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The Misfortune of Fakhraddin
The Misfortune of Fakhraddin (Müsibəti-Fəxrəddin) is an 1896 tragedy by the Azerbaijani playwright Najaf bey Vazirov and the first work in the tragedy genre in Azerbaijani literature.
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 Norton book (revised 1996), critiques craniometry, IQ testing, and biological determinism, centering on his reanalysis of Samuel Morton's skull measurements, later challenged by the 2011 Lewis et al. remeasurement.
The Missing (2003 film)
The Missing (2003 film): Ron Howard's American Western thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones, based on Thomas Eidson's novel The Last Ride; distinct from Lee Kang-sheng's Taiwanese film Bu jian of the same year.
The Missing (British TV series)
The Missing is a British anthology crime drama (2014–2016) created by Harry and Jack Williams for BBC One and Starz, starring James Nesbitt, Frances O'Connor, and Tchéky Karyo as detective Julien Baptiste, about missing children across two time frames; it spawned the spin-off Baptiste.
The Missing Gun (寻枪)
The Missing Gun (寻枪) is Lu Chuan's 2002 feature debut, adapted from Fan Yiping's 《寻枪记》, starring Jiang Wen as policeman Ma Shan, who hunts his lost pistol with three bullets in a Guizhou-dialect neo-noir shown at Venice.
The Missing Master Chef
The Missing Master Chef (消失的厨神) is a 2024 Chinese 65-episode vertical short drama by Chongqing Malt Culture about champion chef Fang Chenxing; its NetShort English dub topped overseas charts and won a Busan Asian Short Drama Award.
The Mission (1986 film)
The Mission is a 1986 Roland Joffé film, scripted by Robert Bolt, about Jesuits defending a Guaraní mission after the 1750 Treaty of Madrid; it won the 1986 Palme d'Or and seven Oscar nominations.
The Mission (1999 film)
The Mission (鎗火, Qiang huo) is Johnnie To's 1999 Hong Kong triad film about five gunmen guarding a boss, shot in 19 days on a 2.5 million budget, winner of 2000 Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards best director honors.
The Mission (band)
The Mission, also The Mission UK, is an English gothic rock band formed in Leeds in 1986 by ex-Sisters of Mercy members Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams; debut God's Own Medicine reached UK No. 14 and Children reached No. 2.
The Mission to Seafarers
The Mission to Seafarers, formerly The Missions to Seamen, is an Anglican-affiliated charity providing welfare support to merchant seafarers in over 200 ports across 50 countries.
The Missionary
The Missionary is a 1982 British comedy, also called The Missionary Position, directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Michael Palin, who stars as Rev. Charles Fortescue, a missionary assigned to London prostitutes, with Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, and Denholm Elliott; a HandMade Films production.
The Missouri Breaks
The Missouri Breaks is Arthur Penn's 1976 Western starring Marlon Brando as regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton and Jack Nicholson as rustler Tom Logan, written by Thomas McGuane; a failure on release, later a cult favorite, named for Montana's Missouri Breaks badlands.
The Mist (film)
The Mist (2007) is Frank Darabont's horror film adapting Stephen King's 1980 novella, starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden; townspeople trapped in a grocery store by a creature-filled mist, famous for its devastating ending.
The Mist (novella)
The Mist, Stephen King's 1980 horror novella first published in Dark Forces and collected in Skeleton Crew, follows David Drayton and townspeople trapped in a Maine supermarket by a monster-filled mist; adapted as a 2007 Frank Darabont film, a 2017 Spike series, and an upcoming Mike Flanagan Warner Bros. film.
The Mist (TV series)
The Mist (TV series), 2017 American horror drama created by Christian Torpe from Stephen King's novella, aired 10 episodes on Spike; cancelled after one season with 0.14 rating and 462,000 viewers.
The Mistress of the Inn
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) is a three-act prose comedy by Carlo Goldoni, first performed in Venice in 1753 and centered on the innkeeper Mirandolina.
The Mists of Avalon
The Mists of Avalon (1982) is Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend, narrated mainly through Morgaine, priestess of Avalon, depicting the fall of the Goddess religion to Christianity; later overshadowed by abuse allegations against the author.
The Misty Poetry Anthology
The Misty Poetry Anthology (朦胧诗选) is a 1985 Chinese poetry anthology that collected 25 Misty Poets, including Bei Dao and Shu Ting, and became the movement's most influential anthology.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (formerly Connected) is Sony Pictures Animation's 2021 Oscar-nominated animated comedy, directed by Mike Rianda, released on Netflix April 30, 2021, about a family facing a robot uprising led by PAL.
The Miz
The Miz (Michael Mizanin), WWE wrestler from Parma, Ohio, rose from MTV's The Real World 2001 and Tough Enough runner-up 2004 to two-time WWE Champion, 8-time Intercontinental Champion, first two-time Grand Slam Champion, and Miz & Mrs star.
The Moaning of Life
The Moaning of Life is a Sky One comedy travel documentary (2013-2015, 2 series, 11 episodes) in which Karl Pilkington travels alone, without Gervais and Merchant, exploring marriage, happiness, kids, vocation, and death across world cultures.
The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad: American ABC police drama (1968-1973, five seasons, 123 episodes) about Pete, Linc, and Julie, young undercover cops, one white, one black, one blonde; created by Aaron Spelling, Bud Ruskin, and Sammy Hess; later a poorly received 1999 film.
The Modern Lovers
The Modern Lovers, also Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, were a Boston protopunk garage-rock band formed in 1970, whose 1976 demo-derived debut album bridged the Velvet Underground and punk; members later joined the Cars and Talking Heads.
The Modern Review
The Modern Review was an English-language monthly journal founded by Ramananda Chatterjee in Allahabad in January 1907 and edited by him until his death in 1943, running until 1995.
The Moffatts
The Moffatts: Canadian band of brothers Scott, Clint, Dave, and Bob Moffatt, formed 1990, country start then teen pop with Chapter I: A New Beginning, final album Submodalities (2000), disbanded 2001, reunited 2017 without Dave; huge following in the Philippines.
The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches: American anti-folk band of Adam Green and Kimya Dawson, formed in Mount Kisco, New York; 2001 Rough Trade debut, "Anyone Else But You" in Juno (2007), 2022 Origin Story compilation.
The Mole (American TV series)
The Mole (American TV series) is a reality competition adapted from Belgium's De Mol, airing on ABC 2001–2008 with hosts Anderson Cooper, Ahmad Rashad, and Jon Kelley, then revived on Netflix in 2022 with Alex Wagner and 2024 with Ari Shapiro; one secret saboteur undermines the prize pot.
The Mole (American TV series) season 7
The Mole season 7, also called The Mole season 2 on Netflix, is the 2024 Malaysian-set second season of the Netflix revival, hosted by Ari Shapiro, won by Michael O'Brien with $154,000; Sean Patrick Bryan was the Mole.
The Mole People
The Mole People (1956) is a Universal-International black-and-white sci-fi horror film, Virgil Vogel's directorial debut, starring John Agar, about archaeologists finding an underground albino Sumerian colony with mole-man slaves; distinct from Toth's 1993 tunnel-dweller book.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (土竜の唄 潜入捜査官 REIJI)
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (Mogura no uta) is a 2013 Takashi Miike action comedy, with Toma Ikuta as fired cop Reiji infiltrating the Sukiya-kai yakuza; it topped Japan's box office and spawned two sequels.