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Moana 2

Moana 2, also known as Vaiana 2, is a 2024 Disney animated musical sequel in which Moana and Maui voyage across Oceania, grossing over $1 billion worldwide.

Moana Pozzi

Moana Pozzi (Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi, 1961-1994) was an Italian adult film star, TV personality, and writer; her Tip Tap Club scandal, La filosofia di Moana, Partito dell'Amore candidacy, and disputed death in Lyon set her apart.

Mob Land

Mob Land is a 2023 American action thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Nicholas Maggio, starring John Travolta, Stephen Dorff, Shiloh Fernandez, and Kevin Dillon; a botched Alabama pill mill robbery pits a family man against the New Orleans mafia and the local sheriff. Not the Paramount+ series MobLand.

Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) (1981 film)

Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) is the 1981 Shochiku-distributed anime film, first of a trilogy re-editing the 1979 TV series' episodes 1–14 with new cuts, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino.

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (機動戦士ガンダムF91)

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (機動戦士ガンダムF91) is a 1991 Yoshiyuki Tomino theatrical anime, Sunrise's second original Gundam film, set in UC 0123, originally planned as a TV series and condensed into a 115-minute Shochiku release.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (機動戦士Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-)

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- (機動戦士Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-) is the 2025 theatrical pre-release compilation of the Khara-Sunrise Gundam TV series, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki, opening January 17, 2025 and earning over 3.3 billion yen.

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ キルケーの魔女)

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ キルケーの魔女) is the 2026 second film of the three-part Hathaway anime trilogy, directed by Shukou Murase, set in U.C. 0105, earning over 2.24 billion yen.

Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (機動戦士ガンダムIII めぐりあい宇宙編)

Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (機動戦士ガンダムIII めぐりあい宇宙編) is the 1982 third compilation film of the Gundam TV series, covering episodes 31–43, about 70% new animation, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, ending at A Baoa Qu.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア)

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (機動戦士ガンダム 逆襲のシャア) is a 1988 Tomino-directed anime film, the fourth Gundam theatrical work, set in U.C. 0093, depicting Amuro Ray versus Char Aznable and Neo Zeon's Axis drop.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ), aka Hathaway's Flash, is a 2021 Sunrise anime film, first of a trilogy adapting Tomino's novels, set in U.C.0105, directed by Shuko Murase, released June 11, 2021 by Shochiku.

Mobsters (film)

Mobsters is a 1991 American crime drama directed by Michael Karbelnikoff, loosely based on the rise of Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Frank Costello.

Moby Dick (1956 film)

Moby Dick (1956) is John Huston's film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel, starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, with Richard Basehart and Orson Welles; screenplay by Ray Bradbury, noted for its desaturated Technicolor and troubled open-sea production.

Mockbuster

Mockbusters are low-budget films mimicking a blockbuster's theme and title, released direct-to-video alongside the imitated film; The Asylum, founded 1997, pioneered the model with its 2005 War of the Worlds and titles like Transmorphers and Snakes on a Train.

Mockbuster (film)

Mockbuster (2025) is Anthony Frith's feature documentary about directing The Land That Time Forgot for The Asylum, the Sharknado mockbuster studio, in six days in Adelaide; it won the Adelaide Film Festival Audience Award and released in 2026.

Mockumentary

Mockumentary: a fictional film or TV show presented in documentary style to make invented events seem real. Also called mock-documentary or docucomedy. Named by Rob Reiner for This Is Spinal Tap (1984); early landmarks include Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast; boomed on TV with The Office and Modern Family.

Modern Times (film)

Modern Times (1936) is Charles Chaplin's 87-minute comedy, his last film with the Little Tramp, a largely silent Depression-era satire of industrial automation whose gibberish Titine song marked the Tramp's only spoken words.

Modern Whore

Modern Whore is a 2025 Canadian hybrid documentary by Nicole Bazuin starring Andrea Werhun, based on her sex work memoir; it premiered at TIFF 2025, won CUFF.Docs and Canadian Screen Awards, and was released digitally May 1, 2026.

Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise, a female crime-fighter created by Peter O'Donnell, debuted as a comic strip in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963 and ran to 2002, spawning eleven novels, a 1966 Joseph Losey film starring Monica Vitti, and later radio and DVD adaptations.

Modha Rathri

Modha Rathri (மோத ராத்திரி) is a 2026 Tamil rural comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Raja Karuppasamy, starring Rishikanth and Anishma Anilkumar; a Mythri Movie Makers film released 21 August 2026 and streaming on Netflix from 18 September 2026.

Modus Anomali

Modus Anomali (Ritual) is a 2012 Indonesian psychological thriller written and directed by Joko Anwar, produced by Sheila Timothy for LifeLike Pictures. Rio Dewanto plays a man hunting his missing family through woods planted with alarm clocks; premiered at SXSW 2012.

Moe Howard

Moe Howard, born Moses Harry Horwitz (1897–1975), was an American actor and comedian who led the Three Stooges, dispensing eye-gouges and mallet blows in nearly 200 comedy shorts.

Mogambo

Mogambo is a 1953 American-British adventure romance directed by John Ford, starring Clark Gable as a safari trapper alongside Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly.

Mogul Mowgli

Mogul Mowgli is a 2020 British drama, Bassam Tariq's debut narrative feature, co-written by and starring Riz Ahmed as British Pakistani rapper Zed, felled by autoimmune illness before his first world tour; Berlinale FIPRESCI winner and Bafta nominee.

Mohabbat (मोहब्बत)

Mohabbat (मोहब्बत), 1997 Hindi romance-drama directed by Reema Rakesh Nath, starring Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna; released 19 September 1997, a box-office flop.

Mohabbatein (मोहब्बतें)

Mohabbatein (मोहब्बतें), a 2000 Hindi romantic musical drama by Aditya Chopra for Yash Raj Films, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Aishwarya Rai; released 27 October 2000, 216 minutes, a blockbuster.

Mohalla Assi (मोहल्ला अस्सी)

Mohalla Assi (मोहल्ला अस्सी) is a 2018 Hindi satirical drama directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, starring Sunny Deol, based on Kashinath Singh's novel Kashi Ka Assi, about commercialization of Varanasi; delayed by CBFC censorship until a Delhi High Court ruling.

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub) is an Indian actor from Delhi, a National School of Drama graduate known for Murari in Raanjhanaa, Chintu in Tanu Weds Manu Returns, and lead streaming roles like Real Kashmir Football Club.

Mohan (மோகன்) (actor)

Mohan (மோகன்), also Kokila Mohan and Mic Mohan, born 1956, is a Tamil film actor whose 1980s hits Payanangal Mudivathillai and Mouna Ragam won Filmfare Awards; he returned with Haraa (2024).

Mohan Babu

Mohan Babu (Manchu Bhakthavatsalam Naidu, born 1952), Telugu cinema actor, producer and educationist; debuted as villain in Swargam Narakam (1975); Padma Shri 2007, Filmfare Best Actor for Pedarayudu; Rajya Sabha MP 1995–2001.

Mohan Raja (மோகன் ராஜா)

Mohan Raja (மோகன் ராஜா), also M. Raja or Jayam Raja, is a Tamil film director and screenwriter, son of editor Mohan and brother of Jayam Ravi, known for Telugu remakes like Jayam and the original hit Thani Oruvan (2015).