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The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Muppets Take Manhattan is a 1984 American musical comedy film directed by Frank Oz. It is the third feature in the Muppet series and spawned the Muppet Babies TV series.
The Murderers Are Among Us
The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns) is Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 DEFA drama, the first German postwar feature and first Trümmerfilm, starring Hildegard Knef, about guilt and a war criminal in ruined Berlin.
The Music Box
The Music Box (1932) is a Laurel and Hardy comedy short directed by James Parrott for Hal Roach, in which the duo haul a player piano up 133 Silver Lake steps; it won the first Oscar for Best Comedy Short Subject.
The Music Lovers
The Music Lovers is Ken Russell's 1971 United Artists biopic of Tchaikovsky, starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson, scripted by Melvyn Bragg from Beloved Friend, told through opulent musical sequences covering 1875–1881.
The Music Man (1962 film)
The Music Man (1962) is Warner Bros.' film of Meredith Willson's Broadway musical, directed by Morton DaCosta, starring Robert Preston as con man Harold Hill and Shirley Jones; six Oscar nominations, one win.
The Music Room
The Music Room (Jalsaghar, জলসাঘর) is Satyajit Ray's 1958 Bengali drama, his fourth film, adapted from Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay's story about zamindar Biswambhar Roy's ruinous classical music soirées, with music by Vilayat Khan and Begum Akhtar.
The Musical (2026 film)
The Musical (2026) is an American dark comedy directed by Giselle Bonilla, written by Alexander Heller, starring Will Brill, Gillian Jacobs, and Rob Lowe. A middle school theater teacher stages an inappropriate 9/11 student musical for revenge; Sundance 2026 premiere, September 18, 2026 US release.
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco) is Diego Céspedes' 2025 Chilean-French feature debut: 1982 desert mining town, queer family blamed for a gaze-spread disease, Cannes Un Certain Regard Grand Prix winner and Chile's 2026 Oscar submission.
The Myth (神话) (film)
The Myth (神话, 2005) is a Hong Kong–Chinese action fantasy film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan as an archaeologist dreaming he was Qin general Meng Yi, with Kim Hee Seon, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Mallika Sherawat; it earned 96 million RMB in mainland China and won a Huabiao Award.
The Myth of the American Sleepover
The Myth of the American Sleepover is David Robert Mitchell's 2010 debut feature, a coming-of-age drama about four teenagers on the last night of summer in suburban Detroit, starring Claire Sloma, Marlon Morton, and Amanda Bauer; SXSW Jury Prize winner distributed by Sundance Selects.
The Naked City
The Naked City (1948) is Jules Dassin's police procedural, produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger, shot on 107 New York locations from Weegee's 1945 photo book, winner of two Academy Awards and template for the TV series Naked City.
The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant is Quentin Crisp's 1968 autobiography and the 1975 Thames Television film adapted from it, directed by Jack Gold with John Hurt's BAFTA-winning portrayal of Crisp, broadcast on ITV on 17 December 1975.
The Naked Gun (1988 film)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 Paramount spoof comedy directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin foiling a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, adapted from the canceled 1982 TV series Police Squad! and spawning two sequels and a 2025 reboot.
The Naked Gun (2025 film)
The Naked Gun is a 2025 American action comedy directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. in a reboot of the spoof franchise.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) is the second Naked Gun film, directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, with Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, and Robert Goulet; it satirizes energy corporations and the Bush administration and outgrossed the 1988 original.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 Paramount slapstick comedy directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin foiling a mind-control plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, based on the canceled 1982 TV series Police Squad!.
The Naked Kiss
The Naked Kiss (1964) is Samuel Fuller's black-and-white neo-noir melodrama, written, produced, and directed by Fuller, starring Constance Towers as ex-prostitute Kelly, with Anthony Eisley and Michael Dante; made for Allied Artists, famous for its subjective-camera opening beating.
The Naked Spur
The Naked Spur (1953) is Anthony Mann's third Western with James Stewart: bounty hunter Kemp, two greedy helpers, and captive Robert Ryan cross the Colorado Rockies for a $5,000 reward. Oscar-nominated screenplay, National Film Registry 1997.
The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth (1957), aka Your Past Is Showing, is a British black comedy directed by Mario Zampi, written by Michael Pertwee, starring Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, and Dennis Price as a blackmailer.
The Name of the Rose (film)
The Name of the Rose (1986), Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel, stars Sean Connery as friar William of Baskerville investigating deaths in a 1327 Benedictine abbey; a German-Italian-French co-production with divided reviews and a later 4K restoration.
The Namesake (film)
The Namesake (2006) is Mira Nair's drama adapting Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, with screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Kal Penn, Tabu, and Irrfan Khan as the Bengali-American Ganguli family, released by Fox Searchlight in March 2007.
The Nanny Diaries (film)
The Nanny Diaries is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, starring Scarlett Johansson as a nanny to a wealthy Manhattan couple.
The Narmada Story
The Narmada Story (थे नर्मदा स्टोरी) is a 2026 Hindi crime thriller directed by Zaigham Imam, released 12 June 2026, starring real-life police officer Simala Prasad and Ashwini Kalsekar in a Madhya Pradesh trafficking drama.
The National Health
The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair, is a 1973 Jack Gold film adapted by Peter Nichols from his 1969 National Theatre play, satirizing the NHS by contrasting a rundown London hospital with the soap opera Nurse Norton's Affair, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jim Dale.
The Nativity Story
The Nativity Story (2006) is a New Line Cinema drama directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Mike Rich, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Oscar Isaac; first film to premiere at the Vatican, grossing $37.6 million in the US.
The Navigators (film)
The Navigators is Ken Loach's 2001 comedy-drama about South Yorkshire rail workers facing the privatisation of British Rail, scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber, who died of mesothelioma before completion; it aired on Channel 4 in Britain and won a BAFTA for Best New Writer.
The Negotiation (협상) (film)
The Negotiation (협상) is a 2018 South Korean crime thriller, the first feature directed by Lee Jong-suk, in which Son Ye-jin's police negotiator confronts Hyun Bin's hostage-taker through phone and video talks, released in September 2018.
The Negotiator
The Negotiator is a 1998 American crime thriller directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as police hostage negotiators on opposite sides of a stand-off.
The Neon Bible (1995 film)
The Neon Bible (1995) is Terence Davies's third feature and first literary adaptation, from John Kennedy Toole's novel written at 16, starring Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae in 1940s rural Georgia; poorly received on release, later reassessed.
The Neon Demon
The Neon Demon (2016) is a horror thriller by Nicolas Winding Refn, his first film after Only God Forgives, starring Elle Fanning as teenage model Jesse in Cannes Competition, with Cliff Martinez's Cannes-winning score.