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The Miniature Wife

The Miniature Wife is a 2026 Peacock Original comedy-drama series, also on Sky and NOW, based on Manuel Gonzales's 2013 short story, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen as a married couple whose relationship fractures after a lab accident shrinks the wife to six inches tall.

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

The Miracle Worker is William Gibson's Tony-winning drama about Annie Sullivan teaching deafblind Helen Keller language, first a 1957 teleplay, then a 1959 Broadway hit, the 1962 Oscar-winning film with Bancroft and Duke, and an annual outdoor staging at Ivy Green.

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 Misanthrope

The Misanthrope (Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux) is a five-act comedy in verse by Molière, first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in 1666.

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 Miserly Knight

The Miserly Knight (Скупой рыцарь) is a one-act verse tragedy by Alexander Pushkin, first of the 1830 Little Tragedies, about a baron whose hoarded gold destroys his bond with his son.

The Misery Index (TV series)

The Misery Index (TBS, 2019-2022) was a comedy game show hosted by Jameela Jamil, adapted from the card game Sh*t Happens, in which contestants and the Impractical Jokers quartet ranked miserable real-life events 1-100 for a $30,000 prize across three seasons.

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.

The Missing (British TV series)

The Missing is a British anthology crime drama (2014–2016) created by Harry and Jack Williams for BBC One and Starz, starring James Nesbitt, Frances O'Connor, and Tchéky Karyo as detective Julien Baptiste, about missing children across two time frames; it spawned the spin-off Baptiste.

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 Missing Master Chef

The Missing Master Chef (消失的厨神) is a 2024 Chinese 65-episode vertical short drama by Chongqing Malt Culture about champion chef Fang Chenxing; its NetShort English dub topped overseas charts and won a Busan Asian Short Drama Award.

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 Mist (TV series)

The Mist (TV series), 2017 American horror drama created by Christian Torpe from Stephen King's novella, aired 10 episodes on Spike; cancelled after one season with 0.14 rating and 462,000 viewers.

The Mistress of the Inn

The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) is a three-act prose comedy by Carlo Goldoni, first performed in Venice in 1753 and centered on the innkeeper Mirandolina.

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 Moaning of Life

The Moaning of Life is a Sky One comedy travel documentary (2013-2015, 2 series, 11 episodes) in which Karl Pilkington travels alone, without Gervais and Merchant, exploring marriage, happiness, kids, vocation, and death across world cultures.

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad: American ABC police drama (1968-1973, five seasons, 123 episodes) about Pete, Linc, and Julie, young undercover cops, one white, one black, one blonde; created by Aaron Spelling, Bud Ruskin, and Sammy Hess; later a poorly received 1999 film.