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The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) is the third and final Wachowski film of the original Matrix trilogy, released simultaneously in 95 countries, shot back-to-back with Reloaded in Sydney, and noted for its large-scale siege and machine-city visual effects.

The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture

The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture is the 1999 Maverick/Warner various-artists soundtrack album for The Matrix, mixing industrial rock, metal, and electronica; it peaked at number 7 in the US, sold 1.5 million copies, and is separate from Don Davis's score.

The Mattachine Family

The Mattachine Family is a 2023 American queer dramedy, Andy Vallentine's debut feature written by his husband Danny Vallentine, starring Nico Tortorella and Juan Pablo Di Pace as husbands whose foster son's return to his birth mother exposes their differing views on parenthood.

The Mature Age

The Mature Age (French: L'Âge mûr) is a bronze sculptural group by Camille Claudel, an allegory of youth, maturity, and old age, shown at the Salon of 1899.

The Mauritanian

The Mauritanian (2021) is Kevin Macdonald's legal drama based on Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir Guantánamo Diary, starring Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley, and Benedict Cumberbatch, about 14 years of detention without charge.

The Mauskovic Dance Band

The Mauskovic Dance Band is an Amsterdam-based Dutch collective blending cumbia, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, psych-rock, and space disco, founded by producer Nic Mauskovic, who released two albums on Soundway and Bongo Joe.

The Mavericks

The Mavericks: American band formed 1989 in Miami by Raul Malo, Paul Deakin, and Robert Reynolds; Grammy-winning blend of country, rock, and Latin music; after Malo's December 2025 death, touring as The Mavericks & Friends.

The Maximus Poems

The Maximus Poems is a sequence of more than 300 linked poems by the American poet Charles Olson, centered on the speaker Maximus and Gloucester, Massachusetts.

The Maxx

The Maxx is a 35-issue Image Comics series (March 1993–February 1998) by Sam Kieth about a homeless man who believes he is a superhero in a dream world called the Outback, adapted as a 1995 MTV animated miniseries.

The Mayor (TV series)

The Mayor (TV series): 2017 ABC American sitcom created by Jeremy Bronson, starring Brandon Micheal Hall as rapper Courtney Rose, who accidentally becomes mayor of Fort Grey, California; 13 episodes, cancelled 2018.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge is an 1886 Thomas Hardy novel about Michael Henchard, who sells his wife in a drunken act and later becomes mayor of Casterbridge.

The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner (2009) by James Dashner, also known as the Maze Runner series' first novel, is a YA dystopian sci-fi book about amnesiac teen Thomas in the Glade inside a deadly Maze run by WICKED; adapted into Wes Ball's 2014 film with Dylan O'Brien, which opened with $32.5 million.

The Maze Runner (book series)

The Maze Runner book series by James Dashner: YA dystopian novels (2009-2025) about Thomas, the Gladers, WICKED, and the Maze; trilogy, two prequels, Crank Palace novella, and Maze Cutter sequels, adapted into three films.

The Maze Runner (film)

The Maze Runner is a 2014 American science-fiction dystopian thriller directed by Wes Ball, adapted from James Dashner's 2009 young-adult novel and starring Dylan O'Brien.

The McCarthys

The McCarthys: CBS multi-camera sitcom, 2014-2015, one season, 15 episodes. Created by Brian Gallivan; Tyler Ritter plays gay, non-sporty Ronny in a Boston Irish-Catholic sports-obsessed family, with Laurie Metcalf and Jack McGee. Canceled May 2015; averaged 1.18 rating, 5.46 million viewers.

The McCoys

The McCoys, an American garage-rock band formed in 1962 in Union City, Indiana, fronted by Rick Derringer (Rick Zehringer), scored the 1965 Billboard No. 1 "Hang On Sloopy," later Ohio's state rock song.

The McGuire Sisters

The McGuire Sisters, American close-harmony vocal trio of Christine, Dorothy, and Phyllis McGuire from Middletown, Ohio; 1952 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts winners with number-one hits "Sincerely" and "Sugartime".

The MDNA Tour

The MDNA Tour was a 2012 worldwide concert tour by the American singer Madonna, staged in support of her album MDNA and grossing over $305 million across 88 shows.

The Me That Remains

The Me That Remains is Amy Grant's 2026 album on Thirty Tigers, her first of original songs in 13 years, produced by Mac McAnally and written after her 2022 brain injury.

The Mean One

The Mean One (2022) is an unauthorized American Christmas horror-comedy parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, directed by Steven LaMorte, starring David Howard Thornton as a green killer in Newville; released December 9, 2022, 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Meaning of the Disaster

The Meaning of the Disaster is a 1948 Arabic book by Constantine Zurayk analyzing the Arab defeat in the 1948 Palestine war, which it named al-Nakba.

The Mechanic (1972 film)

The Mechanic is a 1972 American crime thriller directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent as a hitman and his apprentice.

The Mechanic (2011 film)

The Mechanic (2011) is a Simon West action thriller remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film, starring Jason Statham as assassin Arthur Bishop, with Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland; released January 28, 2011 by CBS Films, grossing $29.1 million in the US.

The Mechanism

The Mechanism (O Mecanismo) is a Brazilian Netflix drama series (2018–2019) by José Padilha and Elena Soarez, loosely fictionalizing Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato), starring Selton Mello, Caroline Abras, and Enrique Diaz in two seasons of eight episodes.

The Medallion (飞龙再生)

The Medallion (飛龍再生, aka 免死金牌) is a 2003 Hong Kong–US action comedy fantasy directed by Gordon Chan, starring Jackie Chan as detective Eddie Yang, revived by a mystical medallion as an immortal Highbinder; US$35M budget, $22.1M US gross, 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Meddler

The Meddler (2015) is a comedy-drama written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, and J.K. Simmons. Premiered at TIFF 2015, released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2016; based on Scafaria's mother Gail.

The Medium (2021 film)

The Medium (Thai: Rang Song, ร่างทรง) is a 2021 Thai-South Korean found-footage horror film by Banjong Pisanthanakun, produced by Na Hong-jin, about a shaman's niece's possession in Isan; a BIFAN winner and Thailand's 94th Academy Awards submission.

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch (1978) is a British-French supernatural thriller directed by Jack Gold, starring Richard Burton as telekinetic novelist John Morlar, with Lino Ventura and Lee Remick; adapted by John Briley from Van Greenaway's 1973 novel, produced by ITC.

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.