Cities on Speed: Shanghai Space / 2009

A series of short documentaries about some megacities of the world and the social, structural and political challenges they have to face.

Beats of the Heart: No. 17 Cotton Mill Shanghai Blues: Music of China / 1983

Music/Musical - This thought-provoking documentary examines the ancient musical traditions of China and the near-elimination of them during the Cultural Revolution of the 1980s. Among the subjects observed: one of the less than 100 Chinese citizens who can still play the traditional zither-like instrument known as the ququin, and a wild wedding celebration in Islamic northwest China.

Shanghai Notebook / 2018

A four-minute silent collection of fragments filmed in and around Shanghai in 2012.

Paris Shanghai / 2011

At the start of his 20,000 kilometre bike ride Manu crosses paths with Victor, a teenager behind the wheel of a stolen car. Manu enjoys travelling, open spaces and making new friends. Victor does not.

Ha Ha Shanghai / 2001

In 1992 the filmmaker Christine Choy returned to Shanghai for the first time in over thirty years: to track down the title of her family’s house that her mother abandoned on leaving China for the U.S. in the early 1960’s and to locate an old schoolmate. This is a documentary journal recorded over a period of eight years.

Shanghai Flowers / 2008

The Olympians - Shanghaied /

The year is 1874, and the "Far West" is a wild and dangerous place.

Incident in Shanghai / 1938

An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.

Liebe süß-sauer: Die Verlobte aus Shanghai / 2004

Park Shanghai /

Several years after their graduation, the principal characters, Dong and Rerei meet again at their classmates reunion party. They feel quite close to each other and recollect the old days. But their reunion seems do lead to nowhere: Rerei has married someone else, and Dong is moving to another city the next day. Passing through the noisy corridors, Dong meets other several guys at the building of the karaoke bar where his reunion party sets up. The sleepless night makes them reflect on the choices they ever made in their lives. There is no regret to allow.

Be Yourself: A Drag Queen in Shanghai / 2021

The story of a 17-year-old drag queen based in Shanghai. Through interview and preparation process of a drag runway, Strawberry, a young drag queen, introduces the drag culture through his eyes: what he does, how he does it, and why.

Shanghai Night / 2017

Two lonely customers meet in an empty Shanghai bar late at night. They seem attracted to one another yet unable to really connect for long.

Shanghaied Love / 1931

Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats his crew shamefully and he treats women no better, as evidenced by his handling of a woman he has abducted, together with her baby daughter, Mary (Sally Blaine), from seaman Newman (Willard Robertson). When the woman dies as a result of his cruelty, he brings up Mary as his own daughter.

Chinese Travel: Shanghai /

With a skyline to rival that of New York City or Dubai, Shanghai has become the face of modern China – the bustling economic hub of the world's most populous nation. But it's also an old city, and this video travelogue spotlights that side, too. You'll visit historical landmarks, enchanting gardens and hidden corners of the increasingly cosmopolitan center and learn about its many charms through this beautifully photographed documentary.

Shanghai Trance / 2008

Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals. Cinematographic portrait of modern life in the mega-city of Shanghai is made up of three separate stories about dreams and loves of twentysomethings.

Shanghai Fiction / 2009

Mao Zedong in Shanghai 1924 / 2014

Shanghai Hotel / 2014

The Shanghai Hotel is the story of a young woman named Yin Yin (Eugenia Yuan), who illegally buys her way to the USA from communist China hoping to make a better life for herself and her family. After a long, treacherous journey stowed away in a dark hull of an overcrowded cargo ship, Yin Yin arrives in New York City for what she thinks will be the beginning of a better life. Falsely promised a job in the technology industry, her dreams are shattered when she is told by the Snakeheads, an Asian gang, that her debt is much higher than expected. To pay off that additional debt she will have to work it off by being a prostitute. Yin Yin is devastated by the news that she is being sold into the sex slave trade. The rundown, decrepit building that Yin Yin and the other prostitutes live and work in is known as the Shanghai Hotel. Women from Thailand, Korea and China all reside in the Shanghai Hotel.

ONE Championship 58: Shanghai / 2017

ONE Championship: Shanghai (also known as ONE Championship 60) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship on September 2, 2017 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China.

Chine (Pekin, Shanghai, Canton) / 2002