| Film | Year | Director | Source |
| M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | |
| Mac and Me | 1988 | Stewart Raffill | |
| Macabre | 1958 | William Castle | |
| MacGruber | 2010 | Jorma Taccone | |
| The Machine Gun Dragon | 1976 | Akihisa Okamoto | |
| Machine-Gun Kelly | 1958 | Roger Corman | |
| The Mack | 1973 | Michael Campus | |
| Macunaíma | 1969 | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | |
| Mad Hot Ballroom | 2005 | Marilyn Agrelo | |
| Mad Love | 1935 | Karl Freund | |
| Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | |
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | |
| The Mad Monster | 1942 | Sam Newfield | |
| Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform) | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | |
| Magic Boy | 1959 | Akira Daikubara and Taiji Yabushita | |
| Magical Mystery Tour | 1967 | The Beatles and Bernard Knowles | |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | |
| Magnitude 7.9 (also known as Deathquake) | 1980 | Kenjirô Ohmori | |
| Maîtresse | 1975 | Barbet Schroeder | |
| Mala Noche | 1986 | Gus Van Sant | |
| The Mind Snatchers (also known as The Demon Within and The Happiness Cage) | 1972 | Bernard Girard | |
| Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee | |
| The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | |
| Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed | 1989 | Coline Serreau | |
| Mamma Mia! | 2008 | Phyllida Lloyd | |
| Man Bites Dog | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde | |
| A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | |
| Man Facing Southeast | 1986 | Eliseo Subiela | |
| The Man from Planet X | 1951 | Edgar G. Ulmer | |
| Man Hunt | 1941 | Fritz Lang | |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | 1956 | Nunnally Johnson | |
| Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann | |
| The Man on the Roof | 1976 | Bo Widerberg | |
| Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh | |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg | |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen | |
| The Man Who Would Be King | 1975 | John Huston | |
| Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | |
| The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | |
| The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner | |
| The Man Who Turned to Stone | 1957 | László Kardos | |
| The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | |
| Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | |
| Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann | |
| Mania (also known as The Flesh and the Fiends) | 1960 | John Gilling | |
| Maniac | 1934 | Dwain Esper | |
| Maniac Cop | 1988 | William Lustig | |
| The Manitou | 1978 | William Girdler | |
| Manos: The Hands of Fate | 1966 | Harold P. Warren | |
| Mansion of the Doomed | 1976 | Michael Pataki | |
| The Manster | 1959 | George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane | |
| Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | |
| Marihuana | 1936 | Dwain Esper | |
| Mariken van Nieumeghen | 1974 | Joe Stelling | |
| Mark of the Vampire | 1935 | Tod Browning | |
| El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez | |
| Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1976 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
| Married Life | 2007 | Ira Sachs | |
| Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | |
| Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero | |
| Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | |
| Martyrs | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | |
| Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore | 1996 | Sarah Jacobson | |
| Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary | 1975 | Juan López Moctezuma | |
| La maschera del demonio (also known as Black Sunday) | 1960 | Mario Bava | |
| M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | |
| The Mask | 1961 | Julian Roffman | |
| The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman | |
| Massacre at Central High | 1976 | Rene Daalder | |
| Mata Hari | 1931 | George Fitzmaurice | |
| Matango | 1963 | Ishirō Honda | |
| Matilda | 1996 | Danny DeVito | |
| Matinee | 1993 | Joe Dante | |
| The Matrix | 1999 | The Wachowskis | |
| A Matter of Life and Death | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | |
| Mean Girls | 2004 | Mark Waters | |
| Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | |
| Medea | 1969 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler | |
| The Medusa Touch | 1978 | Jack Gold | |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | |
| Meet the Feebles | 1989 | Peter Jackson | |
| Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | |
| Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | |
| The Men | 1950 | Fred Zinnemann | |
| Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | |
| Mera Naam Joker | 1970 | Raj Kapoor | |
| Merci la vie (also known as Thank You, Life) | 1991 | Bertrand Blier | |
| Mesa of Lost Women | 1953 | Herbert Tevos and Ron Ormond | |
| Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied | |
| The Message | 1976 | Moustapha Akkad | |
| Message from Space | 1978 | Kinji Fukasaku | |
| Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | 2004 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | |
| Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | |
| Miami Connection | 1987 | Richard Park and Y.K. Kim | |
| Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | |
| Midnight Express | 1978 | Alan Parker | |
| Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | |
| The Mighty | 1998 | Peter Chelsom | |
| The Mighty Peking Man | 1977 | Ho Meng-hua | |
| The Milagro Beanfield War | 1988 | Robert Redford | |
| Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | |
| Miller's Crossing | 1990 | The Coen Brothers | |
| The Million Eyes of Sumuru | 1967 | Harry Alan Towers | |
| The Millionairess | 1960 | Anthony Asquith | |
| Minbo | 1992 | Juzo Itami | |
| Minnie and Moskowitz | 1971 | John Cassavetes | |
| Minotaur, The Mask of the Demons (also known as The Devil's Men and Land of the Minotaur) | 1976 | Kostas Karagiannis | |
| Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | |
| MirrorMask | 2005 | Dave McKean | |
| Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | |
| The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | |
| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader | |
| The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | |
| The Missouri Breaks | 1976 | Arthur Penn | |
| Modern Times | 1936 | Charlie Chaplin | |
| Modesty Blaise | 1966 | Joseph Losey | |
| Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | |
| Mondo Cane | 1962 | Gualtiero Jacopetti | |
| Mondo Hollywood | 1967 | Robert Carl Cohen | |
| Mondo Trasho | 1969 | John Waters | |
| Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | |
| Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Mira Nair | |
| Monster from Green Hell | 1957 | Kenneth G. Crane | |
| The Monster That Challenged the World | 1957 | Arnold Laven | |
| Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 | Charlie Chaplin | |
| La Morte Vivante (also known as The Living Dead Girl) | 1982 | Jean Rollin | |
| The Monster Squad | 1987 | Fred Dekker | |
| Monte Walsh | 1970 | William A. Fraker | |
| Monterey Pop | 1968 | D.A. Pennebaker | |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian) | 1979 | Terry Jones | |
| Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | |
| The Moon and the Sledgehammer | 1971 | Philip Trevelyan | |
| The Moon in the Gutter | 1983 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | |
| Moonlighting | 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski | |
| More | 1969 | Barbet Schroeder | |
| Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | 1966 | Karel Reisz | |
| Mortal Inheritance | 1996 | Andy Amenechi | |
| The Most Dangerous Game (also known as The Hounds of Zaroff) | 1932 | Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel | |
| The Most Terrible Time in My Life | 1993 | Kaizo Hayashi | |
| Motel Hell | 1980 | Kevin Connor | |
| The Mother | 2003 | Roger Michell | |
| Mother's Day | 1980 | Charles Kaufman | |
| Moulin Rouge | 1952 | John Huston | |
| Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | |
| The Movie Orgy | 1968 | Joe Dante | |
| Mr. India | 1987 | Shekhar Kapur | |
| Mr. Nice Guy | 1997 | Sammo Hung | |
| Mr. Reliable | 1996 | Nadia Tass | |
| Ms .45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance) | 1981 | Abel Ferrara | |
| Mudhoney | 1965 | Russ Meyer | |
| Mughal-e-Azam | 1960 | K. Asif | |
| Mulholland Drive | 2001 | David Lynch | |
| Multiple Maniacs | 1970 | John Waters | |
| Murder a la Mod | 1968 | Brian De Palma | |
| Murder She Said | 1961 | George Pollock | |
| Murder, My Sweet (also known as Farewell, My Lovely) | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | |
| Muriel's Wedding | 1994 | P. J. Hogan | |
| The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | |
| The Music Lovers | 1971 | Ken Russell | |
| Mutual Appreciation | 2005 | Andrew Bujalski | |
| My Best Fiend | 1999 | Werner Herzog | |
| My Bloody Valentine | 1981 | George Mihalka | |
| My Cousin Vinny | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn | |
| My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | |
| My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin | |
| My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | |
| My Life Without Me | 2003 | Isabel Coixet | |
| My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava | |
| My Name Is Bruce | 2007 | Bruce Campbell | |
| My Name Is Joe | 1998 | Ken Loach | |
| My Name Is Julia Ross | 1945 | Joseph H. Lewis | |
| My Name Is Nobody | 1973 | Tonino Valerii | |
| My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| My Own Private Idaho | 1991 | Gus Van Sant | |
| My Super Ex-Girlfriend | 2006 | Ivan Reitman | |
| My Winnipeg | 2007 | Guy Maddin | |
| Myra Breckinridge | 1970 | Michael Sarne | |
| The Mysterians | 1957 | Ishirō Honda | |
| Mysterious Island | 1961 | Cy Endfield | |
| Mystery Men | 1999 | Kinka Usher | |
| Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch | |