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The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women (L'homme qui aimait les femmes) is François Truffaut's 1977 French comedy-drama starring Charles Denner as womanizing engineer Bertrand Morane, told in flashback from his funeral; remade by Blake Edwards in 1983 with Burt Reynolds and Julie Andrews.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks's 1985 book of neurological case histories including Dr. P.'s visual agnosia; million-selling best-seller adapted into a Michael Nyman opera and credited with reviving narrative medicine.

The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was (1956), Ronald Neame's film of Ewen Montagu's Operation Mincemeat book, starring Clifton Webb as Montagu, with Gloria Grahame and Stephen Boyd; BAFTA-winning WWII deception drama.

The Man Who Saved the World

The Man Who Saved the World is a 2014 Danish docudrama by Peter Anthony about Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who judged the 26 September 1983 Oko early-warning alert of five US missiles a false alarm; distinct from PBS and 2025 works of similar titles.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford's 1962 black-and-white Paramount Western starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin, adapted from Dorothy M. Johnson's short story, famous for the line "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

The Man Who Sold the World (album)

The Man Who Sold the World, originally titled Metrobolist, is David Bowie's third studio album, produced by Tony Visconti and released by Mercury in 1970-1971, a hard rock turn featuring Mick Ronson and the title track later covered by Nirvana.

The Man Who Sold the World (song)

"The Man Who Sold the World" is a 1970 David Bowie song, title track of his third album, produced by Tony Visconti; never a Bowie single, it became famous through covers by Lulu and Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance.

The Man Who Turned into a Stick

The Man Who Turned into a Stick (棒になった男, Bō ni natta otoko) is a one-act play by Kobo Abe in which a man who falls from a department store roof turns into a stick.

The Man Who Was Thursday

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is G. K. Chesterton's 1908 metaphysical thriller in which detective Gabriel Syme joins a seven-day anarchist council and finds all members are undercover policemen.

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film)

The Man Who Wasn't There is the Coen brothers' 2001 black-and-white noir drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as barber Ed Crane; it tied for the 2001 Cannes Best Director award and grossed $7.5 million in the US.

The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King (1888), Rudyard Kipling's short story about adventurers Dravot and Carnehan who make themselves kings of Kafiristan, Afghanistan, claim godhood through Masonic ritual, and fall when Dravot is exposed as mortal; adapted by John Huston in 1975.

The Man Who Would Be King (film)

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) is John Huston's adventure film adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 1888 short story, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine as ex-soldiers conquering Kafiristan; developed for over twenty years and nominated for four Academy Awards.

The Man with a Gun

The Man with a Gun (Chelovek s ruzhyom, Russian: «Человек с ружьём») is a 1937 play by Soviet dramatist Nikolai Pogodin, the first part of his Lenin trilogy.

The Man with the Answers (Ο άνθρωπος με τις απαντήσεις)

The Man with the Answers (Ο άνθρωπος με τις απαντήσεις) is a 2021 Cyprus-Greece-Italy queer road movie by Stelios Kammitsis: ex-diving champion Victoras road-trips from Greece to Bavaria with hitchhiker Mathias; won KASHISH Best Screenplay and Thessaloniki Audience Awards, nominated at the 2022 Hellenic Film Academy Awards.

The Man with the Bag (film)

The Man with the Bag is a 2026 Prime Video holiday heist comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Santa and Alan Ritchson as thief Vance, recovering Santa's stolen magic bag; released December 2, 2026.

The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm, Otto Preminger's 1955 drama starring Frank Sinatra as recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine, adapted from Nelson Algren's novel; released without a Production Code seal, it prompted the 1956 amendment of the Code's drug statute.

The Man with the Golden Gun (film)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), ninth Eon James Bond film and Roger Moore's second as 007, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Christopher Lee as assassin Scaramanga; mixed reviews, 40% Tomatometer, about $97.6 million worldwide gross.

The Man with the Iron Fists

The Man with the Iron Fists is a 2012 American martial arts film directed by RZA in his debut, starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu.

The Man with the Iron Heart (film)

The Man with the Iron Heart (HHhH; Killing Heydrich in Canada) is Cédric Jimenez's 2017 WWII drama starring Jason Clarke and Rosamund Pike, adapted from Laurent Binet's novel about Operation Anthropoid, the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

The Man with the Plan (film)

The Man with the Plan is a 2026 British drama by Christine Edzard starring Simon Callow as William Beveridge; student Flea (Sophie Jenkin) explores the 1942 Beveridge Report's Five Giants in a self-funded Sands Films production touring UK venues.

The Man with Three Coffins (나그네는 길에서도 쉬지 않는다)

The Man with Three Coffins (나그네는 길에서도 쉬지 않는다) is Lee Jang-ho's 1987 Korean road movie based on Lee Je-ha's Yi Sang Award novella; a widower carries his wife's ashes, meets Lee Bo-hee's triple role, and won Tokyo critics' and Berlin Caligari prizes.

The Man with Two Brains

The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin as a brain surgeon in love with a disembodied brain.

The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face is a 1993 American drama directed by Mel Gibson in his directing debut, adapted from Isabelle Holland's 1972 novel, with Gibson as a disfigured recluse tutoring a boy.

The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is an unfinished novel by the Austrian writer Robert Musil, published in parts from 1930 and a major work of modernism.

The Man-Eater of Malgudi

The Man-Eater of Malgudi is a 1961 novel by R. K. Narayan, set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi, where printer Nataraj's life is disrupted by the taxidermist Vasu.

The Man-Machine

The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) is Kraftwerk's seventh studio album, released May 1978, recorded at Kling Klang studio in six weeks with sequencer-linked drums; its six tracks include The Robots and The Model, a later UK No. 1.

The Managerial Revolution

The Managerial Revolution is James Burnham's 1941 book arguing that managers, not capitalists or socialist workers, were becoming the ruling class, supplying part of the framework for Orwell's 1984.

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate: Richard Condon's 1959 Cold War thriller novel and John Frankenheimer's 1962 film with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, about a brainwashed Korean War POW programmed to assassinate a presidential candidate; remade by Jonathan Demme in 2004 with Denzel Washington.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is John Frankenheimer's Cold War political thriller, adapted by George Axelrod from Richard Condon's 1959 novel, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury as the mother-villain of a brainwashed Korean War sleeper assassin, released during the Cuban Missile Crisis and withdrawn after the Kennedy assassination.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) is Jonathan Demme's remake of the 1962 thriller, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Liev Schreiber, updating the Communist conspiracy to the corporate Manchurian Global during the Gulf War era.