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Long Time No Sea
Long Time No Sea (只有大海知道) is a 2018 Taiwanese family musical drama, Heather Tsui's debut feature, about a Tao boy on Orchid Island training for a national dance competition.
Looking Up (银河补习班)
Looking Up (银河补习班) is a 2019 Chinese drama co-directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, about a father raising his written-off son to think for himself.
Lost and Love (失孤)
Lost and Love (失孤) is a 2015 Mandarin-language drama film directed by Peng Sanyuan, starring Andy Lau as a farmer who spends years searching for his abducted son.
Lost in London
Lost in London, also known as Lost in London LIVE, is a 2017 comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Woody Harrelson, billed as the first live feature film.
Loveless (Нелюбовь) (film)
Loveless (Нелюбовь, Nelyubov) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2017 Russian-French-Belgian-German drama about divorcing parents whose 12-year-old son disappears; it won the Cannes Jury Prize and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
Loving (2016 film)
Loving (2016) is Jeff Nichols's biographical drama starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose case Loving v. Virginia ended US bans on interracial marriage in 1967; Cannes premiere, Negga Oscar nomination.
Lucky (2017 American film)
Lucky (2017 American film) is a comedy-drama directed by John Carroll Lynch, marking his directorial debut, and stars Harry Dean Stanton in his final major role.
Lucy in the Sky
Lucy in the Sky is a 2019 American drama film directed by Noah Hawley, starring Natalie Portman as an astronaut who struggles to readjust to life on Earth.
Mad World (一念无明) (2016 film)
Mad World (一念无明) is a 2016 Hong Kong drama directed by Wong Chun, starring Shawn Yue, Eric Tsang, Elaine Jin, and Charmaine Fong. Made for HK$2 million in 16 days under the First Feature Film Initiative, it won Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards for Best New Director and supporting acting.
Manchester by the Sea (film)
Manchester by the Sea (2016), Kenneth Lonergan's drama starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges; a Boston janitor returns home as his nephew's guardian. 96% RT, two Oscars.
Manifesto (2015 film)
Manifesto (2015) is Julian Rosefeldt's experimental film, also a 13-screen installation, in which Cate Blanchett plays 13 characters reciting art and political manifestos from the Communist Manifesto to Dogme 95; it won three German Film Awards.
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017 biographical drama directed by Peter Landesman, starring Liam Neeson as FBI associate director Mark Felt, the Watergate whistleblower "Deep Throat"; Sony Pictures Classics release, 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Marriage Story
Marriage Story is a 2019 Noah Baumbach Netflix drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as divorcing spouses Charlie and Nicole Barber; Laura Dern won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, and the film earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.
Marshall (film)
Marshall (film) is a 2017 American biographical legal drama directed by Reginald Hudlin. It stars Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, who defends a black chauffeur in Connecticut.
Mary Shelley (film)
Mary Shelley (2017) is Haifaa Al-Mansour's English-language debut biopic, starring Elle Fanning as the Frankenstein author. Premiered at TIFF 2017, released by IFC Films May 25, 2018; 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 49.
Max (2015 film)
Max is a 2015 American family adventure film directed by Boaz Yakin, about a traumatized military dog in Texas whose bond with his handler's brother leads them to investigate the handler's death.
Me and My Motherland
Me and My Motherland (我和我的祖国, My People, My Country) is a 2019 Chinese anthology film of seven shorts by Chen Kaige, Zhang Yibai, Guan Hu, Xue Xiaolu, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and Wen Muye for the PRC's 70th anniversary; it earned 27.63亿元 and a record 91.0 satisfaction score.
Megan Leavey (film)
Megan Leavey (2017), also released as Rex, is a biographical war drama directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, starring Kate Mara as the Marine corporal and her bomb-sniffing dog Rex; released June 9, 2017 by Bleecker Street.
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019 Philippine film)
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019 Philippine film), the Pinoy remake of the 2013 Korean film, is a Viva Films drama directed by Nuel C. Naval starring Aga Muhlach as a mentally challenged father wrongfully convicted of murder; it was a 2019 MMFF entry and box-office hit.
Missing Johnny
Missing Johnny (強尼‧凱克) is Huang Xi's 2017 Taiwanese debut drama, executive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, starring Rima Zeidan, Lawrence Ko, and Sean Huang; it won four Taipei Film Awards and was banned from mainland Chinese release in 2018.
Moonlight (2016 film)
Moonlight (2016) is Barry Jenkins's three-chapter drama about Chiron, a young Black man in Miami, adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue; it won the 2017 Best Picture Oscar.
More than Blue
More than Blue (比悲傷更悲傷的故事) is a 2018 Taiwanese romance film directed by Gavin Lin, starring Jasper Liu and Ivy Chen, adapted from a 2009 Korean film; Taiwan's best-selling domestic film of 2018.
Mother (2019 film)
Mother (Madre, 2019) is Rodrigo Sorogoyen's Spanish-French psychological drama expanding his Oscar-nominated 2017 short: Marta Nieto plays Elena, a mother whose son vanished on a French beach, who ten years later befriends a teenager resembling him.
Mothers and Daughters (2016 film)
Mothers and Daughters (2016) is an American ensemble drama directed by Paul Duddridge and Nigel Levy, starring Selma Blair, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Courteney Cox, Christina Ricci, and Mira Sorvino; released May 6, 2016, Metascore 29.
Mountains May Depart (山河故人)
Mountains May Depart (山河故人) is Jia Zhangke's 2015 three-part drama spanning 1999, 2014, and 2025, following Shen Tao's love triangle in Fenyang, Shanxi, and her son's emigration to Australia; Cannes competitor, Golden Horse screenplay winner, re-released December 2025.
Mr. Church
Mr. Church is a 2016 American comedy-drama directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Eddie Murphy as a cook hired for six months who stays fifteen years with a dying mother and her daughter; inspired by Susan McMartin's real friendship, it grossed $685,780 and scored 25% with critics.
Mudbound (film)
Mudbound (2017), Dee Rees's Netflix drama adapted from Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel, follows white and Black families sharing Mississippi Delta farmland after WWII; four Oscar nominations, including Rachel Morrison's historic cinematography nod.
Mustang (film)
Mustang (2015) is Deniz Gamze Ergüven's debut drama about five orphaned sisters confined by their family in a Black Sea village; Oscar-nominated, César-winning, compared to The Virgin Suicides.
My Name Is Emily
My Name Is Emily is a 2015 Irish coming-of-age road movie written and directed by Simon Fitzmaurice, starring Evanna Lynch as a runaway teenager seeking her father.
My People, My Country (我和我的祖国)
My People, My Country (我和我的祖国) is a 2019 Chinese anthology tribute film with seven segments by Chen Kaige, Guan Hu, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao and others, marking the PRC's 70th anniversary; it earned 31.70亿元 and won the Hundred Flowers Best Film.