Movies Like The Lady from Shanghai

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Thieves' Highway

1949·1h 34m·★ 7.5·Jules Dassin

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Citizen Kane

1941·1h 59m·★ 8.2·Orson Welles

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The Trial

1962·1h 59m·★ 7.6·Orson Welles

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Sudden Fear

1952·1h 52m·★ 7.5·David Miller

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Macbeth

1948·1h 47m·★ 7.4·Orson Welles

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The Magnificent Ambersons

1942·1h 28m·★ 7.6·Orson Welles

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Cape Fear

1962·1h 45m·★ 7.7·J. Lee Thompson

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Dead Again

1991·1h 47m·★ 6.8·Kenneth Branagh

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Andha Naal

1954·2h 14m·★ 8.0·S. Balachander

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1941·1h 39m·★ 7.2·Alfred Hitchcock

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Touch of Evil

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The Stranger

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The Last Seduction

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