M
Legend
Mizoguchi, Kenji
(1898-1956)
- Osaka Elegy (1936)
- The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Ugetsu (1953)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Legend
Miyazaki, Hayao
(1941-)
- The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
- Ponyo (2008)
- The Wind Rises (2013)
- The Boy and the Heron (2023)
Master
Melville, Jean-Pierre
(1917-1973)
- Bob le flambeur (1956)
- Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
- Le doulos (1962)
- Le samourai (1967)
- Army of Shadows (1969)
- Le cercle rouge (1970)
Master
Mann, Michael
(1943-)
- Thief (1981)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
- Heat (1995)
- Ali (2001)
- Collateral (2004)
- Miami Vice (2006)
- Public Enemies (2009)
- Blackhat (2015)
Master
Malick, Terrence
(1943-)
- Badlands (1973)
- Days of Heaven (1978)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- The New World (2005)
- The Tree of Life (2011)
- Voyage of Time (2016)
- A Hidden Life (2019)
Master
Meszaros, Marta
(1931-)
- The Girl (1968)
- Binding Sentiments (1969)
- Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! (1970)
- Nine Months (1976)
- The Two of Them (1977)
- The Heiresses (1980)
- Diary for My Children (1984)
- Diary for My Loves (1987)
- Diary for My Father and Mother (1990)
Master
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
(1888-1931)
- The Haunted Castle (1921)
- The Last Laugh (1924)
- Tartuffe (1925)
Great Director
Mungiu, Cristian
(1968-)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
- Graduation (2016)
- R.M.N. (2022)
Great Director
Mukherjee, Hrishikesh
(1922-2006)
- Anand (1971)
- Guddi (1971)
- Chupke Chupke (1975)
- Gol Maal (1979)
Great Director
Mendoza, Brillante
(1960-)
- Service (2008)
- Trap (2015)
- Ma’ Rosa (2016)
- Alpha: The Right to Kill (2018)
- Mindanao (2019)
Great Director
Mendes, Sam
(1965-)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Jarhead (2005)
- Revolutionary Road (2008)
- Away We Go (2009)
- Skyfall (2012)
- Spectre (2015)
- 1917 (2019)
Director-to-Follow
Moore, Tomm
(1977-)
- The Secret of Kells (2009)
- Song of the Sea (2014)
- Wolfwalkers (2020)
Director-to-Follow
McDonagh, Martin
(1970-)
- Seven Psychopaths (2012)
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Director-to-Follow
McQueen, Steve
(1969-)
- Hunger (2008)
- Shame (2011)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Widows (2018)
N
Master
Nolan, Christopher
(1970-)
- Following (1998)
- Memento (2000)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Inception (2010)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Dunkirk (2017)
- Tenet (2020)
- Oppenheimer (2023)
O
Legend
Ozu, Yasujiro
(1903-1963)
- Dragnet Girl (1933)
- The Only Son (1936)
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
- A Hen in the Wind (1948)
- Late Spring (1949)
- Early Summer (1951)
- The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Early Spring (1956)
- Floating Weeds (1959)
- Good Morning (1959)
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Great Director
Ozon, Francois
(1967-)
- Sitcom (1998)
- Under the Sand (2000)
- Swimming Pool (2003)
- 5×2 (2004)
- In the House (2012)
- Frantz (2016)
- By the Grace of God (2019)
- Summer of 85 (2020)
Great Director
Ostlund, Ruben
(1974-)
- The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)
- Force Majeure (2014)
- The Square (2017)
- Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Eternality Tan 