The following is a chronological list of nonlinear narrative films.
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
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] |
Year | Title | Director | Note |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|
1995 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | |
Love Letter | Shunji Iwai | ||
The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | [78][113] |
The film unfolds as a series of interlocking flashbacks, beginning with Rika's first visit to the house and then going back and forth in time to catch its other victims as they walk into its various traps...
The approach keeps viewers involved and guessing, since they have to reconstruct the time frame from clues (a repeated line of dialogue, a prop) provided in each sequence.