M
- Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, 2016)
- Macaluso Sisters, The (Emma Dante, 2020)
- Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
- Man of Integrity, A (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2017)
- Man Vanishes, A (Shohei Imamura, 1967)
- Man Without a Past, The (Aki Kaurismaki, 2002)
- Mandi (Shyam Benegal, 1983)
- Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975) – Criterion Collection
- Mank (David Fincher, 2020)
- Manta Ray (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, 2018)
- Marius (Alexander Korda, 1931) – Criterion Collection
- Marriage of Maria Braun, The (R.W. Fassbinder, 1979) – Criterion Collection
- Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) – Criterion Collection
- Marseille (Angela Schanelec, 2004)
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)
- Master, The (P.T. Anderson, 2012)
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (Steve Loveridge, 2018)
- Matrix, The (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 1999)
- Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, 2019)
- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
- Mee Pok Man (Eric Khoo, 1995)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
- Melo (Alain Resnais, 1986)
- Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
- Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003) – Criterion Collection
- Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968) – Criterion Collection
- Metamorphosis of Birds, The (Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)
- Meyerowitz Stories, The (Noah Baumbach, 2017)
- Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
- Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001)
- Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1990)
- Mindanao (Brillante Mendoza, 2019)
- Mirch Masala (Ketan Mehta, 1987)
- Mirror, The (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985) – Criterion Collection
- Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982) – Criterion Collection
- Missing Picture, The (Rithy Panh, 2013)
- Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams, 2006)
- Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017)
- Moment of Innocence, A (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
- Moment of Truth, The (Francesco Rosi, 1965) – Criterion Collection
- Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
- Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958) – Criterion Collection
- Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019)
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953) – Criterion Collection
- Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, 2001)
- Monsters University (Dan Scanlon, 2013)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1975)
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) – Criterion Collection
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
- Mosquito (Joao Nuno Pinto, 2020)
- Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009)
- Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, 2015)
- Mr. Jones (Agnieszka Holland, 2019)
- Mughal-E-Azam (K. Asif, 1960)
- Munyurangabo (Lee Issac Chung, 2007)
- Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock, 1930)
- Music Room, The (Satyajit Ray, 1958) – Criterion Collection
- My American Uncle (Alain Resnais, 1980)
- My Magic (Eric Khoo, 2008)
- My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
- My Sister’s Good Fortune (Anglea Schanelec, 1995)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
- Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989) – Criterion Collection
- Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
N
- Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)
- Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
- Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro, 2015)
- Neruda (Pablo Larrain, 2016)
- Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020)
- New Land, The (Jan Troell, 1972) – Criterion Collection
- News of the World (Paul Greengrass, 2020)
- Night Comes for Us, The (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018)
- Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
- Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991) – Criterion Collection
- Nina Wu (Midi Z, 2019)
- Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
- Nishant (Shyam Benegal, 1975)
- No (Pablo Larrain, 2012)
- No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
- Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
- Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2018)
- North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
- Not Mine to Love (Uri Zohar, 1967)
- Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi, 2020)
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (Lars von Trier, 2013)
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (Lars von Trier, 2013)
O
- Officer and a Spy, An (Roman Polanski, 2019)
- Offside (Miguel Gaudencio, 2019)
- Oh, Woe Is Me (Jean-Luc Godard, 1993)
- Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
- Oldboy (Spike Lee, 2013)
- On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
- On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola, 2020)
- Once a Thief (John Woo, 1991)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
- Ondog (Wang Quan’an, 2019)
- One Cut of the Dead (Shin’ichiro Ueda, 2017)
- One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1982)
- One Second (Zhang Yimou, 2020)
- One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnes Varda, 1977) – Criterion Collection
- Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
- Only Son, The (Yasujiro Ozu, 1936) – Criterion Collection
- Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
- Orphanage, The (Shahrbanoo Sadat, 2019)
- Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950) – Criterion Collection
- Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) – Criterion Collection
- Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
- Other Side of Hope, The (Aki Kaurismaki, 2017) – Criterion Collection
- Other Side of the Wind, The (Orson Welles, 2018)
- Our Time Machine (S. Leo Chiang & Sun Yang, 2019)