I just checked on my own machine with your re-write rule and it seems to be working. I tried with this URL (my localhost) :
http:
and it was able to forward me to the movies.php page as you would expect. Can you share the URL that's not working? Also, confirm that you have enabled the rewrite_module on Apache server and also check your httpd.conf file to make sure that there is no "#" i.e. commented at the beginning of this line :
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
It might seem a little weird, but the ".htaccess" should not have anything before the ".", htaccess is not an extension but a filename in itself. Please make sure thats the case.
Finally, when all is in place, restart the Apache server...Let us know if it worked.
Cheers...
EDIT: have a look at the Apache error logs as well, if it still doesn't work.