A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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Movie1932·82 min
Shanghai Express
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
An Academy Award-winning drama romance film directed by Josef von Sternberg. Winner of Best Cinematography, with 2 additional Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 41%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
7.0/10
240 ratings
About Shanghai Express
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Bittersweet (4 of 9)
- Intensity
- Moderate (4 of 9)
- Complexity
- Approachable (4 of 9)
- Humor
- Serious (1 of 9)
- Scale
- Intimate (1 of 9)
- Spirit
- Earnest (5 of 9)
- Texture
- Stylized, Tense
- Story Tags
- forbidden love, identity self discovery, betrayal, early 1900s, sex work, sexual violence, international, urban, romantic partners, strangers forced together, battlefield combat, femme fatale, outsider misfit, road journey, hidden identity, cat and mouse, forbidden star crossed