Star Movies

Star Movies is an Asian-based pay television channel owned by Disney Entertainment. Star Movies was originally launched in 1994 as a single channel broadcast across Asia, but it has regionalized into different localized channels since then. Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific have since rebranded some of the network's international feeds in Hong Kong, Taiwan (SD feed only), and Southeast Asia as Fox Movies, but retains the Star Movies brand in the Middle East & South Asia (except Maldives).

Disney Star continues to operate the Indian feed of the network as a channel specialized in Western films, with the logo remaining completely unchanged since 2009. Meanwhile the Middle Eastern feed is operated by Disney Entertainment, keeping the 2009 logo (still used in India and Mainland China) until adopting the non-Indian Star channels' logo scheme in 2024, while Fox Movies was replaced by a new channel, Star Films. In the Balkans and Portugal, the local versions of Fox Movies were replaced by Star Movies. Star Movies in the Middle East, Balkans and Portugal is managed by The Walt Disney Company.

Star Movies began broadcasting on 20 April 1994 for viewers in Taiwan, replacing BBC World Service Television in the Northern Beam region which was dropped on 17 April 1994. The channel became scrambled on 1 May 1994. The need to launch the channel was based on research on viewers' preferences and feedback from cable operators. At launch, Star Movies was a Mandarin and English movie channel, with 60% of the films in Chinese or produced in Asia and 40% being Western titles. The channel was only available through authorized cable operators.

Star Movies was split up from Star Plus on 1 May 1994, which usually aired movies in the early years of Star TV from 1991 to 1994. At launch, its programming lineup consisted of both Hollywood and Chinese films and catered to pan-Asian audiences.

As Star TV planned to remove BBC World Service Television from its channel lineup for Northeast Asia by mid-April 1994, the company planned to replace it with a Chinese-language film channel. Star Movies would focus on Western world films from then on. Star TV has since regionalized the channel's operation.

The channel was noticeably absent from Singapore Cable Vision upon the launch of its cable service in 1995 due to censorship problems in the country.

On 1 February 1996, the channel changed its logo from a STAR wordmark similar to Zee Cinema in 1995 to a box-type STAR symbol featuring a frame, a pentagram star, and a blue square.

It was launched in Malaysia on 1 June 1996.