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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Ship of Theseus
If the parts of a ship are replaced, bit-by-bit, is it still the same ship? A celebrated experimental photographer struggles with the loss of her intuitive genius as an unexpected aftermath of a physical change; an intellectual monk confronting a complex ethical dilemma with a long held ideology,...Watch Movie
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You, the Living
"A slapstick Ingmar Bergman" is how the Village Voice described the films of Swedish director Roy Andersson, while the Washington Post name-dropped Jacques Tati, Monty Python and even Andrei Tarkovsky to sum up an aesthetic that combines formal rigor with anti-capitalist critiques, bizarre human...Watch Movie
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Horror Stories
Horror anthologies might be everywhere these days, but the Korean entry HORROR STORIES raises the bar with four terrifying stories (and a nail-biting wraparound tale), each one chilling enough to be its own feature. If you thought this was going to be a tame collection of teen-friendly "ghost...Watch Movie
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This, That and the Other
Take three men, all unlucky in love, introduce some lustful ladies and watch temperatures rise in this saucy classic from the Swinging Sixties. A young photographer's assistant, a suicidal loner and a cheeky cab driver all have girls on their mind, so when temptation calls...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Christmas Cracker
This Academy Award®-nominated short consists of three animated segments (by three different directors) that take a playful look at Christmas: a rendition of "Jingle Bells" in which paper cut-out figures dance, a dime-store rodeo of tin toys and a story of decorating the...Watch Movie
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The Black Balloon
While trying to move forty kids six blocks in New York City alone, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. In that bouquet, a lone black balloon scurries free. It dies and comes back to life, returning to the city cruising for a companion. On the...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Some Days are Better Than Others
SOMEDAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS is Matt McCormick's poetic, character-driven debut feature-length film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while...Watch Movie
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Love in the City
Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature LOVE IN THE CITY. The film is divided into six separate episodes. Michelangelo Antonioni's ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, several would-be suicides discuss the reasons for their despair. Dino Risi's...Watch Movie
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Black Sabbath
One of the great horror anthology films and Mario Bava's personal favorite of his works, BLACK SABBATH solidified the director's reputation as Europe's maestro of the macabre. In THE TELEPHONE, a woman is haunted by menacing phone calls from a former lover. THE WURDULAK stars Boris Karloff as a...Watch Movie
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In Another Country
Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in the first English-language film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had" (Village Voice). In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker,...Watch Movie
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Hello Lonesome
With an enchanting mixture of laughter and longing, the worlds of six flawed but captivating individuals weave together as they explore that age-old human desire: to love and be loved. The ensemble cast, featuring Lynn Cohen and Sabrina Llyod, turn in powerful performances sparkling with wit and...Watch Movie
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A Matter of Choice
Five people are soon to find that their lives inextricably entwined for the worse. Two youths have been searching for girls and end up in a fight with a policeman. The policeman falls and is hit by a car driven by Lisa and her secret lover John. When Lisa's husband Charles...Watch Movie
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Café de Flore
CAFÉ DE FLORE is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently...Watch Movie
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Curse of the Stone Hand
A twin-pack of south-of-the-border shudders, this anthology horror flick combines a chiller about a man who joins a gambling club only to find that it's actually a suicide club and a tale about a sadistic child who grows up to lead a life of evil. Sandwiched around these two...Watch Movie
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The Other Woman
THE OTHER WOMAN is four stories centering on adultery committed by four weak-willed husbands and their temptation as personified by four sexy women. Though dated and sexist in its portrayal of women as conniving sexual creatures intent on luring hapless men to their doom, it still manages to be...Watch Movie
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Waxworks
In this rarely seen masterwork of the German Expressionist movement, a trilogy of terror is woven around the wax figures of a carnival sideshow. An idealistic young poet (Wilhelm Dieterle, later to become a Hollywood director) is hired to write stories about the Chamber of Horrors' three most...Watch Movie
