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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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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Poison
The second feature directed by Todd Haynes, POISON is a groundbreaking American independent film and was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s as well as a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes' spectacular follow-up to his legendary SUPERSTAR:...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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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,...Watch Movie
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Camp Hollywood
CAMP HOLLYWOOD, a feature documentary about the residents of a legendary Hollywood hotel. Seen through the eyes of a Canadian comic who's come out to L.A. for the first time, CAMP HOLLYWOOD is an intimate portrait of the actors, musicians and other transients he meets during his two-month stay.Watch Movie
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Junk Food
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down...Watch Movie
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Jellyfish
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the...Watch Movie
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Open
The first American film to ever win the Teddy Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, OPEN weaves together tales of a young hermaphrodite's journey through the largest mall in America, a couple mending themselves into one entity through plastic surgery, and the effects of hormone use on sex,...Watch Movie
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Magical Girl
An unemployed father seeking a gift for his dying daughter, a disturbed woman with a dark past, and a math teacher turned criminal find their fates bound together in this bracing thriller from Spanish director Carlos Vermut. When his young daughter is diagnosed with terminal leukemia, Luis...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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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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Yes, We Love
Ten-year-old Birger hates marching with the boys' brigade. War hero Konrad refuses to listen to another sumptuous Constitution Day speech. Graduation queen Carina just cannot believe Morten isn't interested in her. And father-of-two Ola searches for his 'self' in a hunting lodge in arctic Svalbard.Watch Movie
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Seven comic episodes adapted from one of the most read books in the world, the Bible. Each episode highlights one of the seven deadly sins and a hilarious comeuppance for the sinner. This comic portmanteau stars the cream of British talent and is written by one of Britain's...Watch Movie
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Crush
CRUSH is an anthology of four stories that examine the many feelings of longing and love. In DON'T ASK, a devoted couple is forced to confront their feelings regarding love and war when one of them begins to question his military service. The obsessions of an eager teenager lead him into the arms...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Local Color
A young artist seeks inspiration from an older man (and freedom from his own father) in this wise and warm coming-of-age tale, one infused with a love for impressionist art and loosely based on director/screenwriter/artist George Gallo's own life. The quiet, dreamy John would rather visit museums...Watch Movie
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The River
Critically acclaimed THE RIVER flows between a dozen diverse, well-etched characters in a small Finnish town, including a clandestine gay couple, a factory worker and his adulturious wife and a suicidal young mother. It is a rich and insightful look at ordinary lives unfolding over the short time...Watch Movie
