# List of nonlinear narrative films

The following is a chronological list of nonlinear narrative films.

## 2020s

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2024 | We Live in Time | John Crowley | |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Shawn Levy | |
| 2024 | Challengers | Luca Guadagnino | |
| 2024 | Orion and the Dark | Sean Charmatz | |
| 2024 | Captain Miller | Arun Matheswaran | |
| 2023 | Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire | Prashanth Neel | |
| 2023 | Animal | Sandeep Reddy Vanga | |
| 2023 | Mark Antony | Adhik Ravichandran | |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | James Gunn | |
| 2023 | Iratta | Rohit M. G. Krishnan | |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | |
| 2022 | Cobra | R. Ajay Gnanamuthu | |
| 2022 | Thallumaala | Khalid Rahman | |
| 2022 | Sita Ramam | Hanu Raghavapudi | |
| 2022 | Iravin Nizhal | R. Parthiban | Single-Shot film |
| 2022 | Vikram | Lokesh Kanagaraj | |
| 2022 | Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | |
| 2022 | Don | Cibi Chakaravarthi | |
| 2022 | Mahaan | Karthik Subbaraj | |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | |
| 2021 | Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes | Kevin Kopacka | |
| 2021 | Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | |
| 2021 | Eternals | Chloé Zhao | |
| 2021 | Sardar Udham | Shoojit Sircar | Indian film |
| 2021 | Quarantine | Diana Ringo | Finnish-Russian film |
| 2020 | Mank | David Fincher | Netflix biographical drama film |
| 2020 | Friend of the World | Brian Patrick Butler | |
| 2020 | The Devil All the Time | Antonio Campos | Netflix psychological thriller film |
| 2020 | There Is No Evil | Mohammad Rasoulof | |
| 2020 | Oh My Kadavule | Ashwath Marimuthu | Dual narrative |
| 2020 | One Day We'll Talk About Today | Angga Dwimas Sasongko | Indonesian film |

## 2010s

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2019 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig | |
| 2019 | Enai Noki Paayum Thota | Gautham Vasudev Menon | |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Rian Johnson | |
| 2019 | Kaithi | Lokesh Kanagaraj | |
| 2019 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Vince Gilligan | Netflix film with limited theatrical release |
| 2019 | It Chapter Two | Andy Muschietti | |
| 2019 | Super Deluxe | Thiagarajan Kumararaja | Tamil movie |
| 2019 | Captain Marvel | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | |
| 2019 | Abigail | Max Hechtman and Christonikos Tsalikis | Short film |
| 2018 | KGF: Chapter 1 | Prashanth Neel | |
| 2018 | Odiyan | V. A. Shrikumar Menon | |
| 2018 | Vada Chennai | Vetrimaaran | |
| 2018 | Bad Times at the El Royale | Drew Goddard | hyperlink cinema |
| 2018 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Ol Parker | |
| 2018 | You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay | |
| 2017 | Jigsaw | The Spierig Brothers | |
| 2017 | Arjun Reddy | Sandeep Reddy Vanga | |
| 2017 | Vikram Vedha | Pushkar–Gayathri | |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | |
| 2017 | Merry-Go-Round | Ihor Podolchak | |
| 2017 | Maanagaram | Lokesh Kanagaraj | hyperlink cinema |
| 2017 | Have a Nice Day | Liu Jian | |
| 2016 | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | |
| 2016 | The Truth Beneath | Lee Kyoung-mi | |
| 2016 | The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook | |
| 2016 | Jil Jung Juk | Deeraj Vaidy | |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino | |
| 2015 | Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka | Sathya Prabhas Pinisetty | |
| 2015 | Too Late | Dennis Hauck | |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | |
| 2015 | 11 Minutes | Jerzy Skolimowski | |
| 2015 | Anegan | K. V. Anand | |
| 2015 | Yennai Arindhaal | Gautham Vasudev Menon | |
| 2015 | I | Shankar | |
| 2014 | The Last Five Years | Richard LaGravenese | |
| 2014 | Comet | Sam Esmail | |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | David Fincher | |
| 2014 | Predestination | The Spierig Brothers | |
| 2013 | Oculus | Mike Flanagan | |
| 2013 | Delirium | Ihor Podolchak | |
| 2013 | Trance | Danny Boyle | |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Zack Snyder | |
| 2012 | Pizza | Karthik Subburaj | |
| 2012 | Premium Rush | David Koepp | |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | |
| 2012 | 3 | Aishwarya Rajinikanth | |
| 2011 | Aaranya Kaandam | Thiagarajan Kumararaja | |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | |
| 2010 | Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance | |
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher | |

## 2000s
### 2009

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2009 | 500 Days of Summer | Marc Webb | |
| 2009 | Across the Hall | Alex Merkin | |
| 2009 | Mr. Nobody | Jaco Van Dormael | |
| 2009 | Shorts | Robert Rodriguez | |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | hyperlink cinema |

### 2008

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2008 | Downloading Nancy | Johan Renck | |
| 2008 | Las Meninas | Ihor Podolchak | |
| 2008 | Love Exposure | Sion Sono | |
| 2008 | Patti Smith: Dream of Life | Steven Sebring | |
| 2008 | The Air I Breathe | Lee Ji-ho | hyperlink cinema |
| 2008 | Speed Racer | The Wachowskis | |
| 2008 | Hell Ride | Larry Bishop | |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Julian Jarrold | |
| 2008 | Che | Steven Soderbergh | |
| 2008 | JCVD | Mabrouk El Mechri | |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | |
| 2008 | The Burning Plain | Guillermo Arriaga | |

### 2007

| Year | Title | Director |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Sean Penn |
| 2007 | Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant |
| 2007 | La Môme (La Vie en Rose) | Olivier Dahan |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Ash Brannon, Chris Buck |
| 2007 | Rendition | Gavin Hood |
| 2007 | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet |
| 2007 | Atonement | Joe Wright |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy |
| 2007 | I'm Not There | Todd Haynes |
| 2007 | Premonition | Mennan Yapo |
| 2007 | The Full Monteverdi | John La Bouchardiere |
| 2007 | The Tracey Fragments | Bruce McDonald |
| 2007 | Youth Without Youth | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2007 | Things We Lost in the Fire | Susanne Bier |

### 2006

| Year | Title | Director |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | The Good Shepherd | Robert De Niro |
| 2006 | The Fountain | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2006 | The Prestige | Christopher Nolan |
| 2006 | Away from Her | Sarah Polley |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood |
| 2006 | Glastonbury | Julien Temple |
| 2006 | Unknown | Simon Brand |
| 2006 | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2006 | Reprise | Joachim Trier |

### 2005

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2005 | Sin City | Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez | hyperlink cinema |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | |
| 2005 | Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan | |
| 2005 | I Love Your Work | Adam Goldberg | |
| 2005 | Hoodwinked! | Cory Edwards Todd Edwards Tony Leech | |
| 2005 | The Call of Cthulhu | Andrew Leman | |
| 2005 | Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | |
| 2005 | Last Days | Gus Van Sant | |
| 2005 | The Jacket | John Maybury | |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | Neil Jordan | |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | |
| 2005 | Snuff-Movie | Bernard Rose | |

### 2004

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2004 | Alexander | Oliver Stone | |
| 2004 | Closer | Mike Nichols | |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | |
| 2004 | The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | |
| 2004 | Haven | Frank E. Flowers | |
| 2004 | Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | remake based on L'Appartement (1996) |
| 2004 | Primer | Shane Carruth | |

### 2003

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2003 | Kill Bill | Quentin Tarantino | |
| 2003 | Ju-on: The Grudge 2 | Takashi Shimizu | remake based on Ju-on 2 (2000) |
| 2003 | Ju-on: The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | remake based on Ju-on (2000) |
| 2003 | Identity | James Mangold | |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu | hyperlink cinema |
| 2003 | Elephant | Gus Van Sant | |
| 2003 | Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | |
| 2003 | Wonderland | James Cox | |
| 2003 | 11:14 | Greg Marcks | |

### 2002

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | |
| 2002 | Solaris | Steven Soderbergh | remake based on Solaris (1972) |
| 2002 | Abandon | Stephen Gaghan | |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Spike Jonze | |
| 2002 | American Gun | Alan Jacobs | |
| 2002 | Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | reverse chronology |
| 2002 | He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not | Laetitia Colombani | |
| 2002 | Cremaster 3 | Matthew Barney | |
| 2002 | Ararat | Atom Egoyan | |
| 2002 | City of God | Fernando Meirelles | |
| 2002 | The Rules of Attraction | Roger Avary | |
| 2002 | The Hours | Stephen Daldry | |
| 2002 | 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. |

### 2001

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | |
| 2001 | Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Jill Sprecher | |
| 2001 | Sex and Lucia | Julio Médem | |
| 2001 | In Praise of Love | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 2001 | Ghosts of Mars | John Carpenter | |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | remake based on Abre los ojos (1997) |

### 2000

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 2000 | The Weight of Water | Kathryn Bigelow | |
| 2000 | Ju-on 2 | Takashi Shimizu | |
| 2000 | Ju-on | Takashi Shimizu | |
| 2000 | Chaos | Hideo Nakata | |
| 2000 | The Emperor's New Groove | Mark Dindal | |
| 2000 | In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | |
| 2000 | Joint Security Area | Park Chan-wook | |
| 2000 | Memento | Christopher Nolan | Two plot lines, simultaneously developing in opposite directions, join in a final scene at the film's conclusion. |
| 2000 | Happenstance | Laurent Firode | |
| 2000 | 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. |
| 2000 | Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors | Hong Sang-soo | |
| 2000 | Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | hyperlink cinema |
| 2000 | Urbania | Jon Shear | |

## 1990s
### 1999

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 1999 | Peppermint Candy | Lee Chang-dong | reverse chronology |
| 1999 | Cremaster 2 | Matthew Barney | |
| 1999 | Charming Billy | Wm. R. Pace | |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Scott Hicks | |
| 1999 | Jesus' Son | Alison Maclean | |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | David Cronenberg | |
| 1999 | Time Regained | Raúl Ruiz | |
| 1999 | Go | Doug Liman | hyperlink cinema |
| 1999 | The Limey | Steven Soderbergh | |
| 1999 | The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Mike Figgis | |

### 1998

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1998 | Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt |
| 1998 | Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer |
| 1998 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick |
| 1998 | Firestorm | Dean Semler |
| 1998 | Following | Christopher Nolan |
| 1998 | New Rose Hotel | Abel Ferrara |

### 1997

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1997 | Lost Highway | David Lynch |
| 1997 | The Shining | Mick Garris |
| 1997 | Gummo | Harmony Korine |
| 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1997 | The Ice Storm | Ang Lee |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan |
| 1997 | The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald |
| 1997 | Cremaster 5 | Matthew Barney |
| 1997 | Genealogies of a Crime | Raúl Ruiz |

### 1996

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1996 | L'Appartement | Gilles Mimouni |
| 1996 | Schizopolis | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1996 | Lone Star | John Sayles |
| 1996 | Three Lives and Only One Death | Raúl Ruiz |
| 1996 | The Rich Man's Wife | Amy Holden Jones |
| 1996 | The English Patient | Anthony Minghella |
| 1996 | Pretty Village, Pretty Flame | Srđan Dragojević |
| 1996 | Courage Under Fire | Edward Zwick |

### 1995

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1995 | Nixon | Oliver Stone |
| 1995 | Love Letter | Shunji Iwai |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer |

### 1990–1994

| Year | Title | Director | Note |
| 1994 | Before the Rain | Milčo Mančevski | |
| 1994 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | |
| 1994 | Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | |
| 1994 | Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | |
| 1994 | Three Colors: Red | Krzysztof Kieślowski | |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | hyperlink cinema |
| 1993 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Eric Radomski Bruce Timm |
| 1993 | Calendar | Atom Egoyan |
| 1993 | Smoking/No Smoking | Alain Resnais | |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | |
| 1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | |
| 1991 | Drop Dead Fred | Ate de Jong | |
| 1991 | Daughters of the Dust | Julie Dash | |
| 1990 | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | |
| 1990 | It | Tommy Lee Wallace | |
| 1990 | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | |
| 1990 | Singapore Sling | Nikos Nikolaidis | |

## 1980s

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1988 | Om-Dar-Ba-Dar | Kamal Swaroop |
| 1987 | Siesta | Mary Lambert |
| 1987 | Nuts | Martin Ritt |
| 1986 | Street of Crocodiles | Quay brothers |
| 1985 | Return to Waterloo | Ray Davies |
| 1984 | Broadway Danny Rose | Woody Allen |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone |
| 1982 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | Taviani brothers |
| 1982 | Tempest | Paul Mazursky |
| 1982 | Sans Soleil | Chris Marker |
| 1982 | Pink Floyd – The Wall | Alan Parker |
| 1981 | Possession | Andrzej Żuławski |
| 1981 | The Beyond | Lucio Fulci |
| 1980 | Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg |
| 1980 | In the Shadow of the Sun | Derek Jarman |
| 1980 | Stardust Memories | Woody Allen |

## 1970s

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1979 | More American Graffiti | Bill L. Norton |
| 1978 | Interiors | Woody Allen |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
| 1977 | Bhumika | Shyam Benegal |
| 1975 | Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1974 | Celine and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette |
| 1974 | The Phantom of Liberty | Luis Buñuel |
| 1974 | F for Fake | Orson Welles |
| 1973 | La bonne année | Claude Lelouche |
| 1973 | Lisa and the Devil | Mario Bava |
| 1973 | O Lucky Man! | Lindsay Anderson |
| 1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill |
| 1972 | Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1972 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel |
| 1971 | 200 Motels | Frank Zappa, Tony Palmer |
| 1971 | Voldtekt | Anja Breien |
| 1970 | Catch-22 | Mike Nichols |
| 1970 | The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1970 | Zabriskie Point | Michelangelo Antonioni |

## 1960s

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1969 | The Milky Way | Luis Buñuel |
| 1969 | Beatrice Cenci | Lucio Fulci |
| 1968 | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov |
| 1968 | Petulia | Richard Lester |
| 1968 | Head | Bob Rafelson |
| 1967 | Week End | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1967 | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel |
| 1967 | Point Blank | John Boorman |
| 1967 | Two for the Road | Stanley Donen |
| 1967 | The Trip | Roger Corman |
| 1967 | Magical Mystery Tour | Bernard Knowles |
| 1966 | Gambit | Ronald Neame |
| 1966 | The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| 1966 | Chelsea Girls | Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey |
| 1966 | Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 1966 | Trans-Europ-Express | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| 1966 | Persona | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1964 | Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger |
| 1964 | The Outrage | Martin Ritt |
| 1963 | Diamonds of the Night | Jan Němec |
| 1963 | 8½ | Federico Fellini |
| 1963 | This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson |
| 1963 | Muriel | Alain Resnais |
| 1962 | Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 1962 | La Commare Secca | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean |
| 1962 | La Jetée | Chris Marker |
| 1962 | Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi |
| 1961 | Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais |
| 1960 | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini |
| 1960 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard |

## 1950s

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1959 | Hiroshima, My Love | Alain Resnais |
| 1958 | La vida por delante | Fernando Fernán Gómez |
| 1958 | A Movie | Bruce Conner |
| 1956 | The Killing | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1955 | Lola Montès | Max Ophüls |
| 1954 | Andha Naal | S. Balachander |
| 1953 | A Japanese Tragedy | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 1952 | The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1950 | Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa |

## 1910s – 1940s

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1947 | Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1947 | Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1946 | The Locket | John Brahm |
| 1946 | The Killers | Robert Siodmak |
| 1945 | Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz |
| 1944 | The Great Moment | Preston Sturges| |
| 1945 | Brief Encounter | David Lean |
| 1945 | The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder |
| 1944 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder |
| 1944 | Laura | Otto Preminger |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1936 | Show Boat | James Whale |
| 1933 | The Power and the Glory | William K. Howard |
| 1927 | Napoléon | Abel Gance |
| 1924 | Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton |
| 1921 | The Phantom Carriage | Victor Sjöström |
| 1921 | Destiny | Fritz Lang |
| 1916 | Intolerance | D. W. Griffith |