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The Mermaid (美人鱼) (2016 film)

The Mermaid (美人鱼, Mei Ren Yu) is Stephen Chow's 2016 Chinese romantic-comedy fantasy about a mermaid sent to kill a land-reclamation developer. It set China's all-time box office record at about 3.39 billion yuan and was the first Chinese film to pass 3 billion yuan.

The Merry Gentlemen

The Merry Gentlemen is a 2024 Netflix Christmas romantic comedy directed by Peter Sullivan, starring Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray, about a Broadway dancer staging an all-male revue to save her parents' venue; released November 20, 2024, with weak reviews (RT 39%, Metacritic 34).

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) is Franz Lehár's three-act operetta of 1905, libretto by Léon and Stein after Meilhac, premiered at the Theater an der Wien, a global hit that opened the Silver Age of Viennese operetta.

The Merry Widow discography

The Merry Widow discography covers recorded versions of Lehár's 1905 operetta Die lustige Witwe, from the landmark 1953 Angel recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf to Karajan's 1972 set, English-language casts, and later complete recordings.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a Shakespeare comedy set in Windsor, in which Sir John Falstaff tries to seduce two married women who outwit him.

The Merry-Go-Round

The Merry-Go-Round (1923), also Merry-Go-Round, is a Universal silent drama set in prewar Vienna, begun by Erich von Stroheim, fired by Irving Thalberg, and completed by Rupert Julian with Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin.

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea is a 1965 coming-of-age novel by the Australian writer Randolph Stow, set in Geraldton, Western Australia, during and after World War II.

The Mescaleros

The Mescaleros, also billed as Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, were the English band Joe Strummer formed in 1999 after the Clash, releasing Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go, and the posthumous Streetcore on Hellcat Records.

The Mess You Leave Behind

The Mess You Leave Behind (El desorden que dejas) is a 2020 Spanish Netflix limited thriller series, 8 episodes, created by Carlos Montero from his Premio Primavera 2016 novel, starring Inma Cuesta and Bárbara Lennie, set in Galicia.

The Message (Bible)

The Message, also known as the Message Bible, is a rendering of the Bible into contemporary American English by Eugene Peterson, published complete by NavPress in 2002.

The Message (Coates book)

The Message (2024) is Ta-Nehisi Coates's nonfiction book of three essays on Senegal, a South Carolina book-banning fight, and Israel-Palestine, written as a letter to his Howard University writing students.

The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)

"The Message" is a 1982 rap song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on Sugar Hill Records, widely credited as the start of socially conscious rap.

The Message (الرسالة) (1976 film)

The Message (الرسالة, Al-Risalah), 1976 epic historical drama by Moustapha Akkad about Muhammad and the birth of Islam, shot in separate English (Anthony Quinn) and Arabic (Abdallah Gheith) versions, with the Prophet never depicted on screen.

The Message (风声) (2009 film)

The Message (风声), 2009 Chinese spy thriller co-directed by Gao Qunshu and Chen Kuo-fu, adapted from Mai Jia's novel; five suspects confined at Qiu Manor to find the mole 'Old Ghost'; earned about 250 million yuan.

The Messenger (2009 film)

The Messenger (2009), Oren Moverman's directorial debut drama co-written with Alessandro Camon, stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton as casualty notification officers and a war widow; Berlin Silver Bear winner and double Oscar nominee.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is a 1999 historical drama directed by Luc Besson, starring Milla Jovovich as Joan of Arc opposite John Malkovich and Dustin Hoffman.

The Messengers (film)

The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural horror film, the English-language debut of Hong Kong's Pang brothers, produced by Sam Raimi's Ghost House. It opened number one with $14.7M but scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Messengers (TV series)

The Messengers is an American supernatural drama television series created by Eoghan O'Donnell, aired on The CW in 2015, about five strangers revived with angelic gifts.

The Messiah of the House of Joseph

The Messiah of the House of Joseph (Yiddish: Meshiekh ben Efrayim) is a 1924 novel by Moyshe Kulbak on the Talmudic legend of the 36 hidden just men.

The Metals Company

The Metals Company is a Canadian deep-sea mining company headquartered in Vancouver, founded in 2011, that develops polymetallic nodules in the Pacific's Clarion Clipperton Zone for nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese.

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), Kafka's 1912 novella published 1915, in which salesman Gregor Samsa wakes as monstrous vermin (Ungeziefer); its German title literally means transformation, not metamorphosis.

The Meteor Man (film)

The Meteor Man (1993) is Robert Townsend's superhero comedy about Washington, D.C. teacher Jefferson Reed, who gains powers from a meteor and fights the Golden Lords gang; it grossed about $8 million and is regarded as the first Black-led superhero feature film.

The Meters

The Meters, New Orleans funk band (1965/1967-1979) led by Art Neville with Porter, Nocentelli, and Zigaboo Modeliste; "Cissy Strut" hit #4 R&B in 1969 and their grooves became among the most sampled in hip hop.

The Method

The Method (El método, 2005) is a Spanish-Argentine corporate thriller by Marcelo Piñeyro, adapted freely from Jordi Galcerán's play El método Grönholm, in which seven job candidates destroy each other in a Madrid selection test; it won two Goya Awards.

The Methods of Ethics

The Methods of Ethics is a treatise on moral philosophy by Henry Sidgwick, first published in 1874, which examines egoism, intuitionism, and utilitarianism and culminates classical utilitarianism.

The Meursault Investigation

The Meursault Investigation (Meursault, contre-enquête) is a 2013 novel by Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, a postcolonial response to Camus's The Stranger told through the murdered Arab's brother.

The Mexican

The Mexican is a 2001 American comedy-drama directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, about a mob errand runner sent to retrieve a cursed pistol.

The Meyerowitz Stories

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is Noah Baumbach's 2017 Netflix comedy-drama, premiered In Competition at Cannes, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Elizabeth Marvel as siblings facing their sculptor father.

The MICCAI Society

The MICCAI Society, or MICCAI, is the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society, incorporated in 2004, which hosts the annual MICCAI conference founded in 1998 in Boston.

The Michael J. Fox Show

The Michael J. Fox Show: NBC single-camera sitcom (2013-2014), 22 episodes, starring Michael J. Fox as news anchor Mike Henry returning to work after a Parkinson's diagnosis; straight-to-series order, low ratings, pulled after 15 episodes.