| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |