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8	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{M}}]]'': The protagonist kills kids.
9	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMachinist]]'': [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman]] cuts off [[Film/{{Scanners}} Darryl Revok's]] arm, but is still easily beaten up by him.
10	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MadchenInUniform]]'': A German lesbian falls for her teacher. Possibly has [[YuriGenre a Japanese granddaughter]].
11	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MadMax1]]'': Highway patroller has his job follow him while on vacation.
12	** ''[[spoiler: Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior]]'': Highway patroller discovers that the price of gas has increased.
13	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome]]'': Highway patroller is forced to fight a mentally handicapped man by a eunuch in a diaper and Music/TinaTurner wearing ten pounds of earrings.
14	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MadMaxFuryRoad]]'': Highway patroller helps women run away from home. They decide to go back the next day.
15	*** Highway patroller, six women, and a terminally ill man go on a road trip. Angry old pervert chases them.
16	*** A woman drives a tanker through the desert, gets lost and goes back the way she came.
17	*** Eight people spend a few days sitting in a single truck cab.
18	*** ''Series/RobotWars'', 18-rated edition.
19	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/Madagascar1]]'': Misbehaviour and intervention of paramilitary group causes four friends to get stranded on island full of people who like to move it, move it.
20	** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa]]'': Paramilitary group leads the four friends (plus two of the "MOVING!" people) to another wild place. Among the problems they face are... tourists.
21	** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted]]'': Four friends gently strongarm paramilitary group to get them home and all involved get into the circus business while an insanely determined animal control officer is literally after their hides.
22	* ''[[spoiler: Madhouse]]'': Iconic horror actor is stalked by his most famous character.
23	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Malignant}}]]'': Woman has unwilling reunion with the one relative she wanted to forget.
24	* ''[[spoiler: Film/ManOnFire]]'': A washed-up, world weary ex-hitman meets a little girl who makes him see the brighter side of life. He then goes on a killing spree.
25	* ''[[spoiler: Film/ManOnTheMoon]]'': Biopic of individual famous because he annoys people.
26	* ''[[spoiler: Literature/TheManWhoLaughs]]'': Man cannot stop smiling, despite his best efforts. Romantically pursued by [[BlindAndTheBeast blind girl who doesn't mind]] and [[FreakyIsCool another woman who thinks it's sexy.]]
27	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MarathonMan]]'': An elderly dentist pursues a long-distance runner.
28	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MarchOfThePenguins]]'': [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Lucius Fox]] is an ornithologist you never see. Birds raise chicks in the freezer. Family fare with hot bird sex -- and the MoralGuardians love it.
29	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MarriageStory]]'': [[Franchise/StarWars Kylo Ren]] and [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Black Widow]] are getting a divorce. They find out it's not as easy as they think.
30	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MarsAttacks]]'': Aliens with a cruel sense of humor are thwarted by a Slim Whitman song.
31	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMartian]]'': Man is left behind by his workmates on remote and deserted place, is forced to spend years waiting for them to return.
32	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMarvels2023]]'': Space cats are used as interplanetary transit systems.
33	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax]]'': A little girl and a middle-aged man write letters to each other.
34	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MaryPoppins]]'': Children neglected by their workaholic father and political activist mother befriend a busker, participate in magic with their flighty governess, and cause an economic crisis. It's a musical.
35	** Alternatively: A man learns to bond with his kids.
36	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MaryPoppinsReturns]]'': The governess takes care of the children's children to make them ignore how life has turned sour and they're about to be evicted.
37	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMask]]'': Wood artifact turns unlucky dude into a manic troublemaker, who likes trolling both criminals and the law. His life improves as a result.
38	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMaskOfZorro]]'': Criminal loses his brother, and after knowing an ex-prisoner tries to seduce his daughter.
39	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheLegendOfZorro]]'': Ex-criminal tries to get his wife back while she is dating a terrorist.
40	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMaster]]'': A veteran gravitates towards a religion. Things [[MindScrew get unsettling]] from there.
41	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MasterAndCommander]]'': British and French go around the world and kill each other. The British captain plays a fiddle and his friend cuts himself open with a knife.
42	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MatchPoint]]'': Murderer enjoys tennis.
43	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Matilda}}]]'': Emotionally abused six-year old attends a school where the principal emotionally abuses everyone. It's a comedy directed by Creator/DannyDeVito, who plays one of the abusers.
44	** Or: Disaffected, emotionally abused girl discovers psychic powers. No, it's not like ''Carrie.''
45	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMatrix]]'': A man does drugs and realizes that the system is oppressing him, while a culty leader tries to convince him he's the messiah. Despite being a transparent criticism of capitalism, it was a mainstream action film that almost starred Will Smith when he was at his biggest-- he dropped out fearing that the advanced special effects would look fake.
46	** Or: A young programmer quits his job, does drugs, waxes philosophical with his friends, debugs a program, and gets a girlfriend.
47	*** A computer nerd throws his life away to break laws with terrorists thinking it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
48	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMatrixReloaded]]'': That programmer gets elevated system privileges but accidentally turns a security application into a virus. He seeks the program's original author for advice on how to delete it. He also finds some part of the coding that seems to be there only to [[MindScrew confuse people]].
49	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMatrixRevolutions]]'': While the programmer's friends have an unwelcome visit by the software company, he gains Administrator privileges trying to delete that virus.
50	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMatrixResurrected]]'': Programmer surrounded by people who just want to discuss his early work quits his job due to fans who just want to see a continuation of his early work, while discovering his psychiatrist is very opposite against him patching up with his girlfriend.
51	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MeanGirls]]'': A girl raised in Africa by her zoologist parents goes to high school for the first time and learns that American high school isn't all that different from the jungles of Africa.
52	** WatchItForTheMeme in its peak form.
53	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MeetDave]]'': A starship tries to adjust to living in New York.
54	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons]]'': An orphan kid is kidnapped by a kid from the future, meets his relatives, and is then captured by a goofy man with a sentient bowler hat. ''Immense'' TimeyWimeyBall and self-confidence aesops ensue.
55	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}]]'': A man learns what life is like after overcoming his rival.
56	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{M3gan}}]]'': Woman is bothered that her niece has become too attached to a toy, and vice-versa.
57	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Memento}}]]'': A forgetful, tattooed man kills another man for something he himself did. This probably isn't the first time.
58	** Alternatively: A very important film to remind us that amnesiacs make terrible investigators.
59	* [[spoiler: ''Film/MenInBlack'']]: International airport security guards with {{One Letter Name}}s fight against angry farmers who are actually space bugs.
60	** [[spoiler: ''Film/MenInBlackII'']]: Same men fight against American fetishes who are actually... Japanese fetishes.
61	** [[spoiler: ''Film/MenInBlack3'']]: Same men fight against amputee who wants to kill a baseball fan.
62	** [[spoiler: ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'']]: Another two guards fight against some illegals who are actually being framed by the head of security.
63	* [[spoiler:''Film/TheMenu'']]: A fast-food cheeseburger and french fries save a prostitute's life.
64	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Metropolis}}]]'': A rich man's idealistic son gets involved with a labor dispute, while a scientist works to deceive him.
65	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers]]'': Three janitors save France from a cat and get girlfriends. Features [[AnachronismStew heavy anachronism]] and nearly the entire main cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
66	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MidnightCowboy]]'': ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' in TheBigRottenApple, with lots of [[TheCameo cameos]] by Creator/AndyWarhol's associates and a few naked people.
67	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain]]'': Morbid photographer hangs out in subway, stalks former football player. Eventually meets Tony Curran.
68	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MidnightInParis]]'': Creator/WoodyAllen's version of ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'' for adults.
69	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MidnightRun]]'': Neurotic accountant incurs wrath of the Mob, the FBI and a bounty hunter during cross country trip.
70	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Midsommar}}]]'': A group of grad students experience an idyllic Scandinavian holiday hosted by very polite Swedes. Most of them don't survive.
71	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie]]'': Teenagers With Attitude become ninja to fight living snotman.
72	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie]]'': Teenagers With Attitude use cars to stop a space pirate from getting hitched.
73	** ''[[spoiler: Film/PowerRangers2017]]'': Teenagers With Attitude have a crash course on paleontology to fight weirdo with a gold fetish.
74	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}]]'': A patriarch of a nuclear family reluctantly leaves home after his children coax him into doing so. He soon discovers an EvilChef, who has captured a Jamaican and confined him in his restaurant's office, is trying to kill him.
75	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MillionDollarBaby]]'': Two old guys turn a bankrupt woman into the world's toughest professional female boxer. She loses to a chair. They kill her afterwards.
76	** Simultaneously, a mentally retarded guy gets brutally beat up by other boxers.
77	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}]]'': Gibberish-speaking yellow people help Creator/SandraBullock take over England.
78	** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru]]'': Gibberish-speaking yellow people help Creator/SteveCarell once he's disappointed with his idols.
79	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MinorityReport]]'': Drowned woman causes man to be chased by Irish officer; trying to avoid him, said man loses his eyes and kidnaps a bald girl.
80	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MinusculeValleyOfTheLostAnts]]'': A war is waged over a small box of soluble carbohydrates.
81	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MirrorMask]]'': Young girl must travel to a magical land in order to apologize for shouting at her mother. Gets turned into a goth by singing clockwork robots.
82	* ''[[spoiler:Film/LesMiserables2012]]'': A guy steals a loaf of bread. Forty years later he dies.
83	** Or: Maximus chases Wolverine for his entire life over some bread. Along the way, Wolverine adopts Catwoman's daughter. Borat and Bellatrix Lestrange try to rob him. Eventually, they all get involved with some students who have blocked off the roads (an action which gets a horrifying number of people shot). Nearly everyone dies, though the only really villainous character survives and thrives. It's a musical.
84	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheMisfits]]'': A beautiful divorcee hangs out with two selfish assholes and a reckless rodeo rider in Nevada.
85	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MissCongeniality]]'': The day can only be saved if an agent enters a BeautyContest.
86	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/MissingLink]]'': A man in London is convinced he will join the nobility if he can transport an individual from the Pacific Northwest to the Himalayas, then leave him there.
87	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Mission Impossible\|FilmSeries}}]]'': The ongoing misadventures of a man facing death, [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity job dismissals, company dissolvements]], and greedy former co-workers.
88	* ''[[spoiler: Literature/TheMist]]'': Unusual weather phenomenon and wildlife sightings annoy supermarket patrons.
89	** Bad weather keeps locals indoors.
90	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Mistress}}]]'': ExecutiveMeddling: The Movie.
91	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines]]'': Siri decides to take over the world because of daddy issues.
92	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}]]'': A teenager forces [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] to return the rock to the rock that he stole it from.
93	** A young woman doesn't get along with her dad and leaves her village. Along the way, she joins up with a sailor who can't swim. A lady who's really good with geology is apparently the source of the village's problems. Also, we learn that a wrestler can sing quite well.
94	* ''[[spoiler: Film/ModernTimes]]'': A man's job drives him insane, and he has to make a living thereafter.
95	** Or: A man has a nervous breakdown, loses several jobs, starves, and is unjustly imprisoned, all the while openly pursuing a relationship with an underage girl. This is supposed to be a comedy.
96	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMoneyPit]]'': Couple falls for realty scam. HilarityEnsues.
97	* ''[[spoiler: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday]]'': A French man goes on holiday. Chaos ensues.
98	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1]]'': Industrial workers traumatize children. One of them accidentally kidnaps a child, and their factory gets socialized.
99	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity]]'': Two guys flunk college and become said industrial workers.
100	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse]]'': Three kids break into their neighbour's home and enrage his deceased wife.
101	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis]]'': A girl and a giant mutated bug dance around and sing songs in Paris. There is also a monkey.
102	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMonsterSquad]]'': A bunch of foul-mouthed pre-teens hang out with Frankenstein's Monster, fight an old European man and his creepy friends, and discover the Wolfman does, in fact, have nards.
103	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens]]'': After a woman's wedding day is interrupted by a falling meteor, she's drafted by the U.S. military to fight a [[LargeHam hammy]] tentacled alien. She works alongside a boastful fish-man, a half-cockroach MadScientist, a dim but lovable slime heap, and a very large grub.
104	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail]]'': NoBudget indie film in which a bunch of idiots search for a piece of kitchenware. Ran out of money while incomplete.
105	** Alternatively, [[spoiler:Myth/KingArthur]] on a '''[[NoBudget low]]''' budget.
106	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian]]'': A naughty boy gets mistaken for someone important. He ends up receiving the death penalty for the other man's actions. A musical.
107	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife]]'': Some fish start to think philosophically. HilarityEnsues.
108	* ''[[spoiler:[[Literature/TheMoomins Moomins and the Winter Wonderland]]]]'': A novel about a boy spending winter alone with his parents in a coma and having one of his only friends freeze to death is combined with a wholesome short story about the boy celebrating Christmas with his family into one movie adaptation.
109	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Moon}}]]'': A Sam's Club is built on the Moon.
110	** Or: An introspective man goes home.
111	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Moonwalker}}]]'': Music/MichaelJackson turns into a CoolCar, then a HumongousMecha, and then a CoolStarship.
112	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Morbius2022]]'': A man's medical condition gets worse after taking some dubious medicine. It's best known for things that never actually happened in the film.
113	** A one hour forty-five minute meme.
114	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MortalKombatTheMovie]]'': Greedy old men invites people to show off their kung fu. [[VideoGameMoviesSuck Based on a video game.]]
115	** Or: [[Film/BeverlyHillsNinja Gobei]], [[Film/BillyMadison Veronica Vaughn]], and [[Film/PromNight2008 Uncle Jack Turner]] are helped by [[Film/{{Highlander}} Connor MacLeod]] to win an old man's tournament. Features a guy receiving a GroinAttack after breaking his opponent's sunglasses.
116	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MortalKombat2021]]'': [[{{Jobber}} Glorified sparring]] discovers he is supposed to join other people that want to show off their kung fu against greedy old man.
117	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Mother2017]]'': Woman reacts badly to visitors.
118	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Mothra}}]]'': A butterfly seeks revenge after her human companions are kidnapped and sold to a circus.
119	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MoulinRouge1952]]'': Noble cripple makes scandalous paintings and has way too much to drink.
120	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MoulinRouge (2001)]]'': Writer falls in love while singing anachronistic songs - [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on a LOT of absinthe]].
121	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MouseHunt]]'': Jobless/homeless [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]] put up with WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry after inheriting [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Uncle Scrooge's]] mansion and his magical string factory. Live-action and full of depression, horror, and near-fatal accidents. Rated PG.
122	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005]]'': A man and his wife have a fight because of work.
123	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown]]'': A man inherits a fortune. He then feeds doughnuts to horses and plays the tuba.
124	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MrHollandsOpus]]'': The heartwarming story of a neglectful, music-obsessed father and his deaf son.
125	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MrMajestyk]]'': A melon farmer attempts to harvest his crop in time.
126	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MrsDoubtfire]]'': A voice actor masquerades as a woman just so he can be with his family.
127	* [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'']]: A teenager kills an army using snow. She is chaperoned by a lizard who wants to impress dead people.
128	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{The Mummy\|1999}}]]'': Foreign Legion defector, librarian and greedy man try stopping an undead adulterer from destroying the world.
129	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMummyReturns]]'': Undead adulterer is re-brought from the dead so he can get a dog army from a giant arachnid-thing.
130	*** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheScorpionKing]]'': CG monster gets back-story and launches a successful film career.
131	** [[spoiler: ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'']]: Bickering father and son reconcile as they fight to prevent a dead man's bid to rid the world of freedom. The dead man can turn into [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} King Ghidorah]].
132	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMummy2017]]'': LovableRogue is stalked by an undead power hungry woman, who wants to stab him and love him, in that order.
133	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MuneGuardianOfTheMoon]]'': A furry whose family hate him is accidentally elected as president. He somehow [[ItMakesSenseInContext causes the moon to float away from the earth]]. He must team up with a LargeHam and a candle to fix his mistake.
134	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMuppetMovie]]'': A short guy who plays the banjo is convinced to go into show business. Along his way to Hollywood, he teams up with a struggling comedian, a portly, bad-tempered would-be actress who [[IKnowKarate knows karate]], a plumber with a chicken fetish, and other oddballs. He also has to avoid a restaurateur who ''really'' wants the short guy to be his new spokesperson.
135	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper]]'': A pair of twin brothers who don't look anything alike reporting for a newspaper go, along with their oddball photographer, to England to investigate jewel robberies done to the local fashion designer. A would-be model pretends she is said designer to score a date with one of the brothers and is then framed for the robberies.
136	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan]]'': A group of oddball college graduates go to New York to bring their college stage play to Broadway.
137	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MuppetTreasureIsland]]'': An effeminate boy, a rat, and a long-beaked something go on a [[Literature/TreasureIsland very familiar]] treasure hunt. HilarityEnsues.
138	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MuppetsFromSpace]]'': A young man with identity issues ponders his existence. Music/GeorgeClinton and other funk greats provide background music.
139	** ''[[spoiler:Film/TheMuppets2011]]'': A guy with no sense of humor tries to thwart a telethon being held by washed-up performers.
140	*** Alternatively, two fanboys help washed-up performers make a comeback.
141	** ''[[spoiler:Film/MuppetsMostWanted]]'': A celebrity star is replaced by a CriminalDoppelganger and gets thrown in a prison. HilarityEnsues.
142	*** Alternatively, LampshadeHanging: The Movie.
143	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MurderByNumbers2002]]'': A nerd and a popular guy try to commit the perfect murder. They fail. Miserably. There's enough [[HoYay homoerotic]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension tension]] to make up for it.
144	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017]]'': A Belgian detective wants to find out who killed [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]. [[spoiler:Turns out it's everyone.]]
145	** ''[[spoiler: Film/DeathOnTheNile2022]]'': Now, he wants to find out who killed Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}. Also, the origins of his mustache are revealed.
146	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MusicAndLyrics]]'': Has-been teams up with plant-waterer in order to write hit song for vapid Eastern mysticism enthusiast.
147	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MyAnimal]]'': Lesbian furry goes through a lot.
148	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MyBlueHeaven]]'': A troublemaker is under the watch of an FBI agent, who falls in love with a police officer.
149	* ''[[spoiler: Film/MyCousinVinny]]'': Rookie Brooklyn lawyer goes up against a DeadpanSnarker Alabama judge. Hilarity ensues.
150	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MyDinnerWithAndre]]'': Two guys have dinner.
151	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986]]'': {{Card Carrying Villain}}s send a misanthropy-inducing slime against a LadyLand of Houyhnhnms in the name of family honor.
152	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017]]'': [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine Victor Creed]] gate-crashes a Houyhnhnm festival.
153	** Or: Six horses go on a cross-country trip to find a race that can help them save their country. They refuse to help. An ascended animation error saves the day.
154	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration]]'': Equines put two rocks together in hopes that it will end racism. It doesn't work. Then they try putting ''three'' rocks together while Horse Augusto Pinochet In A Giant Robot tries to stop them. It also doesn't work.
155	* ''[[spoiler:Film/MysteryMen]]'': Dopey working-class buddies and a woman with daddy issues who goes bowling a lot have to save the day after a local celebrity vanishes.

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