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The Magicians (Grossman novel)
The Magicians, Lev Grossman's 2009 Viking novel opening the Magicians trilogy, follows Quentin Coldwater at Brakebills magic college and the real, dangerous Narnia-like world of Fillory; adult Harry Potter comparisons, Syfy series.
The Magicians trilogy
The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), The Magician's Land (2014), adult fantasy novels about Quentin Coldwater, Brakebills magic college, and Fillory, adapted into five Syfy seasons.
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields: American indie pop band from Boston led by songwriter Stephin Merritt (formed 1989 or 1990, sources differ), known for 69 Love Songs (1999), twelve albums on Merge and Nonesuch, and droll synth-pop wit.
The Magnetist's Fifth Winter
The Magnetist's Fifth Winter (Magnetisörens femte vinter) is a 1964 historical novel by the Swedish author Per Olov Enquist, his third novel and breakthrough as a novelist.
The Magnificent Ambersons (film)
The Magnificent Ambersons: Orson Welles's 1942 RKO drama adapted from Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer-winning 1918 novel; famously recut by RKO from 131 to 88 minutes while Welles was in Brazil.
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven (1960) is John Sturges' Western remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson, with Elmer Bernstein's famous score; a flop that became a classic.
The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)
The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American Western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt.
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy anthology film directed and produced by Graham Stark for Tigon British, with seven sketches on the deadly sins written by Galton and Simpson, Milligan, Chapman, and Cryer; a box office failure noted for Milligan's Sloth and Corbett's Lust.
The Magnificent Trio (边城三侠)
The Magnificent Trio (边城三侠, Bian Cheng San Xia) is a 1966 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Chang Cheh, starring Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, and Chin Ping, adapted from Hideo Gosha's Three Outlaw Samurai and released in Hong Kong on 8 November 1966.
The Magnus Archives
The Magnus Archives is a British horror fiction anthology podcast (2016–2021) by Jonathan Sims, produced by Rusty Quill, following archivist Jonathan Sims and fourteen fear entities; 200 episodes, 100 million downloads, continued by The Magnus Protocol (2024).
The Magus (1968 film)
The Magus (1968) is a British film directed by Guy Green from John Fowles's screenplay of his own 1966 novel, starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, and Anna Karina; a critical failure disowned by its author.
The Magus (novel)
The Magus is John Fowles's psychological novel (first published 1965/1966, revised 1977) about Nicholas Urfe, an English teacher on a Greek island ensnared in millionaire Maurice Conchis's "godgame" of staged illusions.
The Maharashtra Files
The Maharashtra Files (द महाराष्ट्र फाइल्स) is a 2026 Marathi political drama directed by Sanjivkumar Rathod, starring Usha Nadkarni as Janabai Rathod, a Banjara woman fighting land acquisition and corruption; UA 16+, CBFC-certified 3 June 2026, 119.55 minutes.
The Maias
The Maias (Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica) is an 1888 realist novel by the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós, following the Maia family across three generations.
The Maids
The Maids (Les Bonnes) is a 1947 one-act play by Jean Genet, in which two maids, Claire and Solange, ritually rehearse the murder of their mistress Madame.
The Maine (band)
The Maine: American rock band formed 2007 in Tempe, Arizona (John O'Callaghan, Kennedy Brock, Jared Monaco, Garrett Nickelsen, Pat Kirch). Pop-punk debut Can't Stop Won't Stop (2008); ten studio albums through Joy Next Door (2026), independent on 8123.
The Maine Woods
The Maine Woods is an 1864 posthumous collection of three travel essays by Henry David Thoreau, describing excursions into north-central Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857.
The Majestic (film)
The Majestic is a 2001 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont, starring Jim Carrey as a blacklisted screenwriter mistaken for a small town's lost war hero.
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (舞妓さんちのまかないさん)
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (舞妓さんちのまかないさん) is a 2023 nine-episode Netflix drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda, adapted from Aiko Koyama's Shogakukan Manga Award-winning manga about a girl from Aomori who becomes the cook in a Kyoto maiko house.
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City is a 1931 mural by Diego Rivera at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco.
The Making of Americans
The Making of Americans is a 1925 novel by Gertrude Stein, subtitled Being a History of a Family's Progress, describing two American families while attempting a taxonomy of every kind of person.
The Making of Steel (长大成人)
The Making of Steel (长大成人) is Lu Xuechang's 1997 debut drama about Beijing youth Zhou Qing, his mentor Zhu Helai, and How the Steel Was Tempered; a Sixth Generation landmark released after three years of censorship.
The Making of the English Landscape
The Making of the English Landscape is a 1955 book by William George Hoskins that traces how human activity shaped fields, roads, and villages, founding landscape history.
The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class is a 1963 work of social history by E. P. Thompson tracing how English workers formed a class between 1780 and 1832.
The Making of the President, 1960
The Making of the President, 1960 is a 1961 book by journalist Theodore H. White recounting the Kennedy–Nixon campaign; it won the first Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
The Makioka Sisters
The Makioka Sisters (Sasameyuki, 細雪) is a long novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, serialized from 1943 to 1948, portraying four Osaka sisters on the eve of World War II.
The Makropulos Affair
The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos) is a 1922 comedy by Czech writer Karel Čapek about a woman kept alive for centuries who chooses to die.
The Mallorca Files
The Mallorca Files is a 2019 BBC/ZDF buddy-cop crime drama created by Dan Sefton, starring Elen Rhys and Julian Looman as British and German detectives on Mallorca; three seasons (2019–2024), Season 3 on Prime Video.
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston's directorial debut for Warner Bros., adapts Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel; Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade hunts a jeweled statuette in a foundational film noir.
The Maltese Falcon (novel)
The Maltese Falcon is Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel introducing Sam Spade, serialized in Black Mask from September 1929, published by Knopf in February 1930, and filmed three times, most famously by John Huston in 1941.