Thesaurus results for MOVIES

movies

noun

plural of movie

as in film

the art or business of making a movie many a small-town girl has gone to Hollywood, dreaming of making it big in the movies

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Recent Examples of movies This article contains spoilers from popular horror movies and shows. — Arryn Robbins, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026 Through movies, television, school events and holiday celebrations, the Morrises have built a business around helping people dress up and have a little fun. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2026 Sharma recently created a new arm within Xbox meant to centralize and double down on commercial opportunities for top franchises such as Minecraft, similar to how Disney spreads its Marvel brand into movies, shows, theme park attractions, and more. — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 Sets and props from Mendes' movies will create versions of Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where the band got its start; the famous Abbey Road studios in London; and Shea Stadium, the site of their legendary 1965 performance. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 Populated almost entirely by impossibly wealthy characters reveling in penthouse splendor, the Astaire-Rogers movies argued with high style against the proposition that the material and social rewards of wealth were dubious. — David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026 Releasing movies in theaters was never part of the Netflix business model. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026 The Festival is 11-days of some of the industry's best movies. — Libby Smith, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny starred for most of the original run and in the two movies; Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish starred in the latter stages of the show. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

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The nearly six-minute film shows how the team combines precision machining, assembly, and repair to accelerate robot development.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Dyrholm’s casting in Incidents of Intimacy marks a homecoming for the Danish actress who was part of the ensemble cast in Thomas Vinterberg’s Cannes Jury Prize winner The Celebration, the first film to be made under the original manifesto.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of film

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In her hometown of Yefremov, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of Moscow and about halfway to the border with Ukraine, Masha’s teacher had asked the class to draw pictures supporting Russian troops.

— Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
And there was a photographer who seemed to be taking an endless number of pictures.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of pictures

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Mustapha rejects the idea that documentary filmmaking can ever be entirely observational, arguing that a camera inevitably changes what happens in front of it.

— Essie Assibu, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
No one gave them the money to do something like this through traditional filmmaking because they weren’t established in the film industry, of course.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of filmmaking

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Strong wind gusts Saturday night took down a gazebo at the popular Daer Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, sending five people to the hospital, officials said.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 21 June 2026
The breakout success of these films has ignited debate across Hollywood about what made these movies so popular, especially among Gen Z moviegoers who haven’t been flocking to cinemas in recent years.

— Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026

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