What a great idea and what a great game.
The Movies, as it's name suggests, allows you to write, shoot and produce a movie that you can share with others or keep for yourself. You get to be as granular as you want with the creation process but ultimately the aim of the game is to produce good movies that will rake in the cash. The more cash you have, the bigger and better your studio becomes and the better quality actors want to work with you.
You have the choice of doing everything, from writing the scripts to building the sets to hiring the staff and actors. Once you have actually 'shot' the movie, you then send it of to post production and eventually you can release it to the world, sit back and wait for reviews to come rolling in.
Good or bad you will get paid for it all and this money can then be ploughed back into your studio to make it bigger and better at producing new and state of the art movies.
It starts out back in the early 1900's and as you progress through the game time rolls on and you will eventually find yourself shooting movies in a more recognisable era.
One of the best features of this game is where you can actually save your movies to the hard drive and then upload them onto the internet to be watched by real people. It is a bit like a virtual oscars but a brilliant idea and one that has created a phenominal online community.
This game is definitely worth a try and I think you will enjoy it. I know that I did, a lot.