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Year	Title	Director	Note
2023	Animal	Sandeep Reddy Vanga
	Mark Antony	Adhik Ravichandran
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	James Gunn
2022	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson
	Thallumaala	Khalid Rahman
	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]
	The Devil All the Time	Antonio Campos	Netflix psychological thriller film
	There Is No Evil	Mohammad Rasoulof	^[3]
	Oh My Kadavule	Ashwath Marimuthu	Indian romantic fantasy film
	One Day We'll Talk About Today	Angga Dwimas Sasongko	Indonesian movie
	Sonic the Hedgehog	Jeff Fowler

Year	Title	Director	Note
2019	Little Women	Greta Gerwig
	Enai Noki Paayum Thota	Gautham Vasudev Menon
	Knives Out	Rian Johnson
	Kaithi	Lokesh Kanagaraj
	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Vince Gilligan	Netflix film with limited theatrical release
	It Chapter Two	Andy Muschietti
	Super Deluxe	Thiagarajan Kumararaja	Tamil movie
	Captain Marvel	Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
2018	Bad Times at the El Royale	Drew Goddard
	You Were Never Really Here	Lynne Ramsay
	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	Ol Parker
	Vada Chennai	Vetrimaran
	Odiyan	V. A. Shrikumar Menon
2017	Jigsaw	The Spierig Brothers
	Arjun Reddy	Sandeep Reddy Vanga
	Vikram Vedha	Pushkar–Gayathri
	Merry-Go-Round	Ihor Podolchak
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	Maanagaram	Lokesh Kanagaraj
2016	Arrival	Denis Villeneuve
	The Truth Beneath	Lee Kyoung-mi
	The Handmaiden	Park Chan-wook
	Jil Jung Juk	Deeraj Vaidy
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
2015	11 Minutes	Jerzy Skolimowski	^[4]
	Steve Jobs	Danny Boyle
	I	Shankar
	Too Late	Dennis Hauck
2014	Comet	Sam Esmail
	The Last Five Years	Richard LaGravenese
	Gone Girl	David Fincher
2013	Oculus	Mike Flanagan
	Delirium	Ihor Podolchak
	Trance	Danny Boyle
Man of Steel	Zack Snyder
2012	Pizza	Karthik Subburaj
	The Dark Knight Rises	Christopher Nolan
	Premium Rush	David Koepp
2011	Aaranya Kaandam	Thiagarajan Kumararaja
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
2010	Blue Valentine	Derek Cianfrance	^[5]
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher

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
2008	Downloading Nancy	Johan Renck	^[13]
	Las Meninas	Ihor Podolchak
	Love Exposure	Sion Sono
	Patti Smith: Dream of Life	Steven Sebring	^[14]
	The Air I Breathe	Lee Ji-ho	hyperlink cinema^[15]
	Speed Racer	The Wachowskis	^[16]
	Hell Ride	Larry Bishop	^[17]
	Brideshead Revisited	Julian Jarrold	^[10]
	Che	Steven Soderbergh	^[18]
	JCVD	Mabrouk El Mechri	^[19]
	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	The Burning Plain	Guillermo Arriaga	^[20]

Year	Title	Director	Note
2007	Into the Wild	Sean Penn	^[21]
	Paranoid Park	Gus Van Sant	^[22]^[23]
	La Môme (La Vie en Rose)	Olivier Dahan	^[24]
	Surf's Up	Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
	Rendition	Gavin Hood	^[25]
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Sidney Lumet	^[26]^[27]
	Atonement	Joe Wright	^[28]
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy	^[29]
	I'm Not There	Todd Haynes	^[30]
	Premonition	Mennan Yapo	^[31]
	The Full Monteverdi	John La Bouchardiere	^[32]
	The Tracey Fragments	Bruce McDonald	^[33]
	Youth Without Youth	Francis Ford Coppola	^[34]
	Things We Lost in the Fire	Susanne Bier	^[35]

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List of nonlinear narrative films

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Year	Title	Director	Note
2006
	The Good Shepherd	Robert De Niro	^[36]
	The Fountain	Darren Aronofsky	^[37]
	The Prestige	Christopher Nolan
	Away from Her	Sarah Polley	^[38]
	Flags of Our Fathers	Clint Eastwood	^[39]
	Glastonbury	Julien Temple	^[40]
	Unknown	Simon Brand
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	^[41]
	Reprise	Joachim Trier	^[42]

Year	Title	Director	Note
2005	Sin City	Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez	hyperlink cinema^[43]
	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan	^[44]^[45]^[46]
	Where the Truth Lies	Atom Egoyan	^[47]
	I Love Your Work	Adam Goldberg	^[48]
	Hoodwinked!	Cory Edwards Todd Edwards Tony Leech
	The Call of Cthulhu	Andrew Leman
	Doom	Andrzej Bartkowiak	^[49]
	Last Days	Gus Van Sant	^[50]
	The Jacket	John Maybury
	Breakfast on Pluto	Neil Jordan
	The Constant Gardener	Fernando Meirelles	^[51]^[52]
	Snuff-Movie	Bernard Rose

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
1999	Peppermint Candy	Lee Chang-dong	reverse chronology^[96]
	Cremaster 2	Matthew Barney	^[74]^[75]

	Charming Billy	Wm. R. Pace	^[97]
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Scott Hicks	^[98]
	Jesus' Son	Alison Maclean	^[70]
	eXistenZ	David Cronenberg
	Time Regained	Raúl Ruiz	^[99]
	Go	Doug Liman	hyperlink cinema^[70]
	The Limey	Steven Soderbergh	^[53]
	The Loss of Sexual Innocence	Mike Figgis	^[70]

Year	Title	Director	Note
1998	Sliding Doors	Peter Howitt	^[100]
	Run Lola Run	Tom Tykwer	^[53]^[78]
	Out of Sight	Steven Soderbergh	^[101]
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	^[60]^[78]
	Firestorm	Dean Semler	^[70]
	Following	Christopher Nolan	^[102]
	New Rose Hotel	Abel Ferrara	^[103]

Year	Title	Director	Note
1997	Lost Highway	David Lynch	^[81]^[82]^[104]
	The Shining	Mick Garris
	Gummo	Harmony Korine	^[105]
	Titanic	James Cameron
	The Ice Storm	Ang Lee	^[78]^[106]
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	^[78]^[107]
	The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald	^[108]
	Cremaster 5	Matthew Barney	^[74]^[75]
	Genealogies of a Crime	Raúl Ruiz	^[109]^[110]^[111]

Year	Title	Director	Note
1996	L'Appartement	Gilles Mimouni	^[58]
	Schizopolis	Steven Soderbergh
	Lone Star	John Sayles	^[112]
	Three Lives and Only One Death	Raúl Ruiz
	The Rich Man's Wife	Amy Holden Jones
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	^[78]
	Pretty Village, Pretty Flame	Srđan Dragojević
	Courage Under Fire	Edward Zwick

Year	Title	Director	Note
1995	Nixon	Oliver Stone
	Love Letter	Shunji Iwai
	The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer	^[78]^[113]

Year	Title	Director	Note
1994	Before the Rain	Milčo Mančevski	^[114]
	Exotica	Atom Egoyan	^[60]

	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis
	Natural Born Killers	Oliver Stone	^[114]
	Sátántangó	Béla Tarr
	Three Colors: Red	Krzysztof Kieślowski	^[115]
Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	hyperlink cinema^[53]^[78]
1993	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	Eric Radomski Bruce Timm
	Calendar	Atom Egoyan
	Smoking/No Smoking	Alain Resnais
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino	^[113]
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Jon Avnet
	Drop Dead Fred	Ate de Jong
	Daughters of the Dust	Julie Dash	^[100]
1990	Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami
	It	Tommy Lee Wallace
	Jacob's Ladder	Adrian Lyne	^[100]
	Singapore Sling	Nikos Nikolaidis

Year	Title	Director	Note
1988	Om-Dar-Ba-Dar	Kamal Swaroop
1987	Siesta	Mary Lambert	^[116]
1987	Nuts	Martin Ritt	^[117]^[118]
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	^[113]
	Tempest	Paul Mazursky
	Sans Soleil	Chris Marker	^[119]
	Pink Floyd – The Wall	Alan Parker
1981	Possession	Andrzej Żuławski
1981	The Beyond	Lucio Fulci
1980	Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg
	In the Shadow of the Sun	Derek Jarman
	Stardust Memories	Woody Allen

Year	Title	Director	Note
1979	More American Graffiti	Bill L. Norton
1978	Interiors	Woody Allen
1977	Annie Hall	Woody Allen
1977	Bhumika	Shyam Benegal	^[120]
1975	Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky
1974	Celine and Julie Go Boating	Jacques Rivette
	The Phantom of Liberty	Luis Buñuel
	F for Fake	Orson Welles	^[121]
1973	La bonne année	Claude Lelouche
	Lisa and the Devil	Mario Bava
	O Lucky Man!	Lindsay Anderson	^[114]
1972	Slaughterhouse-Five	George Roy Hill
	Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky	^[68]
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel	^[114]
1971	200 Motels	Frank Zappa, Tony Palmer
1971	Voldtekt	Anja Breien
1970	Catch-22	Mike Nichols
	The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci
	Zabriskie Point	Michelangelo Antonioni

Year	Title	Director	Note
1969	The Milky Way	Luis Buñuel
1969	Beatrice Cenci	Lucio Fulci
1968	The Color of Pomegranates	Sergei Parajanov
	Petulia	Richard Lester
	Head	Bob Rafelson
1967	Week End	Jean-Luc Godard	^[100]
	Belle de Jour	Luis Buñuel	^[100]
	Point Blank	John Boorman	^[122]
	Two for the Road	Stanley Donen
	The Trip	Roger Corman
	Magical Mystery Tour	Bernard Knowles
1966	Gambit	Ronald Neame
	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo
	Chelsea Girls	Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey	^[100]
	Blowup	Michelangelo Antonioni
	Trans-Europ-Express	Alain Robbe-Grillet
	Persona	Ingmar Bergman
1964	Scorpio Rising	Kenneth Anger
1964	The Outrage	Martin Ritt	^[123]^[124]^[125]
1963	Diamonds of the Night	Jan Němec
	8½	Federico Fellini	^[114]
	This Sporting Life	Lindsay Anderson
	Muriel	Alain Resnais	^[126]
1962	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi
	La Commare Secca	Bernardo Bertolucci
	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean
	La Jetée	Chris Marker	^[119]
	Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi
1961	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	^[114]
1960	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	^[127]
1960	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard

Year	Title	Director	Note
1959	Hiroshima, My Love	Alain Resnais
1958	La vida por delante	Fernando Fernán Gómez
1958	A Movie	Bruce Conner
1956	The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	^[128]
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	^[129]^[130]^[131]

Year	Title	Director	Note
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	^[132]
1924	Sherlock Jr.	Buster Keaton	^[133]
1921	The Phantom Carriage	Victor Sjöström
1921	Destiny	Fritz Lang
1916	Intolerance	D. W. Griffith	^[132]