Making Movies is the third album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1980.

The title of the album comes from a line in the song "Skateaway" and the unreleased song "Making Movies". Rolling Stone ranked the album #52 in their survey of the "100 Best Albums of the 80s". Making Movies was the biggest selling album in Italy in 1981 with one million copies; in Europe the album sold 3.8 million copies.

It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the U.S. and on September 19, 2000 in the United States.

The songs "Making Movies" and "Suicide Towers" were recorded during the sessions and were never officially released. They do however appear on bootlegs.

All songs written by Mark Knopfler, except for the introduction to "Tunnel of Love", which is "The Carousel Waltz" from the musical Carousel, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

"Tunnel of Love" – 8:08 
"Romeo and Juliet" – 5:54 
"Skateaway" – 6:18 
"Expresso Love" – 5:04 
"Hand in Hand" – 4:48 
"Solid Rock" – 3:19 
"Les Boys" – 4:07 


Mark Knopfler: guitar, vocals 
John Illsley: bass, vocals 
Pick Withers: drums, vocals 
[edit] Additional personnel
Roy Bittan: keyboards 
David Knopfler: guitar (uncredited) 
Sid McGinnis: guitar (uncredited)