List of cult films: M

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Film	Year	Director	Source
M	1931	Fritz Lang	[1] [2] [3] [4]
Mac and Me	1988	Stewart Raffill	[5]
Macabre	1958	William Castle	[1] [3]
MacGruber	2010	Jorma Taccone	[6]
The Machine Gun Dragon	1976	Akihisa Okamoto	[7]
Machine-Gun Kelly	1958	Roger Corman	[3]
The Mack	1973	Michael Campus	[2]
Macunaíma	1969	Joaquim Pedro de Andrade	[3]
Mad Hot Ballroom	2005	Marilyn Agrelo	[3]
Mad Love	1935	Karl Freund	[8]
Mad Max	1979	George Miller	[9] [10] [1] [2] [3]
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	1981	George Miller	[11] [12] [13] [1] [4]
The Mad Monster	1942	Sam Newfield	[8]
Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform)	1931	Leontine Sagan	[1] [3]
Magic Boy	1959	Akira Daikubara and Taiji Yabushita	[1]
Magical Mystery Tour	1967	The Beatles and Bernard Knowles	[1]
The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles	[3]
Magnitude 7.9 (also known as Deathquake)	1980	Kenjirô Ohmori	[7]
Maîtresse	1975	Barbet Schroeder	[3]
Mala Noche	1986	Gus Van Sant	[3]
The Mind Snatchers (also known as The Demon Within and The Happiness Cage)	1972	Bernard Girard	[14]
Malcolm X	1992	Spike Lee	[3]
The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston	[9] [1] [3]
Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed	1989	Coline Serreau	[3]
Mamma Mia!	2008	Phyllida Lloyd	[3]
Man Bites Dog	1992	Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde	[12] [15] [1] [2]
A Man Escaped	1956	Robert Bresson	[2]
Man Facing Southeast	1986	Eliseo Subiela	[1]
The Man from Planet X	1951	Edgar G. Ulmer	[1]
Man Hunt	1941	Fritz Lang	[3]
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit	1956	Nunnally Johnson	[3]
Man of the West	1958	Anthony Mann	[9] [1] [3] [4]
The Man on the Roof	1976	Bo Widerberg	[3]
Man on Wire	2008	James Marsh	[2] [3]
The Man Who Fell to Earth	1976	Nicolas Roeg	[16] [17] [1] [2] [3]
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	John Ford	[1]
The Man Who Wasn't There	2001	Joel Coen	[1]
The Man Who Would Be King	1975	John Huston	[2] [3]
Man with a Movie Camera	1929	Dziga Vertov	[3] [4]
The Man with the Golden Arm	1955	Otto Preminger	[1] [3]
The Man with Two Brains	1983	Carl Reiner	[4]
The Man Who Turned to Stone	1957	László Kardos	[18]
The Manchurian Candidate	1962	John Frankenheimer	[2] [3] [4]
Manhattan	1979	Woody Allen	[3]
Manhunter	1986	Michael Mann	[10] [2] [3] [4]
Mania (also known as The Flesh and the Fiends)	1960	John Gilling	[14]
Maniac	1934	Dwain Esper	[1]
Maniac Cop	1988	William Lustig	[2]
The Manitou	1978	William Girdler	[14]
Manos: The Hands of Fate	1966	Harold P. Warren	[12] [19] [1]
Mansion of the Doomed	1976	Michael Pataki	[14]
The Manster	1959	George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane	[18]
Marathon Man	1976	John Schlesinger	[3]
Marihuana	1936	Dwain Esper	[3]
Mariken van Nieumeghen	1974	Joe Stelling	[1]
Mark of the Vampire	1935	Tod Browning	[8]
El Mariachi	1992	Robert Rodriguez	[2] [3]
Marnie	1964	Alfred Hitchcock	[16] [2]
The Marriage of Maria Braun	1976	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	[3]
Married Life	2007	Ira Sachs	[3]
Mars Attacks!	1996	Tim Burton	[6] [1]
Martin	1977	George A. Romero	[11] [1] [8] [2]
Marty	1955	Delbert Mann	[3]
Martyrs	2008	Pascal Laugier	[3]
Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore	1996	Sarah Jacobson	[5]
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary	1975	Juan López Moctezuma	[14]
La maschera del demonio (also known as Black Sunday)	1960	Mario Bava	[9] [1] [8]
M*A*S*H	1970	Robert Altman	[3]
The Mask	1961	Julian Roffman	[14]
The Masque of the Red Death	1964	Roger Corman	[12] [3] [4]
Massacre at Central High	1976	Rene Daalder	[16]
Mata Hari	1931	George Fitzmaurice	[3]
Matango	1963	Ishirō Honda	[3] [7]
Matilda	1996	Danny DeVito	[3]
Matinee	1993	Joe Dante	[1] [3]
The Matrix	1999	The Wachowskis	[1] [3]
A Matter of Life and Death	1946	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	[3]
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971	Robert Altman	[2] [3]
Mean Girls	2004	Mark Waters	[19]
Mean Streets	1973	Martin Scorsese	[1] [2] [3]
Medea	1969	Pier Paolo Pasolini	[1]
Medium Cool	1969	Haskell Wexler	[3]
The Medusa Touch	1978	Jack Gold	[18]
Meet Me in St. Louis	1944	Vincente Minnelli	[1]
Meet the Feebles	1989	Peter Jackson	[2] [19]
Meet the Parents	2000	Jay Roach	[3]
Memento	2000	Christopher Nolan	[10] [19] [1] [2] [3]
The Men	1950	Fred Zinnemann	[3]
Men in Black	1997	Barry Sonnenfeld	[1]
Mera Naam Joker	1970	Raj Kapoor	[20]
Merci la vie (also known as Thank You, Life)	1991	Bertrand Blier	[3]
Mesa of Lost Women	1953	Herbert Tevos and Ron Ormond	[18]
Meshes of the Afternoon	1943	Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied	[3]
The Message	1976	Moustapha Akkad	[3]
Message from Space	1978	Kinji Fukasaku	[7]
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster	2004	Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky	[2]
Metropolis	1927	Fritz Lang	[13] [1] [2] [3]
Miami Connection	1987	Richard Park and Y.K. Kim	[19]
Midnight Cowboy	1969	John Schlesinger	[15] [2] [3]
Midnight Express	1978	Alan Parker	[3]
Midnight Run	1988	Martin Brest	[3]
The Mighty	1998	Peter Chelsom	[3]
The Mighty Peking Man	1977	Ho Meng-hua	[1]
The Milagro Beanfield War	1988	Robert Redford	[3]
Mildred Pierce	1945	Michael Curtiz	[1] [2] [3]
Miller's Crossing	1990	The Coen Brothers	[1] [3]
The Million Eyes of Sumuru	1967	Harry Alan Towers	[3]
The Millionairess	1960	Anthony Asquith	[3]
Minbo	1992	Juzo Itami	[3]
Minnie and Moskowitz	1971	John Cassavetes	[3]
Minotaur, The Mask of the Demons (also known as The Devil's Men and Land of the Minotaur)	1976	Kostas Karagiannis	[14]
Miracle on 34th Street	1947	George Seaton	[11] [1]
MirrorMask	2005	Dave McKean	[2]
Misery	1990	Rob Reiner	[3]
The Misfits	1961	John Huston	[1]
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	1985	Paul Schrader	[2]
The Mission	1986	Roland Joffé	[3]
The Missouri Breaks	1976	Arthur Penn	[2]
Modern Times	1936	Charlie Chaplin	[3]
Modesty Blaise	1966	Joseph Losey	[3]
Mommie Dearest	1981	Frank Perry	[16] [6] [1] [2]
Mondo Cane	1962	Gualtiero Jacopetti	[1]
Mondo Hollywood	1967	Robert Carl Cohen	[1]
Mondo Trasho	1969	John Waters	[3]
Monkey Business	1931	Norman Z. McLeod	[3]
Monsoon Wedding	2001	Mira Nair	[3]
Monster from Green Hell	1957	Kenneth G. Crane	[18]
The Monster That Challenged the World	1957	Arnold Laven	[18]
Monsieur Verdoux	1947	Charlie Chaplin	[11]
La Morte Vivante (also known as The Living Dead Girl)	1982	Jean Rollin	[8]
The Monster Squad	1987	Fred Dekker	[2]
Monte Walsh	1970	William A. Fraker	[3]
Monterey Pop	1968	D.A. Pennebaker	[1]
Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones	[16] [12] [17] [1] [3]
Monty Python's Life of Brian (also known as Life of Brian)	1979	Terry Jones	[10] [1] [4]
Moon	2009	Duncan Jones	[3]
The Moon and the Sledgehammer	1971	Philip Trevelyan	[3]
The Moon in the Gutter	1983	Jean-Jacques Beineix	[3]
Moonlighting	1982	Jerzy Skolimowski	[3]
More	1969	Barbet Schroeder	[1]
Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment	1966	Karel Reisz	[16]
Mortal Inheritance	1996	Andy Amenechi	[1]
The Most Dangerous Game (also known as The Hounds of Zaroff)	1932	Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel	[4]
The Most Terrible Time in My Life	1993	Kaizo Hayashi	[3]
Motel Hell	1980	Kevin Connor	[1]
The Mother	2003	Roger Michell	[3]
Mother's Day	1980	Charles Kaufman	[14]
Moulin Rouge	1952	John Huston	[3]
Moulin Rouge!	2001	Baz Luhrmann	[3]
The Movie Orgy	1968	Joe Dante	[1]
Mr. India	1987	Shekhar Kapur	[3]
Mr. Nice Guy	1997	Sammo Hung	[1]
Mr. Reliable	1996	Nadia Tass	[3]
Ms .45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance)	1981	Abel Ferrara	[16] [12] [10] [19] [1] [3]
Mudhoney	1965	Russ Meyer	[2]
Mughal-e-Azam	1960	K. Asif	[3]
Mulholland Drive	2001	David Lynch	[3]
Multiple Maniacs	1970	John Waters	[15]
Murder a la Mod	1968	Brian De Palma	[8]
Murder She Said	1961	George Pollock	[3]
Murder, My Sweet (also known as Farewell, My Lovely)	1944	Edward Dmytryk	[4]
Muriel's Wedding	1994	P. J. Hogan	[3]
The Music Box	1932	James Parrott	[3]
The Music Lovers	1971	Ken Russell	[3]
Mutual Appreciation	2005	Andrew Bujalski	[3]
My Best Fiend	1999	Werner Herzog	[1]
My Bloody Valentine	1981	George Mihalka	[1]
My Cousin Vinny	1992	Jonathan Lynn	[3]
My Darling Clementine	1946	John Ford	[16] [1]
My Favorite Year	1982	Richard Benjamin	[3]
My Life as a Dog	1985	Lasse Hallström	[3]
My Life Without Me	2003	Isabel Coixet	[3]
My Man Godfrey	1936	Gregory La Cava	[3]
My Name Is Bruce	2007	Bruce Campbell	[1]
My Name Is Joe	1998	Ken Loach	[3]
My Name Is Julia Ross	1945	Joseph H. Lewis	[3]
My Name Is Nobody	1973	Tonino Valerii	[1] [3]
My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki	[1] [3]
My Own Private Idaho	1991	Gus Van Sant	[1] [2] [3]
My Super Ex-Girlfriend	2006	Ivan Reitman	[3]
My Winnipeg	2007	Guy Maddin	[3]
Myra Breckinridge	1970	Michael Sarne	[1] [3]
The Mysterians	1957	Ishirō Honda	[18]
Mysterious Island	1961	Cy Endfield	[18] [ dubious – discuss ]
Mystery Men	1999	Kinka Usher	[2] [3]
Mystery Train	1989	Jim Jarmusch	[10] [4]

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