Directors: M

Winsor McCay
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)

 Alexander Mackendrick
The Man in the White Suit (1951)

David Mackenzie
Asylum (2005)
Perfect Sense (2011)
You Instead (2011)

Terrence Malick
The Tree of Life (2011)

Louis Malle
Lift to the Scaffold (1958)

Chris Marker
La Jetée (1962)
Sans Soleil (1983)

Frank Marshall
Arachnophobia (1990)

Philip Martin
Birdsong (2012)

Morgan Matthews
Britain in a Day (2012)

Kate McCabe
Das Neue Monster (2001)

Colm McCarthy
Endeavour (2012)

Norman Z. McLeod
Monkey Business (1931)
It's a Gift (1934)

Steve McQueen
Shame (2011)

Shane Meadows
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
This Is England '88 (2011)

Georges Méliès
The Pillar of Fire (1899)
Going to Bed with Difficulties (1900)
The 400 Tricks of the Devil (1906)

 Lothar Mendes
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)

Sam Mendes
Revolutionary Road (2008)

Nina Menkes
Phantom Love (2007)

Oskar Messter
Live Sculptures (1903)

 Lewis Milestone
The Front Page (1931)

Ashley Miller
A Suffragette in Spite of Himself (1912)

 Bennett Miller
Moneyball (2011)

Chris Miller
21 Jump Street (2012)

David Miller
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Carlo Mirabella-Davis
The Swell Season (2011)

Sergei Miroshnichenko
Born in the USSR: 28 Up (2012)

Mitchell & Kenyon
Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front (1901)
Tram Ride into Halifax (1902)

 Mizoguchi Kenji
Sansho Dayu (1954)

John Montegrande
The Rochdale Pioneers (2012)

Nanni Moretti
Dear Diary (1993)

Janusz Morgenstern
Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960)

Catherine Morshead
Läpland (2011)

Elijah Moshinsky
The Green Man (1990)

Willy Mullens
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (1905)

 Marc Munden
The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)

F.W. Murnau
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Eadweard Muybridge
Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (1880)