| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 74 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| 117 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman |
| 2043 | Ma Vie en Rose | 1997 | Alain Berliner |
| 543 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller |
| 2083 | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | George Miller and George Ogilvie |
| 1673 | The Madness of King George | 1994 | Nicholas Hytner |
| 2056 | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan |
| 2458 | The Magdalene Sisters | 2002 | Peter Mullan |
| 1772 | The Magician | 1958 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 142 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles |
| 1997 | Magnificent Obsession | 1954 | Douglas Sirk |
| 404 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges |
| 267 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1819 | Major Barbara | 1941 | Gabriel Pascal |
| 1865 | Make Way for Tomorrow | 1937 | Leo McCarey |
| 2196 | The Makioka Sisters | 1983 | Kon Ichikawa |
| 551 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee |
| 1811 | Mallrats | 1995 | Kevin Smith |
| 33 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston |
| 1392 | A Man and a Woman | 1966 | Claude Lelouch |
| 1735 | Man Bites Dog | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde |
| 565 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
| 428 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1888 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann |
| 2430 | The Man in the Moon | 1991 | Robert Mulligan |
| 908 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1603 | Man of Aran | 1934 | Robert J. Flaherty |
| 1642 | Man of Marble | 1977 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 1411 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann |
| 2194 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | 1942 | William Keighley |
| 1173 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 1585 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 294 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford |
| 2158 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen |
| 509 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston |
| 2355 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger |
| 284 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| 1967 | The Man Without a Past | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki |
| 93 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer |
| 135 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen |
| 1288 | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann |
| 572 | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri |
| 1286 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger |
| 1630 | El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1454 | Marius | 1931 | Alexander Korda and Marcel Pagnol |
| 1513 | The Mark of Zorro | 1940 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 1444 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 512 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 2020 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero |
| 462 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann |
| 263 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson |
| 1312 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2361 | Mask | 1985 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1055 | The Mask | 1994 | Chuck Russell |
| 1804 | The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Martin Campbell |
| 2200 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman |
| 1121 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir |
| 1505 | Matewan | 1987 | John Sayles |
| 59 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy and Larry Wachowski |
| 1375 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski |
| 2112 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski |
| 251 | McCabe and Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman |
| 1867 | Mean Girls | 2004 | Mark Waters |
| 171 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2364 | Mediterraneo | 1991 | Gabriele Salvatores |
| 1012 | Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler |
| 1073 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | Frank Capra |
| 204 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1095 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach |
| 1322 | Melvin and Howard | 1980 | Jonathan Demme |
| 196 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1132 | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| 2338 | The Men | 1950 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 610 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| 2377 | Menace II Society | 1993 | Albert and Allen Hughes |
| 1145 | Mephisto | 1981 | István Szabó |
| 1771 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 906 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid |
| 66 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
| 1540 | Metropolitan | 1990 | Whit Stillman |
| 1059 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 1328 | A Midnight Clear | 1992 | Keith Gordon |
| 120 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger |
| 1960 | Midnight Express | 1978 | Alan Parker |
| 1365 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest |
| 2483 | The Mighty Ducks | 1992 | Stephen Herek |
| 2429 | Mighty Joe Young | 1949 | Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| 371 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz |
| 478 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen |
| 980 | Le Million | 1931 | René Clair |
| 674 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2064 | Million Dollar Legs | 1932 | Edward F. Cline |
| 817 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1795 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 2041 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 433 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1944 | Preston Sturges |
| 421 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton |
| 1117 | The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Arthur Penn |
| 973 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 2425 | Les Misérables | 1935 | Richard Boleslawski |
| 2086 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch |
| 1231 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner |
| 1868 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston |
| 2262 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader |
| 1394 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras |
| 1623 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé |
| 1298 | Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Brian De Palma |
| 2392 | Mission: Impossible II | 2000 | John Woo |
| 2296 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker |
| 2001 | Mississippi Masala | 1991 | Mira Nair |
| 681 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy |
| 92 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin |
| 1864 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry |
| 666 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati |
| 1120 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais |
| 1581 | Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 669 | Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 | Charles Chaplin |
| 864 | Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Mira Nair |
| 2193 | Monster’s Ball | 2001 | Marc Forster |
| 580 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Peter Docter |
| 149 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones |
| 1887 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones |
| 2302 | Moonlighting | 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| 349 | Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison |
| 2144 | The More the Merrier | 1943 | George Stevens |
| 828 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1927 | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 1910 | Mother and Son | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| 1017 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
| 2213 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan |
| 1536 | The Motorcycle Diaries | 2004 | Walter Salles |
| 1293 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson |
| 235 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 1493 | The Mouse That Roared | 1959 | Jack Arnold |
| 2376 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1948 | H.C. Potter |
| 530 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra |
| 1636 | Mr. Holland's Opus | 1995 | Stephen Herek |
| 321 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati |
| 109 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra |
| 1512 | Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | Chris Columbus |
| 701 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler |
| 2258 | Much Ado about Nothing | 1993 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2000 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook |
| 422 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch |
| 767 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund |
| 1118 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers |
| 2113 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1787 | The Muppet Movie | 1979 | James Frawley |
| 1969 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet |
| 991 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 862 | Muriel's Wedding | 1994 | P.J. Hogan |
| 1688 | Murmur of the Heart | 1971 | Louis Malle |
| 1882 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott |
| 825 | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta |
| 1208 | The Music Room | 1958 | Satyajit Ray |
| 300 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd |
| 637 | My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | Stephen Frears |
| 958 | My Best Friend's Wedding | 1997 | P.J. Hogan |
| 1464 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Joel Zwick |
| 1937 | My Bodyguard | 1980 | Tony Bill |
| 860 | My Brilliant Career | 1979 | Gillian Armstrong |
| 1749 | My Cousin Vinny | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 211 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford |
| 902 | My Dinner with André | 1981 | Louis Malle |
| 150 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor |
| 2435 | My Father's Glory | 1990 | Yves Robert |
| 1119 | My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin |
| 739 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan |
| 646 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström |
| 966 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1829 | My Little Chickadee | 1940 | Edward F. Cline |
| 515 | My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava |
| 2375 | My Mother's Castle | 1990 | Yves Robert |
| 2468 | My Name Is Joe | 1998 | Ken Loach |
| 892 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1023 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer |
| 996 | My Own Private Idaho | 1991 | Gus Van Sant |
| 2389 | My Sassy Girl | 2001 | Jae-young Kwak |
| 927 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog |
| 2183 | The Mystery of Picasso | 1956 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 1728 | Mystic Pizza | 1988 | Donald Petrie |
| 1487 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood |
