20 movies like Shanghai Express, ordered by similarity : Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), Murder on the Orient Express(2017), The Red Lily(1924), Virtue(1932), Knight Without Armor(1937), The Spy Gone North(2018), The Handmaiden(2016), Tiger Girl(2017), The Mysterious Lady(1928), Violette(1978), Wajma: An Afghan Love Story(2013), Diplomatic Courier(1952) ...
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Clive Brook Anna May Wong Warner Oland Eugene Pallette Lawrence Grant Louise Closser Hale Gustav von Seyffertitz Emile Chautard
physician prostitute general woman spy old flame tense melodramatic peking train station train shanghai civil wars revolution prostitution espionage hostage situation rape pursuit transformation
A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
7.2/10
Drama, Biography, History
UK
1958
116 Minutes
Virginia McKenna Paul Scofield Jack Warner Denise Grey Alain Saury Maurice Ronet Anne Leon Sydney Tafler
spy woman man soldier husband daughter confident emotional engaging patriotic france england germany train concentration camp espionage war love death pursuit
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Malta|USA
2017
114 Minutes
Kenneth Branagh Johnny Depp Michelle Pfeiffer Penélope Cruz Willem Dafoe Judi Dench Josh Gad Derek Jacobi Leslie Odom Jr. Daisy Ridley Marwan Kenzari
investigator detective passenger murder suspect governess widow brooding suspenseful uneasy tense train train tracks mountain dining room cabin murder investigation murder plot murder accusation suspicion mystery
When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1924
65 Minutes
Enid Bennett Ramon Novarro Wallace Beery Frank Currier Rosemary Theby Mitchell Lewis Emily Fitzroy George Periolat Dick Sutherland George Nichols
frenchwoman mayor thief gangster son prostitute melodramatic powerful striking paris family home restaurant train city brittany, france poverty crime false accusations prejudice prostitution
Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1932
68 Minutes
Carole Lombard Pat O'Brien Mayo Methot Ward Bond Shirley Grey Jack LaRue
woman cab driver waitress prostitute boyfriend gangster melodramatic amusing tense new york city coney island cab apartment restaurant false accusations prostitution marriage reputation murder second chance
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.
6.8/10
Drama
UK
1937
107 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Robert Donat Irene Vanbrugh Herbert Lomas Austin Trevor Basil Gill David Tree John Clements
double agent aristocrat bolshevik spy police officer soldier melodramatic engaging russia train countryside england hideout revolution communism espionage escape pursuit 1910s
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
7.3/10
Drama
South Korea
2018
141 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang Sung-min Lee Cho Jin-Woong Ju Ji-hoon
spy broker government official wife businessman kim jong-il thrilling gripping intense suspenseful tense engaging north korea south korea espionage government secrets intelligence nuclear weapons korean relations mission
In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.
8.1/10
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
South Korea
2016
144 Minutes
Kim Min-hee Kim Tae-ri Ha Jung-woo Cho Jin-Woong Kim Hae-sook Moon So-ri Jeong Ha-dam Eun-hyung Jo
korean woman pickpocket japanese woman lesbian heiress intense emotional melodramatic profound brooding korea house lesbianism trust fraud money japanese occupation love forbidden love pursuit
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
5.6/10
Drama, Action
Germany
2017
91 Minutes
Ella Rumpf Maria-Victoria Dragus Enno Trebs Orce Feldschau Swiss Benjamin Lutzke Franz Rogowski Ulrik Bruchholz Lana Cooper Robert Gwisdek Franziska Arnold
fighter young woman poor woman villain woman victim bleak intense emotional dark disturbing melodramatic germany relationships fighting rule breaking passion crime love adventure
TIGER gets what she wants. VANILLA does not know what she wants. Apart from one important thing: a uniform. TIGER teach her to bite, and VANILLA tastes blood. So TIGER needs to learn a new rule: They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
7.3/10
Drama, Romance
USA
1928
96 Minutes
Greta Garbo Conrad Nagel Gustav von Seyffertitz Edward Connelly Richard Alexander
spy mysterious woman general captain russian saboteur tense emotional vienna court opera house espionage romantic dilemma spies career vs. love dangerous assignment forbidden love transformation rise 20th century
An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.
7.2/10
Crime, Drama
France|Canada
1978
124 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Stéphane Audran Jean Carmet Jean-François Garreaud Jean Dalmain Lisa Langlois François Maistre Philippe Procot Bernard Alane Mario David Henri-Jacques Huet
young woman mother father murderer frenchwoman prostitute engaging melodramatic shocking thrilling suspenseful gripping france family home prostitution dark secrets secret life poison rebellion murder plot
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
7.3/10
Drama
Afghanistan|France
2013
85 Minutes
Haji Gul Aser Wajma Bahar Mustafa Abdulsatar Brehna Bahar Assib Ibrahim Saleha Ibrahim Tahera Hashemi
afghan woman man love interest student pregnant woman disheartening thrilling tense intense moving melodramatic afghanistan kabul, afghanistan love sex unwanted pregnancy secret love family honor family relationships
It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the... See full summary »
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1952
97 Minutes
courier spy femme fatale double agent thrilling suspenseful austria train train station apartment hotel love cold war europe espionage secret plans murder love underdog mystery
Cold War yarn about a US State Department courier who tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
6.5/10
Drama
Germany
2018
93 Minutes
Aenne Schwarz Andreas Döhler Hans Löw Tilo Nest Lina Wendel Lisa Hagmeister Dagny Dewath Thomas Gräßle Annika Blendl Doris Buchrucker
woman boyfriend boss rapist rape victim intense emotional disheartening melodramatic touching brutal office office building rape fear isolation trust abuse secrets rescue
Janne's new boss's brother-in-law rapes her, but she doesn't report the incident and continues her way of life as usual. But her silence has consequences, not only for her but also for the love that she feels for her friend Piet.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1933
89 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Nils Asther Walter Connolly Gavin Gordon Toshia Mori Richard Loo Lucien Littlefield Clara Blandick
warlord missionary fiancé spy servant expatriate tense melodramatic spirited intricate china war zone orphanage war missionary work suicide interracial romance opposites attract honor escape
A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1934
65 Minutes
Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez Lyle Talbot Warner Oland Ruth Donnelly Reginald Owen Hobart Cavanaugh David Torrence Rafaela Ottiano Halliwell Hobbes Etienne Girardot
political refugee surgeon gunrunner pimp prostitute beautiful woman tense melodramatic sultry mandalay, myanmar rangoon, myanmar brothel boat city poverty prostitution organized crime blackmail secret past new life
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Romance, War, Drama
1943
163 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Roger Livesey Deborah Kerr Anton Walbrook John Laurie James McKechnie Neville Mapp
soldier major general teacher nurse nazi gripping melodramatic witty england pow camp south africa germany love friendship war aging military love transformation sacrifice
A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.
8.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1944
106 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Porter Hall Fortunio Bonanova Jean Heather Tom Powers Byron Barr Richard Gaines John Philliber
insurance salesman femme fatale investigator daughter melodramatic sultry tense america household los angeles train murder deception affair mystery fall 1930s
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator.
6.3/10
Drama
UK
1944
85 Minutes
James Mason Carla Lehman Raymond Lovell Enid Stamp-Taylor Walter Rilla Pamela Stirling Leslie Bradley Michael Morel Bart Norman Hella Kürty
spy nazi general woman frenchman disturbing melodramatic intense patriotic suspenseful profound algeria war zone bedroom nightclub algerian war danger spying travel adventure
An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--... See full summary »
6.1/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1969
96 Minutes
private schoolteacher prostitute sergeant british soldier daughter engaging touching rousing jungle school train singapore virginity war love interest medical operation train crash mission growing up
A group of young British soldiers billeted in Singapore of the year 1950 dreaming about winning the love of the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
7.1/10
Drama, War
Australia|Germany|UK
2012
109 Minutes
Mika Nilson Seidel Ursina Lardi Hans-Jochen Wagner Sven Pippig Philip Wiegratz Katrin Pollitt Hendrik Arnst Claudia Geisler Saskia Rosendahl Nele Trebs André Frid
nazi father mother daughter sibling grandmother emotional melodramatic brooding intense profound disturbing germany concentration camp river bridge train world war ii nazi collaboration siblings
As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
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