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The Messenger (2009 film)

The Messenger (2009), Oren Moverman's directorial debut drama co-written with Alessandro Camon, stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton as casualty notification officers and a war widow; Berlin Silver Bear winner and double Oscar nominee.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is a 1999 historical drama directed by Luc Besson, starring Milla Jovovich as Joan of Arc opposite John Malkovich and Dustin Hoffman.

The Messengers (film)

The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural horror film, the English-language debut of Hong Kong's Pang brothers, produced by Sam Raimi's Ghost House. It opened number one with $14.7M but scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Meteor Man (film)

The Meteor Man (1993) is Robert Townsend's superhero comedy about Washington, D.C. teacher Jefferson Reed, who gains powers from a meteor and fights the Golden Lords gang; it grossed about $8 million and is regarded as the first Black-led superhero feature film.

The Method

The Method (El método, 2005) is a Spanish-Argentine corporate thriller by Marcelo Piñeyro, adapted freely from Jordi Galcerán's play El método Grönholm, in which seven job candidates destroy each other in a Madrid selection test; it won two Goya Awards.

The Mexican

The Mexican is a 2001 American comedy-drama directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, about a mob errand runner sent to retrieve a cursed pistol.

The Meyerowitz Stories

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is Noah Baumbach's 2017 Netflix comedy-drama, premiered In Competition at Cannes, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Elizabeth Marvel as siblings facing their sculptor father.

The Midnight After (那夜凌晨,我坐上了旺角开往大埔的红VAN)

The Midnight After (那夜凌晨,我坐上了旺角开往大埔的红VAN) is Fruit Chan's 2014 Hong Kong sci-fi thriller adapted from Mr. Pizza's HKGolden web novel: a minibus crosses Lion Rock Tunnel into an emptied Hong Kong, winning HK Film Critics Society Best Film.

The Midnight Meat Train

The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, adapted by Jeff Buhler from Clive Barker's Books of Blood story, starring Bradley Cooper and Vinnie Jones, released on only 100 screens by Lionsgate.

The Midnight Sky

The Midnight Sky is a 2020 Netflix post-apocalyptic sci-fi film directed by and starring George Clooney, adapted from Lily Brooks-Dalton's novel Good Morning, Midnight; released December 23, 2020, set in 2049, with Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, and Kyle Chandler.

The Mighty

The Mighty (1998) is a Peter Chelsom comedy-drama adapted from Rodman Philbrick's novel Freak the Mighty, starring Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone, and James Gandolfini, released by Miramax in October 1998.

The Mighty Celt

The Mighty Celt is a 2005 Northern Irish coming-of-age drama, Pearse Elliott's directing debut, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Tyrone McKenna, and Ken Stott, about a Belfast boy training a greyhound in post-ceasefire Belfast.

The Mighty Ducks

The Mighty Ducks is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama directed by Stephen Herek, in which Emilio Estevez plays a Minnesota lawyer sentenced to coach a ragtag youth hockey team.

The Mighty Ducks (film)

The Mighty Ducks is a 1992 Disney sports comedy-drama directed by Stephen Herek, written by Steven Brill, starring Emilio Estevez as lawyer Gordon Bombay coaching a Minneapolis peewee hockey team; it grossed $50.7 million and spawned sequels and the Anaheim NHL franchise.

The Milagro Beanfield War

The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 Robert Redford comedy-drama, adapted from John Nichols's 1974 novel, about a Chicano farmer's beanfield triggering a New Mexico water-rights conflict; it won Dave Grusin the Oscar for Best Original Score.

The Milk of Sorrow

The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009) is Claudia Llosa's Peruvian-Spanish drama starring Magaly Solier as Fausta, who carries trauma transmitted through breast milk from Peru's armed conflict; it won the 2009 Golden Bear and was Oscar-nominated.

The Milkmaid (خادمة اللبن) (2020 film)

The Milkmaid (خادمة اللبن) is a 2020 Nigerian Hausa-language drama by Desmond Ovbiagele about two Fulani sisters abducted by insurgents; Nigeria's submission for the 93rd Academy Awards and a five-time AMAA winner.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way (La Voie lactée), Luis Buñuel's 1969 French-Italian surrealist film, follows two beggars pilgriming from Paris to Santiago de Compostela through episodes on six Catholic mysteries and their heresies; it won the 1969 Berlin Interfilm Award.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is Guy Ritchie's 2024 action-comedy starring Henry Cavill, based on Damien Lewis's book about Operation Postmaster and the British SOE, released by Lionsgate.

The Miracle of Bern

The Miracle of Bern (Das Wunder von Bern) is Sönke Wortmann's 2003 German drama about the 1954 World Cup final, in which West Germany beat Hungary 3:2 in Bern, and a POW father's return to Essen.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken, about a small-town girl's unremembered wartime marriage and pregnancy, famous for outmaneuvering the Production Code.

The Miracle Worker (1962 film)

The Miracle Worker (1962) is Arthur Penn's biographical drama, adapted by William Gibson from his Broadway play, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller; both won 1963 Oscars, and the film entered the National Film Registry in 2024.

The Miracle Worker (2000 film)

The Miracle Worker (2000 film), a Disney made-for-television drama directed by Nadia Tass, aired November 12, 2000 on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, starring Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Helen Keller and Alison Elliott as Annie Sullivan.

The Miranda Brothers

The Miranda Brothers is a 2024 Hindi sports action drama directed by Sanjay Gupta, adapted from the Venezuelan film Hermano, starring Harshvardhan Rane and Meezaan Jafri as Goan footballer brothers; released 25 October 2024 on JioCinema to negative reviews.

The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton, adapting Agatha Christie's 1962 Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, starring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Tony Curtis.

The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic comedy directed by Barbra Streisand, who stars as a Columbia professor who marries a mathematics professor played by Jeff Bridges.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (film)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a 2018 drama directed by Desiree Akhavan, adapted from Emily M. Danforth's 2012 YA novel, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as a teen sent to the God's Promise conversion therapy center in 1993; it won Sundance's 2018 U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.

The Misfits (1961 film)

The Misfits (1961) is John Huston's Nevada desert drama, written by Arthur Miller, starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift; the final completed film of Monroe and Gable, a box-office disappointment that later became regarded as a classic.

The Misfits (2021 film)

The Misfits (2021) is a Renny Harlin heist action film starring Pierce Brosnan, Tim Roth, and Nick Cannon, shot in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in 2019. An Al Jazeera investigation found its script was reworked during the Qatar blockade to depict Qatar as a terrorist state; critics gave it 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Missing (2003 film)

The Missing (2003 film): Ron Howard's American Western thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones, based on Thomas Eidson's novel The Last Ride; distinct from Lee Kang-sheng's Taiwanese film Bu jian of the same year.