14 Films & TV Shows Set In Shanghai During The 21st Century
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The 355
District of Columbia England ๐ซ๐ท France Shanghai The 2020sA group of top female agents from government agencies around the globe try to stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
California Shanghai Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2030sRise Up โ It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
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The Meg
Hainan Province Shanghai Tokyo Prefecture ๐น๐ญ Thailand Pacific Ocean The 2010sChomp On This โ A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
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Dead Pigs
Shanghai The 2010sA pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
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Geostorm
New York District of Columbia Georgia Florida Ontario England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan Shanghai ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐น๐ผ Taiwan Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales Africa - General ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 2010s The 2020sSome things were never meant to be controlled. โ After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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Duckweed
Shanghai The 1990s The 2020sWhen a son attempts to reconcile with his father, a series of fateful events allow him to experience the fatherโs life in the past.
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Skyfall
Shanghai England Scotland ๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฒ๐ด Macao The 2010sThink on your sins. โ When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows - aided only by field agent, Eve - following a trail to the mysterious Silva, whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves.
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Looper
Missouri Kansas Shanghai The 2040s The 2070sHunted by your future, haunted by your past. โ In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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Mayday 3DNA
Guangdong Province Shanghai The 2010sDream a Dream inside the Dream... โ Billed as a "concept film" MAYDAY 3DNA combines play from the group's DNA concert tour in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China 2010 and interweaves that with three fictional stories. The fictional sequences include a vignette about a Guangzhou father and daughter; another about a Taiwan taxi driver and passenger; and a third about a Shanghai delivery boy. All are affected by the lure of a Mayday gathering and the three separate stories intersect at one particular Mayday concert in Shanghai. Established in Taiwan in the late 1990s, Mayday has remained popular for over a decade by tuning into a Taiwan youth beat and pushing rock music in Greater China. Most songs are performed in Mandarin with some Taiwanese Hokkien tracks by band.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
New York Pennsylvania Virginia District of Columbia California ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Shanghai The 2000sRevenge is coming. โ Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
New York England ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Shanghai ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000sDiscover the secret of the Surfer. โ The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
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Shaolin Soccer
Shanghai The 2000sGet ready to kick some grass! โ A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
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Suzhou River
Shanghai The 2000sA tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
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The Mirror
Shanghai ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐น๐ผ Taiwan ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 1980s The 1990s The 1920s The 2000sThe grandson of a rich widow returns to Hong Kong with his girlfriend. They are charmed by an antique mirror at the grandmother's home. The mirror used to belonged to a famous courtesan in ...