World Movies

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World Movies is an Australian cable channel that broadcasts foreign films, usually subtitled, on Foxtel, Austar, and Optus Television. Digital subscribers and those with wide-screen televisions have the opportunity to watch the films broadcast in widescreen.

The World Movies channel has a close working relationship with Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) even though they are separate business operations. For both organisations benefit, they jointly purchase many films where World Movies has subscription TV rights and SBS has free-to-air TV rights. When this is the case, then typically the World Movies Channel will broadcast such movies 12 months before they become available to SBS for broadcast.

1 Corporate information
2 Examples of films
3 25 Films You Must See Before You Die
4 External links

[edit] Corporate information

PAN TV Limited is an independent Australian company that was founded to produce the World Movies channel for the Australian subscription television market.

World Movies began broadcasting in October 1995 coinciding with the launch of subscription TV in Australia.

PAN TV Limited is a partnership between three Australian entities. The partners are:

Australian Capital Equity
APN News and Media, and
Multilingual Subscriber Television Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of SBS).

[edit] Examples of films

World Movies has broadcast films that cover all genres, ranging from Italian arthouse fare to Hong Kong sexploitation films. Some of the films shown have included:

Knife in the Water - a Polish drama, and the first film directed by Roman Polanski
Taxi - a French action comedy with a cult following
Devdas - a popular Indian Bollywood musical drama
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! - a Spanish comedy by Pedro Almodóvar
Joint Security Area - a South Korean military thriller
Anatomie 2 - a German horror film
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - a Japanese anime film, most anime films shown on World Movies is dubbed into English
The Filth and the Fury - a documentary on the Sex Pistols by Julien Temple
Lilya 4-ever - a Swedish (though filmed in Russian) drama by Lukas Moodysson

[edit] 25 Films You Must See Before You Die

In 2005 World Movies screened 25 Films You Must See Before You Die, inspired by Steven Jay Schneider's book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. [1]