The following is a chronological list of nonlinear narrative films.
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2013 | Trance | Danny Boyle | |
2012 | Jab Tak Hai Jaan | Yash Chopra | [1] |
2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright | [2] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2009 | (500) Days of Summer | Marc Webb | [3][4][5] |
Across the Hall | Alex Merkin | ||
Downloading Nancy | Johan Renck | [6] | |
Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | [7] | |
Shorts | Robert Rodriguez | [8] | |
Watchmen | Zack Snyder | hyperlink cinema[9][10] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2004 | Alexander | Oliver Stone | [54][55] |
Closer | Mike Nichols | [56] | |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | [54] | |
The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | [57] | |
Haven | Frank E. Flowers | [58] | |
Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | remake based on L'Appartement (1996)[59] | |
Primer | Shane Carruth | [60] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2003 | Kill Bill | Quentin Tarantino | [54] |
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 | Takashi Shimizu | remake based on Ju-on 2 (2000) | |
Ju-on: The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | remake based on Ju-on (2000) | |
Identity | James Mangold | [61] | |
21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu | hyperlink cinema[62][63] | |
Elephant | Gus Van Sant | [64] | |
Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | [65][66] | |
Wonderland | James Cox | [67] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | [68] |
Solaris | Steven Soderbergh | remake based on Solaris (1972)[69] | |
Abandon | Stephen Gaghan | [70] | |
Adaptation. | Spike Jonze | [71] | |
American Gun | Alan Jacobs | [72] | |
Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | reverse chronology[73] | |
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not | Laetitia Colombani | [74] | |
Cremaster 3 | Matthew Barney | [75][76] | |
Ararat | Atom Egoyan | [77] | |
City of God | Fernando Meirelles | [78][79] | |
The Rules of Attraction | Roger Avary | [80] | |
The Hours | Stephen Daldry | [81] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2001 | Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | [33][34][82] |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Jill Sprecher | [61] | |
Sex and Lucia | Julio Médem | [83] | |
In Praise of Love | Jean-Luc Godard | [84] | |
Ghosts of Mars | John Carpenter | ||
Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | remake based on Abre los ojos (1997)[82] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
2000 | The Weight of Water | Kathryn Bigelow | [85] |
Ju-on 2 | Takashi Shimizu | ||
Ju-on | Takashi Shimizu | ||
Chaos | Hideo Nakata | [86] | |
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | [87] | |
Joint Security Area | Park Chan-wook | [88][89] | |
Memento | Christopher Nolan | Two plot lines, simultaneously developing in opposite directions, join in a final scene at the film's conclusion.[54][79][90] | |
Happenstance | Laurent Firode | [91] | |
Pay It Forward | Mimi Leder | The main plot, involving Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment, moves forward in time; while in the subplot, investigative journalist Chandler (Jay Mohr) tracks the altruism movement backward in time. | |
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors | Hong Sang-soo | [92][93] | |
Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | hyperlink cinema[62][78][79] | |
Urbania | Jon Shear | [94] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
1996 | L'Appartement | Gilles Mimouni | [59] |
Schizopolis | Steven Soderbergh | ||
Lone Star | John Sayles | [110] | |
Three Lives and Only One Death | Raúl Ruiz | ||
The Rich Man's Wife | Amy Holden Jones | ||
The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | [79] | |
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame | Srđan Dragojević |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
1995 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | |
Love Letter | Shunji Iwai | ||
The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | [79][111] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
1959 | Hiroshima, My Love | Alain Resnais | |
1958 | A Movie | Bruce Conner | |
1956 | The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | [121] |
1951 | Duck Amuck | Chuck Jones | |
1950 | Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | [122][123][124] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
1942 | Listen to Britain | Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister |
short film[112] |
1941 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | [79][125] |
1936 | Show Boat | James Whale | |
1930 | L'Age d'Or | Luis Buñuel | |
1929 | Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | surrealist short film[61] |
1927 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | [126] |
1926 | A Page of Madness | Teinosuke Kinugasa | |
1924 | Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | [127] |
1922 | Häxan | Benjamin Christensen | |
1916 | Intolerance | D. W. Griffith | [126] |