The Oxford History of World Cinema M-Z
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1. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,274 | Gross: $0.03M
2. M. Butterfly (1993)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson
Votes: 10,939 | Gross: $1.50M
3. Love Everlasting (1914)
90 min | Drama
Leslie Swayne, an adventurer, in order to obtain enough money to satisfy the needs of his extravagant life, has been bribed to steal the plans of the fortification from the staff officers ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Caserini | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Mario Bonnard, Gian Paolo Rosmino, Vittorio Rossi Pianelli
Votes: 152
4. My Night at Maud's (1969)
GP | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez
Votes: 14,528
5. My Favorite Season (1993)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites ... See full summary »
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Votes: 2,229 | Gross: $0.76M
6. Macario (1960)
91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Poor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Pina Pellicer, Enrique Lucero, Mario Alberto Rodríguez
Votes: 4,330
7. Macbeth (1916)
80 min | Drama, History
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Constance Collier, Wilfred Lucas, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 34
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
R | 120 min | Drama, Western
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane
Votes: 27,597 | Gross: $8.20M
9. Machorka-Muff (1963)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Heiner Braun, Gino Cardella, Johannes Eckardt, Erich Kuby
Votes: 505
10. Die Macht der Gefühle (1983)
115 min | Crime, Drama
Anthology film in which different scenes are montaged side by side. Hannelore Hoger plays a central role as the accused. Numerous references to earlier Kluge films are hidden.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Alexandra Kluge, Edgar M. Böhlke, Klaus Wennemann
Votes: 150
11. Marvelous Maciste (1915)
67 min | Adventure
The uncle of Josephine employs gangsters to abduct her, and in fleeing from them she enters a motion picture theater, where she sees Maciste playing in the screen drama, "Cabiria." The ... See full summary »
Directors: Luigi Romano Borgnetto, Vincenzo Denizot | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Leone Papa, Clementina Gay, Amelia Chellini
Votes: 212
12. Maciste in Hell (1925)
95 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Umberto Guarracino, Mario Saio, Franz Sala
Votes: 625
13. The Warrior (1916)
95 min | Action, Drama, War
A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Fido Schirru, Valentina Frascaroli, Enrico Gemelli
Votes: 122
14. McLintock! (1963)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Western
Wealthy rancher G. W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers
Votes: 16,591
15. Maclovia (1948)
TV-PG | 105 min | Drama, Romance
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Carlos López Moctezuma, Columba Domínguez
Votes: 180
16. Macunaima (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Fantasy, Comedy
Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Stars: Grande Otelo, Paulo José, Jardel Filho, Dina Sfat
Votes: 2,087
17. The Mad Masters (1955)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
A documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.
Director: Jean Rouch | Star: Jean Rouch
Votes: 1,772
18. Mad Max (1979)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley
Votes: 221,983 | Gross: $8.75M
19. The Crazy Years of the Twist (1983)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A small town in Algeria, in the years 1960-1962. Two young idle boys and rock fans, Boualem and Salah, try to survive in the turmoil of war, taking great care not to get involved.
Director: Mahmoud Zemmouri | Stars: Mustapha El Anka, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina, Fawzi B. Saichi, Jacques Villeret
Votes: 40
20. Madadayo (1993)
134 min | Drama
Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui
Votes: 6,146 | Gross: $0.05M
21. Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1978)
137 min | Fantasy
Several women, all bored with their menial lives, join a lesbian pirate ship and set sail on a kooky adventure.
Directors: Tabea Blumenschein, Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Tabea Blumenschein, Monika von Cube, Roswitha Janz, Irene von Lichtenstein
Votes: 162
22. Passion (1919)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 1,003
23. Madame Sans-Gêne (1911)
30 min | Short
A crude washerwoman in the military entourage of Napoleon is snubbed by the new aristocrats in his court.
Directors: André Calmettes, Henri Desfontaines | Stars: Gabrielle Réjane, Edmond Duquesne, Georges Dorival, Jacques Volnys
24. Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)
100 min | Comedy
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Votes: 55 | Gross: $0.41M
25. The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)
64 min | Comedy, Drama
A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date
Votes: 291
26. Mädchen in Uniform (1958)
91 min | Drama
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Romy Schneider, Therese Giehse, Blandine Ebinger
Votes: 1,759
27. Madeleine (1912)
46 min | Drama, War
A French girl is engaged to a German engineer who gets caught during the war. She helps him escape and then he attacks the French unit who caught him, located in the girl's family estate.
Director: Emil Albes | Stars: Ilse Oeser, Hugo Flink, Ludwig Trautmann, Emil Albes
Votes: 16
28. Madeline (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley | Star: Gladys Holland
Votes: 242
29. Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, War
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier
Votes: 618
30. The Fool of Kairouan (1939)
83 min | Drama, Musical
After production, the film was disappeared in 1939, it was found in France in 1989 thanks to the research of Hichem Ben Ammar. This film is considered one of the key films in history of cinema in North Africa.
Directors: Crenzi, Jean-André Kreuzi | Stars: Mohamed Jamoussy, Flifla Chamia, Abdelmajid Chebbi, Selma Ridha
Votes: 17
31. Mafioso (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio
Votes: 2,965 | Gross: $0.40M
32. Magdana's Donkey (1955)
50 min | Drama
Small Georgian village (ca. 1890) Magdana a widow lives in a shack with her 3 children and ekes out a living selling yogurt. When the children find a donkey lying by the road and nurse it to health, it seems the family's troubles are over.
Directors: Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkheidze | Stars: Dudukhana Tserodze, Liana Moistsrapishvili, Mikho Borashvili, Nani Chikvinidze
Votes: 591
33. High and Dry (1954)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy
An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker
Votes: 1,518
34. The Magic Braid (1986)
98 min | Adventure
Magic Braid filmed the novel by Feng Tszitsaya (1942). The film tells about a rustic merchant soy bad Second owning family style battle scythe, which, due to circumstances became embroiled in a conflict with the underworld Tianjin.
Director: Zien Zhang | Stars: Yawei Wang, Baoguo Chen, Shouli Xu, Yan Zhang
Votes: 93
35. The Magic Fluke (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
UPA had just taken over the cartoon production for Columbia and their influence shows vividly on this Fox-and-Crow entry that lets the slapstick be a result of a 'human-nature' story. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Hubley | Star: John T. Smith
Votes: 182
36. The Magic Flute (1975)
G | 135 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
The story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård
Votes: 5,218
37. Magical Maestro (1952)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A magician seeks revenge against an opera singer for refusing to let him perform his magic act. He then devises what he thinks is a clever plan to enact his revenge with some hilarious results.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Daws Butler, Tex Avery, Carlos Ramírez
Votes: 1,225
38. Les magiciens de Wanzerbé (1948)
38 min | Short
This short documents the kind of magic ritual, found in some African societies, that the ethnographic filmmaker returned to again and again as a subject.
Directors: Marcel Griaule, Jean Rouch
Votes: 27
39. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
Votes: 26,724
40. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach
Votes: 102,424 | Gross: $4.91M
41. Inspector Maigret (1958)
119 min | Crime, Drama
A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Le Marais.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel
Votes: 2,082 | Gross: $0.01M
42. La maison du mystère (1923)
Not Rated | 382 min | Crime, Drama
An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Charles Vanel, Nicolas Koline, Hélène Darly
Votes: 122
43. The Naked Maja (1958)
111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof duchess.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi
Votes: 442
44. Major Dundee (1965)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn
Votes: 8,818 | Gross: $0.01M
45. Make Mine Music (1946)
Passed | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Animation done to contemporary popular music.
Directors: Robert Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews
Votes: 4,938
46. Making a Living (1914)
G | 11 min | Short, Comedy
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport
Votes: 2,291
47. Malcolm X (1992)
PG-13 | 202 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Votes: 101,946 | Gross: $48.17M
48. Misdeal (1928)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Charles Dullin, Marcelle Charles Dullin, Geymond Vital, André Bacqué
Votes: 242
49. Male and Female (1919)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain
Votes: 1,973
50. Malombra (1917)
75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Amleto Novelli, Augusto Mastripietri, Amedeo Ciaffi
Votes: 143
51. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
Votes: 166,463 | Gross: $2.11M
52. Mama (1990)
90 min | Drama
A young woman who has been abandoned by her husband is left to cope with her mentally challenged and epileptic 13-year-old son. Dong Dong suffered brain damage during an acute epileptic ... See full summary »
Director: Yuan Zhang | Stars: Qingyu Yan, Xiaodan Yang
Votes: 50
53. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
210 min | Drama, Romance
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten
Votes: 6,660
54. Mambo Girl (1957)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A woman finds out that she's adopted and sets out to find her long-lost biological mother.
Director: Wen Yi | Stars: Grace Chang, Peter Chen Hou, Chien-Fei Chang, Tien-Chu Chin
Votes: 118
55. Mamma Roma (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Votes: 10,454
56. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
G | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 37,124 | Gross: $28.35M
57. Man of Aran (1934)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama
In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane, Pat Mullin
Votes: 2,320
58. Man of Ashes (1986)
109 min | Drama
In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and ... See full summary »
Director: Nouri Bouzid | Stars: Imed Maalal, Khaled Ksouri, Habib Belhadi, Mohamed Dhrif
Votes: 237
59. Man in the Dark (1953)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia, Horace McMahon
Votes: 781
60. Man of Flowers (1983)
91 min | Drama
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Sarah L. Walker
Votes: 655
61. Chelovek ukhodit za ptitsami (1976)
87 min | Drama
"Man Follows Birds" is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a lot of melancholy and tenderness. Cast... See full summary »
Director: Ali Khamraev | Stars: Dzhanik Fayziev, Dilorom Kambarova, Abdugani Saidov, Nargis Avazova
Votes: 108
62. Sandu Follows the Sun (1962)
66 min | Drama
A story about a boy walking across the town following sun.
Director: Mikhail Kalik | Stars: Nika Krimnus, Tatyana Bestayeva, Nikolay Volkov, Georgiy Georgiu
Votes: 218
63. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Passed | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang
Votes: 12,197
64. The Man in Grey (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance
After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Votes: 1,592
65. The Man from Laramie (1955)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Western
Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell
Votes: 11,994
66. The Man I Love (1946)
96 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers
Votes: 1,324
67. Man of Iron (1981)
PG | 156 min | Drama, History
A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Wieslawa Kosmalska
Votes: 3,792
68. A Man for Burning (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Valentino Orsini, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Didi Perego, Spyros Fokas, Lidia Alfonsi
Votes: 201
69. Man of Marble (1977)
160 min | Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki
Votes: 4,773
70. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,929
71. Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love romance between older, respectable engineer that came in the industrial town to do some expert job and young hairdresser in whose house he stayed in and the consequences of that ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras, Stojan 'Stole' Arandjelovic
Votes: 1,337
72. Good Men, Good Women (1995)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as ... See full summary »
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao, Ah-Cheng
Votes: 1,239
73. The Man from Snowy River (1982)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart
Votes: 10,014 | Gross: $20.66M
74. Man Trouble (1992)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Harry Dean Stanton, Beverly D'Angelo
Votes: 3,489 | Gross: $4.10M
75. A Man Vanishes (1967)
130 min | Documentary, Drama
Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura
Votes: 827
76. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Votes: 10,786 | Gross: $0.01M
77. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Unrated | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
Directors: Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda | Stars: Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger
Votes: 1,593
78. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
R | 139 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry
Votes: 28,636 | Gross: $0.10M
79. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Votes: 21,134
80. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles
Votes: 69,475 | Gross: $10.25M
81. The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
94 min | Drama
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda, Hiroshi Isogai
Votes: 801
82. The Man Who Lies (1968)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
On the run from pursuing soldiers, a man hides in a small European town.
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sylvie Bréal, Zuzana Kocúriková, Dominique Prado
Votes: 961
83. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
Director: Frédéric Back | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 6,107
84. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
Votes: 82,195
85. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
PG | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 51,982
87. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt
Votes: 8,152
88. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 79,720
89. Mandabi (1968)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from... See full summary »
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture
Votes: 1,456
90. Mandrin (1924)
Adventure
Director: Henri Fescourt | Stars: Romuald Joubé, Johanna Sutter, Hugues de Bagratide, Louis Monfils
Votes: 13
91. Crash of Silence (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Drama
Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught, and they enroll her with a special teacher.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 1,020
92. Manèges (1949)
91 min | Drama
After spending all his money to fulfill the smallest wish of his wife Dora, Robert is still madly in love with her. Now she is in agony, and her mother comes. She will reveal to Robert how ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Jacques Baumer, Mona Dol
Votes: 450
93. Manhatta (1921)
Not Rated | 11 min | Documentary, Short
This groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
Directors: Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Votes: 1,637
94. Manhattan (1979)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
Votes: 147,100 | Gross: $45.70M
95. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 4,800
96. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Mystery
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen
Votes: 46,780 | Gross: $11.29M
97. Manhunter (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox
Votes: 80,821 | Gross: $8.62M
98. The Man in the Cellar (1914)
44 min | Short, Action, Crime
Director: Joe May | Stars: Ernst Reicher, Max Landa, Olga Engl, Alice Hechy
99. A Man Wants to Get to Germany (1934)
89 min | Action
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Karl Ludwig Diehl, Hermann Speelmans, Brigitte Horney, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 31
100. The Hand in the Trap (1961)
90 min | Drama
A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, Leonardo Favio, María Rosa Gallo
Votes: 261
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