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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 Musketeers

The Musketeers (2014-2016) is a BBC One/BBC America period action drama created by Adrian Hodges, loosely adapting Dumas's 1844 novel: d'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos in 17th-century Paris, 30 episodes over three series.

The Mysteries of Laura

The Mysteries of Laura: NBC comedy-drama police procedural (2014-2016) starring Debra Messing, adapted from the Spanish series Los misterios de Laura; canceled after two seasons and 38 episodes.

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (太陽の子エステバン)

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (太陽の子エステバン, Taiyō no Ko Esteban) is a 1982 Japanese-French animated series by Pierrot and DiC, 39 NHK episodes following Esteban, Zia, and Tao seeking seven golden cities of Mu, later revived through a fourth and final season.

The Mysterious Class (남고괴담)

The Mysterious Class (남고괴담, Namgogoedam) is a 2021 South Korean horror-mystery web drama starring K-pop boy band TREASURE, aired in 8 Friday episodes on YouTube from November 12 to December 31, 2021, about a class of 21 students hunting a ghost posing as a classmate.

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 Mystery of Moksha Island

The Mystery of Moksha Island is a 2024 Telugu-language thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Anish Yohan Kuruvilla, starring Ashutosh Rana and Priya Anand; eight 26-minute episodes about heirs lured to a private Nicobar island.

The Mystic Nine (老九门)

The Mystic Nine (老九门) is a 2016 Chinese web drama, prequel to The Lost Tomb by Nanpai Sanshu, about nine Changsha tomb-raiding families; 48 episodes, 168 million yuan budget, first web drama over 10 billion views, sequel Jiumen aired 2026.

The Mystic Nine II (九门)

The Mystic Nine II (九门, Jiu Men) is a 2026 Youku Republican-era adventure drama, sequel to The Mystic Nine (2016), directed by Bai Shan, written by Nanpai Sanshu, starring William Chan, Joseph Zeng, and Chen Yao, set in 1935 Changsha around the 401 unit disappearance and the Tower Beyond Worlds.

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 Brothers Band (TV series)

The Naked Brothers Band is a Nickelodeon mockumentary musical comedy (2007-2009) created by Polly Draper, starring her sons Nat and Alex Wolff as a fictional New York rock band, spun off from the 2005 film.

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 Director (全裸監督)

The Naked Director (全裸監督) is a Netflix Japanese drama series (2019, 2021; 16 episodes) based on Nobuhiro Motohashi's nonfiction about AV director Toru Muranishi, starring Takayuki Yamada, directed by Masaharu Take.

The Naked Gun

The Naked Gun: slapstick comedy franchise from ZAZ's 1982 TV spoof Police Squad!, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin in three films (1988, 1991, 1994) and a 2025 Liam Neeson reboot.

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 Doctor

The Name of the Doctor is the Doctor Who Series 7 finale, broadcast 18 May 2013 on BBC One. Written by Steven Moffat, it takes the Eleventh Doctor to his Trenzalore tomb, resolves Clara's Impossible Girl mystery, and introduces John Hurt's War Doctor.

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

The Nanny is an American sitcom that ran on CBS from 1993 to 1999, created by Fran Drescher, who starred as Fran Fine, a Jewish nanny for a wealthy Broadway producer's children.

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 Narrow Road to the Deep North (miniseries)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025) is a five-part Australian Prime Video/BBC miniseries by Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant, adapting Richard Flanagan's Booker-winning novel about surgeon Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds), a WWII POW on the Thai-Burma Railway.