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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 Morning Show (American TV series)

The Morning Show is an Apple TV+ drama (2019–2027) starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as anchors at fictional network UBA, inspired by Brian Stelter's book Top of the Morning and the Matt Lauer #MeToo scandal; five seasons, ending in 2027.

The Morning Show season 1

The Morning Show season 1 (2019) is Apple TV+'s flagship #MeToo drama starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, loosely based on NBC's Today and the Matt Lauer scandal, with 10 episodes at a reported $15 million each and an Emmy win for Billy Crudup.

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.

The Mortician (TV series)

The Mortician is a 2025 three-part HBO documentary series directed by Joshua Rofé about David Sconce and the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, California, whose 1980s mass-cremation and corpse-theft scandal led to 41 criminal counts and industry reforms.

The Mortuary Assistant (film)

The Mortuary Assistant (film): 2026 American supernatural horror movie directed by Jeremiah Kipp, adapted from Brian Clarke's 2022 game; stars Willa Holland as possessed mortician Rebecca Owens; released February 13, 2026, Shudder March 27, 2026.

The Mortuary Collection

The Mortuary Collection is a 2019 American horror anthology film written and directed by Ryan Spindell, starring Clancy Brown as mortician Montgomery Dark and Caitlin Custer as Sam, released on Shudder October 15, 2020, with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Mosquito Bowl

The Mosquito Bowl was a Christmas Eve 1944 football game between the 4th and 29th Marine Regiments on Guadalcanal, played by 65 former college stars, 15 of whom died at Okinawa; subject of Bissinger's 2022 book and a 2026 Peter Berg Netflix film.

The Mosquito Coast (film)

The Mosquito Coast (1986) is Peter Weir's adventure drama adapted by Paul Schrader from Paul Theroux's 1981 novel, starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix as a family seeking utopia in Central America; released November 26, 1986 by Warner Bros.

The Most Beautiful (一番美しく)

The Most Beautiful (一番美しく, Ichiban utsukushiku) is Akira Kurosawa's 1944 second film, a Toho wartime propaganda drama about female volunteer workers at an optics factory, starring Yoko Yaguchi, whom Kurosawa married the next year.

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2025 film)

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: 2025 Indonesian Netflix romantic comedy directed by Robert Ronny, starring Reza Rahadian and Sheila Dara Aisha; a playboy stages a dating show to fulfill his father's will, released February 14, 2025, 122 minutes.

The Most Dangerous Game (1932 film)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932) is an RKO adventure-horror film co-directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel, adapted from Richard Connell's 1924 short story, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, and Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, and sharing sets and crew with King Kong.

The Most Distant Course (最遥远的距离)

The Most Distant Course (最遙遠的距離) is a 2007 Taiwanese road film, Lin Jing-jie's feature debut, about three lost Taipei residents converging on the east coast; it won Venice Critics' Week Best Film and Golden Horse Best Sound.

The Most Happy Fella

The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical with book, music, and lyrics by Frank Loesser, based on Sidney Howard's play They Knew What They Wanted.

The Most Hated Woman in America

The Most Hated Woman in America is a 2017 Netflix biographical drama directed by Tommy O'Haver, starring Melissa Leo as atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair; it premiered at SXSW and received mixed reviews (RT 40%, Metacritic 41).

The Most Popular Girls in School

The Most Popular Girls in School (MPGIS) is an American stop-motion comedy web series (2011–2017) by Mark Cope and Carlo Moss, animating Barbie dolls as feuding Overland Park, Kansas cheerleaders, with 5 seasons, 82 YouTube episodes, and a 2013 Tumblr-driven fandom surge.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2024 film)

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2024) is the ninth Simpsons Disney+ short: Sideshow Bob (Kelsey Grammer) and Disney villains sing a Halloween parody of the Christmas carol, directed by David Silverman, released October 11, 2024.

The Mother (2023 film)

The Mother (2023) is a Netflix action thriller directed by Niki Caro, starring Jennifer Lopez as an assassin protecting the daughter she gave up; released May 12, 2023, it became Netflix's most-watched film of early 2023 with mixed reviews.

The Mother (How I Met Your Mother)

The Mother in How I Met Your Mother is Tracy McConnell (also Tracy Mosby), Ted Mosby's wife, played by Cristin Milioti. Revealed behind the yellow umbrella in the season 8 finale (May 2013); her name was first hinted by a stripper named Tracy in season 1's "Belly Full of Turkey"; she dies before Ted's 2030 narration, which is actually about Robin.

The Mother and the Whore

The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la putain) is Jean Eustache's 1973 French black-and-white drama, about 217 minutes long, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, and Françoise Lebrun in a post-May 1968 Parisian love triangle; it won the 1973 Cannes Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.

The Mothman Prophecies (film)

The Mothman Prophecies (2002 film), directed by Mark Pellington, starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney; supernatural thriller loosely based on John Keel's 1975 book about the Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mothman sightings, released January 25, 2002 by Screen Gems.

The Motive

The Motive (El autor) is a 2017 Spanish-Mexican dark comedy thriller by Manuel Martín Cuenca, adapted from Javier Cercas's novel El móvil, starring Javier Gutiérrez as a failed writer who manipulates his Seville neighbors; FIPRESCI at TIFF 2017 and two Goyas.

The Motorcycle Diaries (film)

The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta), Walter Salles's 2004 Spanish-language road film with Gael García Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna, dramatizes Che Guevara's 1952 South American journey; it won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and an Oscar for 'Al otro lado del río'.

The Mountain and the Viper

"The Mountain and the Viper" is Game of Thrones season 4, episode 8 (38th overall), written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Alex Graves; its trial by combat ends with Oberyn Martell's death and Tyrion's guilty verdict; 7.17 million US viewers, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Mountain Eagle

The Mountain Eagle (Der Bergadler, aka Fear o' God) is Alfred Hitchcock's lost 1926 silent melodrama, a Gainsborough-Emelka co-production shot in Munich and the Tyrol, released 1926-27 and now his only entirely lost feature.

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared: 1959 satirical comedy directed by Jack Arnold, adapted from Leonard Wibberley's 1955 novel, starring Peter Sellers in three roles as tiny Grand Fenwick declares war on the US to lose, accidentally wins, and captures the Q-Bomb.

The Mouse Trap (film)

The Mouse Trap (originally Mickey's Mouse Trap) is a 2024 Canadian comedy horror film directed by Jamie Bailey, written by and starring Simon Phillips, about a masked Mickey Mouse killer at an arcade birthday party, released on VOD August 6, 2024.

The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play, opened in London in 1952 and became the world's longest-running play, with 30,000 performances by 2025.

The Movie Emperor

The Movie Emperor (红毯先生, formerly Red Carpet) is a 2024 Chinese comedy-drama by Ning Hao starring Andy Lau as a Hong Kong star chasing an award by playing a farmer; premiered at TIFF 2023, released in China February 10, 2024.

The Movies (miniseries)

The Movies is a 2019 six-part CNN documentary miniseries, also called The Movies (CNN series), executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Mark Herzog, covering American cinema decade by decade from the Golden Age to the 2000s with over 150 interviews and no narrator.