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The Missing Gun (寻枪)
The Missing Gun (寻枪) is Lu Chuan's 2002 feature debut, adapted from Fan Yiping's 《寻枪记》, starring Jiang Wen as policeman Ma Shan, who hunts his lost pistol with three bullets in a Guizhou-dialect neo-noir shown at Venice.
The Mission (1986 film)
The Mission is a 1986 Roland Joffé film, scripted by Robert Bolt, about Jesuits defending a Guaraní mission after the 1750 Treaty of Madrid; it won the 1986 Palme d'Or and seven Oscar nominations.
The Mission (1999 film)
The Mission (鎗火, Qiang huo) is Johnnie To's 1999 Hong Kong triad film about five gunmen guarding a boss, shot in 19 days on a 2.5 million budget, winner of 2000 Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards best director honors.
The Missionary
The Missionary is a 1982 British comedy, also called The Missionary Position, directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Michael Palin, who stars as Rev. Charles Fortescue, a missionary assigned to London prostitutes, with Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, and Denholm Elliott; a HandMade Films production.
The Missouri Breaks
The Missouri Breaks is Arthur Penn's 1976 Western starring Marlon Brando as regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton and Jack Nicholson as rustler Tom Logan, written by Thomas McGuane; a failure on release, later a cult favorite, named for Montana's Missouri Breaks badlands.
The Mist (film)
The Mist (2007) is Frank Darabont's horror film adapting Stephen King's 1980 novella, starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden; townspeople trapped in a grocery store by a creature-filled mist, famous for its devastating ending.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (formerly Connected) is Sony Pictures Animation's 2021 Oscar-nominated animated comedy, directed by Mike Rianda, released on Netflix April 30, 2021, about a family facing a robot uprising led by PAL.
The Mole People
The Mole People (1956) is a Universal-International black-and-white sci-fi horror film, Virgil Vogel's directorial debut, starring John Agar, about archaeologists finding an underground albino Sumerian colony with mole-man slaves; distinct from Toth's 1993 tunnel-dweller book.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (土竜の唄 潜入捜査官 REIJI)
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (Mogura no uta) is a 2013 Takashi Miike action comedy, with Toma Ikuta as fired cop Reiji infiltrating the Sukiya-kai yakuza; it topped Japan's box office and spawned two sequels.
The Moment (2026 film)
The Moment (2026) is an A24 mockumentary directed by Aidan Zamiri, starring Charli XCX as a fictionalized version of herself after Brat summer; premiered at Sundance 2026, released January 30, 2026.
The Money Pit
The Money Pit is a 1986 American comedy directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple whose bargain country mansion collapses around them.
The Mongoose (film)
The Mongoose (2026) is a Liam Neeson action thriller, Mark Vanselow's directorial debut, about war hero Ryan 'Fang' Flanagan fleeing a murder accusation in a televised cross-country car chase; released October 30, 2026 by Samuel Goldwyn Films, filmed in Victoria, Australia.
The Monkey (film)
The Monkey (2025) is Osgood Perkins's horror comedy adapting Stephen King's 1980 short story, released by Neon on February 21, 2025. Theo James plays twin brothers stalked by a wind-up toy monkey whose turned key causes gruesome deaths; produced by James Wan, grossing $39.7 million in the US.
The Monkey King (2023 film)
The Monkey King (2023) is a Netflix animated family comedy directed by Anthony Stacchi, executive produced by Stephen Chow, based on Journey to the West, starring Jimmy O. Yang, released August 18, 2023.
The Monkey King (西游记之大闹天宫) (2014 film)
The Monkey King (西游记之大闹天宫) is a 2014 3D fantasy film directed by Cheang Pou-sooi, starring Donnie Yen, Chow Yun-fat, and Aaron Kwok, adapting the first eight chapters of Journey to the West; it earned 10.53亿 RMB in mainland China and spawned a trilogy.
The Monkey King 2 (西游记之孙悟空三打白骨精)
The Monkey King 2 (西游记之孙悟空三打白骨精) is a 2016 3D fantasy action film directed by Soi Cheang, starring Aaron Kwok, Gong Li, and Feng Shaofeng; it adapts the White Bone Demon episode of Journey to the West, grossed 12.01亿元, and won two Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Monkey King 3 (西游记女儿国)
The Monkey King 3 (西游记女儿国) is Cheang Pou-soi's 2018 Filmko Films fantasy romance comedy, third in his Journey to the West series, starring Aaron Kwok and Zhao Liying.
The Monolith Monsters
The Monolith Monsters (1957) is a Universal-International black-and-white sci-fi horror film directed by John Sherwood, from a story by Jack Arnold, in which meteor fragments grow with water, petrify people by draining silicon, and are stopped by salt water.
The Monster (2016 film)
The Monster (2016) is a horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine as a stranded mother and daughter stalked by a creature; released by A24, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Monster Squad
The Monster Squad is a 1987 American horror comedy directed by Fred Dekker and co-written with Shane Black, in which kids battle Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman; a box-office flop that became a cult film.
The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men is a 2014 American war drama directed by George Clooney, based on Robert M. Edsel's book, following Allied art experts rescuing works stolen by the Nazis.
The Moogai
The Moogai (2024) is Jon Bell's Aboriginal supernatural horror feature debut, expanded from his 2020 SXSW-winning short. Starring Shari Sebbens and Meyne Wyatt, it premiered at Sundance 2024 and links a child-stealing spirit to the Stolen Generations.
The Moon
The Moon (더 문) is a 2023 South Korean sci-fi disaster film directed by Kim Yong-hwa, about astronaut Hwang Sun-woo stranded on the Moon in 2029 after a solar storm. First Korean lunar film, 28.6 billion won budget, about 510,000 admissions.
The Moon Also Rises
The Moon Also Rises is Lin Cheng-sheng's 2005 Taiwanese melodrama (Chinese title meaning 'Under the Moonlight, I Remember'), adapted from Li Ang's story 'Hsi-lien', starring Yang Kuei-mei, a 2004 Golden Horse Best Actress winner, distinct from Yuyan Wang's 2024 short of the same title.
The Moon in the Gutter
The Moon in the Gutter (La lune dans le caniveau) is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1983 French drama, his follow-up to Diva, adapted from David Goodis's 1953 novel, starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski; it competed at Cannes, flopped, and won three 1984 Césars.
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (달은... 해가 꾸는 꿈)
The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (달은... 해가 꾸는 꿈, Dal-eun... haega kkuneun kkum), also translated The Moon is What the Sun Dreams of, is Park Chan-wook's 1992 feature directorial debut, a 103-minute Korean noir action romance about a Busan gangster's betrayal and revenge, starring singer Lee Seung-chul; it flopped with 99 admissions and was remastered for release in 2014.
The Moor (film)
The Moor is a 2024 British folk horror film, Chris Cronin's feature debut written by Paul Thomas, about a woman helping a father search Yorkshire moorland for his murdered son's remains; premiered at FrightFest 2023, released by Bulldog Film Distribution.
The More You Ignore Me (film)
The More You Ignore Me is a 2018 British comedy-drama directed by Keith English, adapted by Jo Brand from her 2009 novel, starring Sheridan Smith, Ella Hunt, and Mark Addy; a 1980s family story about a mother's mental illness and Smiths fandom, released 6 July 2018.
The Morning After
The Morning After is a 1986 American mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jane Fonda as an alcoholic actress who wakes beside a corpse with no memory.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a 2013 urban fantasy film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Lily Collins as a New York teenager descended from demon-hunting Shadowhunters.