnessing her remarkable business acumen, and she ends up ...
Style: costume drama, family saga
Plot: qing dynasty, trade, ancient, asian history, enemies to lovers, business rivalry, rags to riches, scheming, clan, biopic, family business, port ...
Time: 19th century
Place: shanghai
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Phantom of the Theatre (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A haunted theatre, filled with the vengeful spirits of a tragically-trapped performance troupe murdered in a fire 13 years ago, waits for the once-grand palatial playhouse to re-open with a new show - and bring in new victims.
Style: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, scary ...
Plot: ghost, director, revenge, theater, supernatural horror, supernatural, supernatural power, demon, actress, supernatural ability, peril, violence ...
Time: 1930s, 21st century
Place: shanghai, china
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Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Australia, China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to vanquish ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, evil alien, dangerous animal, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, giant monster, chaos, supernatural, danger, save the world, chases and races ...
Time: jurassic, 60s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1964 ...
Place: new york, japan, tokyo, usa, vancouver ...
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 4.2
 447
Two Tigers (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, prostitute, hitman, femme fatale, friendship, neighbor, murder, espionage, danger, undercover, rivalry, materialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, paris france, france, shanghai, europe ...
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 6.2
 14K
W.E. (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices ...
Style: historical drama, sentimental, serious, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, true love, royalty, infidelity, obsession, love and romance, couples, love affair, abusive husband, brother brother relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, future, 50s, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place: england, london, cannes, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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The National Tree (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.
Plot: christmas, thanksgiving, road trip, holiday, christian, single father, single parent, father son relationship, tree, widowed father, fall in love, travel ...
Place: oregon, utah, mumbai india, shanghai, washington d.c.
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Hanson and the Beast (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Yuan Shuai, a debt-ridden animal-breeder, tries to get out of his financial predicament by finding a wealthy girlfriend through matchmaking dates. He unexpectedly meets and fall in love with the fox demon, Bai Xianchu, who has arrived to the mortal ...
Style: exciting, not serious, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: transformation, fox, fantasy world, magic, monster, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, love story, couple relations, forbidden love, magical creature ...
Place: china, shanghai
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Eighteen Springs (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Taiwan
TV show
Story: Eighteen Springs (also known as Affair of Half a Lifetime) is a 2003 drama-romance TV series based on the novel of the same name by Chinese author Eileen Chang. The series stars Ruby Lin, Patrick Tam, Jiang Qinqin and Li Liqun. It had the most ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: relationship problems, family problems, destiny, couple relations, male female relationship, tragic love, love and romance, loveless marriage, marital problem, unfulfilled love, unrequited love, change of luck ...
Time: 1930s
Place: shanghai
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Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: prison, prison escape, teamwork, conspiracy, martial arts, hostage, betrayal, danger, security system, survival, hand to hand combat, secret place ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chechnya, shanghai, bangkok thailand, atlanta georgia
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 5.3
 117K
Geostorm (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, climate change, hurricane, ecological disaster, malfunction, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, year 2019
Place: miami, shanghai, new york, rio de janeiro, hong kong ...
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Code Name: Phoenix (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Hong Kong martial artist joins forces with a U.S. marshal in 2020 to stop the release of a virus that halts the aging process.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: manhunt, bounty hunter, loss of pet, little girl, u.s. marshal, asian woman, flashback, martial arts, nightclub, hollywood sign, exploding building, lingerie ...
Place: shanghai
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 7.7
 4K
Nanking (2007)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, against humanity, rescue, atrocity, japanese history, rape, invasion, testimony, daring rescue, survival, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, year 1938
Place: china, asia, japan, shanghai
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 7.8
 728K
Skyfall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Turkey
Duration: 143 min.
Story: When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, entertaining, captivating, visually stunning ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: james bond, espionage, 007, secret agent, spy, chases and races, secret service, british intelligence, heroic mission, intelligence, killer, female spy ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, china, turkey, scotland, britain ...
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 5.7
 1K
Families (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is very displeased to learn from her and his hated brother, ...
Style: humorous, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, family relations, family feud, brother brother relationship, broken family, family crisis, double life, business deal, inheritance, dead father, chinese woman, notary ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france, paris france, shanghai, london
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A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Taiwan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art ...
Style: sincere, sexual, serious, realistic
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, famous, ambition, rise to the top, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, couples, road not taken ...
Place: china, paris france, france, asia, europe ...
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.
Style: suspense, exciting, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, world war two, conspiracy, femme fatale, blackmail, missing person, escapades, political intrigue, murder, organized crime, police ...
Time: year 1943, 20th century, 1940s
Place: india, asia, shanghai
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 7.4
 600K
Looper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style: futuristic, clever, mind bending, exciting, thought provoking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, hitman, distopia, organized crime, cyberpunk, time paradox, assassin, shooting, self sacrifice, changing the past or future, parallel universe ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 2040s, near future ...
Place: seattle, kansas, shanghai, usa
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Style: entertaining, exciting, action packed, surreal, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, alien invasion, transforming robot, battles, shapeshifting, artificial intelligence, giant robot, evil robot, transformation, androids ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, near future, 18th century, stone age ...
Place: egypt, new york, washington d.c., virginia, philadelphia ...
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 6.8
 3K
Perhaps Love (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: China, Malaysia, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Style: stylized, captivating, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: love affair, rivalry, showbiz, femme fatale, ambition, actor's life, unfulfillment, introspection, love triangle, movie star, love, film producer ...
Place: china, hong kong, east asia, asia, shanghai ...
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The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
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City of Life and Death (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story: City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, black and white, tense ...
Plot: world war two, japanese army, sino japanese war, sexual abuse, war crime, japanese occupation of china, war atrocity, atrocity, japanese occupation, life is a bitch, mass murder, wartime ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 2010s, year 1938, 20th century ...
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, China, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, stylized, mystical ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: mummy, tomb, treasure hunt, mythology, archaeology, archaeologist, tombs and skeletons, dragon, archeological dig, monster, adventurer, supernatural ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, jurassic, 20th century, year 1946
Place: china, asia, himalaya, england, peru ...
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Mission: Impossible (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, clever, action thriller ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, espionage, secret agent, mission, secret service, undercover, chase, murder, spy, train, conspiracy, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: prague, virginia, paris france, united kingdom, shanghai ...
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Japan, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Lara Croft ventures to an underwater temple in search of the mythological Pandora's Box but, after securing it, it is promptly stolen by the villainous leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. Lara must recover the box before the syndicate's ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, action packed, stylized, action adventure ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeology, archaeologist, kick-butt women, monster, female protagonist, fantasy world, female martial artist, archeological dig, treasure hunter, good versus evil, treasure ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s
Place: greece, africa, shanghai, kazakhstan, europe ...
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 7.7
 150K
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. ...
Style: humorous, stylized, surreal, parody, spoof ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gangster, kung fu fighting, master warrior, heroes, mob boss, wuxia, gang, murder, contests and competitions, tough guy ...
Time: 1940s, 2000s, year 2004, 20th century
Place: china, east asia, shanghai, asia
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Red Rose White Rose (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an ...
Plot: world war two, tailor, businessman, female pubic hair, sex, student, patriarch, unhappy marriage, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, voice over narration, piano, cheating wife ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1943
Place: china, edinburgh scotland, paris france, shanghai
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 4.8
 4K
Kung Fu Dunk (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Shi-Jie is a brilliant martial artist from the Kung Fu School. One day, he encounters a group of youths playing basketball and shows off how easy it is for him, with his martial arts training, to do a Slam Dunk. Watching him was Chen-Li, a shrewd ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, time travel, sport team, brother sister relationship, kung fu, combat, rivalry, youth, power relations, college, fight, hand to hand combat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style: sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, child protagonist, coming of age, childhood, pow, captivity, japanese army, peasant, survival, child, young heroes, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1945
Place: china, japan, asia, indochina, hong kong ...
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China Cry: A True Story (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Drama set in the 1950s, based on a true story, about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become part of Mao Tze Tung's "new society", but soon becomes disenchanted by the ...
Style: christian film, retro, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: christian, faith, biopic, christianity, woman, religious, faith based, political intrigue, pregnancy, revolution, strong female presence, bittersweet ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: china, asia, shanghai, hong kong
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Blood Brothers (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fung (Daniel Wu) and his best friends, brothers Kang (Liu Ye) and Hu (Tony Yang), leave the countryside together to make it big in Shanghai. Things aren't so easy in the city, however, and the brothers stumble and toil until opportunity brings ...
Style: rough, stylized, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: innocence lost, friendship, betrayal, rise and fall, village life, best friend, starting over, lifestyle, city life, triad, heroic bloodshed, nightclub ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china, shanghai, ancient china, asia
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