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10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Blues

If you loved Shanghai Blues, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Baxter

The Baxter

2005★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Blues for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses an...

#2
Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Blues for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A typical story of the classic romantic triangle, where one person ends up having to choose between two others. This time, it is set against a backdrop of offices in Hong Kong, wit...

#3
All's Well, End's Well '97

All's Well, End's Well '97

1997★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Blues for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very annoyed about this. The relation...

#4
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Blues for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful...

#5
Chasing Papi

Chasing Papi

2003★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Blues for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici,...

#6
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Blues for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life fem...

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