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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (Место встречи изменить нельзя) is a 1979 five-episode Soviet TV detective film by Stanislav Govorukhin, based on the Vainer brothers' novel Era of Mercy, starring Vladimir Vysotsky as Zheglov hunting the Black Cat gang in postwar Moscow.

The Meg

The Meg (2018), Japanese title MEG ザ・モンスター, is a Jon Turteltaub shark film starring Jason Statham, adapted from Steve Alten's 1997 novel; it cost $150 million, grossed $530.2 million worldwide, and spawned Meg 2: The Trench.

The Megyn Kelly Show

The Megyn Kelly Show, also called MK show, is Megyn Kelly's news and commentary podcast launched September 2020 under Devil May Care Media, airing live on SiriusXM Triumph channel 111 since 2021, with video on YouTube; a top-ranked, right-leaning US political podcast.

The Mehta Boys

The Mehta Boys (द मेहता बॉयज) is a 2025 Hindi drama, Boman Irani's directorial debut, co-written with Alexander Dinelaris, starring Irani and Avinash Tiwary as a father and son forced to spend 48 hours together; it premiered on Prime Video February 7, 2025.

The Meltdown (film)

The Meltdown (El deshielo) is Manuela Martelli's 2026 Chilean mystery drama, premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard, set in 1992 post-Pinochet Chile at an Andean ski hotel where a German skier vanishes; Chile's 2027 Oscar submission.

The Men Who Built America

The Men Who Built America is a 2012 four-episode History Channel docudrama profiling Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Ford through reenactments and interviews, praised for reach and criticized by historians for accuracy and its Great Man framing.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)

The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 Grant Heslov comedy starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey, adapted from Jon Ronson's 2004 nonfiction book about a secret US Army psychic-soldiers unit, released November 6, 2009, grossing $32.4 million.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (虎の尾を踏む男達)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (虎の尾を踏む男達) is Akira Kurosawa's 1945 Toho comedy-drama adapting the kabuki Kanjinchō, with Denjirō Ōkōchi as Benkei and comedian Enoken as a comic porter; censored, it was released only in 1952.

The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series)

The Menagerie is the only two-part episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, aired 17 and 24 November 1966. Written by Gene Roddenberry, it wraps the rejected pilot The Cage in a court-martial framing story, won a 1967 Hugo Award, and canonized Captain Pike.

The Menendez Brothers (film)

The Menendez Brothers is a 2024 Netflix documentary directed by Alejandro Hartmann featuring audio interviews with Lyle and Erik Menendez about their parents' 1989 murders, trials, and 1996 convictions; it debuted as Netflix's most-watched movie of the week.

The Mentalist

The Mentalist is a CBS crime procedural (2008-2015) created by Bruno Heller, starring Simon Baker as fake-psychic CBI consultant Patrick Jane hunting the killer Red John; it ran seven seasons and averaged 16.96 million viewers in season one.

The Menu (2022 film)

The Menu (2022) is a black comedy horror-thriller directed by Mark Mylod, written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, starring Ralph Fiennes as chef Julian Slowik and Anya Taylor-Joy; released by Searchlight Pictures November 18, 2022, 107 minutes, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, $79.6M worldwide.

The Menu (导火新闻线)

The Menu (導火新聞線) is a 2015 24-episode Hong Kong TV drama by Hong Kong Television Network about journalists at the free newspaper 囧報, starring Noel Leung, Catherine Chau, Kate Yeung, and Gregory Wong; it aired online after HKTV lost its license bid and spawned a 2016 film version with Ng Man-tat.

The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)

The Merchant of Venice (2004) is Michael Radford's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, starring Al Pacino as Shylock, Jeremy Irons as Antonio, Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio, and Lynn Collins as Portia; the first English-language feature version, released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 29, 2004.

The Merciless (불한당: 나쁜 놈들의 세상)

The Merciless (불한당: 나쁜 놈들의 세상) is a 2017 South Korean crime-action film by Byun Sung-hyun starring Sul Kyung-gu and Yim Si-wan as a gangster and undercover cop who bond in prison; it premiered at Cannes Midnight Screenings.

The Mercy

The Mercy is a 2018 British biographical drama directed by James Marsh, starring Colin Firth as amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst and Rachel Weisz as his wife.

The Mermaid (美人鱼) (2016 film)

The Mermaid (美人鱼, Mei Ren Yu) is Stephen Chow's 2016 Chinese romantic-comedy fantasy about a mermaid sent to kill a land-reclamation developer. It set China's all-time box office record at about 3.39 billion yuan and was the first Chinese film to pass 3 billion yuan.

The Merry Gentlemen

The Merry Gentlemen is a 2024 Netflix Christmas romantic comedy directed by Peter Sullivan, starring Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray, about a Broadway dancer staging an all-male revue to save her parents' venue; released November 20, 2024, with weak reviews (RT 39%, Metacritic 34).

The Merry-Go-Round

The Merry-Go-Round (1923), also Merry-Go-Round, is a Universal silent drama set in prewar Vienna, begun by Erich von Stroheim, fired by Irving Thalberg, and completed by Rupert Julian with Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin.

The Mess You Leave Behind

The Mess You Leave Behind (El desorden que dejas) is a 2020 Spanish Netflix limited thriller series, 8 episodes, created by Carlos Montero from his Premio Primavera 2016 novel, starring Inma Cuesta and Bárbara Lennie, set in Galicia.

The Message (الرسالة) (1976 film)

The Message (الرسالة, Al-Risalah), 1976 epic historical drama by Moustapha Akkad about Muhammad and the birth of Islam, shot in separate English (Anthony Quinn) and Arabic (Abdallah Gheith) versions, with the Prophet never depicted on screen.

The Message (风声) (2009 film)

The Message (风声), 2009 Chinese spy thriller co-directed by Gao Qunshu and Chen Kuo-fu, adapted from Mai Jia's novel; five suspects confined at Qiu Manor to find the mole 'Old Ghost'; earned about 250 million yuan.

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 Messengers (TV series)

The Messengers is an American supernatural drama television series created by Eoghan O'Donnell, aired on The CW in 2015, about five strangers revived with angelic gifts.

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.