The Movies Online is the online aspect of The Movies. As well as its own section on the general Lionhead forums, TMO allows players to upload their own movies to the Internet for others to review and criticize. Reviews allow users to rate movies from 1 to 5 stars, as well as leave a comment. Comments are optional, though many members write as long as five paragraphs for reviews. When you upload your movie, you can place your movie into one of five different categories. Romance, Action, Comedy, Horror, and Sci-Fi. Comedy and Horror are the two most popular, followed by Sci-fi, Action, and Romance. This translates into Virtual Credits (VCs), a form of virtual currency that is used to buy new props, costumes, sets and to advertise online movies.

When the game was first released, a "propshop" was advertised as the only way to spend VCs. Moviemakers were asked, not required, to upload their movies made using the game, earning them around 500 VCs. Each review was, and still is, worth 200 VC. Although no longer updated, the propshop still exists. However, it consists of old props.

After The Movies Stunts & Effects was released, The Movies Online entire site was remade. The new TMO features a way to advertise your movies to the general public, using movie posters. Movie posters are uploaded and can be posted to the main movie-poster spot on the homepage for only 1,000 VC. Posters are randomly shown. This is currently, besides the propshop the only "offcial" way to spend VCs.

Many community members of TMO require VCs to enter competitions. Although VCs are abundant, and almost all the everyday members have over 5,000 VC, VCs in competitions offer a fun, free way to win fake money. There is also an unofficial TMO Stock Market which uses VCs on movies and studios like a real stock market.

Every week, Lionhead will pick out six movies to be featured on the TMO homepage. These movies can be submitted to fansites, who generally contact Lionhead on which movies they nominate for Hot Picks. Hot Picks are a very effective way of getting people to view your movie and earn VCs.

The "Hall Of Fame" is the 9th TMO chart, which features the best TMO charts since the site was re-done at the release of Stunts & Effects. Before the site was re-done, there used to be a "Top Stars" chart, in which Top Stars were featured on the site. The Top Stars were fictional, and were often judged by how many films they appeared in on TMO.

The charts are generally updated every 6 hours. The exact formula for how the charts are resolved is not publicly known, but numbers of unique viewers, peer rating and time elapsed since release of any given movie all play a role in calculating chart position.

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