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Luther: Never Too Much
Luther: Never Too Much is Dawn Porter's 2024 Sundance-premiering documentary on R&B singer Luther Vandross, from jingles and backup singing to 40 million records sold, eight Grammys, CNN/OWN broadcast, and 2025 NAACP Image Award wins.
Luxo Jr.
Luxo Jr. is Pixar's 1986 two-minute computer-animated short directed by John Lasseter, about a baby lamp and a ball; first CGI film nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar and source of Pixar's hopping-lamp logo.
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama directed by Neeraj Pandey, with Sushant Singh Rajput starring as cricketer M.S. Dhoni.
Macbeth (1971 film)
Macbeth (The Tragedy of Macbeth) is Roman Polanski's 1971 British film of Shakespeare's play, co-written with Kenneth Tynan, financed by Hugh Hefner's Playboy Productions, starring Jon Finch and Francesca Annis, noted for graphic violence and a Third Ear Band score.
Macbeth (2015 film)
Macbeth (2015) is Justin Kurzel's Shakespeare adaptation starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, premiered in Competition at Cannes 2015, shot on location in Scotland, 113 minutes, See-Saw Films.
Machine Gun Preacher
Machine Gun Preacher is a 2011 biographical action drama directed by Marc Forster, starring Gerard Butler as Sam Childers, the Pennsylvania ex-con preacher who founded the Angels of East Africa orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, and fought the LRA; based on his memoir Another Man's War.
Machinima
Machinima, from machine and cinema, is filmmaking in real time inside video game engines, originating in Doom and Quake replays and Diary of a Camper, popularized by Red vs. Blue, with ongoing copyright and educational debates.
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress is a 2009 Japanese animated film, the first of two theatrical retellings of the Macross Frontier TV series, directed by Shôji Kawamori.
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか) is a 1984 theatrical anime film reworking the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series with all-new footage, directed by Shoji Kawamori and Noboru Ishiguro, famous for Minmay's song and the 2025 4K remaster.
Mad God
Mad God is a 2021 American experimental stop-motion horror film directed by Phil Tippett, about 30 years in the making, following The Assassin through a dialogue-free hellish underworld; released via Shudder in 2022.
Mad Monster Party
Mad Monster Party? is a Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated musical horror parody (1967 or 1969 release) directed by Jules Bass, starring Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller, in which Frankenstein convenes classic monsters to pick a successor.
Madame Bovary (1991 film)
Madame Bovary (1991) is Claude Chabrol's French film adaptation of Flaubert's novel, starring Isabelle Huppert as Emma Bovary. Released April 1991 in France, 143 minutes, Moscow Festival best actress prize, Oscar-nominated costumes.
Madame Bovary (2014 film)
Madame Bovary (2014) is Sophie Barthes's English-language drama adapting Flaubert's novel, starring Mia Wasikowska as Emma Bovary with Ezra Miller, Rhys Ifans, and Paul Giamatti; a US-German-Belgian 118-minute film released 2015 to mixed reviews.
Madame Satã
Madame Satã (2002) is Karim Aïnouz's debut feature, a Brazilian-French biographical drama starring Lázaro Ramos as João Francisco dos Santos (1900–1976), the Lapa drag performer and outlaw who took his name from Cecil B. De Mille's 1930 film Madame Satan.
Madame X (adaptations of the play)
Madame X adaptations: screen and TV versions of Alexandre Bisson's 1908 French play La femme X, about a fallen mother defended in court by her unrecognized son. Key versions: 1916 silent, 1920 Goldwyn, 1929 MGM (Oscar-nominated), 1937 MGM, 1966 Lana Turner film, 1981 TV movie.
Magic Boy (少年猿飛佐助)
Magic Boy (少年猿飛佐助, Shōnen Sarutobi Sasuke) is a 1959 Toei Animation feature directed by Taiji Yabushita and Akira Daikuhara; Japan's first CinemaScope anime, Venice San Marco Lion winner, and MGM's 1961 US release.
Mahabharat (महाभारत) (2013 film)
Mahabharat (महाभारत) is a 2013 Hindi animated film directed by Amaan Khan, released 27 December 2013 by PEN India, with star voices including Amitabh Bachchan as Bheeshma; budget Rs 50 crore, gross about Rs 1.5 crore.
Mahavatar Narsimha
Mahavatar Narsimha is a 2025 Indian animated mythological action film directed by Ashwin Kumar, retelling the Varaha and Narasimha avatars of Vishnu. It became the highest-grossing Indian animated film.
Mahler
Mahler (1974) is Ken Russell's British biopic of composer Gustav Mahler, starring Robert Powell and Georgina Hale, structured as a rondo around a train journey; it won the 1974 Cannes Technical Grand Prize.
Mai Mai Miracle (マイマイ新子と千年の魔法)
Mai Mai Miracle (マイマイ新子と千年の魔法) is a 2009 Madhouse anime film directed by Sunao Katabuchi, adapted from Nobuko Takagi's autobiographical novel, about a 1950s Yamaguchi girl imagining her town 1,000 years earlier.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated package film of ten musical shorts, working title Swing Street, Disney's pop-music answer to Fantasia, featuring Nelson Eddy, Benny Goodman, and the Andrews Sisters, and never theatrically reissued.
Malcolm X (1992 film)
Malcolm X (1992) is Spike Lee's 201-minute biographical drama starring Denzel Washington, adapted from The Autobiography of Malcolm X; famous for its budget battles, Rodney King opening, Oscar nominations, and 2010 National Film Registry induction.
Maleficent
Maleficent is Disney's horned "Mistress of All Evil," the villain of the 1959 animated Sleeping Beauty voiced by Eleanor Audley, and the protagonist of the 2014 live-action film starring Angelina Jolie, which grossed over $700 million internationally and spawned a 2019 sequel.
Maleficent (film)
Maleficent is a 2014 American live-action Disney fantasy film retelling Sleeping Beauty from the villain's perspective, starring Angelina Jolie as Maleficent and Elle Fanning as Aurora.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, also known as Maleficent 2, is a 2019 American fantasy adventure film, the sequel to Disney's 2014 Maleficent, directed by Joachim Rønning and starring Angelina Jolie.
Mall (film)
Mall is a 2014 American drama-thriller, Joe Hahn of Linkin Park's feature directorial debut, adapted from Eric Bogosian's 2001 novel, starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Cameron Monaghan, Gina Gershon, Peter Stormare, and James Frecheville as a meth-fueled mall shooter.
Mamma Mia! (film)
Mamma Mia! is a 2008 jukebox musical film directed by Phyllida Lloyd, adapted from the 1999 ABBA stage musical, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Amanda Seyfried; it grossed about $580.8 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing film released in the UK.
Man and Superman
Man and Superman: George Bernard Shaw's 1903 four-act comedy, subtitled A Comedy and a Philosophy, inverts the Don Juan legend; Jack Tanner flees Ann Whitefield, and the Don Juan in Hell scene dramatizes Shaw's Life Force and Creative Evolution.
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story is a 2026 Canadian documentary directed by Adrian Buitenhuis, produced by Derik Murray and Ryan Reynolds, chronicling Hansen's 1985–87 40,000-km, 34-country Man In Motion World Tour via audio diaries.
Man on Wire
Man on Wire is James Marsh's 2008 Oscar-winning documentary about Philippe Petit's illegal 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center Twin Towers, structured as a heist film from Petit's book To Reach the Clouds.