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McFarland, USA
McFarland, USA is a 2015 American sports drama directed by Niki Caro, starring Kevin Costner as a coach who builds a champion cross country team of farmworkers' sons.
Mean Girls (2024 film)
Mean Girls is a 2024 American musical comedy film directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., adapting the Broadway musical based on Tina Fey's 2004 film.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis: 1944 MGM Technicolor musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien, based on Sally Benson's New Yorker stories, second-highest-grossing film of 1944, source of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 Walt Disney Animation Studios CG film, an adaptation of William Joyce's A Day with Wilbur Robinson, directed by Stephen J. Anderson; orphan inventor Lewis time-travels to 2037, meets his future family, and learns to keep moving forward.
Meeting People Is Easy
Meeting People Is Easy is Grant Gee's 1998 documentary following Radiohead's 104-show 1997-98 OK Computer world tour, portraying the band's burnout and Thom Yorke's struggle with fame through fragmented, experimental footage.
Megadoc
Megadoc (2025) is Mike Figgis's fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola making his $120 million self-financed epic Megalopolis, from Atlanta production through its Cannes premiere; screened at Venice 2025 and released by Utopia.
Megamind
Megamind, also known as Oobermind, is a 2010 DreamWorks Animation superhero comedy directed by Tom McGrath, voicing Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, and Tina Fey, released in November 2010.
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! is a two-part, four-hour HBO documentary directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio profiling Mel Brooks, the EGOT and PEGOT comedy legend, premiering January 22, 2026 before his 100th birthday.
Melodrama (film genre)
Melodrama (film genre): a mode of heightened-emotion cinema, from stage melodrama via early film to Sirk's 1950s Hollywood and global traditions; defined by pathos, moral polarization, music, and excess.
Melody Time
Melody Time is Walt Disney's 1948 seven-segment musical anthology (package) feature, released May 27, 1948, directed by Geronimi, Jackson, Kinney, and Luske, with segments including Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot, and Pecos Bill.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard: 1980 Jonathan Demme comedy-drama (Bo Goldman screenplay) starring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, and Mary Steenburgen, based on Melvin Dummar's $156 million Howard Hughes 'Mormon Will' claim; two Oscars.
Memoir of a Snail
Memoir of a Snail (2024) is Adam Elliot's Australian stop-motion claymation about hoarder Grace Pudel, voiced by Sarah Snook; handmade with no CGI, it won the Annecy Cristal, a Golden Globe, and the 2025 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Memories (1995 film)
Memories (メモリーズ) is a 1995 Japanese animated sci-fi anthology by Katsuhiro Otomo with segments Magnetic Rose, Stink Bomb, and Cannon Fodder, directed by Morimoto, Okamura, and Otomo; 4K remaster released 2025.
Merlin (miniseries)
Merlin (1998) is a two-part NBC fantasy miniseries directed by Steve Barron, starring Sam Neill as Merlin against Miranda Richardson's Queen Mab, with a $30 million budget, 15 Emmy nominations, and 4 wins.
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies: Warner Bros. animated short-film series (1931–1969, 502 shorts), sister series of Looney Tunes, created to showcase Warner's music library, in color from 1934, home of Bugs Bunny's debut.
Merrily We Roll Along (film)
Merrily We Roll Along (2025 film): Maria Friedman's live-recorded proshot of the four-time Tony-winning 2023-24 Broadway revival, with Groff, Radcliffe, Mendez; released December 5, 2025, distinct from Linklater's 20-year adaptation.
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky covering Metallica's St. Anger sessions, Jason Newsted's exit, Hetfield's rehab, therapist Phil Towle, and Trujillo's audition.
Metropolis (メトロポリス) (2001 film)
Metropolis (メトロポリス) is a 2001 Japanese anime film directed by Rintaro, scripted by Katsuhiro Otomo from Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga, animated by Madhouse, released by Toho; detective Kenichi and Tima in a divided robot-human city.
Mexican filter
Mexican filter, also called Mexico filter or yellow filter, is the sepia-yellow color grade Hollywood applies to Mexico scenes, originating in Traffic (2000), spread by Breaking Bad, memed since 2012, and criticized by Lubezki's Unfilter Mexico campaign.
Michael Collins (film)
Michael Collins (1996) is Neil Jordan's biographical war drama starring Liam Neeson as the Irish revolutionary, with Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman, and Julia Roberts. It won the 1996 Venice Golden Lion, earned two Oscar nominations, and sparked controversy over its de Valera and Bloody Sunday portrayals.
Michael Jackson's This Is It
Michael Jackson's This Is It is a 2009 American documentary-music film directed by Kenny Ortega, built from rehearsal footage for Jackson's fifty planned comeback concerts at London's O2 Arena.
Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway
Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway is Disney's trackless 2.5D dark ride through a Mickey Mouse cartoon short, opened March 4, 2020 at Hollywood Studios and January 27, 2023 at Disneyland, replacing The Great Movie Ride.
Mickey Mouse (film series)
Mickey Mouse film series: Disney's theatrical cartoon series starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse, debuting with Steamboat Willie (November 18, 1928). 121 shorts, ending 1953 with a 1983 revival; the 1928 version entered US public domain in 2024.
Mickey Mouse (TV series)
Mickey Mouse (2013 TV series), also called the Paul Rudish Mickey Mouse shorts, is a Disney Channel 2D animated shorts series (2013–2019, five seasons, 96 episodes) with Chris Diamantopoulos voicing Mickey, Emmy and Annie Award wins, and the Disney+ sequel The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse.
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Mickey's Christmas Carol is Disney's 1983 animated featurette, directed by Burny Mattinson, casting Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge and Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit; Mickey's first theatrical film since 1953, Oscar-nominated.
Midnight Rider (film)
Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story, uncompleted 2014 biopic by Randall Miller; abandoned after a train killed camera assistant Sarah Jones on day one of filming in Georgia.
Midwinter Break
Midwinter Break is a 2026 drama film, also known as an adaptation of Bernard MacLaverty's 2017 novel, directed by Polly Findlay and starring Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds as an Irish retired couple whose Amsterdam trip unearths old secrets; released by Focus Features February 20, 2026.
Migration (2023 film)
Migration is a 2023 American animated adventure comedy from Illumination, directed by Benjamin Renner, following a mallard duck family migrating from New England to Jamaica via New York City.
Mildred Pierce (film)
Mildred Pierce (1945), Michael Curtiz film noir melodrama starring Joan Crawford, adapted from James M. Cain's 1941 novel; Crawford won her only Oscar, the film got six nominations, and Todd Haynes remade it as a 2011 HBO miniseries.
Miles Ahead (film)
Miles Ahead (2016) is Don Cheadle's feature directorial debut, a fictionalized drama in which he stars as Miles Davis during his late-1970s silent period, with Ewan McGregor as a invented reporter, released by Sony Pictures Classics.