Rai Movie is an Italian movie television channel, owned by state-owned television network RAI and broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and on satellite platform Tivù Sat.

Rai Movie
Logo used since 2017
CountryItaly
Broadcast areaItaly
HeadquartersRome, Italy
Programming
Language(s)Italian
English (with Italian subtitles)
Picture format1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerRai
Sister channelsRai 1
Rai 2
Rai 3
Rai 4
Rai 5
Rai Gulp
Rai News 24
Rai Premium
Rai Scuola
Rai Sport
Rai Storia
Rai Yoyo
Rai Ladinia
Rai Südtirol
Rai Italia
History
Launched1 July 1999; 25 years ago (1999-07-01)
Former namesRaiSat Cinema (1999–2003, 2006–2010)
RaiSat Cinema World (2003–2006)
Links
Websiterai.it/raimovie
Availability
Terrestrial
DigitalChannel 24 (SD)
Streaming media
RaiPlayLive streaming (Only in Italy)

The channel was launched in 2003 as RaiSat Cinema World and re-badged in 2006 as RaiSat Cinema. On 30 June 2009, RaiSat Cinema was removed from Sky and was launched in the new free-to-view satellite platform Tivùsat. On 18 May 2010, it was renamed Rai Movie. It broadcasts mostly Italian films, interviews, backstages and documentaries.

Since 2003 it has been the official media partner of the Venice Film Festival and since 2007 of the Rome Film Festival.

In April 2019, RAI announced that this channel, along with Rai Premium, would shut down to make place for a new channel called Rai 6, with a female target. This sparked controversy and an online petition that quickly reached 120,000 signatures. However, the scheduled date for the shutdown is unknown to this day.

Films

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Comedy, Family

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Drama, Fantasy, Biografic, Romantic, Musical

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Logos

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2003–2006 (as RaiSat Cinema World) 2006–2010 (as RaiSat Cinema) 2010–2016 (as Rai Movie) 2016–present

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