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Portmanteau
see all genres ›Otherwise known as omnibus or anthology films, this subgenre named after a many-compartmented travel case offers the pleasures of several stories, often overlapping in narrative or theme, within one package.
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Genres / Drama / Portmanteau
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Actors and Sin
Some of legendary writer Ben Hecht's best work comes to the screen in a two-in-one show business-themed comedy-drama that reveals what goes on when the greasepaint comes off. In ACTOR'S BLOOD, washed-up stage star Edward G. Robinson assembles all the suspects in the murder of his actress-daughter (Marsha Hunt). In WOMAN OF...Start your free trial to watch
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Alila
For the apartment dwellers of ALILA, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's (Yael Abecassis, KADOSH) loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Mali (Hanna Laslo), Gabi's sole...Start your free trial to watch
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Amaya
Hong Kong: one week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The movie follows six characters whose lives are all connected in one way or another. The day of changes comes when Amaya (played by the world famous, multiple award winning Kaori Momoi) meets a charming Englishman, Paul. Their encounter...Start your free trial to watch
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Ancient Parts/Foreign Parts
The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy and his mother. FOREIGN PARTS portrays the poetics of family life in an unfamiliar context. Two joined together as one.Start your free trial to watch
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Antares
Austria's Academy Awards® selection for "Best Foreign Language Film," ANTARES skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at crossroads over three momentous days. Set in a ubiquitous, concrete high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of a big city, the couples emerge from this uniform coexistence to search for...Start your free trial to watch
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Anywhere USA
In a trailer deposited in an unkempt pastoral glade, a woman who used to be an alternate on her high school tennis team beats her boyfriend senseless once a week. She beats him, 'cause, well he deserves it. It’s his act of redneck contrition. Meanwhile, an eight-year-old girl finds accidental elucidation; the sort of...Start your free trial to watch
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Boccaccio '70
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in BOCCACCIO '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET), Federico Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA), Luchino Visconti (THE LEOPARD) and Vittorio De Sica (BICYCLE THIEVES) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through...Start your free trial to watch
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City Loop
It’s a slow night at Speedies in Brisbane. This time for reflection leads to a collision between the six young kids working at the pizza parlor. A comedy about one night in the lives of six kids as they confront questions of love, identity and sex between dough tossing, order taking and scooter deliveries through treacherous...Start your free trial to watch
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Crush
Michael Saul’s first collection of shorts, TRUE LOVE, was a broad sampling of the many different aspects of gay love affairs. CRUSH is an anthology of four stories that examine the many feelings of longing and love in gay relationships. In DON'T ASK, a devoted couple is forced to confront their feelings regarding love and war...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantasm
Incest, group sex, religion, role reversal, lesbianism… FANTASM is a sexy, sin-sational comedy spoof of classroom sex educational films. Join Professor Jurgen Notafreud as he takes you on an erotic visual tour of the top ten most erotic female fantasies. Directed by Richard Franklin under the pseudonym “Richard Bruce,”...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantasm Comes Again
From the producers of the original sex-comedy hit FANTASM comes the outrageous sequel, FANTASM COMES AGAIN. Libbie, a young up-and-coming journalist, is taking over as a writer for a “Dear Collette” sexual advice column in a local newspaper. Harry, the fellow who’s been impersonating “Collette” for years,...Start your free trial to watch
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Film socialisme
Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the E.U. address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes,...Start your free trial to watch
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I fuorilegge del matrimonio
Omnibus features were particularly popular Italian exports in the 1960s as they gave audiences a sampler plate of exciting foreign directors, stars, perspectives and oft-racy themes in one easily digestible package. This rare, star-studded curio waxes very cheeky about the Catholic Church's iron-clad hold...Start your free trial to watch
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The Guatemalan Handshake
One of the Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, writer-director Todd Rohal charts strange new cinematic waters with his madly innovative feature debut, THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE. Winner of Special Jury Prizes at Slamdance and Torino, Rohal's vivacious feast for the senses "bristles with...Start your free trial to watch
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Historia Naturae
The obsessive nature of Jan Svankmajer’s animation has an encyclopedic bent in this unique panorama of natural history. The film’s six segments move up the evolutionary ladder from crustaceans to human beings, dwelling on intricate tortoiseshells, otherworldly insect appendages and the expressive eyes of...Start your free trial to watch
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I sovversivi
The first feature directed solely by the Taviani brothers (following two collaborations with Valentino Orsini) is somewhat atypical in being borderline anarchic, sometimes farcical and experimental in its mash-up approach to narrative. Several strands are juggled here, including strife between a yuppie couple that leads to...Start your free trial to watch
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Intolerance
Four separate stories (the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots and a then-contemporary early 20th Century drama) are interwoven, building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale. Through the juxtaposition of these well-known sagas, D.W. Griffith joyously makes clear his markedly...Start your free trial to watch
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It Happened in the Park
There is something uniquely fascinating about a large municipal park, with its natural beauties, its formal arrangements and its array of visitors to be observed. Amid its inducements to serenity, one may invariably catch intriguing glimpses of people and their behavior that hint of drama and little crises...Start your free trial to watch