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The Moogai

The Moogai (2024) is Jon Bell's Aboriginal supernatural horror feature debut, expanded from his 2020 SXSW-winning short. Starring Shari Sebbens and Meyne Wyatt, it premiered at Sundance 2024 and links a child-stealing spirit to the Stolen Generations.

The Moon

The Moon (더 문) is a 2023 South Korean sci-fi disaster film directed by Kim Yong-hwa, about astronaut Hwang Sun-woo stranded on the Moon in 2029 after a solar storm. First Korean lunar film, 28.6 billion won budget, about 510,000 admissions.

The Moon Also Rises

The Moon Also Rises is Lin Cheng-sheng's 2005 Taiwanese melodrama (Chinese title meaning 'Under the Moonlight, I Remember'), adapted from Li Ang's story 'Hsi-lien', starring Yang Kuei-mei, a 2004 Golden Horse Best Actress winner, distinct from Yuyan Wang's 2024 short of the same title.

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel about Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker loosely modeled on Paul Gauguin who abandons his family to paint, narrated by a first-person writer-observer.

The Moon Bright For You (明月曾照江东寒)

The Moon Bright For You (明月曾照江东寒, also The Moon Brightens for You) is a 2020 iQIYI Chinese wuxia romance web drama adapted from Ding Mo's novel, directed by Lan Haihan and Wang Fei, starring Yu Menglong and Xing Fei in 36 episodes from October 6, 2020.

The Moon Cuckoo

The Moon Cuckoo (Саран хөхөөний намтар) is a nineteenth-century Mongolian drama by the Fifth Noyon Khutagt Danzanravjaa, staged at his monastery theater from 1832 and seen as the start of Mongolian professional theater.

The Moon in the Gutter

The Moon in the Gutter (La lune dans le caniveau) is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1983 French drama, his follow-up to Diva, adapted from David Goodis's 1953 novel, starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski; it competed at Cannes, flopped, and won three 1984 Césars.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel (Putnam; serialized in Worlds of If), depicts a 2075 lunar penal colony revolt led by Mannie, Wyoh, Professor de la Paz, and the sentient computer Mike; it won the 1967 Hugo Award and coined TANSTAAFL.

The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down is John Steinbeck's 1942 propaganda novella about a northern European town under Nazi-style occupation, written at Bill Donovan's request, banned by the Axis, and clandestinely circulated in hundreds of thousands of translated copies across occupied Europe.

The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (달은... 해가 꾸는 꿈)

The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (달은... 해가 꾸는 꿈, Dal-eun... haega kkuneun kkum), also translated The Moon is What the Sun Dreams of, is Park Chan-wook's 1992 feature directorial debut, a 103-minute Korean noir action romance about a Busan gangster's betrayal and revenge, starring singer Lee Seung-chul; it flopped with 99 admissions and was remastered for release in 2014.

The Moon Opera

The Moon Opera (青衣, Qingyi) is a 1999 novella by Chinese writer Bi Feiyu about a Peking opera performer obsessed with playing the moon goddess Chang'e.

The Moon Over the Mountain

The Moon Over the Mountain (Sangetsuki, 山月記) is a 1942 short story by Japanese writer Nakajima Atsushi, set in Tang dynasty China, about a failed poet who turns into a tiger.

The Moon Pavilion

The Moon Pavilion (Yougui ji) is a 14th-century Chinese nanxi attributed to Shi Hui, about lovers separated during a Mongol attack who reunite through a prayer to the moon.

The Moonstone

The Moonstone: A Romance is Wilkie Collins's 1868 three-volume detective novel about a yellow diamond looted at Seringapatam and stolen from Rachel Verinder, told by seven narrators; first serialized in All the Year Round and Harper's Weekly.

The Moor (film)

The Moor is a 2024 British folk horror film, Chris Cronin's feature debut written by Paul Thomas, about a woman helping a father search Yorkshire moorland for his murdered son's remains; premiered at FrightFest 2023, released by Bulldog Film Distribution.

The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian

The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian is a collection of thirteen beast fables in Middle Scots by the fifteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson, his longest work.

The More You Ignore Me (film)

The More You Ignore Me is a 2018 British comedy-drama directed by Keith English, adapted by Jo Brand from her 2009 novel, starring Sheridan Smith, Ella Hunt, and Mark Addy; a 1980s family story about a mother's mental illness and Smiths fandom, released 6 July 2018.

The Morning After

The Morning After is a 1986 American mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jane Fonda as an alcoholic actress who wakes beside a corpse with no memory.

The Morning Show (American TV series)

The Morning Show is an Apple TV+ drama (2019–2027) starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as anchors at fictional network UBA, inspired by Brian Stelter's book Top of the Morning and the Matt Lauer #MeToo scandal; five seasons, ending in 2027.

The Morning Show season 1

The Morning Show season 1 (2019) is Apple TV+'s flagship #MeToo drama starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, loosely based on NBC's Today and the Matt Lauer scandal, with 10 episodes at a reported $15 million each and an Emmy win for Billy Crudup.

The Moroccan Genius in Arabic Literature

The Moroccan Genius in Arabic Literature (al-Nubugh al-Maghribi) is a three-volume history of Moroccan intellectual and literary life by Abdallah Kannun, first published in 1938 during the French protectorate.

The Morrígan

The Morrígan (Mór-Ríoghain) is an Irish goddess of sovereignty, battle, fate, and prophecy among the Tuatha Dé Danann, known from the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Táin Bó Regamna, and Cath Maige Tuired; the fixed triple-goddess reading is modern, not medieval.

The Mortal Instruments

The Mortal Instruments is Cassandra Clare's six-book YA urban fantasy series beginning with City of Bones (2007), following fifteen-year-old Clary Fray among half-angel Shadowhunters in New York; adapted into a 2013 film and the Shadowhunters TV series.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a 2013 urban fantasy film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Lily Collins as a New York teenager descended from demon-hunting Shadowhunters.

The Mortician (TV series)

The Mortician is a 2025 three-part HBO documentary series directed by Joshua Rofé about David Sconce and the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, California, whose 1980s mass-cremation and corpse-theft scandal led to 41 criminal counts and industry reforms.

The Mortuary Assistant (film)

The Mortuary Assistant (film): 2026 American supernatural horror movie directed by Jeremiah Kipp, adapted from Brian Clarke's 2022 game; stars Willa Holland as possessed mortician Rebecca Owens; released February 13, 2026, Shudder March 27, 2026.

The Mortuary Collection

The Mortuary Collection is a 2019 American horror anthology film written and directed by Ryan Spindell, starring Clancy Brown as mortician Montgomery Dark and Caitlin Custer as Sam, released on Shudder October 15, 2020, with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times: independent English- and Russian-language online newspaper founded by Derk Sauer in Moscow in 1992, first English-language daily printed in Russia; blocked, labeled foreign agent (2023), and declared undesirable (2024) by Russia; now exiled.

The Moskoviad

The Moskoviad (Московіада) is a 1993 novel by Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych, following a Ukrainian poet through one hallucinatory day in Moscow as the Soviet Union collapses.

The Mosquito

The Mosquito, also called the Mosquito alarm, is an anti-loitering device emitting a 17 kHz tone most people over 25 cannot hear, invented by Howard Stapleton in 2005.