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Universe TimelineLoved Shanghai Fortress? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

A traumatized young man with physical abnormalities is forced to join a mysterious bureau to confront a disaster spreading across the earth caused by an unknown creature. He embarks on an adventure uncovering mysteries about his life.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shanghai Fortress.

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.

Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shanghai Fortress.

Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shanghai Fortress.

16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shanghai Fortress.