The Oxford History of World Cinema M-Z
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101. Manon Lescaut (1926)
99 min | Drama
A tragic love story between a French nobleman and a young seducer.
Director: Arthur Robison | Stars: Lya De Putti, Vladimir Gajdarov, Eduard Rothauser, Fritz Greiner
Votes: 76
102. Manon of the Spring (1986)
PG | 113 min | Drama
A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Hippolyte Girardot
Votes: 23,953 | Gross: $3.94M
103. Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually extremely inexperienced in the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver
Votes: 6,077
104. The Seed of Man (1969)
113 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Marzio Margine, Rada Rassimov, Maria Teresa Piaggio
Votes: 555
105. Sea of Roses (1978)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Woman runs away having the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.
Director: Ana Carolina | Stars: Norma Bengell, Otávio Augusto, Myrian Muniz, Ary Fontoura
Votes: 175
106. Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (1913)
72 min | Drama, History, Romance
After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Amleto Novelli, Ignazio Lupi, Elsa Lenard
Votes: 76
107. Victory March (1976)
118 min | Drama
The young student Paolo Passeri is firmly anti-militarist but has to do his military service.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Franco Nero, Miou-Miou, Michele Placido, Ekkehardt Belle
Votes: 332
108. Marco Polo (1982–1983)
504 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The life and experiences of the thirteenth century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.
Stars: Ken Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel, David Warner
Votes: 1,307
109. Maria Candelaria (1944)
Approved | 76 min | Romance, Drama
In Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. María Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Margarita Cortés
Votes: 1,220
110. Le mariage de Mlle Beulemans (1932)
Comedy
The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris, to that of her compatriots.
Director: Jean Choux | Stars: Pierre Alcover, Lily Bourget, Berthe Charmal, Arthur Devère
111. Marie Antoinette (1938)
Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
Votes: 3,284
112. Marie-Martine (1943)
103 min | Drama
The story of Marie-Martine ,told backwards.
Director: Albert Valentin | Stars: Renée Saint-Cyr, Jules Berry, Saturnin Fabre, Bernard Blier
Votes: 110
113. Maryse (1917)
66 min
Director: Camille de Morlhon | Stars: Maryse Dauvray, Alexandre Arquillière, Jeanne Brindeau, Paul Guidé
114. Marius (1931)
Not Rated | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Votes: 2,568
115. The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 2,785
116. Markens grøde (1921)
75 min | Drama
After the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it's criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.
Director: Gunnar Sommerfeldt | Stars: Amund Rydland, Karen Poulsen, Ragna Wettergreen, Gunnar Sommerfeldt
Votes: 249
117. Märkische Forschungen (1982)
91 min | Comedy
The distinguished Professor Winfried Menzel of Berlin has rediscovered a forgotten poet from the Mark, Max von Schwedenow. He meets a teacher from the country called Poetsch on a trip. He ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Gräf | Stars: Hermann Beyer, Kurt Böwe, Jutta Wachowiak, Dieter Franke
Votes: 21
118. Marnie (1964)
PG | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham
Votes: 53,857 | Gross: $7.00M
119. The Marquise of O (1976)
PG | 102 min | Drama, History
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr
Votes: 3,039 | Gross: $0.00M
120. Qortsili (1964)
21 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A young man keeps meeting the same girl with a violin again and again. Is it his destiny?
Director: Mikheil Kobakhidze | Stars: Georgi Kavtaradze, Nana Kavtaradze, Yekaterina Verulashvili, Baadur Tsuladze
Votes: 185
121. Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918)
95 min | Comedy
In this sequel to Wanted - A Film Actress (1917), comedic situations follow Thomas and Bessie - beginning with the preparations of wedding ceremony, to the daily married life.
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Josef Fischer, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Votes: 112
122. Marriage of the Blessed (1989)
75 min | Crime, Drama, War
Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, his fiancée stands by him as together they ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mahmoud Hatamikia, Roya Nonahali, Ebrahim Abadi, Mohsen Zaehtab
Votes: 559
123. The Marriage Circle (1924)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale
Votes: 1,503 | Gross: $0.81M
124. Himmet Aga'nin Izdivaci (1916)
50 min | Comedy
The first feature-length Turkish movie centers upon a story of an old man who is forced to marry with a young lady. The story depends on the Moliere's The Forced Marriage which was translated into Turkish by Ahmet Vefik Pasha.
Directors: Fuat Uzkinay, Sigmund Weinberg | Stars: Ismail Galip Arcan, Lusi Avusyak, Baltazar, Kemal Emin Bara
Votes: 39
125. The Marrying Kind (1952)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing, the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had, hoping that the ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy, Sheila Bond
Votes: 1,642
126. La Marseillaise (1938)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, Music
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive
Votes: 1,394
128. Martin et Léa (1979)
90 min | Drama
A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Isabelle Ho, Xavier Saint-Macary, Cécile Le Bailly, Richard Bohringer
Votes: 67
129. The Room Upstairs (1946)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The local building contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blanche, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin, Jean d'Yd, Daniel Gélin
Votes: 522
130. The Martyrdom of Thomas A Becket (1908)
Short, Drama, History
The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.
Director: Percy Stow
131. Mucedníci lásky (1967)
71 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
A series of loosely-connected shorts comprised of three tales representing different aspects of love: temptation, dreams, and adventure.
Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Petr Kopriva, Marta Kubisová, Hana Kuberová, Jan Klusák
Votes: 194
132. At the Circus (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker
Votes: 6,467
133. Mary Poppins (1964)
G | 139 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
Votes: 186,081 | Gross: $102.27M
134. Mary of Scotland (1936)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Directors: John Ford, Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Votes: 2,796
135. Black Sunday (1960)
Approved | 87 min | Horror
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 17,600
136. The Mascot (1933)
37 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Star: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Votes: 1,613
137. M*A*S*H (1970)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 76,938 | Gross: $81.60M
138. Mashenka (1942)
66 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka.
Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova, Vera Altayskaya
Votes: 299
139. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston
Votes: 16,238
140. The Mass Is Ended (1985)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri, Enrica Maria Modugno
Votes: 2,021
141. The Master and Margaret (1972)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A writer and his assistant are working on a biblical story about Pontius Pilate who convicted Jesus of Nazereth, while the Satan (here called Woland) and his lieutenants are harassing the writer duo in various ways.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer, Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 791
142. Tern u tzaran (1963)
22 min | Comedy, Short
Smart servant and stingy master.
Director: Dmitri Kesayants | Stars: Tatik Saryan, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Sos Sargsyan, S. Badalyan
Votes: 74
143. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,068
144. Until the Day We Meet Again (1932)
103 min | Drama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Yoshiko Okada, Jôji Oka, Shin'yô Nara, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 49
145. The Torture of Silence (1917)
80 min | Drama
Sad story of an unfaithful wife and her subsequent sufferings as a mother.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Emmy Lynn, Armand Tallier, Anthony Gildès, Firmin Gémier
Votes: 153
146. Mathias Kneissl (1971)
94 min | Drama
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Hans Brenner, Ruth Drexel, Eva Mattes, Hanna Schygulla
Votes: 53
147. Mathias Sandorf (1979– )
90 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1867, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the adventures of the revolutionary count Mathias Sandorf who, having escaped an attack which cost the life of his wife, returns years later to take revenge on his political enemies.
Stars: István Bujtor, Claude Giraud, Giuseppe Pambieri, Monika Peitsch
Votes: 319
149. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron
Votes: 24,904
150. Mattukkara Velan (1970)
173 min | Drama
The story of lookalikes Raghu and Velan.
Director: P. Neelakantan | Stars: M.G. Ramachandran, Jayalalitha J, Lakshmi, Varalakshmi S.
Votes: 38
151. Bad Blood (1986)
Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
As a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer
Votes: 9,320 | Gross: $0.02M
152. Max My Love (1986)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse
Votes: 1,279
153. Max as a Chiropodist (1914)
15 min | Short, Comedy
Once more Max adopts subterfuge in order to pursue his amours, but, unfortunately, pa requests attention to his cornuted extremities. Max is forcibly ejected for his "pains," and suffers, ... See full summary »
Director: Max Linder | Stars: Max Linder, Gabrielle Lange, Georges Gorby, Lucy d'Orbel
Votes: 114
154. Max Takes a Bath (1910)
8 min | Short, Comedy
Max has purchased a new bathtub, but bathing in it proves to be more difficult than he anticipated.
Director: Lucien Nonguet | Star: Max Linder
Votes: 338
155. Proshu slova (1976)
145 min | Drama
When Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Nikolay Gubenko, Ekaterina Volkova, Leonid Bronevoy
Votes: 204
156. Mayerling (1936)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier, Yolande Laffon
Votes: 955 | Gross: $0.24M
157. The Maze (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he ... See full summary »
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate
Votes: 1,262
158. The Meadow (1979)
115 min | Drama
Giovanni, a Milan youth heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property. Giovanni falls in with several small-town rebels.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini, Angela Goodwin
Votes: 414
159. Mean Streets (1973)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic lover, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
Votes: 119,671 | Gross: $3.13M
160. Meatballs (1979)
PG | 94 min | Comedy
Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Russ Banham
Votes: 23,873 | Gross: $43.05M
161. Mechta (1943)
100 min | Drama
About the inhabitants of a boarding house run by a tyrannical old woman, described by director Mikhail Romm as a "study of human destinies influenced by Tolstoy and Balzac."
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Vladimir Solovyov, Valentin Shcheglov, Faina Ranevskaya
Votes: 255
162. Medea (1969)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy
After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it's only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile
Votes: 5,489
163. Meditation on Violence (1949)
Not Rated | 12 min | Documentary, Short
The setting with the low walls and river views is located in a private area of The Cloisters museum.
Director: Maya Deren | Star: Chao Li Chi
Votes: 1,084
164. Mediterraneo (1991)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio
Votes: 16,423 | Gross: $4.53M
165. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,905
166. Meet Marlon Brando (1966)
Not Rated | 28 min | Documentary, Short
Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote... See full summary »
Directors: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin | Stars: Marlon Brando, Rex Morgan, Mary Frann, Lee Murray
Votes: 376
167. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
Votes: 27,684 | Gross: $7.57M
168. Görüs (1955)
72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
It is about azerbaijani and uzbek cotton-growers who compete each other. Uzbek girl Lala and Azerbaijani boy Kamil's love is the bottom line of the film.
Director: Tofig Taghizade | Stars: Arif Mirzaquliyev, Nelya Ataullaeva, Leyla Badirbayli, Hasanaga Salayev
Votes: 86
169. El mégano (1955)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Julio García Espinosa, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Votes: 63
170. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya
Votes: 3,240
171. Mein lieber Robinson (1971)
Drama
19-year old Peter is working to gain practical experience for his planned medical studies. But his life turns into confusion as he unexpectedly comes a father.
Director: Roland Gräf | Stars: Jan Bereska, Gabriele Simon, Alfred Müller, Dieter Franke
Votes: 22
173. Melodie der Welt (1929)
40 min | Documentary, Short
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Stars: Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Renée Stobrawa, Grace Chiang, O. Idris
Votes: 242
174. Any Number Can Win (1963)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A career con artist reunites with his wife but has already planned his next move: one daring last heist that will set him up for life. However, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval, Viviane Romance
Votes: 4,150 | Gross: $1.00M
175. Melody Time (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, Laverne Andrews
Votes: 6,945
176. The Music Lover (1903)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,939
177. Memorandum (1966)
58 min | Documentary
A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory.
Directors: Donald Brittain, John Spotton | Stars: Bernard Laufer, Emil Bednarek, Wilhelm Boger, Arthur Breitwieser
Votes: 76
178. Memórias do Cárcere (1984)
185 min | Drama
Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Carlos Vereza, Glória Pires, Nildo Parente, José Dumont
Votes: 510
179. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés
Votes: 4,776 | Gross: $0.03M
180. The Memory of Justice (1976)
PG | 278 min | Documentary, War
Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.
Director: Marcel Ophüls | Stars: Yehudi Menuhin, Noël Favrelières, Anthony Herbert, Edward Sowders
Votes: 384
181. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis, Robert J. Hanson
Votes: 1,848
182. The Men (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
A paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Votes: 5,146 | Gross: $7.10M
183. Menace II Society (1993)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda
Votes: 64,479 | Gross: $27.90M
184. Ménilmontant (1926)
38 min | Short, Drama
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Jean Pasquier
Votes: 2,733
185. Mephisto (1981)
Unrated | 146 min | Drama
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 11,596
186. Amansiz Yol (1985)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Hasan, a little girl named Ayse and Sabahat begins a journey and they are being followed by their foes.
Director: Ömer Kavur | Stars: Kadir Inanir, Zuhal Olcay, Yavuzer Çetinkaya, Mine Çayiroglu
Votes: 338
187. Mothers of France (1917)
73 min | Drama, War
A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.
Directors: René Hervil, Louis Mercanton | Stars: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabriel Signoret, Georges Deneubourg, Jean Angelo
Votes: 50
188. Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (1931)
TV-Y7 | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.
Directors: Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Ken Darby, Rochelle Hudson, The King's Men, Johnny Murray
Votes: 598
189. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,023 | Gross: $2.31M
190. The Merry Widow (1907)
Short, Drama
Danilo and Sonio are ordered to marry to save their country from bankruptcy. They are both too proud to speak to each other at a fête in the ambassador's garden in Paris, but they are ... See full summary »
Stars: Curt Manthey, Charlotte D'Avis, Mary Lange, Nelly Morena
191. The Merry Widow (1925)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, Romance
A prince must woo the now-wealthy dancer he once abandoned, to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Votes: 2,567 | Gross: $1.92M
192. The Merry Widow (1934)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 3,260
193. The Merry Widow (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance
Operating under royal orders, a count must woo a young and wealthy widow in order to save a kingdom from bankruptcy.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn
Votes: 668
194. La Ronde (1950)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats-all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon
Votes: 5,961
195. La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929)
125 min | Drama
Biography of Joan of Arc from her departure from Domremy until her death in Rouen.
Director: Marco de Gastyne | Stars: Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 101
196. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Votes: 15,210
198. Paying the Price (I) (1913)
Director: Giulio Antamoro | Stars: Hesperia, Ignazio Lupi, Giuseppe Gambardella, Eduardo D'Accursio
199. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,552 | Gross: $1.24M
200. Tokai kokyogaku (1929)
70 min
Leftist proletarian drama of a young woman who is assisted by a working class youth in finding justice and avenging her seduction by a rich man.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isamu Kosugi, Eiji Takagi, Kaichi Yamamoto, Takako Irie
Votes: 12
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