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  • M: The protagonist kills kids.
  • The Machinist: Batman cuts off Darryl Revok's arm, but is still easily beaten up by him.
  • Mädchen in Uniform: A German lesbian falls for her teacher. Possibly has a Japanese granddaughter.
  • Mad Max: Highway patroller has his job follow him while on vacation.
    • Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: Highway patroller discovers that the price of gas has increased.
    • Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: Highway patroller is forced to fight a mentally handicapped man by a eunuch in a diaper and Tina Turner wearing ten pounds of earrings.
    • Mad Max: Fury Road: Highway patroller helps women run away from home. They decide to go back the next day.
      • Highway patroller, six women, and a terminally ill man go on a road trip. Angry old pervert chases them.
      • A woman drives a tanker through the desert, gets lost and goes back the way she came.
      • Eight people spend a few days sitting in a single truck cab.
      • Robot Wars, 18-rated edition.
  • Madagascar: Misbehaviour and intervention of paramilitary group causes four friends to get stranded on island full of people who like to move it, move it.
    • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Paramilitary group leads the four friends (plus two of the "MOVING!" people) to another wild place. Among the problems they face are... tourists.
    • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: 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.
  • Madhouse: Iconic horror actor is stalked by his most famous character.
  • Malignant: Woman has unwilling reunion with the one relative she wanted to forget.
  • Man on Fire: 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.
  • Man on the Moon: Biopic of individual famous because he annoys people.
  • The Man Who Laughs: Man cannot stop smiling, despite his best efforts. Romantically pursued by blind girl who doesn't mind and another woman who thinks it's sexy.
  • Marathon Man: An elderly dentist pursues a long-distance runner.
  • March of the Penguins: Lucius Fox is an ornithologist you never see. Birds raise chicks in the freezer. Family fare with hot bird sex — and the Moral Guardians love it.
  • Marriage Story: Kylo Ren and Black Widow are getting a divorce. They find out it's not as easy as they think.
  • Mars Attacks!: Aliens with a cruel sense of humor are thwarted by a Slim Whitman song.
  • The Martian: Man is left behind by his workmates on remote and deserted place, is forced to spend years waiting for them to return.
  • The Marvels (2023): Space cats are used as interplanetary transit systems.
  • Mary and Max: A little girl and a middle-aged man write letters to each other.
  • Mary Poppins: 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.
    • Alternatively: A man learns to bond with his kids.
    • Mary Poppins Returns: 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.
  • The Mask: Wood artifact turns unlucky dude into a manic troublemaker, who likes trolling both criminals and the law. His life improves as a result.
  • The Mask of Zorro: Criminal loses his brother, and after knowing an ex-prisoner tries to seduce his daughter.
  • The Master: A veteran gravitates towards a religion. Things get unsettling from there.
  • Master and Commander: 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.
  • Match Point: Murderer enjoys tennis.
  • Matilda: Emotionally abused six-year old attends a school where the principal emotionally abuses everyone. It's a comedy directed by Danny DeVito, who plays one of the abusers.
    • Or: Disaffected, emotionally abused girl discovers psychic powers. No, it's not like Carrie.
  • The Matrix: 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.
    • Or: A young programmer quits his job, does drugs, waxes philosophical with his friends, debugs a program, and gets a girlfriend.
      • A computer nerd throws his life away to break laws with terrorists thinking it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
    • The Matrix Reloaded: 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 confuse people.
    • The Matrix Revolutions: While the programmer's friends have an unwelcome visit by the software company, he gains Administrator privileges trying to delete that virus.
    • The Matrix Resurrected: 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.
  • Mean Girls: 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.
  • Meet Dave: A starship tries to adjust to living in New York.
  • Meet the Robinsons: 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 Timey-Wimey Ball and self-confidence aesops ensue.
  • Megamind: A man learns what life is like after overcoming his rival.
  • M3GAN: Woman is bothered that her niece has become too attached to a toy, and vice-versa.
  • Memento: A forgetful, tattooed man kills another man for something he himself did. This probably isn't the first time.
    • Alternatively: A very important film to remind us that amnesiacs make terrible investigators.
  • Men in Black: International airport security guards with One Letter Names fight against angry farmers who are actually space bugs.
    • Men in Black II: Same men fight against American fetishes who are actually... Japanese fetishes.
    • Men in Black 3: Same men fight against amputee who wants to kill a baseball fan.
    • Men in Black: International: Another two guards fight against some illegals who are actually being framed by the head of security.
  • The Menu: A fast-food cheeseburger and french fries save a prostitute's life.
  • Metropolis: A rich man's idealistic son gets involved with a labor dispute, while a scientist works to deceive him.
  • Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers: Three janitors save France from a cat and get girlfriends. Features heavy anachronism and nearly the entire main cast of Animaniacs.
  • Midnight Cowboy: Of Mice and Men in The Big Rotten Apple, with lots of cameos by Andy Warhol's associates and a few naked people.
  • The Midnight Meat Train: Morbid photographer hangs out in subway, stalks former football player. Eventually meets Tony Curran.
  • Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen's version of Pleasantville for adults.
  • Midnight Run: Neurotic accountant incurs wrath of the Mob, the FBI and a bounty hunter during cross country trip.
  • Midsommar: A group of grad students experience an idyllic Scandinavian holiday hosted by very polite Swedes. Most of them don't survive.
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie: Teenagers With Attitude become ninja to fight living snotman.
  • Migration: A patriarch of a nuclear family reluctantly leaves home after his children coax him into doing so. He soon discovers an Evil Chef, who has captured a Jamaican and confined him in his restaurant's office, is trying to kill him.
  • Million Dollar Baby: Two old guys turn a bankrupt woman into the world's toughest professional female boxer. She loses to a chair. They kill her afterwards.
    • Simultaneously, a mentally retarded guy gets brutally beat up by other boxers.
  • Minions: Gibberish-speaking yellow people help Sandra Bullock take over England.
  • Minority Report: Drowned woman causes man to be chased by Irish officer; trying to avoid him, said man loses his eyes and kidnaps a bald girl.
  • Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants: A war is waged over a small box of soluble carbohydrates.
  • 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.
  • Les MisĂ©rables (2012): A guy steals a loaf of bread. Forty years later he dies.
    • 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.
  • The Misfits: A beautiful divorcee hangs out with two selfish assholes and a reckless rodeo rider in Nevada.
  • Miss Congeniality: The day can only be saved if an agent enters a Beauty Contest.
  • Missing Link: 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.
  • Mission Impossible: The ongoing misadventures of a man facing death, job dismissals, company dissolvements, and greedy former co-workers.
  • The Mist: Unusual weather phenomenon and wildlife sightings annoy supermarket patrons.
    • Bad weather keeps locals indoors.
  • Mistress: Executive Meddling: The Movie.
  • The Mitchells vs. the Machines: Siri decides to take over the world because of daddy issues.
  • Moana: A teenager forces The Rock to return the rock to the rock that he stole it from.
    • 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.
  • Modern Times: A man's job drives him insane, and he has to make a living thereafter.
    • 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.
  • The Money Pit: Couple falls for realty scam. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday: A French man goes on holiday. Chaos ensues.
  • Monsters, Inc.: Industrial workers traumatize children. One of them accidentally kidnaps a child, and their factory gets socialized.
  • Monster House: Three kids break into their neighbour's home and enrage his deceased wife.
  • A Monster in Paris: A girl and a giant mutated bug dance around and sing songs in Paris. There is also a monkey.
  • The Monster Squad: 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.
  • Monsters vs. Aliens: After a woman's wedding day is interrupted by a falling meteor, she's drafted by the U.S. military to fight a hammy tentacled alien. She works alongside a boastful fish-man, a half-cockroach Mad Scientist, a dim but lovable slime heap, and a very large grub.
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail: No Budget indie film in which a bunch of idiots search for a piece of kitchenware. Ran out of money while incomplete.
  • Monty Python's Life of Brian: A naughty boy gets mistaken for someone important. He ends up receiving the death penalty for the other man's actions. A musical.
  • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: Some fish start to think philosophically. Hilarity Ensues.
  • 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.
  • Moon: A Sam's Club is built on the Moon.
    • Or: An introspective man goes home.
  • Moonwalker: Michael Jackson turns into a Cool Car, then a Humongous Mecha, and then a Cool Starship.
  • Morbius (2022): 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.
    • A one hour forty-five minute meme.
  • Mortal Kombat: The Movie: Greedy old men invites people to show off their kung fu. Based on a video game.
  • mother! (2017): Woman reacts badly to visitors.
  • Mothra: A butterfly seeks revenge after her human companions are kidnapped and sold to a circus.
  • Moulin Rouge (1952): Noble cripple makes scandalous paintings and has way too much to drink.
  • Moulin Rouge! (2001): Writer falls in love while singing anachronistic songs - on a LOT of absinthe.
  • MouseHunt: Jobless/homeless Mario and Luigi put up with Tom and Jerry after inheriting Uncle Scrooge's mansion and his magical string factory. Live-action and full of depression, horror, and near-fatal accidents. Rated PG.
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005): A man and his wife have a fight because of work.
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town: A man inherits a fortune. He then feeds doughnuts to horses and plays the tuba.
  • Mr. Holland's Opus: The heartwarming story of a neglectful, music-obsessed father and his deaf son.
  • Mr. Majestyk: A melon farmer attempts to harvest his crop in time.
  • Mrs. Doubtfire: A voice actor masquerades as a woman just so he can be with his family.
  • Mulan: A teenager kills an army using snow. She is chaperoned by a lizard who wants to impress dead people.
  • The Mummy: Foreign Legion defector, librarian and greedy man try stopping an undead adulterer from destroying the world.
  • The Mummy (2017): Lovable Rogue is stalked by an undead power hungry woman, who wants to stab him and love him, in that order.
  • Mune: Guardian of the Moon: A furry whose family hate him is accidentally elected as president. He somehow causes the moon to float away from the earth. He must team up with a Large Ham and a candle to fix his mistake.
  • The Muppet Movie: 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 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.
  • Murder by Numbers (2002): A nerd and a popular guy try to commit the perfect murder. They fail. Miserably. There's enough homoerotic tension to make up for it.
  • Murder on the Orient Express (2017): A Belgian detective wants to find out who killed Captain Jack Sparrow. Turns out it's everyone.
  • Music and Lyrics: Has-been teams up with plant-waterer in order to write hit song for vapid Eastern mysticism enthusiast.
  • My Animal: Lesbian furry goes through a lot.
  • My Blue Heaven: A troublemaker is under the watch of an FBI agent, who falls in love with a police officer.
  • My Cousin Vinny: Rookie Brooklyn lawyer goes up against a Deadpan Snarker Alabama judge. Hilarity ensues.
  • My Dinner with Andre: Two guys have dinner.
  • My Little Pony: The Movie (1986): Card Carrying Villains send a misanthropy-inducing slime against a Lady Land of Houyhnhnms in the name of family honor.
  • My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): Victor Creed gate-crashes a Houyhnhnm festival.
    • 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.
  • My Little Pony: A New Generation: 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.
  • Mystery Men: 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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