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10 Best Movies Like Shanghai Trance

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

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#1
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

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

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#2
The Invisible

The Invisible

2007★ 6.4

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

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker....

#3
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

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

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

#4
Code 46

Code 46

2003★ 6.2

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

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identit...

#5
Hammett

Hammett

1982★ 6.2

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

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit...

#6
Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

2002★ 6.1

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

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee...

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