The Movies is a business simulation game created by Lionhead Studios for Microsoft Windows and ported to Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.

[6] The Movies was released in November 2005 and by the end of the year had sold above 50,000 copies in the United Kingdom, a number that Eurogamer's Kristan Reed called "relatively minor".

The expansion added stunts and stuntmen, new special effects, fewer camera placement restrictions, and expanded environments and clothing options.

[33] Several publications have retrospectively praised The Movies for its innovative design, whilst remarking that the game did not fully meet its ambitions.

[34] In 2012, Hugh Milligan of IGN stated The Movies was a "daring experiment", highlighting the game's movie-making tools and online integration as facilitating an "astonishing level of creativity" and turning what he considered a "solid but unspectacular simulation game into an incredible social experience".

[35] In 2015, Graham Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun described the game as failing to deliver on its "interesting" concept, stating that its "creative suite is limited in terms of what you can make, and the management game splits your time between the fantasy of heading studio and the tedium of nannying people".

[36] In 2016, The Guardian called The Movies's online service "[p]erhaps the most forward-thinking feature" because it pre-dated YouTube by a year.