Movies that capture the atmosphere of the city.
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Everlasting Regret (Changhen Ge) (2005)
This film by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan follows the life of a Shanghai girl from the glamorous 1930s to the less glamorous 1980s.
Flowers of Shanghai (Hai Shang Hua) (1998)
Chinese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien reaches a pinnacle of lyricism in this achingly beautiful tale woven around a quartet of late 19th-century brothels in Shanghai.
Mission Impossible III (2006)
Although secret agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chases the action all around the world, his stunt jump from one glittering Shanghai skyscraper to another—shot on location in Pudong—is particularly memorable, as are the city panoramas.
Painted Veil (2006)
Ingenious casting places Naomi Watts alongside Edward Norton first in Shanghai during the Roaring Twenties, then in a remote Chinese town stricken by cholera.
Suzhou River (Suzhou He) (2000)
A thriller in which a young motorcycle courier just out of jail meets a dead ringer for the girl responsible for putting him behind bars. Set along the Suzhou River, a gritty section of Shanghai more urban than urbane.
