| M. Butterfly | David Cronenberg | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, spy film | United States |
| M3GAN | Gerard Johnstone | comedy horror film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Ma famille t'adore déjà ! | Jérôme Commandeur | comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Ma l'amor mio non muore | Mario Caserini | — | — |
| Ma Ma | Julio Médem | drama film | Spain |
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | George C. Wolfe | drama film | United States |
| Maa | — | — | India |
| Maa Bhoomi | Goutam Ghose | drama film | India |
| Maan Jao Naa | Aabis Raza | romantic comedy film, drama film | Pakistan |
| Maaran | Karthick Naren | — | India |
| Maatra Devo Bhava | — | drama film | India |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film | United States, Italy |
| Macbeth | Roman Polanski | drama film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| Macbeth | Mario Caserini | — | — |
| MacGruber | Jorma Taccone | action film, parody film | United States |
| Machan | Uberto Pasolini | comedy film | Sri Lanka |
| Machete | Kurt Neumann | drama film | United States |
| Machete Kills | Robert Rodriguez | comedy film, action film, thriller film, vigilante film, action comedy film, action thriller, science fiction film, splatter film | United States |
| Maciste in the Lion's Cage | Guido Brignone | — | — |
| Mackenna's Gold | J. Lee Thompson | Western film, action film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| Mad About Opera | Mario Costa | comedy film | France, Italy |
| Mad Detective | Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai | comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Mad Hour | Joseph C. Boyle | — | — |
| Mad Max | George Miller | action film, dystopian film, thriller film, vigilante film | Australia |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States, Australia |
| Mad Sea | Renato Castellani | comedy drama | France, Italy |
| Madame | Amanda Sthers | drama film, comedy film, melodrama | France |
| Madame Bovary | Vincente Minnelli | — | — |
| Madame Butterfly | Frédéric Mitterrand | drama film, musical film | France, Germany |
| Madame Du Barry | J. Gordon Edwards | — | — |
| Madame Freedom | — | romance film, erotic film | South Korea |
| Madame Hyde | Serge Bozon | drama film | France |
| Madame Luna | Daniel Espinosa | thriller film | Sweden |
| Madame Makes Her Exit | Wilhelm Thiele | romance film | Germany |
| Madame Satã | Karim Aïnouz | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film | France, Brazil |
| Madame Sousatzka | John Schlesinger | drama film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, United States |
| Madame Wants No Children | Alexander Korda | — | — |
| Madame Web | S. J. Clarkson | superhero film, action film | United States |
| Made for Each Other | John Cromwell | romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight | Masayuki Kojima | mystery film, fantasy film, adventure film | Japan |
| Made in China | Kim Dong-hu | drama film | South Korea |
| Made in Dagenham | Nigel Cole | drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Made in France | Nicolas Boukhrief | drama film, thriller film, crime film | France |
| Made in Hong Kong (1997) | Luc Schaedler | documentary film | Switzerland |
| Madea's Big Happy Family | Tyler Perry | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Madicken på Junibacken | Göran Graffman | family film, children's film, comedy drama | Sweden |
| Madigan | Don Siegel | drama film, action film, crime film | United States |
| Madla z cihelny | Vladimír Slavínský | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Madness of the Heart | Charles Bennett | — | — |
| Madras | Pa Ranjith | crime film | India |
| Madrasapattinam | A. L. Vijay | historical film | India |
| Madrigal | Fernando Pérez | drama film | Cuba |
| Maestro | Bradley Cooper | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film | Canada, United States |
| Maestro | Léa Fazer | comedy drama | France |
| Maestro Levita | Luis César Amadori | — | — |
| Mafia Docks | Andrea Marfori | drama film, crime film | Italy |
| Mafiya bessmertna | Leonid Partigul | crime film | Russia |
| Magalir Mattum | Bramma | drama film | India |
| Magic Fire | William Dieterle | — | — |
| Magic in the Water | Rick Stevenson | drama film, fantasy film, children's film | United States |
| Magic of the Rails | — | documentary film | — |
| Magic Tree House | Hiroshi Nishikiori | fantasy film, children's film | Japan |
| Magic Trip | Alex Gibney | documentary film | United States |
| Magkasangga 2000 | Jose Mari Avellana, Phillip Ko | action film, science fiction film | Hong Kong, Philippines |
| Magnificent Brute | John G. Blystone | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Magnificent Butcher | Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-ping | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Mahabharat | Kamaleshwar Mukherjee | — | India |
| Mahalla | Ramiz Fataliyev | comedy film | Azerbaijan |
| Maharaj | Siddharth P. Malhotra | biographical film | India |
| Mahkûm | Osman F. Seden | drama film | Turkey |
| Maid Happy | Mansfield Markham | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Maid of Salem | Frank Lloyd | drama film | United States |
| Maid's Night Out | Ben Holmes | — | — |
| Maiden | — | documentary film | United Kingdom |
| Maija and Paija | Gunārs Piesis | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Main Bhi Arjun: Parv | Krupesh Thacker | biographical film | India |
| Main Solah Baras Ki | Dev Anand | — | India |
| Maintenance Required | — | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Majeraye Parvin | Mehdi Besharatian | — | Iran |
| Major Grom: The Game | Oleg Trofim | superhero film, action film, detective film, adventure film | Russia |
| Major League | David S. Ward | comedy film | United States |
| Major Payne | Nick Castle | action comedy film | United States |
| Make Believe Ballroom | Joseph Santley | — | — |
| Make Way for a Lady | David Burton | romantic comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Make Way for Lila | Rolf Husberg | romance film, drama film | Germany, Sweden |
| Make Your Own Bed | Peter Godfrey | comedy film | United States |
| Makeraremasen katsumadewa | Shirō Toyoda | essay film, comedy film | Japan |
| Making 'The Shining' | Vivian Kubrick | behind-the-scenes film, documentary film | United States |
| Making the Grade | Alfred Edward Green | — | — |
| Mala Época | Nicolás Saad, Rodrigo Moreno, Mariano De Rosa, Salvador Roselli | drama film | Argentina |
| Malaikkallan | S. M. Sriramulu Naidu | drama film, action film | India |
| Malice | Harold Becker | mystery film, neo-noir | United States |
| Malizia 2000 | Salvatore Samperi | comedy film | Italy |
| Malliswari | K. Vijaya Bhaskar | romantic comedy film | India |
| Malombra | Mario Soldati | — | — |
| Malyavkin and company | Yury Kuzmenko | comedy film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Mama, I Want to Sing! | Charles Randolph-Wright | musical film | United States |
| Mamma Mia! | Phyllida Lloyd | musical comedy, musical film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Man and Wife | Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli | comedy film, anthology film | Italy |
| Man Follows the Sun | Mikhail Kalik | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Man Friday | Jack Gold | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Man from Montreal | Christy Cabanne | — | — |
| Man ham gerye kardam | Samuel Khachikian | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Man in a Shell | Isidore Annenski | — | — |
| Man in the Trunk | Georges Lautner | comedy film | France |
| Man of Conquest | George Nicholls, Jr. | romance film, Western film, biographical film | United States |
| Man of Courage | — | — | — |
| Man of Will | Lee Won-tae | drama film, historical film | South Korea |
| Man on a String | André de Toth | spy film | United States |
| Man shohar mikham | Javad Qaem-Maghami | — | Iran |
| Man with an Accordion | Nikolay Dostal | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Man Without a Star | King Vidor | Western film | United States |
| Man, Woman and Wife | Edward Laemmle | — | — |
| Man-Proof | Richard Thorpe | romantic comedy | United States |
| Manborg | Steven Kostanski | science fiction film | Canada |
| Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | drama film | United States |
| Mandat | Nicolai Lebedev | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Mandibles | Quentin Dupieux | comedy film | France |
| Mangamma | T. V. Chandran | — | India |
| Mange ta soupe | Mathieu Amalric | comedy drama | France |
| Manger | Louis Portugais, Gilles Carle | documentary film | Canada |
| Manhandled | Allan Dwan | — | — |
| Manhattan Melodrama | W. S. Van Dyke | — | — |
| Manhunter | — | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, horror film, neo-noir, thriller film, independent film, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |
| Manisnya Cinta di Cappadocia | Bernard Chauly | romantic comedy film | Malaysia |
| Manjal Mahimai | Adurthi Subba Rao | drama film | India |
| Manjhi: The Mountain Man | Ketan Mehta | biographical film | India |
| Manmadhudu | K. Vijaya Bhaskar | soundtrack | India |
| Manmarziyaan | Anurag Kashyap | romance film | India |
| Mann Gegen Mann | Kurt Maetzig | drama film | East Germany |
| Mannan | P. Vasu | drama film | India |
| Mannenharten 2 | Mark de Cloe | romantic comedy | Netherlands |
| Mannequin | James Cruze | — | — |
| Mano rubata | Alberto Lattuada | — | France, Italy |
| Manolescu's Memoirs | Richard Oswald | — | — |
| Manpower | Raoul Walsh | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Manslaughter | Per Fly | drama film | United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Manto | Nandita Das | biographical film | India |
| Manual of Love 2 | Giovanni Veronesi | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | Italy |
| Mapla Singam | Rajasekhar | — | India |
| Maqsad | Kovelamudi Bapayya | buddy film | India |
| Mara Maru | Gordon Douglas | treasure hunt film, adventure film | United States |
| Maradona by Kusturica | Emir Kusturica | association football film, biographical film, documentary film | France, Spain |
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | psychological thriller film, political thriller film, suspense film, crime drama film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film, action thriller, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |
| March of the Penguins | Luc Jacquet | nature documentary, documentary film | France |
| March on the Drina | Žika Mitrović | drama film, war film | Yugoslavia |
| Mard-e hezar labkhand | Siamak Yasemi | — | Iran |
| Mardan-e roozegar | Maziar Partow | — | Iran |
| Marechiaro | Giorgio Ferroni | drama film | Italy |
| Marg dar baran | Samuel Khachikian | — | Iran |
| Margaret | Kenneth Lonergan | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Margaret of Cortona | Mario Bonnard | drama film | Italy |
| Margarita, with a Straw | Shonali Bose | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | India |
| Margin Call | J. C. Chandor | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli | drama film, comedy film | France, Czech Republic, Belgium |
| Marguerite and Julien | Valérie Donzelli | drama film | France |
| Maria | Pablo Larraín | drama film, psychological drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Germany, Chile, Italy |
| Maria | Călin Peter Netzer | drama film | France, Germany, Romania |
| Maria | Mats Arehn | drama film | Sweden |
| Maria and Mirabella in Transistorland | Ion Popescu-Gopo | family film, fantasy film, children's film, live-action/animated film, musical film | Soviet Union, Romania |
| Maria Marusjka | Oddvar Bull Tuhus | drama film | Norway |
| Maria Theresa | Emil-Edwin Reinert | drama film | Austria |
| Maria, Mirabela | Natalia Bodiul, Ion Popescu-Gopo | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, live-action/animated film, musical film | Soviet Union, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Romania, Socialist Republic of Romania |
| Marias menn | Vibeke Ringen | — | Norway |
| Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola | drama film, biographical film | France, Japan, United States |
| Marie Antoinette | Julien Duvivier, W. S. Van Dyke | romance film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Marighella | Wagner Moura | drama film | Brazil |
| Marina | Stijn Coninx | biographical film, musical film | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Marina Vlady, an Actress During the Cold War | Aude Vassallo | documentary film | France |
| Marina's Destiny | Isaak Shmaruk, Viktor Ivchenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Marine Raiders | Harold D. Schuster | — | — |
| Marion, 13 ans pour toujours | Bourlem Guerdjou | drama film | France |
| Marita | Cristi Iftime | drama film, road movie | Romania |
| Marius | Alexander Korda | melodrama | France, United States |
| Marjaavaan | Milap Zaveri | pornographic film | India |
| Marked for Death | Dwight H. Little | martial arts film, action film, thriller film, buddy cop film | United States |
| Marley & Me | David Frankel | romantic comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Marley & Me: The Puppy Years | Michael Damian | — | United States |
| Marlowe | Paul Bogart | mystery film, drama film, neo-noir, crime film | United States |
| Marmaduke | — | comedy film, action film, children's film | United States |
| Marmut Merah Jambu | Raditya Dika | drama film | Indonesia |
| Marooned | John Sturges | drama film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice | Akio Jissōji | pink film | Japan |
| Marriage in the Shadows | Kurt Maetzig | — | — |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | romance film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, United States |
| Married Bachelor | Edward Buzzell | — | — |
| Married Life | Georges Tréville | — | — |
| Married Love | Alexander Butler | — | — |
| Married Woman Jump! | Daisuke Yamanouchi | pink film | Japan |
| Marry a Stranger | — | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Marry Me | Wilhelm Thiele | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Marry Me! | Neelesha Barthel | comedy film | Germany |
| Marry the Girl | Maclean Rogers | — | — |
| Mars et Avril | Martin Villeneuve | science fiction film | Canada |
| Marsieh | Amir Naderi | drama film | Iran |
| Martian Child | Menno Meyjes | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Martin's Day | Alan Gibson | drama film, road movie | Canada |
| Martyrs | Pascal Laugier | drama film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, splatter film | France, Canada |
| Marupakkam | K. S. Sethumadhavan | drama film | India |
| Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors | Eric Radomski, Alfred Gimeno | action film, speculative fiction film, pop music, animated film with LGBT character(s) | United States |
| Mary Jane's Pa | William P.S. Earle | — | — |
| Mary Lawson's Secret | John B. O'Brien | — | — |
| Mary of Scotland | John Ford | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Mary Reilly | Stephen Frears | drama film, horror film | United States |
| Mary Stuart | Walter Edwin | — | — |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Thomas Imbach | drama film | France, Switzerland |
| Maryline | Guillaume Gallienne | drama film | France |
| Marée noire et colère rouge | René Vautier | documentary film | France |
| Masakra | Andrey Kudzinenka | supernatural fiction | Belarus |
| Mashenka | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| Mashenka | Tamara Pavlyuchenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Mashti Mamdali's Car | Reza Fazeli | action comedy film, Filmfarsi | Iran |
| Mask | Peter Bogdanovich | coming-of-age film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Mask in Blue | Georg Jacoby | comedy film | Germany |
| Mask of the Avenger | Phil Karlson | — | — |
| Masks and Faces | Fred Paul | — | — |
| Maspalomas | Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Spain |
| Masque of the Red Death | Larry Brand | horror film | United States |
| Masquerade | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Masquerade (L'empreinte du vice) | Marc Dorcel | pornographic film | France |
| Mass Effect: Paragon Lost | Atsushi Takeuchi | action film, science fiction film | Japan, United States |
| Massacre Play | Damiano Damiani | drama film | Germany, Italy |
| Mat Kilau: The Rise of a Warrior | Syamsul Yusof | historical film, action film, biographical film | Malaysia |
| Mata Hari | George Fitzmaurice | — | — |
| Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. | Steve Loveridge | historical film, biographical film, documentary film | United Kingdom, United States, Sri Lanka |
| Match sostoitsya v lyubuyu pogodu | Rolands Kalniņš | — | Soviet Union |
| Mate | Jung Dae-gun | romance film, drama film | South Korea |
| Materinskoe pole | Gennady Bazarov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Matilda | Matthew Warchus | musical film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, United States |
| Matilda | Alexei Uchitel | romance film, drama film, historical drama | Russia |
| Matteo Falcone | Tofig Taghizade | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Matters of the Heart | Ajdar Ibrahimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Maverick | Richard Donner | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Mavi Gözlü Dev | Biket İlhan | political film | Turkey |
| Mavka. The True Myth | Katia Tsaryk | supernatural film, live action, teen drama television, romantic fantasy | Ukraine |
| Mavka: The Forest Song | Oleh Malamuzh, Oleksandra Ruban, Yevheniy Yermak | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, musical film | Ukraine |
| Max | Boaz Yakin | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film, comedy drama | United States |
| Max | Menno Meyjes | drama film | United Kingdom, Canada, Hungary |
| Max Manus: Man of War | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | drama film, action film, partisan film, biographical film | Norway |
| Max Minsky and Me | Anna Justice | comedy film, children's film | Germany |
| Max Steel: Endangered Species | Sean Frewer | action film | United States |
| Max, professeur de tango | Max Linder | — | — |
| Maximum Overdrive | Stephen King | comedy film, action film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| May December | Todd Haynes | romance film, drama film | United States |
| May Nights | Alexander Rou | fantasy film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Maya Stoneface | Lars Berg | family film | Norway |
| Maya the Bee: The Honey Games | Noel Cleary, Sergio Delfino | comedy film, adventure film | Germany, Australia |
| Mayerling | Terence Young | romance film, drama film | France, United Kingdom |
| Mayonnaise | Yun In-ho | drama film | South Korea |
| Mazurka | Willi Forst | — | — |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Me | Toivo Särkkä | — | Finland |
| Me and Orson Welles | Richard Linklater | drama film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, United States |
| Me Tira da Mira | — | — | Brazil |
| Me, Natalie | Fred Coe | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Mechenyi atom | Igor Gostev | spy film | Soviet Union |
| Meddling Women | Ivan Abramson | — | — |
| Medical Genocide: Hidden Mass Murder in China's Organ Transplant Industry | — | documentary film | United States |
| Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea | Marcel Barrena | drama film, action film, adventure film, biographical film | Spain, Greece |
| Medusa Deluxe | — | thriller film | United Kingdom |
| Meendum Savithri | Visu | drama film | India |
| Meet Baluyev! | Viktor Komissarzhevsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Meet Dave | Brian Robbins | science fiction film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Meet Dr. Christian | Bernard Vorhaus | — | — |
| Meet Me After the Show | Richard Sale | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Meet the Applegates | Michael Lehmann | comedy horror | United States |
| Meet the Browns | Tyler Perry | romance film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Meet the Deedles | Steve Boyum | buddy film | United States |
| Meet the Spartans | Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg | comedy film, parody film | United States |
| Meeting Evil | Chris Fisher | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, psychological thriller, crime film | United States |
| Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus | Christopher Ray | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, natural horror film, drama film, monster film, comedy film, action film, horror film, adventure film, independent film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus | Jack Perez | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, natural horror film, monster film, comedy film, action film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, television film, disaster film | United States |
| Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark | Emile Edwin Smith | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, natural horror film, suspense film, monster film, action film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, independent film, science fiction film, television film +1 | United States |
| Megafault | David Michael Latt | action film, science fiction film, disaster film | United States |
| Megamol | Eddie Rodriguez | — | Philippines |
| Meghe Dhaka Tara | Kamaleshwar Mukherjee | nonlinear narrative | India |
| Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | mystery film, thriller film | United States |
| Meidän poikamme ilmassa - me maassa | Erkki Karu | propaganda film | Finland |
| Meko kazano | Vasil Apostolov | — | People's Republic of Bulgaria |
| Melancholia | Lars von Trier | arthouse science fiction film, art film, drama film, apocalyptic film, science fiction film | France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Italy |
| Melancholic | Seiji Tanaka | — | Japan |
| Melania | Brett Ratner | documentary film | United States |
| Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost | Elmo Nüganen | drama film, historical film, crime film | Estonia |
| Melinda and Melinda | Woody Allen | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Melodrammore | Maurizio Costanzo | comedy film | Italy |
| Melody | Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols | musical film | United States |
| Melody for Three | Erle C. Kenton | — | — |
| Melody Ranch | Joseph Santley | Western film | United States |
| Melting Heart Cake | Benoît Chieux | children's film | France |
| Melting Millions | Otis Turner | — | — |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Member of the Government | Aleksandr Zarkhi | — | — |
| Memburu Pemangsa | Umay Shahab | action film, horror film, crime film | Indonesia |
| Memento Mori | Kim Tae-yong, Min Kyu-dong | teen film, drama film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film | South Korea |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Rob Marshall | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Memoirs of an Invisible Man | John Carpenter | comedy film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | France, United States |
| Memories | Kōji Morimoto, Katsuhiro Otomo, Tensai Okamura | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Memories Denied | Imbi Paju | documentary film | Estonia, Finland |
| Memory Box | Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | drama film | France, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar |
| Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | drama film, action film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Men at Work | Johan Nijenhuis | romantic comedy | Netherlands |
| Men at Work 2 | Johan Nijenhuis | romantic comedy film | Netherlands |
| Men Behind the Sun | Mou Tun-fei | exploitation film, horror film | People's Republic of China |
| Men Don't Leave | Paul Brickman | coming-of-age film, comedy drama | United States |
| Men from Forgotten Army | Kalle Käesel | documentary film | Estonia |
| Men in Black II | Barry Sonnenfeld | comedy film, action film, science fiction film, buddy cop film | United States |
| Men of Blue Cross | Andrzej Munk | drama film | Poland |
| Men of Honor | George Tillman, Jr. | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Men of Respect | William Reilly | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Men of the Mountain | Aldo Vergano | drama film | Italy |
| Men of Two Worlds | Thorold Dickinson | — | — |
| Men Without Names | Ralph Murphy | crime film | United States |
| Mendadak Kaya | Anggy Umbara | comedy film | Indonesia |
| Meoto zenzai | Shirō Toyoda | drama film | Japan |
| Mercy Island | William Morgan | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Mere Brother Ki Dulhan | Ali Abbas Zafar | romantic comedy film | India |
| Mere Dad Ki Maruti | Ashima Chibber | comedy film | India |
| Meri Nimmo | — | drama film | India |
| Mermaid In Love | — | teen film, fantasy film | Indonesia |
| Mermaid of Naples | Luigi Capuano | musical film | Italy |
| Merrily We Go to Hell | Dorothy Arzner | drama film | United States |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, Christmas film, prison film | United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand |
| Meshki | Nasser Mohammadi | drama film, action film, crime film | Iran |
| Messalina | Vittorio Cottafavi | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Italy |
| Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules | Umberto Lenzi | romance film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film, action film, adventure film, war film | France, Italy |
| Messalina, Imperial Orgasm | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film, erotic film | Italy |
| Metal Brothers | Ulf Malmros | comedy film | Sweden |
| Metallica Through the Never | Nimród Antal | thriller film, concert film, musical film | United States |
| Meteora | Spiros Stathoulopoulos | romance film, drama film | Greece |
| Meteority | Pavel Klushantsev | popular science film, mockumentary | Soviet Union |
| Methgator | — | action film | United States |
| Metro | Thomas Carter | drama film, action film, heist film, buddy cop film | United States |
| Meu Nome Não É Johnny | Mauro Lima | — | Brazil |
| Mexican Border Defenders | — | — | — |
| Mexican Diplomats | Levon Kalantar, Amasi Martirosyan | — | Soviet Union |
| Mexican Slayride | Riccardo Freda | spy film | France, Spain, Italy |
| Mexican Spitfire | Leslie Goodwins | — | — |
| Mexican Spitfire Out West | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| Mexican Spitfire's Elephant | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| Meyer from Berlin | Ernst Lubitsch | — | — |
| Mi novia el... | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | LGBTQ-related film | Argentina |
| Miami | Zaida Bergroth | drama film, crime film | Finland |
| Miami Vice | — | drama film, action film, buddy cop film, crime film | United States |
| Michael | Carl Theodor Dreyer | — | — |
| Michael Collins | Neil Jordan | drama film, war film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita | Michael Lucas | gay pornographic film | United States |
| Mickey Blue Eyes | Kelly Makin | romantic comedy, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Midas Run | Alf Kjellin | heist film | United States |
| Midnight | Kwon Oh-seung | thriller film | South Korea |
| Midnight Court | Frank McDonald | — | — |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | drama film, independent film, prison film, biographical film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Midnight In Savannah | — | documentary film | United States |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Clint Eastwood | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, Christmas film, crime film | United States |
| Midnight Killer | Lamberto Bava | thriller film | Italy |
| Midnight Madonna | James Flood | drama film | United States |
| Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Midshipman Easy | Carol Reed | — | — |
| Midsummer Madness | William Churchill deMille | — | — |
| Midsummer Sex | Arne Stivell | drama film | Sweden |
| Midway | Jack Smight | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Miehen kunnia | Ilmari Unho | drama film | Finland |
| Mighty Aphrodite | Woody Allen | comedy film, erotic film | United States |
| Mighty Joe Young | Ron Underwood | drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| Mijn vader is een detective: De wet van 3 | Will Wissink | family film | Netherlands |
| Mikes Is Getting Married | Giannis Dalianidis | comedy film | Greece |
| Mil Cretins | Ventura Pons | comedy film | Spain |
| Milea: Suara dari Dilan | Pidi Baiq, Fajar Bustomi | drama film | Indonesia |
| Millennium | Michael Anderson | drama film, action film, science fiction film | United States |
| Million Dollar Arm | Craig Gillespie | drama film, sport film, biographical film | United States |
| Million Dollar Ransom | Murray Roth | drama film | United States |
| Millionaire Playboy | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| Millionaires Express | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, comedy film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Millions | Danny Boyle | drama film, children's film, Christmas film, science fiction film, comedy drama, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Millonario por un día | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | comedy film | Argentina |
| Mimic 2 | Jean de Segonzac | horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Mimino | Georgiy Daneliya | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Mimì: Prince of Darkness | Brando De Sica | horror film | Italy |
| Min and Bill | George W. Hill | comedy drama | United States |
| Min kones ferie | John Hilbard | romance film, comedy film | Denmark |
| Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | drama film | United States |
| Mince alors! | Charlotte de Turckheim | comedy film | France |
| Mind Game | Masaaki Yuasa | comedy anime and manga, comedy film | Japan |
| Mindless | Elmo Nüganen | drama film, comedy film | Estonia |
| Mindscape | Jorge Dorado | drama film, thriller film, psychological thriller | France, United Kingdom, Spain, United States |
| Mindwarp | Steve Barnett | post-apocalyptic film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| Mine Own Executioner | Anthony Kimmins | — | — |
| Minecraft: The Story of Mojang | Paul Owens | documentary film | United States |
| Minesweeper | William Berke | drama film | United States |
| Minions | Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin | comedy film, children's film, heist film | United States |
| Minions & Monsters | Pierre Coffin | monster film, comedy film | United States |
| Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Minority Opinion | Kim Seong-je | drama film | South Korea |
| Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | action film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| MINSK | Boris Guts | political thriller film | Estonia |
| Mira | Dmitry Kiselyov | drama film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | Russia |
| Miracle | Gavin O'Connor | ice hockey film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, cinematic fairy tale | Italy |
| Miracles Still Happen | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | drama film, adventure film, biographical film | United States, Italy |
| Miraculum | Daniel Grou | drama film | Canada |
| Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | mystery film | United States |
| Mirage | — | drama film, fantasy film | South Korea |
| Mirage | Chris Ward | gay pornographic film | United States |
| Mirage Above the Gobi Desert | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Mirages | Talal Selhami | horror film, thriller film | Morocco |
| Mirandy Smiles | William Churchill deMille | — | — |
| Mirchi | Koratala Siva | action film | India |
| Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants | Mykhailo Illienko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Miriam | William Markus | — | — |
| Miron: a man returned from outside the world | Simon Beaulieu | documentary film | Canada |
| Mirror for a Hero | Vladimir Khotinenko | drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Mirush | Marius Holst | drama film | Norway |
| Mirza: Part 1 - Joker | — | — | India |
| Mischief | Mel Damski | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, comedy film | United States |
| Misery | Rob Reiner | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Misir'dan gelen gelin | Osman F. Seden | — | Turkey, Iran, Lebanon |
| Miss Ambition | Henry Houry | — | — |
| Miss and Mrs. Sweden | Göran Gentele | comedy film | Sweden |
| Miss and the Doctors | Axelle Ropert | comedy drama | France |
| Miss Chauffeur | Jaap Speyer | — | — |
| Miss Farkku-Suomi | Matti Kinnunen | coming-of-age film | Finland |
| Miss Impossible | Émilie Deleuze | drama film | France |
| Miss London Ltd. | Val Guest | — | — |
| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Tim Burton | time-travel film, fantasy film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Bharat Nalluri | romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Miss Potter | Chris Noonan | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Miss Sloane | John Madden | drama film | France, United States |
| Miss You like Crazy | Cathy Garcia-Sampana | romance film | Philippines |
| Missing | Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, screenlife | United States |
| Missing Daughters | Charles C. Coleman | action film | United States |
| Mission | Yuri Yegorov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail | William Kan | — | People's Republic of China |
| Mission Kashmir | Vidhu Vinod Chopra | drama film | India |
| Mission to Mars | Brian De Palma | action film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Mission to Moscow | Michael Curtiz | — | — |
| Mission: Impossible 2 | John Woo | action film, spy film, thriller film | Germany, United States |
| Mission: Impossible III | J. J. Abrams | action film, spy film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | Brad Bird | action film, spy film, thriller film | United States |
| Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Christopher McQuarrie | action film, spy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mississippi Burning | Alan Parker | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Mississippi Rhythm | Derwin Abrahams | — | — |
| Mister Iks | Yuly Khmelnitsky | — | — |
| Mister Lonely | Harmony Korine | drama film, comedy drama | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Miyamoto Musashi | Tomu Uchida | drama film | Japan |
| Miyuki | Kazuyuki Izutsu | romantic comedy film, drama film | Japan |
| Mizrahim, les oubliés de la Terre Promise | Michale Boganim | documentary film | France, Israel |
| Mlode wilki 1/2 | Jarosław Żamojda | thriller film | Poland |
| Mob Boss | Fred Olen Ray | comedy film | United States |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | Yoshiyuki Tomino | mecha, military science fiction | Japan |
| Mobsters | Michael Karbelnikoff | drama film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| Moby Dick | Park In-je | drama film | South Korea |
| Moby Dick | John Huston | drama film, monster film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Moby Dick | Lloyd Bacon | drama film | United States |
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | documentary film | United States |
| Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose, Akihiko Yamashita | family film, fantasy film, adventure film, anthology film | Japan |
| Mohabbat Ki Kasauti | Pramathesh Barua | drama film | British Raj |
| Mohawk | Ted Geoghegan | action film, thriller film | United States |
| Moja Angelika | Stanisław Kuźnik | drama film | Poland |
| Molester's Train: Melody of Wriggling Fingers | Tetsuya Takehora | pornographic film | Japan |
| Molly | Mac Ahlberg | pornographic film | France, Sweden |
| Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism | — | fantasy film | United Kingdom |
| Molodye | Nikolay Moskalenko | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Mom and Dad | Brian Taylor | horror film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mom and I: We are in Melting Mode | Yumi Yoshiyuki | pink film | Japan |
| Momentum | Colin Low, Tony Ianzelo | documentary film | Canada |
| Momoiro e-hon: Itte miyou, yatte miyou! | Daisuke Yamanouchi | pink film | Japan |
| Moms | Dmitri Dyuzhev, Eldar Salavatov, Sarik Andreasyan, Alan Badoev, Ashot Keshchyan, Karen Oganesyan, Yevgeny Abyzov | anthology film, comedy drama | Russia |
| Mon Jaane Na | Shagufta Rafiq | — | India |
| Mon Potongo | — | erotica | Bangladesh |
| Mon père est femme de ménage | Saphia Azzeddine | comedy film | France |
| Mona | Ināra Kolmane | mystery film, drama film, fantasy film | Iceland, Latvia |
| Mona Remount Depot | — | — | Pakistan |
| Monaco Forever | William A. Levey | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Money Magic | William Wolbert | — | — |
| Money Monster | Jodie Foster | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Money, Women and Guns | Richard Bartlett | Western film | United States |
| Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | — | — |
| Monkey in a Cage | Anurag Kashyap | — | India |
| Monkey Kingdom | Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill | documentary film | United States |
| Monkey plays chess | Wang Shuchen | animated film | People's Republic of China |
| Monkey Trouble | Franco Amurri | comedy film, children's film | Japan, United States, Italy |
| Monkeybone | Henry Selick | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Monkeys, Go Home! | Andrew V. McLaglen | comedy film | United States |
| Monmon hôjin: Barikyari otoko kui | Masanori Kudō | pink film | Japan |
| Mononoke Hospital | Daisuke Yamanouchi | pink film | Japan |
| Monopoly (The Bank of Luck) | — | comedy film | Egypt |
| Monsieur Gangster | Georges Lautner | comedy film, gangster film | France, Germany, Italy |
| Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau | drama film, comedy film | Canada |
| Monsieur Lecoq | — | — | — |
| Monsieur, le Maire | — | comedy drama | France |
| Monsoon Shootout | Amit Kumar | drama film, film noir, action film, crime thriller film | India |
| Monster | Nelson Venkatesan | comedy film | India |
| Monster | Eric Forsberg | monster film, found footage film, disaster film | United States |
| Monster | Siamak Yasemi | drama film | Iran |
| Monster in the Closet | Bob Dahlin | monster film, comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film | United States |
| Monster Trucks | Chris Wedge | comedy film, action comedy film, speculative fiction film, adventure film | United States |
| Monster-in-Law | Robert Luketic | romantic comedy | United States, Australia |
| Monsters | Gareth Edwards | drama film, monster film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Monsters University | Dan Scanlon | monster film, fantasy film, comedy film, children's film | United States |
| Monsters: Dark Continent | Tom Green | monster film, thriller film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Monte Carlo | Thomas Bezucha | romantic comedy film, family film | United States |
| Monte Carlo | Christy Cabanne | — | — |
| Monte Carlo Nights | William Nigh | — | — |
| Montenegro | Dušan Makavejev | drama film, black comedy film | United Kingdom, Sweden |
| Monuments Men | George Clooney | drama film, war film, biographical film | Germany, United States |
| Mookie | Hervé Palud | comedy film | France |
| Moon | Duncan Jones | arthouse science fiction film, drama film, survival film, adventure film, science fiction film, hard science fiction | United Kingdom, United States |
| Moon Shine Bowling | André Forcier | drama film | Canada |
| Moonlight Masquerade | John H. Auer | — | — |
| Moonlight on Second Spring | Yan Jizhou | biographical drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Moonwalker | Colin Chilvers, Jerry Kramer | superhero film, fantasy film, science fiction film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| Mootalaie shahre ma | Abbas Shabaviz | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Morality Above All Else | Martin Frič | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Moravian Hellas | Karel Vachek | documentary film | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
| More | Barbet Schroeder | drama film | France, Germany, United States, Luxembourg |
| Morena Clara | Florián Rey | comedy film, musical film | Spain |
| Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | silent film | United States |
| Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | silent film | United States |
| Morgh-e-Hamsayeh | Mahmoud Koushan | comedy film | Iran |
| Moride Hagh | Nezam Fatemi | drama film | Iran |
| Morlaix (film) | Jaime Rosales | drama film | France, Spain |
| Moron 5.2: The Transformation | Wenn V. Deramas | comedy film | Philippines |
| Morphine | Aleksei Balabanov | drama film | Russia |
| Mortal Kombat: Federation of Martial Arts | John Medlen | fantasy film, action film | United States |
| Morvarid | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | — | Iran |
| Mosagaallaku Mosagaadu | — | black comedy film | India |
| Moscow Nights | Anthony Asquith | — | — |
| Moscow on the Hudson | Paul Mazursky | drama film, flashback film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Moscow Parade | Ivan Dykhovichny | historical film | France, Russia |
| Moshidora | Makoto Tanaka | drama film, sport film, comedy film | Japan |
| Moskal-Charivnyk | Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | comedy film, vaudeville | Ukraine |
| Mossad | Alon Gur Arye | action film, parody film | Israel |
| Most Dangerous Man Alive | Allan Dwan | science fiction film, crime film | United States |
| Most People Die on Sundays | Iair Said | comedy drama | Spain, Italy, Argentina |
| Motel 303 | — | pink film | Japan |
| Motel Cactus | — | romance film | South Korea |
| Mother | Gleb Panfilov | drama film, historical drama | Soviet Union, Italy |
| Mother | Albert Brooks | comedy drama | United States |
| Mother | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Mother | Vsevolod Pudovkin | — | — |
| Mother Carey's Chickens | Rowland V. Lee | — | — |
| Mother Gloria | Richard Harlan | — | — |
| Mother Knows Best | John G. Blystone | — | — |
| Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness | Phil Jutzi | — | — |
| Mother Mary | Sergey Kolosov | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Mother Nature | Massimo Andrei | comedy film | Italy |
| Mother of Mine | Klaus Härö | drama film, war film | Finland, Sweden |
| Mother Wanted | Anssi Mänttäri | comedy film, children's film, musical film | Finland |
| Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me | Dave Fleischer | — | — |
| Mother-in-law | Huseyn Seyidzadeh | comedy film, musical film | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Mother-To-Be | Anne Claire Poirier | — | Canada |
| Mothers | Lee Dong-eun | drama film | South Korea |
| Mothers and Daughters | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Mothers and Others | Liene Linde, Armands Začs | documentary film | Latvia |
| Mothers Cry | Hobart Henley | drama film | United States |
| Mothers, Daughters, Dresses | Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen | documentary film | Latvia |
| Mothers’ Instinct | Benoît Delhomme | psychological thriller film | United States |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | romance film, drama film, period drama film, biographical film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mourning for Anna | Catherine Martin, Catherine Martin | drama film | Canada |
| Mourning Grave | In-chun Oh | horror film | South Korea |
| Movers & Shakers | William Asher | comedy film | United States |
| Movie 43 | Peter Farrelly, James Duffy, Elizabeth Banks, Brett Ratner, Steven Brill, Rusty Cundieff, Griffin Dunne, James Gunn, Steve Carr, Bob Odenkirk, Bobby Farrelly | comedy film | United States |
| Movie Crazy | Harold Lloyd, Clyde Bruckman | romantic comedy | United States |
| Movie Rush | Ottavio Fabbri | comedy film | Italy |
| Moving | Shinji Sōmai | drama film | Japan |
| Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Andy Serkis | drama film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Moxie | Amy Poehler | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Moy pervyy drug | Yakov Bazelyan | family film | Soviet Union |
| Moyuru ōzora | Yutaka Abe | — | — |
| Mozzarella Stories | Edoardo De Angelis | comedy film, neo-noir | Italy |
| MR 73 | Olivier Marchal | neo-noir, crime film | France |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Alfred Hitchcock | romantic comedy film, comedy film, screwball comedy film, comedy of remarriage | United States |
| Mr. 3000 | Charles Stone III | comedy drama | United States |
| Mr. Barnes of New York | Maurice Costello | — | — |
| Mr. Denning Drives North | Anthony Kimmins | — | — |
| Mr. Etemad's Trouble | Esmaeil Poorsaeid | — | Iran |
| Mr. Holland's Opus | Stephen Herek | drama film, musical film | United States |
| Mr. Holmes | Bill Condon | mystery film, drama film, crime film | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Mr. Idol | Hee-chan Ra | drama film | South Korea |
| Mr. Imperium | Don Hartman | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Mr. Jahel | Reza Mirlohi | drama film, thriller film | Iran |
| Mr. Justice Raffles | Gerald Ames | — | — |
| Mr. Moto in Danger Island | Herbert I. Leeds | mystery film | United States |
| Mr. Muggs Steps Out | William Beaudine | — | — |
| Mr. Muhsin | Yavuz Turgul | drama film, comedy film | Turkey |
| Mr. Nice Guy | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | romance film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, science fiction film | France, Canada, Germany, Belgium |
| Mr. Pig | Diego Luna | drama film | Mexico |
| Mr. Pim Passes By | Albert Ward | — | — |
| Mr. Reckless | Frank McDonald | adventure film | United States |
| Mr. Right | Paco Cabezas | romantic comedy film, action film | United States |
| Mr. Sardonicus | William Castle | historical drama film, mystery film, drama film, historical film, horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Mr. Saturday Night | Billy Crystal | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Mr. Skeffington | Vincent Sherman | drama film | United States |
| Mr. Soft Touch | Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Mr. Spinster | Orestis Laskos | comedy film | Greece |
| Mr. Woodcock | Craig Gillespie, David Dobkin | comedy film | United States |
| Mr. Wu | William Nigh | — | — |
| Mrs Dalloway | Marleen Gorris | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands |
| Mrs Henderson Presents | Stephen Frears | comedy film, biographical film, comedy drama | United Kingdom |