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Titles starting from letter "M"
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It's a contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare's play which is transported from medieval Scotland to modern-day Australia. Macbeth (Sam Worthington) is a cold-blooded assassin working for a powerful Melbourne crime lord, Duncan (Gary Sweet). A fateful encounter with three teenage witches (Chloe Armstrong, Kate Bell and Miranda Nation), who prophesy that he will soon assume power, stirs his ambition and arouses in him the determination to try to take total control over Duncan's gang. Encouraged by his heartless wife (Victoria Hill), Macbeth kills his boss, only to find that murder is not merely a step towards power but also leads to his own downfall and death. |
| Mad City
[1997,
USA]
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| One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle. |
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Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant journalist has to leave his job after a large-scale scandal at the tv-channel he worked. He can stay at work in only one case: if he will find a Sensation, a country-scale one. He gets a chance, meeting Sam Baily (Travolta, John), a guard who tries to fight for justice having a gun and turning it against his former chiefs and takes some people hostage. Max finds out that these occurence is nothing but a pure coincidence, he is surprised to find himself became the only friend of Sam. The journalist tries to save the man but the colleague reporter from NY wants to place all in a bad light.
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Max is travelling in a post apocalypse Australia where Gasoline is the most valuable commodity. He becomes involved in a struggle between bandits and a town that has build defenses around a small refinery. He must cross the no man's land several times to allow them to make a dash for freedom, pursued by the bandits in their vehicles. |
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Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown. |
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Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed. |
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A horror-thriller in which a doctor and his teenage daughter are terrorized by flesh-eating zombies at a truck stop. |
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This animation story tells about the adventures of NY Zoo inhabitants – Alex the Lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (voice of Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (voice of David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (voice of Jada Pinkett Smith). They are best friends and when one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him. They meet again onboard the vessel heading to Africa, but en venue the ship gets capsized and the friends find themselves on the strand of Madagascar. Finally, after the series of adventures they figure out that the wildlife is more difficult than their well-provided life at the Zoo. |
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Clark Stevens (Joshua Leonanrd), a psychiatric intern, experiences a series of mysterious events at the mental health facility in which he works. Running-down institute for immense schizophrenia and criminal insanity is stuffed with many unpleasant secrets. The story unfolds as Clark begins to reveal the mysteries of the staff, the treatment methods, the basement... Is there any medication used, or there is nothing material behind the secrecy? And, generally, the patient from the cell 44 seems to be a ghost. As many opinions tell, this movie is absolutely not for the faint-hearted, gore and horror are at its finest. |
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After Dougal the puppy (Robbie Williams) destroys the magic roundabout and inadvertently releases the evil ice wizard Zeebad Carpenter (Tom Baker) from his prison, the fate of the Enchanted Land hangs in the balance: Zeebad is itching to incase it in ice. Dougal and his brave pals, Brian the snail (Jim Broadbent), Ermintrude the opera-singing cow (Joanna Lumley), and Dylan the hippie rabbit (Bill Nighy), take great pains to find three magic diamonds so that they can reverse the beginning of winter and confine Zeebad in the dungeon.
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The hilarious comedy depicts the peripeteias of the fortune of two talented magicians, Harry (David Mitchell) and Karl (Robert Webb), who work together, performing various magic tricks in a variety of shows. The two become deadly enemies and go their separate ways after Harry finds out about the sexual affair between Karl and his wife, who is then accidentally killed during the guillotine trick. This mishap puts the kibosh on their brilliant careers. Four years later, their paths cross again when the penniless and depressed former partners decide to enter the "Magic shield" tournament and compete against one another, expecting to win a prize of £20,000. |
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Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff. |
| Magnolia
[1999,
USA]
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| Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours. |
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness... |
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While driving in the road, Richard Wynn crashes his car and his beloved wife Molly Wynn dies. Along two years, his sister-in-law Laci Collins moves to his house and helps Richard to raise his son Danny Wynn and his teenage daughter Carrie Wynn. When Richard decides to get married with Nicole Harris, the deranged and psychotic Laci that is in love for Richard, tries to force Richard to call off the wedding with malevolence against Nicole and manipulating Danny. |
| Major Payne
[1995,
USA]
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| He's looking for a few good men... or a few guys old enough to shave. |
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Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch or ragtag losers with no hope. Using such teaching tools as live grenades and real bullets, Payne starts to instill the corp with some hope. But when Payne is recalled to fight in Bosnia, will he leave the corp who has just started the believe in him, or will he find out that killin' ain't much of a livin'? |
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Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son, Ettore. For him, she dreams of a good position. But it is perhaps too late for Ettore, whose company includes mostly teenaged louts... |
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Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck), a top Hollywood agent, has everything he has longed for: a beautiful wife, money, a successful career, and to top it all, he is a man with a big name. But things seem to be crumbling and disintegrating when Jack discovers the bitter truth: his wife Nina (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on him with one of his most high-profile clients! Unfortunately, there’s no end of troubles. Unscrupulous and anxious for a scoop, reporter Barbi Ling (Bai Ling) somehow steals Jack’s diary containing both his personal and professional secrets. And now with his reputation hanging in the balance and his marriage falling apart, Jack must fight to restore his lost family happiness.
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When Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith), a history scholar, makes his sudden decision to retire from the University, his associates invite themselves to a farewell party, seeking an explanation from him for his untimely resignation. In his cabin in the remote woods, John perplexes his colleagues by claiming that he is an immortal who has been living on the earth for 14,000 years. |
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Wealthy residents of Mexico City are seized with panic as there were twenty-four cases of kidnapping in a six-day period. Terrified to death, many parents hire bodyguards for their offsprings. Former government operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly agrees to take a job as a bodyguard for Pita (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony). At first the cold Creasy can hardly tolerate the precocious kid but Pita gradually warms up his heart toward her and they become friends. When the girl is kidnapped, Creasy starts to take vengeance on each one involved in the abduction. |
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The biopic comedy relates the story of Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey), a famous American entertainer, actor and performance artist who was able to stir any audience. An eccentric, extraordinary person and an enigmatic comedian, he gave bizarre performances making the audience empathize with him, hate him or wonder at his escapades. He made them show their emotions, as opposed to just sitting in front of a TV and swallowing cheap jokes. The movie takes a profound look at Kaufman's art as well as his personal life and his relationship with his girlfriend Lynne Margulies (Courtney Love), his best pal and partner Bob Zmuda (Paul Giamatti), and his manager George Shapiro (Danny DeVito).
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