Could aliens have their own version of movies?

Yes. If aliens are intelligent, social, and have senses that can perceive patterns over time, they could plausibly have something analogous to movies: recorded or constructed experiences used for storytelling, education, memory, art, or entertainment.

But their “movies” might not look like ours. Human movies are built around vision and sound, flat screens, editing, actors, and narrative time. An alien version could be based on whatever senses and biology they have:

• A sight-dominant species might make visual narratives like films, holograms, or immersive simulations.
• A sound- or vibration-focused species might create “movies” as evolving acoustic environments.
• A smell- or chemical-sensing species might tell stories through sequences of scents or chemical signals.
• A telepathic or highly networked species, if such minds existed, might share curated memories or emotional experiences instead of watching images.
• A species with different time perception might make “films” that unfold over seconds, years, or in branching non-linear forms.

The core idea would be the same: a deliberately arranged sequence of sensory information that lets one mind experience events beyond the immediate present. So aliens might not have cinema in the human sense, but they could absolutely have their own equivalent of recorded storytelling or immersive art.