The following is a chronological list of nonlinear narrative films.
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | Netflix film with limited theatrical release |
Sita Ramam | Hanu Raghavapudi | ||
Iravin Nizhal | R. Parthiban | Single-Shot film | |
Vikram | Lokesh Kanagaraj | ||
Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | ||
2021 | The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | |
Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | ||
Eternals | Chloé Zhao | ||
Sardar Udham | Shoojit Sircar | Indian Film | |
2020 | Friend of the World | Brian Patrick Butler | [1][2] |
One Day We'll Talk About Today | Angga Dwimas Sasongko | Indonesian movie | |
The Devil All the Time | Antonio Campos | Netflix psychological thriller film | |
There Is No Evil | Mohammad Rasoulof | [3] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2009 | 500 Days of Summer | Marc Webb | [6][7][8] |
Across the Hall | Alex Merkin | ||
Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | [9] | |
Shorts | Robert Rodriguez | [10] | |
Watchmen | Zack Snyder | hyperlink cinema[11][12] |
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Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2004 | Alexander | Oliver Stone | [53][54] |
Closer | Mike Nichols | [55] | |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | [53] | |
The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | [56] | |
Haven | Frank E. Flowers | [57] | |
Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | remake based on L'Appartement (1996)[58] | |
Primer | Shane Carruth | [59] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2003 | Kill Bill | Quentin Tarantino | [53] |
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 | [60] | |
21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu | hyperlink cinema[61][62] | |
Elephant | Gus Van Sant | [63] | |
Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | [64][65] | |
Wonderland | James Cox | [66] | |
11:14 | Greg Marcks |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | [67] |
Solaris | Steven Soderbergh | remake based on Solaris (1972)[68] | |
Abandon | Stephen Gaghan | [69] | |
Adaptation. | Spike Jonze | [70] | |
American Gun | Alan Jacobs | [71] | |
Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | reverse chronology[72] | |
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not | Laetitia Colombani | [73] | |
Cremaster 3 | Matthew Barney | [74][75] | |
Ararat | Atom Egoyan | [76] | |
City of God | Fernando Meirelles | [77][78] | |
The Rules of Attraction | Roger Avary | [79] | |
The Hours | Stephen Daldry | [80] | |
Hero | Zhang Yimou | The story of assassins is recollected from varying perspectives and framed by a discussion between the king and an assassin called Nameless. The various chapters are delineated by different colors. |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2001 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | [81][82][83] |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Jill Sprecher | [60] | |
Sex and Lucia | Julio Médem | [84] | |
In Praise of Love | Jean-Luc Godard | [85] | |
Ghosts of Mars | John Carpenter | ||
Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | remake based on Abre los ojos (1997)[83] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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2000 | The Weight of Water | Kathryn Bigelow | [86] |
Ju-on 2 | Takashi Shimizu | ||
Ju-on | Takashi Shimizu | ||
Chaos | Hideo Nakata | [87] | |
The Emperor's New Groove | Mark Dindal | ||
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | [88] | |
Joint Security Area | Park Chan-wook | [89][90] | |
Memento | Christopher Nolan | Two plot lines, simultaneously developing in opposite directions, join in a final scene at the film's conclusion.[53][78][91] | |
Happenstance | Laurent Firode | [92] | |
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 | [93][94] | |
Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | hyperlink cinema[61][77][78] | |
Urbania | Jon Shear | [95] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
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1995 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | |
Love Letter | Shunji Iwai | ||
The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | [78][113] |