List of nonlinear narrative films

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The following is a chronological '''list of [[nonlinear narrative]] films'''.

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== 2010s ==
===2012===
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! rowspan="" | [[2012 in film|2012]]
| ''[[Ee Adutha Kalathu]]''
| Arun Kumar
| hyperlink cinema "
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|}
===2011===
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! rowspan="2" | [[2011 in film|2011]]
| ''[[Bombay March 12]]''
| Babu Janardhanan
| "
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| ''[[Traffic (2011 film)| Traffic]]''
| Rajesh Pillai
| hyperlink cinema "
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|}
===2010===
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| rowspan="" | [[2010 in film|2010]]
| ''[[The Social Network]]''
| [[David Fincher]]
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|}

== 2000s ==
=== 2009 ===
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="6" | [[2009 in film|2009]]
| ''[[(500) Days of Summer]]''
| [[Marc Webb]]
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| ''[[Across the Hall (2009 film)|Across the Hall]]''
| Alex Merkin
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| ''[[Downloading Nancy]]''
| [[Johan Renck]]
|
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| ''[[Mr. Nobody (film)|Mr. Nobody]]''
| [[Jaco Van Dormael]]
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| ''[[Shorts (film)|Shorts]]''
| [[Robert Rodriguez]]
|
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| ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''
| [[Zack Snyder]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]
|}

=== 2008 ===
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="10" | [[2008 in film|2008]]
| ''[[Patti Smith: Dream of Life]]''
| [[Steven Sebring]]
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|-
| ''[[The Air I Breathe]]''
| [[Jieho Lee|Lee Ji-ho]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]
|-
| ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]''
| [[The Wachowskis|Wachowski brothers]]
|
|-
| ''[[Hell Ride]]''
| [[Larry Bishop]]
|
|-
| ''[[Brideshead Revisited (film)|Brideshead Revisited]]''
| [[Julian Jarrold]]
|
|-
| ''[[Che (film)|Che]]''
| [[Steven Soderbergh]]
|
|-
| ''[[JCVD]]''
| [[Mabrouk El Mechri]]
|
|-
| ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]''
| [[Danny Boyle]]
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|-
| ''[[Lust for Vengeance]]''
| [[Sean Weathers]]
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|-
| ''[[The Burning Plain]]''
| [[Guillermo Arriaga]]
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|}

=== 2007 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="12" | [[2007 in film|2007]]
| ''[[Into the Wild (film)|Into the Wild]]''
| [[Sean Penn]]
|
|-
| ''[[Paranoid Park (film)|Paranoid Park]]''
| [[Gus Van Sant]]
|
|-
| ''[[La Vie en rose (film)|La Môme]]'' (''La Vie en Rose'')
| [[Olivier Dahan]]
|
|-
| ''[[Rendition (film)|Rendition]]''
| [[Gavin Hood]]
|
|-
| ''[[Before the Devil Knows You're Dead]]''
| [[Sidney Lumet]]
|
|-
| ''[[Atonement (film)|Atonement]]''
| [[Joe Wright]]
|
|-
| ''[[Michael Clayton (film)|Michael Clayton]]''
| [[Tony Gilroy]]
|
|-
| ''[[I'm Not There]]''
| [[Todd Haynes]]
|
|-
| ''[[Premonition (2007 film)|Premonition]]''
| [[Mennan Yapo]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Tracey Fragments (film)|The Tracey Fragments]]''
| [[Bruce McDonald (film director)|Bruce McDonald]]
|
|-
| ''[[Youth Without Youth (film)|Youth Without Youth]]''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
|
|-
| ''[[Things We Lost in the Fire]]''
| [[Susanne Bier]]
|
|}

=== 2006 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="10" | [[2006 in film|2006]]
| ''[[Inland Empire (film)|Inland Empire]]''
| [[David Lynch]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Prestige (film)|The Prestige]]''
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]''
| [[Robert De Niro]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Fountain]]''
| [[Darren Aronofsky]]
|
|-
| ''[[Away from Her]]''
| [[Sarah Polley]]
|
|-
| ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]''
| [[Clint Eastwood]]
|
|-
| ''[[Glastonbury (film)|Glastonbury]]''
| [[Julien Temple]]
|
|-
| ''[[Unknown (2006 film)|Unknown]]''
| [[Simon Brand]]
|
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| ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]''
| [[Guillermo del Toro]]
|
|-
| ''[[Reprise (film)|Reprise]]''
| [[Joachim Trier]]
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|}

=== 2005 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="11" | [[2005 in film|2005]]
| ''[[Sin City (film)|Sin City]]''
| [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]],<br />[[Robert Rodriguez]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]
|-
| ''[[Batman Begins]]''
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
|
|-
| ''[[Where the Truth Lies]]''
| [[Atom Egoyan]]
|
|-
| ''[[I Love Your Work]]''
| [[Adam Goldberg]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Call of Cthulhu (film)|The Call of Cthulhu]]''
| [[Andrew Leman]]
|
|-
| ''[[Doom (film)|Doom]]''
| [[Andrzej Bartkowiak]]
|
|-
| ''[[Last Days (film)|Last Days]]''
| [[Gus Van Sant]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Jacket]]''
| [[John Maybury]]
|
|-
| ''[[Breakfast on Pluto (film)|Breakfast on Pluto]]''
| [[Neil Jordan]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Constant Gardener (film)|The Constant Gardener]]''
| [[Fernando Meirelles]]
|
|-
| ''[[Snuff-Movie (film)|Snuff-Movie]]''
| [[Bernard Rose (director)|Bernard Rose]]
|
|}

=== 2004 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="7" | [[2004 in film|2004]]
| ''[[Alexander (film)|Alexander]]''
| [[Oliver Stone]]
|
|-
| ''[[Closer (film)|Closer]]''
| [[Mike Nichols]]
|
|-
| ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]''
| [[Michel Gondry]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Grudge]]''
| [[Takashi Shimizu]]
|-
| ''[[Haven (film)|Haven]]''
| [[Frank E. Flowers]]
|
|-
| ''[[Wicker Park (film)|Wicker Park]]''
| [[Paul McGuigan (filmmaker)|Paul McGuigan]]
| remake based on ''[[L'Appartement]]'' (1996)
|-
| ''[[November (film)|November]]''
| [[Greg Harrison]]
|
|}

=== 2003 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="8" | [[2003 in film|2003]]
| ''[[Kill Bill]]''
| [[Quentin Tarantino]]
|
|-
| ''[[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 (film)|Ju-on]]'' (2000)
|-
| ''[[Identity (film)|Identity]]''
| [[James Mangold]]
|
|-
| ''[[21 Grams]]''
| [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]
|-
| ''[[Elephant (2003 film)|Elephant]]''
| [[Gus Van Sant]]
|
|-
| ''[[Oldboy]]''
| [[Park Chan-wook]]
|
|-
| ''[[Wonderland (2003 film)|Wonderland]]''
| James Cox
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|}

=== 2002 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
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! rowspan="12" | [[2002 in film|2002]]
| ''[[Confessions of a Dangerous Mind]]''
| [[George Clooney]]
|
|-
| ''[[Solaris (2002 film)|Solaris]]''
| [[Steven Soderbergh]]
| remake based on ''[[Solaris (1972 film)|Solaris]]'' (1972)
|-
| ''[[Abandon (2002 film)|Abandon]]''
| [[Stephen Gaghan]]
|
|-
| ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation.]]''
| [[Spike Jonze]]
|
|-
| ''[[American Gun (2002 film)|American Gun]]''
| Alan Jacobs
|
|-
| ''[[Irréversible]]''
| [[Gaspar Noé]]
| [[reverse chronology]]
|-
| ''[[He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (film)|He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not]]''
| Laetitia Colombani
|
|-
| ''[[Cremaster 3]]''
| [[Matthew Barney]]
|
|-
| ''[[Ararat (film)|Ararat]]''
| [[Atom Egoyan]]
|
|-
| ''[[City of God (2002 film)|City of God]]''
| [[Fernando Meirelles]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Rules of Attraction (film)|The Rules of Attraction]]''
| [[Roger Avary]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]''
| [[Stephen Daldry]]
|
|}

=== 2001 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="6" | [[2001 in film|2001]]
| ''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Dr.]]''
| [[David Lynch]]
|
|-
| ''[[Thirteen Conversations About One Thing]]''
| [[Jill Sprecher]]
|
|-
| ''[[Sex and Lucia]]''
| [[Julio Médem]]
|
|-
| ''[[In Praise of Love (film)|In Praise of Love]]''
| [[Jean-Luc Godard]]
|
|-
| ''[[Ghosts of Mars]]''
| [[John Carpenter]]
|
|-
| ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''
| [[Cameron Crowe]]
| remake based on ''[[Abre los ojos]]'' (1997)<ref name="Dundjerovic" />
|}

=== 2000 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="11" | [[2000 in film|2000]]
| ''[[The Weight of Water (film)|The Weight of Water]]''
| [[Kathryn Bigelow]]
|<ref>[[Emanuel Levy|Levy, Emanuel]]. (2000-09-11). "[http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117788058 Film Review: ''In The Weight of Water'']". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
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| ''[[Ju-on 2]]''
| [[Takashi Shimizu]]
|
|-
| ''[[Ju-on (film)|Ju-on]]''
| [[Takashi Shimizu]]
|
|-
| ''[[Chaos (2000 film)|Chaos]]''
| [[Hideo Nakata]]
|<ref>McKay, Brian. (2004-04-04). "[http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=8709&reviewer=258 Movie Review: ''Chaos'']". ''eFilmCritic''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
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| ''[[In the Mood for Love]]''
| [[Wong Kar-wai]]
|<ref>[[Amy Taubin|Taubin, Amy]]. (2000-11). "[http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/401 Review: ''In the Mood for Love'']". ''[[Sight & Sound]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Joint Security Area (film)|Joint Security Area]]''
| [[Park Chan-wook]]
|<ref>McAllister, Matt. (2005-05-21). "[http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=342 Film Review: ''Joint Security Area'']". ''Future Movies''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref><ref>[[A. O. Scott|Scott, A. O.]] (2005-06-15). "[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/movies/15join.html?_r=1&ex=1150430400 Movie Review: ''Joint Security Area'']". ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]''
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
| [[reverse chronology]]<ref name="Garfinkel" /><ref name="aronson" /><ref>(2000-11). "[http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/441 Film of the Month: ''Memento'']". ''[[Sight & Sound]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Happenstance (film)|Happenstance]]''
| Laurent Firode
|<ref>Simels, Steve. (2001-11-01). "[http://movies.tvguide.com/happenstance/review/135438 Review: ''Happenstance'']". ''[[TV Guide]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
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| ''[[Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors]]''
| [[Hong Sang-soo]]
|<ref>Armsted, Christopher. "[http://www.filmcriticsunited.com/virginstrippedbare.html Review: ''Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors'']". Film Critics United (FCU). Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref><ref>(2001-05-16). "[http://www.seattleweekly.com/2001-05-16/film/the-films-t-z/4 The Films: T-Z]". ''[[Seattle Weekly]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Amores perros]]''
| [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]<ref name="ebert babel" /><ref name="ebert cape" /><ref name="aronson" />
|-
| ''[[Urbania (film)|Urbania]]''
| Jon Shear
|<ref>Oke, Erin. (2000-11). "[http://www.exclaim.ca/Reviews/Film/urbania-jon_shear Film Review: ''Urbania'']". ''[[Exclaim!]]''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|}

== 1990s ==
=== 1999 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="11" | [[1999 in film|1999]]
| ''[[Peppermint Candy]]''
| [[Lee Chang-dong]]
| [[reverse chronology]]<ref>Ankeny, Jason. (2000-10-11). "[http://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/1306 Review: ''Peppermint Candy'']". ''[[Film Threat]]''. Retrieved on January 8, 2011.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Cremaster 2]]''
| [[Matthew Barney]]
|<ref name="Habich" /><ref name="Stamm" />
|-
|-
| ''[[Charming Billy]]''
| [[Wm. R. Pace]]
|<ref>http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/charming_billy/</ref>
|-
| ''[[Snow Falling on Cedars (film)|Snow Falling on Cedars]]''
| [[Scott Hicks]]
|<ref>Arnold, William. (2000-01-07). "[http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/snowq.shtml ''Snow Falling on Cedars'': Sumptuous film lacks book's depth]". ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''. Retrieved on February 4, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Jesus' Son]]''
| [[Alison Maclean]]
|<ref name="TLA" />
|-
| ''[[eXistenZ]]''
| [[David Cronenberg]]
|
|-
| ''[[Time Regained (film)|Time Regained]]''
| [[Raúl Ruiz]]
|<ref>http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/time_regained</ref>
|-
| ''[[Go (1999 film)|Go]]''
| [[Doug Liman]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]<ref name="TLA" />
|-
| ''[[The Limey]]''
| [[Steven Soderbergh]]
|<ref name="Garfinkel" />
|-
| ''[[Magnolia (film)|Magnolia]]''
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]<ref name="Dancyger Rush" /><ref name="aronson" />
|-
| ''[[The Loss of Sexual Innocence]]''
| [[Mike Figgis]]
|<ref name="TLA" />
|-
|}

=== 1998 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="8" | [[1998 in film|1998]]
| ''[[Sliding Doors]]''
| [[Peter Howitt]]
|<ref name="Dethridge">Dethridge, Lisa. (2003). ''Writing Your Screenplay''. Allen & Unwin. pp. 114-117. ISBN 1-74114-083-8.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Run Lola Run]]''
| [[Tom Tykwer]]
|<ref name="Garfinkel" /><ref name="aronson" />
|-
| ''[[Out of Sight]]''
| [[Steven Soderbergh]]
|<ref>King, Geoff. (2005). ''American Independent Cinema''. I.B.Tauris. p. 262. ISBN 1-85043-937-0.</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]''
| [[Terrence Malick]]
|<ref name="Dancyger Rush" /><ref name="aronson" />
|-
| ''[[Firestorm (film)|Firestorm]]''
| [[Dean Semler]]
|<ref name="TLA" />
|-
| ''[[Following]]''
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
|<ref name="Nelmes" />
|-
| ''[[Happiness (1998 film)|Happiness]]''
| [[Todd Solondz]]
|<ref name="Global">[[Ken Dancyger|Dancyger, Ken]]. (2001). ''Global Scriptwriting''. [[Focal Press]]. ISBN 0-240-80369-8.</ref>
|-
| ''[[New Rose Hotel (film)|New Rose Hotel]]''
| [[Abel Ferrara]]
|<ref>[[Christopher Null|Null, Christopher]]. (2002-08-12). "[http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/1998/new-rose-hotel Movie Review: ''New Rose Hotel'']". [[Filmcritic.com]]. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|}

=== 1997 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="7" | [[1997 in film|1997]]
| ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]''
| [[David Lynch]]
|<ref name="egs lynch" /><ref name="reverse lynch" /><ref>Johnson, Jeff. (2004). ''Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch''. McFarland. p. 131. ISBN 0-7864-1753-6.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Gummo]]''
| [[Harmony Korine]]
|<ref>Levy, Emanuel. (1997-09-14). "[http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117329547.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 Review: ''Gummo'']". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. Retrieved on February 2, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Ice Storm (film)|The Ice Storm]]''
| [[Ang Lee]]
|<ref name="aronson" /><ref name="Global" />
|-
| ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]''
| [[Atom Egoyan]]
|<ref name="aronson" /><ref>Poyntz, Stuart & Blake, Dan. "[http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/education/pdfs/sweet.pdf Film Study Guides Program: ''The Sweet Hereafter'']". [[Pacific Cinémathèque]]. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Hanging Garden (film)|The Hanging Garden]]''
| [[Thom Fitzgerald]]
|<ref>Garcia, Maria. (2007). "[http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000698277 ''The Hanging Garden'']". ''[[Film Journal International]]''. Retrieved on February 4, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Cremaster 5]]''
| [[Matthew Barney]]
|<ref name="Habich" /><ref name="Stamm" />
|-
| ''[[Genealogies of a Crime]]''
| [[Raúl Ruiz]]
|<ref>Shulgasser, Barbara. (1998-08-28). "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/08/28/WEEKEND11876.dtl 'Genealogies' is just a tad mad]". ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' / [[Hearst Corporation]]. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref><ref>Schwartz, Dennis. (2004-06-05). "[http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/genealogies.htm Incomprehensible puzzler]". ''Ozus<nowiki>'</nowiki> World Movie Reviews''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref><ref>Anderson, Jeffrey M. (2006-05-26). "[http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/archive/genecrim.shtml Film Review: ''Genealogies of a Crime'']". ''Combustible Celluloid''. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|}

=== 1996 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="6" | [[1996 in film|1996]]
| ''[[L'Appartement]]''
| [[Gilles Mimouni]]
|<ref name="Wicker Park" />
|-
| ''[[Schizopolis]]''
| [[Steven Soderbergh]]
|
|-
| ''[[Lone Star (1996 film)|Lone Star]]''
| [[John Sayles]]
|<ref>(1996-10-18). "[http://media.www.iowastatedaily.com/media/storage/paper818/news/1996/10/18/UndefinedSection/Truth.Prevails.In.lone.Star-1066628.shtml Truth prevails in ''Lone Star'']". ''[[Iowa State Daily]]''. Retrieved on February 5, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Three Lives and Only One Death]]''
| [[Raúl Ruiz]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Rich Man's Wife]]''
| Amy Holden Jones
|
|-
| ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]''
| [[Anthony Minghella]]
|<ref name="aronson" />
|}

=== 1995 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1995 in film|1995]]
| ''[[Nixon (film)|Nixon]]''
| [[Oliver Stone]]
|
|-
| ''[[Love Letter (1995 film)|Love Letter]]''
| [[Shunji Iwai]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''
| [[Bryan Singer]]
|<ref name="aronson" /><ref name="Cowgill">Cowgill, Linda J. (1999). ''Secrets of Screenplay Structure''. Lone Eagle. pp. 148-170. ISBN 1-58065-004-X.</ref>
|}

=== 1990–1994 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! rowspan="5" | [[1994 in film|1994]]
| ''[[Before the Rain (film)|Before the Rain]]''
| [[Milčo Mančevski]]
|<ref name="Dancyger">[[Ken Dancyger|Dancyger, Ken]]. (2002). ''The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice''. [[Focal Press]]. pp. 393-394. ISBN 0-240-80225-X.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Exotica (film)|Exotica]]''
| [[Atom Egoyan]]
|<ref name="Dancyger Rush"/>
|-
| ''[[Natural Born Killers]]''
| [[Oliver Stone]]
|<ref name="Dancyger" />
|-
| ''[[Three Colors: Red]]''
| [[Krzysztof Kieślowski]]
|<ref>Kakutani, Michiko. (2000-09-12). "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E5D61F39F931A2575AC0A9669C8B63 BOOKS OF THE TIMES; When Lives, and Worlds, Converge]". ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved on September 21, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]''
| [[Quentin Tarantino]]
| [[hyperlink cinema]]<ref name="Garfinkel" /><ref name="aronson" />
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1993 in film|1993]]
| ''[[Short Cuts]]''
| [[Robert Altman]]
|<ref name="aronson" /><ref name="Dethridge" />
|-
| ''[[Calendar (1993 film)|Calendar]]''
| [[Atom Egoyan]]
|
|-
| ''[[Smoking/No Smoking]]''
| [[Alain Resnais]]
|
|-
! rowspan="" | [[1992 in film|1992]]
| ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''
| [[Quentin Tarantino]]
|<ref name="Cowgill" />
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1991 in film|1991]]
| ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes (film)|Fried Green Tomatoes]]''
| [[Jon Avnet]]
|
|-
| ''[[Daughters of the Dust]]''
| [[Julie Dash]]
|<ref name="Dethridge" />
|-
! rowspan="" | [[1990 in film|1990]]
| ''[[Jacob's Ladder (film)|Jacob's Ladder]]''
| [[Adrian Lyne]]
|<ref name="Dethridge" />
|}

== 1980s ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! [[1987 in film|1987]]
| ''[[Siesta (film)|Siesta]]''
| [[Mary Lambert]]
|<ref name="Blum">Blum, Richard A. (2001). ''Television and Screen Writing: From Concept to Contract''. [[Focal Press]]. p. 125. ISBN 0-240-80384-1.</ref>
|-
! [[1986 in film|1986]]
| ''[[Street of Crocodiles]]''
| [[Brothers Quay|Quay brothers]]
|
|-
! [[1985 in film|1985]]
| ''[[Return to Waterloo (film)|Return to Waterloo]]''
| [[Ray Davies]]
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1984 in film|1984]]
| ''[[Broadway Danny Rose]]''
| [[Woody Allen]]
|
|-
| ''[[Once Upon a Time in America]]''
| [[Sergio Leone]]
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1982 in film|1982]]
| ''[[The Night of the Shooting Stars]]''
| [[Paolo and Vittorio Taviani|Taviani brothers]]
|<ref name="Cowgill"/>
|-
| ''[[Sans Soleil]]''
| [[Chris Marker]]
|<ref name="Kinder">Kinder, Marsha. "[http://www.filmquarterly.org/issue_5504_right.html Hot Spots, Avatars, and Narrative Fields Forever]". ''[[Film Quarterly]]''. Vol. 55, No. 54. Retrieved on February 9, 2008.</ref>
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! rowspan="2" | [[1981 in film|1981]]
| ''[[Possession (1981 film)|Possession]]''
| [[Andrzej Żuławski]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Beyond (film)|The Beyond]]''
| [[Lucio Fulci]]
|
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1980 in film|1980]]
| ''[[Bad Timing]]''
| [[Nicolas Roeg]]
|
|-
| ''[[In the Shadow of the Sun]]''
| [[Derek Jarman]]
|
|-
| ''[[Stardust Memories]]''
| [[Woody Allen]]
|
|}

== 1970s ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! [[1979 in film|1979]]
| ''[[More American Graffiti]]''
| [[Bill L. Norton]]
|
|-
! [[1978 in film|1978]]
| ''[[Interiors]]''
| [[Woody Allen]]
|
|-
! [[1977 in film|1977]]
| ''[[Annie Hall]]''
| [[Woody Allen]]
|
|-
! [[1975 in film|1975]]
| ''[[The Mirror (1975 film)|The Mirror]]''
| [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]
|
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1974 in film|1974]]
| ''[[Celine and Julie Go Boating]]''
| [[Jacques Rivette]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Phantom of Liberty]]''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
|
|-
| ''[[F for Fake]]''
| [[Orson Welles]]
|<ref>Kirschling, Gregory. (2005). "[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1052640,00.html ''F For Fake'']". ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. Retrieved on February 2, 2008.</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1973 in film|1973]]
| ''[[Lisa and the Devil]]''
| [[Mario Bava]]
|
|-
| ''[[O Lucky Man!]]''
| [[Lindsay Anderson]]
|<ref name="Dancyger" />
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1972 in film|1972]]
| ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five (film)|Slaughterhouse-Five]]''
| [[George Roy Hill]]
|
|-
| ''[[Solaris (1972 film)|Solaris]]''
| [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]
|<ref name="Arnold">Arnold, William. (2002-11-27). "[http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/97373_solaris27q.shtml ''Solaris'' nearly gets lost in space, but Clooney shines]". ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''. Retrieved on February 2, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie]]''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
|<ref name="Dancyger" />
|-
! [[1971 in film|1971]]
| ''[[200 Motels]]''
| [[Frank Zappa]],<br />[[Tony Palmer]]
|
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1970 in film|1970]]
| ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]''
| [[Mike Nichols]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Conformist (film)|The Conformist]]''
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
|
|-
| ''[[Zabriskie Point (film)|Zabriskie Point]]''
| [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]
|
|}

== 1960s ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! [[1969 in film|1969]]
| ''[[The Milky Way (1969 film)|The Milky Way]]''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
|
|-
! rowspan="3" | [[1968 in film|1968]]
| ''[[The Color of Pomegranates]]''
| [[Sergei Parajanov]]
|
|-
| ''[[Petulia]]''
| [[Richard Lester]]
|
|-
| ''[[Head (film)|Head]]''
| [[Bob Rafelson]]
|
|-
! rowspan="6" | [[1967 in film|1967]]
| ''[[Week End (1967 film)|Week End]]''
| [[Jean-Luc Godard]]
|<ref name="Dethridge" />
|-
| ''[[Belle de Jour (film)|Belle de Jour]]''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
|<ref name="Dethridge" />
|-
| ''[[Point Blank (1967 film)|Point Blank]]''
| [[John Boorman]]
|<ref>Schager, Nick. (2003). "[http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=741 Film Review: ''Point Blank'']". [[Slant Magazine]]. Retrieved on February 2, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Two for the Road (1967 film)|Two for the Road]]''
| [[Stanley Donen]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Trip (1967 film)|The Trip]]''
| [[Roger Corman]]
|
|-
| ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]''
| [[Bernard Knowles]]
|
|-
! rowspan="5" | [[1966 in film|1966]]
| ''[[Gambit (1966 film)|Gambit]]''
| [[Ronald Neame]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]''
| [[Gillo Pontecorvo]]
|
|-
| ''[[Chelsea Girls]]''
| [[Andy Warhol]],<br />[[Paul Morrissey]]
|<ref name="Dethridge" />
|-
| ''[[Blowup]]''
| [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]
|
|-
| ''[[Trans-Europ-Express (film)|Trans-Europ-Express]]''
| [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]]
|
|-
| ''[[Persona (film)|Persona]]''
| [[Ingmar Bergman]]
|
|-
! [[1964 in film|1964]]
| ''[[Scorpio Rising (film)|Scorpio Rising]]''
| [[Kenneth Anger]]
|
|-
! rowspan="4" | [[1963 in film|1963]]
| ''[[Diamonds of the Night]]''
| [[Jan Němec]]
|
|-
| ''[[8½]]''
| [[Federico Fellini]]
|<ref name="Dancyger" />
|-
| ''[[This Sporting Life]]''
| [[Lindsay Anderson]]
|
|-
| ''[[Muriel (film)|Muriel]]''
| [[Alain Resnais]]
|<ref>Erickson, Hal. "[http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:33864 ''Muriel ou le Temps d'un Retour'']". [[Allmovie]]. Retrieved on February 2, 2008.</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1962 in film|1962]]
| ''[[La commare secca|La Commare Secca]]''
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
|
|-
| ''[[La jetée|La Jetée]]''
| [[Chris Marker]]
|<ref name="Kinder" />
|-
! [[1961 in film|1961]]
| ''[[Last Year at Marienbad]]''
| [[Alain Resnais]]
|<ref name="Dancyger" />
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[1960 in film|1960]]
| ''[[La Dolce Vita]]''
| [[Federico Fellini]]
|<ref>Palladino, D. J. (2007-08-23). "[http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/23/emla-dolce-vitaem-not-timid/ ''La Dolce Vita'' Is Not for the Timid]". ''[[Santa Barbara Independent]]''. Retrieved on February 4, 2008.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Breathless (1960 film)|Breathless]]''
| [[Jean-Luc Godard]]
|
|}

== 1950s ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! [[1959 in film|1959]]
| ''[[Hiroshima mon amour|Hiroshima, My Love]]''
| [[Alain Resnais]]
|
|-
! [[1958 in film|1958]]
| ''[[A Movie]]''
| [[Bruce Conner]]
|
|-
! [[1956 in film|1956]]
| ''[[The Killing (film)|The Killing]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
|<ref>Falsetto, Mario. (2001). ''Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis''. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 2. ISBN 0-275-96974-6.</ref>
|-
! [[1951 in film|1951]]
| ''[[Duck Amuck]]''
| [[Chuck Jones]]
|
|-
! [[1950 in film|1950]]
| ''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]''
| [[Akira Kurosawa]]
|<ref>Prince, Stephen. (2002-03-25). "[http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/195-rashomon Film Essay: ''Rashomon'']". [[The Criterion Collection]]. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref><ref>"[http://www.brandify.co.uk/films Top 50 Oriental Films]". Design Studio London Brandify. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref><ref>Greenfield, David. "[http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/papers/greenfield/greenfield.html Contextual Links and Non-linear Narrative: A Virtual ''Rashomon'']". [[Museums and the Web]] / [[Archives & Museum Informatics]]. Retrieved on January 15, 2011.</ref>
|}

== 1910s – 1940s ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Note
|-
! [[1942 in film|1942]]
| ''[[Listen to Britain]]''
| [[Humphrey Jennings]],<br />Stewart McAllister
| short film<ref name="Dancyger" />
|-
! [[1941 in film|1941]]
| ''[[Citizen Kane]]''
| [[Orson Welles]]
|<ref name="aronson" /><ref name="watched">{{cite book|title=Closely Watched Films: an introduction to the art of narrative film technique|first=Marilyn|last=Fabe|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|pages=81–84|isbn=978-0-520-23891-6|accessdate=2010-02-27}}</ref>
|-
! [[1936 in film|1936]]
| ''[[Show Boat (1936 film)|Show Boat]]''
| [[James Whale]]
|
|-
! [[1930 in film|1930]]
| ''[[L'Age d'Or]]''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
|
|-
! [[1929 in film|1929]]
| ''[[Un Chien Andalou]]''
| [[Luis Buñuel]]
| [[surrealism|surrealist]] [[short film]]<ref name="Dancyger Rush" />
|-
! [[1927 in film|1927]]
| ''[[Napoléon (1927 film)|Napoléon]]''
| [[Abel Gance]]
|<ref name="Debruge">Debruge, Peter. (2007-12-07). "[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117977363.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 More scripts take nonlinear route]". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. Retrieved on February 3, 2008.</ref>
|-
! [[1926 in film|1926]]
| ''[[A Page of Madness]]''
| [[Teinosuke Kinugasa]]
|
|-
! [[1924 in film|1924]]
| ''[[Sherlock, Jr.]]''
| [[Buster Keaton]]
|<ref>Horton, Andrew. (1997). ''Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.'' [[Cambridge University Press]]. p. 33. ISBN 0-521-48566-5.</ref>
|-
! [[1922 in film|1922]]
| ''[[Häxan]]''
| [[Benjamin Christensen]]
|
|-
! [[1916 in film|1916]]
| ''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]''
| [[D. W. Griffith]]
|<ref name="Debruge" />
|}

== See also ==
* [[Nonlinear narrative]]
* [[Nonlinear gameplay]]
* [[Reverse chronology]]
* [[Hypertext fiction]]
* [[Hyperlink cinema]]
* [[Lists of films]]



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