A film consists of moving pictures that have been recorded so that they can be shown at a cinema or on television.
Films are called movies.
In Britain, a building where films are shown is usually called a cinema. In the United States, it is called a movie theater, a movie house, or sometimes just a theater when it is clear that it is one for films and not plays.
British people talk about going to the cinema. American speakers talk about going to the movies.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture show, flick, picture product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" sequence, episode - film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie credit - an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work; "the credits were given at the end of the film" subtitle, caption - translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen credits - a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) telefilm - a movie that is made to be shown on television feature film, feature - the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" final cut - the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer home movie - a film made at home by an amateur photographer collage film - a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage coming attraction - a movie that is advertised to draw customers shoot-'em-up - a movie featuring shooting and violence short subject - a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment - a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event cinema verite - a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director film noir - a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s" skin flick - a pornographic movie rough cut - the first print of a movie after preliminary editing slow motion - a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate talkie, talking picture - a movie with synchronized speech and singing show - a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway" musical, musical comedy, musical theater - a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing dub - provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language synchronise, synchronize - make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; "synchronize this film" reshoot - shoot again; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times" |
2. | ![]() artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" MacGuffin, McGuffin - (film) a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot; "the McGuffin was a key element of Alfred Hitchcock's films" medium - a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information silver screen - the film industry | |
3. | ![]() footage - film that has been shot; "they had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes"; "he edited the news footage" microfilm - film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material cine-film, motion-picture film, movie film - photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool; to be used in a movie camera negative - a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed orthochromatic film - a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light panchromatic film - photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red) photographic material, photographic paper - light-sensitive paper on which photograph can be printed positive - a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject reel - a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector roll - photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light roll film - photographic film wound on a spool sequence, episode - film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie X-ray film - photographic film used to make X-ray pictures film clip - a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast | |
4. | film - a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust" object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" scum - a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid slick - a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water soap film - a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap | |
5. | film - a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things Polaroid - (trade mark) a plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare flat solid, sheet - a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width shrink-wrap - the clinging transparent plastic film that is used to shrinkwrap something | |
Verb | 1. | film - make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, film, picture show, flick, picture - a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" photograph, shoot, snap - record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" reshoot - shoot again; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times" |
2. | film - record in film; "The coronation was filmed" cinematise, cinematize - make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film; "cinematize history" microfilm - record on microfilm |