Ananthology film (also known as anomnibus film,package film orportmanteau film) is a single film consisting of three or more 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 differentdirector 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 asParamount on Parade (1930)—which were common in Hollywood in the early decades ofsound film,composite films, andcompilation films.
Anthology films are often mistaken withhyperlink 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 includePulp Fiction (1994) andAmores Perros (2000), distributing their storylines non-chronologically, separated by segments.
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