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10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Rose

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

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#1
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin...

#2
Underworld

Underworld

1927★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend....

#3
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe...

#4
The Naked City

The Naked City

1948★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder....

#5
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#6
They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shanghai Rose for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....

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