Rai Movie is an Italian movie television channel, owned by state-owned television network RAI and broadcast on

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and on satellite platform Tivù Sat. 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

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and since 2007 of the

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. 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

Comedy, Family

* Al posto tuo

Drama, Fantasy, Biografic, Romantic, Musical

* Call Me by Your Name * The Bookshop

Logos

References

Movie A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

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