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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Muzej bezuvjetne predaje) is a 1997 novel by the Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić, following an unnamed Yugoslav narrator living in exile in Berlin.

The Mushroom at the End of the World

The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's multispecies ethnography from Princeton University Press, follows the matsutake mushroom trade from Oregon forests to Tokyo markets, introducing salvage accumulation and the arts of noticing.

The Music Box

The Music Box (1932) is a Laurel and Hardy comedy short directed by James Parrott for Hal Roach, in which the duo haul a player piano up 133 Silver Lake steps; it won the first Oscar for Best Comedy Short Subject.

The Music Institute (music)

The Music Institute was a Black-owned after-hours club at 1315 Broadway in Detroit, open 1988 to 1989, that became the home venue of Detroit techno.

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson, also called Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman, is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, made around 1662 to 1665 and held in the Royal Collection.

The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers is Ken Russell's 1971 United Artists biopic of Tchaikovsky, starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson, scripted by Melvyn Bragg from Beloved Friend, told through opulent musical sequences covering 1875–1881.

The Music Man

The Music Man is Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical comedy about con man Harold Hill in River City, Iowa, 1912; it ran 1,375 performances, won the 1958 Best Musical Tony, and spawned a 1962 film and three Broadway revivals.

The Music Man (1962 film)

The Music Man (1962) is Warner Bros.' film of Meredith Willson's Broadway musical, directed by Morton DaCosta, starring Robert Preston as con man Harold Hill and Shirley Jones; six Oscar nominations, one win.

The Music of Tori and the Muses

The Music of Tori and the Muses is Tori Amos's 2025 nine-track, 37-minute soundtrack companion to her children's book Tori and the Muses, surprise-released February 28, 2025 and Grammy-nominated for Best Children's Music Album.

The Music Room

The Music Room (Jalsaghar, জলসাঘর) is Satyajit Ray's 1958 Bengali drama, his fourth film, adapted from Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay's story about zamindar Biswambhar Roy's ruinous classical music soirées, with music by Vilayat Khan and Begum Akhtar.

The Musical (2026 film)

The Musical (2026) is an American dark comedy directed by Giselle Bonilla, written by Alexander Heller, starring Will Brill, Gillian Jacobs, and Rob Lowe. A middle school theater teacher stages an inappropriate 9/11 student musical for revenge; Sundance 2026 premiere, September 18, 2026 US release.

The Musician (automaton)

The Musician (French: la Musicienne) is an 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automaton of a young woman who plays five melodies on a genuine built-in organ, pressing the keys with her fingers.

The Musketeers

The Musketeers (2014-2016) is a BBC One/BBC America period action drama created by Adrian Hodges, loosely adapting Dumas's 1844 novel: d'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos in 17th-century Paris, 30 episodes over three series.

The Mysteries of Laura

The Mysteries of Laura: NBC comedy-drama police procedural (2014-2016) starring Debra Messing, adapted from the Spanish series Los misterios de Laura; canceled after two seasons and 38 episodes.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho is a 1794 Gothic romance by Ann Radcliffe, following the orphan Emily St. Aubert through supernatural terrors and the machinations of the brigand Montoni.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a 1920 detective novel by Agatha Christie, her first published book and the first appearance of the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

The Mysterious Benedict Society, a 2007 children's mystery novel by Trenton Lee Stewart, follows four gifted children recruited by Mr. Benedict to stop Mr. Curtain's mind-controlling Whisperer; it spawned a bestselling series and a Disney+ adaptation.

The Mysterious Benedict Society (TV series)

The Mysterious Benedict Society is a 2021 American mystery adventure series created by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi for Disney+, based on Trenton Lee Stewart's 2007 novel.

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (太陽の子エステバン)

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (太陽の子エステバン, Taiyō no Ko Esteban) is a 1982 Japanese-French animated series by Pierrot and DiC, 39 NHK episodes following Esteban, Zia, and Tao seeking seven golden cities of Mu, later revived through a fourth and final season.

The Mysterious Class (남고괴담)

The Mysterious Class (남고괴담, Namgogoedam) is a 2021 South Korean horror-mystery web drama starring K-pop boy band TREASURE, aired in 8 Friday episodes on YouTube from November 12 to December 31, 2021, about a class of 21 students hunting a ghost posing as a classmate.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco) is Diego Céspedes' 2025 Chilean-French feature debut: 1982 desert mining town, queer family blamed for a gaze-spread disease, Cannes Un Certain Regard Grand Prix winner and Chile's 2026 Oscar submission.

The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is an 1875 adventure novel by Jules Verne in which five men escape the Civil War siege of Richmond by balloon and are cast away on an island.

The Mysterious Stranger

The Mysterious Stranger is Mark Twain's unfinished novella (written 1897–1908), published posthumously in 1916 from three manuscripts spliced by Paine and Duneka; Satan appears to boys in Eseldorf, Austria, in 1590, attacking the Moral Sense and ending in solipsism.

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults was Geraldo Rivera's live April 21, 1986 Tribune syndicated special opening a sealed Lexington Hotel chamber in Chicago before 30 million viewers; it held only dirt and bottles.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, published in six of twelve planned monthly parts by Chapman and Hall in 1870. Set in Cloisterham (Rochester), it centers on Edwin Drood's disappearance and uncle John Jasper, and has inspired hundreds of completion theories and adaptations.

The Mystery of Moksha Island

The Mystery of Moksha Island is a 2024 Telugu-language thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Anish Yohan Kuruvilla, starring Ashutosh Rana and Priya Anand; eight 26-minute episodes about heirs lured to a private Nicobar island.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune) is a 1908 locked-room mystery novel by Gaston Leroux, starring the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille.

The Mystic Masseur

The Mystic Masseur is a 1957 comic novel by V. S. Naipaul following Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad who becomes a healer and politician.

The Mystic Nine (老九门)

The Mystic Nine (老九门) is a 2016 Chinese web drama, prequel to The Lost Tomb by Nanpai Sanshu, about nine Changsha tomb-raiding families; 48 episodes, 168 million yuan budget, first web drama over 10 billion views, sequel Jiumen aired 2026.

The Mystic Nine II (九门)

The Mystic Nine II (九门, Jiu Men) is a 2026 Youku Republican-era adventure drama, sequel to The Mystic Nine (2016), directed by Bai Shan, written by Nanpai Sanshu, starring William Chan, Joseph Zeng, and Chen Yao, set in 1935 Changsha around the 401 unit disappearance and the Tower Beyond Worlds.