Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Calling

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

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#1
Love in Taipei

Love in Taipei

2023★ 6.7

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

A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance....

#2
Which Brings Me to You

Which Brings Me to You

2023★ 6.2

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

Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours t...

#3
Rosaline

Rosaline

2022★ 7.1

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

Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and J...

#4
A California Christmas

A California Christmas

2020★ 6.4

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

With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas....

#5
Sidewalks of New York

Sidewalks of New York

2001★ 6.0

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

The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with sc...

#6
A California Christmas: City Lights

A California Christmas: City Lights

2021★ 6.6

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

Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph ba...

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