| Title | Year Released | Director | Starring | Notes | 
| Shanghai Express[1] | 1932 |  | Marlene Dietrich |  | 
| Charlie Chan in Shanghai
 | 1935 | James Tinling | Warner Oland Keye Luke
 Irene Hervey
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| The Leathernecks Have Landed | 1936 |  |  |  | 
| Daughter of Shanghai | 1937 | Robert Florey | Anna Mae Wong Charles 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 
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| 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 | Rita Hayworth, 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 |  | 
| God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai | 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 | 
| Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | 2003 |  |  | One scene set in Shanghai, but was shot on a set | 
| Godzilla: Final Wars | 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 |  |  | 
| Mission: Impossible III | 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 | 
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | 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 |  | 
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 2009 |  |  |  | 
| Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | 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 |  | 
| Rally Road Racers | 2023 | Ross Venokur | Jimmy O. Yang, J. K. Simmons, Chloe Bennet, Lisa Lu, Sharon Horgan, Catherine Tate, John Cleese |  |