motion picture.

motion-picture theater (often prec. by the )

The movie is next-door to the hardware store.

movies,

motion pictures, as an industry (usually prec. by the )

The movies have had to raise prices.

motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment

gangster movies.

the exhibition of a motion picture

an evening at the movies.

noun

cine , cinema , cinematics , cinematograph , feature , film , flick * , motion picture , moving picture , photoplay , picture , screenplay , show , silent * , silver screen * , talkie , talking picture , videotape , flick , screen