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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.
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles (1932–2021), American filmmaker, composer, and writer, father of Mario Van Peebles; his independent Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) launched blaxploitation cinema.
Memento (film)
Memento (2000), Christopher Nolan's neo-noir thriller based on Jonathan Nolan's story "Memento Mori," stars Guy Pearce as amnesiac Leonard Shelby; its reverse-running color narrative, $5 million budget, and Oscar-nominated screenplay made Nolan's breakthrough.
Memento Mori (여고괴담 두번째 이야기) (1999 film)
Memento Mori (여고괴담 두번째 이야기) is a 1999 Korean horror drama, the second Whispering Corridors film, directed by Kim Tae-yong and Min Kyu-dong, about a lesbian school romance, a diary, and a suicide that haunts a girls' school.
Memoir of a Murderer (살인자의 기억법)
Memoir of a Murderer, also known as Salinjaui gieokbeob, is a 2017 South Korean crime thriller directed by Won Shin-yun, starring Sul Kyung-gu and Kim Nam-gil.
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.
Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005 film), Rob Marshall's adaptation of Arthur Golden's novel, starring Ziyi Zhang as Sayuri; won 3 of 6 Oscars, drew criticism for casting Chinese actresses as geisha and was titled Sayuri in Japan.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) is John Carpenter's Warner Bros. sci-fi comedy starring Chevy Chase as Nick Halloway, a stock analyst made invisible by a lab accident and hunted by Sam Neill's agent; adapted from H.F. Saint's 1987 novel, it grossed $14.3 million.
Memoria
Memoria (2021) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's first feature made outside Thailand, a Spanish- and English-language drama starring Tilda Swinton as Jessica Holland, a Scot in Colombia haunted by a mysterious bang; it shared Cannes 2021's Jury Prize and released theatrically only.
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.
Memories (2013 film)
Memories (മെമ്മറീസ്) is a 2013 Malayalam crime thriller written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran as alcoholic ex-cop Sam Alex investigating serial murders; released 9 August 2013, remade in Tamil as Aarathu Sinam.
Memories of Matsuko (嫌われ松子の一生)
Memories of Matsuko (嫌われ松子の一生, Kiraware Matsuko no Issho) is a 2006 Japanese musical comedy-drama by Tetsuya Nakashima, adapted from Muneki Yamada's novel, starring Miki Nakatani as a woman whose tragic life is told in pop-colored flashbacks.
Memories of Murder
Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) is Bong Joon-ho's 2003 South Korean crime thriller, his second feature, adapted from Kim Gwang-rim's play about the Hwaseong serial murders; it topped the 2003 Korean box office and the case was solved in 2019.
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo) is Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 Cuban film, adapted from Edmundo Desnoes' novel, about bourgeois intellectual Sergio who stays in Havana after the Bay of Pigs; a landmark of ICAIC-era cinema.
Memory (2022 film)
Memory is a 2022 American action thriller directed by Martin Campbell, starring Liam Neeson as a contract killer with Alzheimer's who refuses to kill a 13-year-old girl.
Men (1985 film)
Men... (Männer) is a 1985 West German comedy by Doris Dörrie starring Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, and Ulrike Kriener, about a husband who secretly rooms with his wife's lover; it won three 1986 German Film Awards.
Men (2022 film)
Men is a 2022 folk horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Jessie Buckley as a widow stalked by men all played by Rory Kinnear.
Men Behind the Sun (黑太阳731)
Men Behind the Sun (黑太阳731, Hei Tai Yang 731), also Man Behind the Sun or Squadron 731, is Mou Tun-fei's 1988 Hong Kong Category III war-horror film depicting Unit 731's human experiments, its censorship history, and legacy.
Men from the Monastery
Men from the Monastery (少林子弟, Shao Lin zi di, 1974) is a Chang Cheh Shaw Brothers kung fu film, second in his Shaolin cycle, starring Chen Kuan-tai, Fu Sheng, and Chi Kuan-chun as Shaolin fighters against the Manchu Qing.
Men in Black (1997 film)
Men in Black is a 1997 American science-fiction comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as secret agents policing aliens on Earth.
Men in Black 3
Men in Black 3 is a 2012 American science-fiction action comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the third film in the Men in Black series, starring Will Smith and Josh Brolin.
Men in Black II
Men in Black II is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. It follows Agent Jay as he tracks a shapeshifter.
Men in Black: International
Men in Black: International, also called Men in Black 4, is a 2019 American science fiction comedy directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson.
Men in Offside
Men in Offside (Muži v offsidu) is a 1931 Czech film comedy directed by Svatopluk Innemann, adapted from Karel Poláček's novel about football-obsessed Prague fans.
Men in War
Men in War is a 1957 American black-and-white war film directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as soldiers struggling to reach Hill 465 in the Korean War.
Men of Honor
Men of Honor is a 2000 American biographical drama directed by George Tillman Jr., with Cuba Gooding Jr. as Carl Brashear and Robert De Niro as his instructor.
Men Suddenly in Black (大丈夫)
Men Suddenly in Black (大丈夫) is Pang Ho-cheung's 2003 Hong Kong black comedy in which four married men attempt a 14-hour cheating spree while their wives are in Thailand; it won two Hong Kong Film Awards and spawned a 2006 sequel.
Men, Women & Children (film)
Men, Women & Children is a 2014 American ensemble drama directed by Jason Reitman, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner, about how the internet changes relationships.