Anthology film

An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme, premise, or author. Sometimes each one is directed by a different director or written by a different author, or may even have been made at different times or in different countries. Anthology films are distinguished from "revue films" such as Paramount on Parade (1930)—which were common in Hollywood in the early decades of sound film, composite films, and compilation films.

Anthology films are often mistaken with hyperlink cinema. Hyperlink cinema shows parts of many stories throughout a film, whereas anthology films show story segments of one at a time. Some mistaken examples include Pulp Fiction (1994) and Amores Perros (2000), distributing their storylines non-chronologically, separated by segments.

Examples

• Intolerance (1916)
• If I Had a Million (1932)
• Fantasia (1940)
• Tales of Manhattan (1942)
• Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• L'Amore (1948)
• Quartet (1948)
• Trio (1950)
• Encore (1951)
• O. Henry's Full House (1952)
• Actors and Sin (1952)
• Love in the City (1953)
• Siamo donne (1953)
• Invitation to the Dance (1956)
• Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
• Boccaccio '70 (1962)
• Love at Twenty (1962)
• Mondo Cane (1962)
• Black Sabbath (1963)
• The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1963)
• Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
• Countersex (1964)
• My Wife (1964)
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965)
• Le bambole (1965)
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
• Six in Paris (1965)
• 4x4 (1965)
• Sex Quartet (1966)
• The Witches (1967)
• The Illustrated Man (1968)
• Spirits of the Dead (1968)
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
• From Beyond the Grave (1974)
• Trilogy of Terror (1975)
• It Can't Be! (1975)
• Germany in Autumn (1978)
• Heavy Metal (1981)
• The Monster Club (1981)
• Creepshow (1982)
• The Adventures of Monica and Friends (1982)
• Nightmares (1983)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Kaos (1984)
• The Company of Wolves (1984)
• Shake, Rattle & Roll series (1984–present)
• Cat's Eye (1985)
• The New Adventures of Monica and Friends (1986)
• Aria (1987)
• Creepshow 2 (1987)
• Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)
• New York Stories (1989)
• Mystery Train (1989)
• Dreams (1990)
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
• Montreal Stories (1991)
• Night on Earth (1991)
• Necronomicon (1993)
• Twenty Bucks (1993)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
• Tales from the Hood (1995)
• Cosmos (1996)
• Troublesome Night series (1997–2017)
• The Red Violin (1998)
• The Animatrix (2003)
• Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
• Eros (2004)
• Cine Gibi: O Filme (2004)
• Sin City (2005)
• Hood of Horror (2006)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006)
• Wag Kang Lilingon (2006)
• Kerala Cafe (2009)
• Cinco (2010)
• Please Do Not Disturb (2010)
• The Road (2011)
• 24/7 in Love (2012)
• V/H/S (2012)
• All Hallows' Eve (2013)
• 5 Sundarikal (2013)
• Tuhog (2013)
• V/H/S/2 (2013)
• V/H/S: Viral (2014)
• Wild Tales (2014)
• A Gift (2016)
• Solo (2017)
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
• Lust Stories (2018)
• Kathasangama (2019)
• Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020)
• Aanum Pennum (2021)
• Ajeeb Daastaans (2021)
• V/H/S/94 (2021)
• The French Dispatch (2021)
• V/H/S/99 (2022)
• The House (2022)
• We Are Still Here (2022)
• V/H/S/85 (2023)
• Lust Stories 2 (2023)
• Kinds of Kindness (2024)
• V/H/S/Beyond (2024)

See also

• Anthology series
• Frame story
• List of animated package films
• List of horror anthology films