Category
page 1French nonlinear narrative films

Dunkirk
2017 film by Christopher Nolan

Mulholland Drive
2001 film by David Lynch

Babel
2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cinema Paradiso
1988 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

Atonement
2007 film directed by Joe Wright

La Vie en Rose
2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

In the Mood for Love
2000 film directed by Wong Kar-wai

Mr. Nobody
2009 film by Jaco Van Dormael

Melancholia
2011 film directed by Lars von Trier

Lost Highway
1997 film by David Lynch

Nymphomaniac
2013 film by Lars von Trier

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 film directed by Tomas Alfredson

Irréversible
Irréversible () is a 2002 French art thriller film written, directed, and edited by Gaspar Noé, who also served as co-cinematographer with Benoît Debie. It depicts the events of one night in Paris as two men (Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel) attempt to avenge the brutal rape and beating of the woman they love (Monica Bellucci).

Last Year at Marienbad
1961 film by Alain Resnais

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 film directed by Julian Schnabel

The Conformist
1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

Bitter Moon
1992 film by Roman Polanski

Inland Empire
2006 film by David Lynch

The Phantom of Liberty
1974 film by Luis Buñuel

Love on the Run
1978 film by François Truffaut

Teheran 43
1981 film by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov

Enter the Void
2009 film directed by Gaspar Noé

Summer of 85
2020 film directed by François Ozon

5x2
5x2 (also Cinq fois deux; ) is a 2004 French film directed by François Ozon, which uncovers the back story to the gradual disintegration of a middle class marriage by depicting five key moments in the relationship, but in reverse order.

The Things of Life
1970 film by Claude Sautet

Paranoid Park
2007 film by Gus Van Sant

JCVD
2008 film by Mabrouk El Mechri
Che
2008 film by Steven Soderbergh

He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
2002 film by Lætitia Colombani

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 film by Tommy Lee Jones

Trance
2013 film directed by Danny Boyle

We Live in Time
2024 film directed by John Crowley

Dark Places
2015 film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner

White Bird in a Blizzard
2014 film by Gregg Araki

Ken Park
2002 film directed by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman

Ararat
2002 film by Atom Egoyan

Too Beautiful for You
1989 film by Bertrand Blier

The Passerby
1982 film by Jacques Rouffio

The Weight of Water
2000 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

In Praise of Love
2001 film by Jean-Luc Godard

Time Regained
1998 film by Raúl Ruiz

My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
1989 film by Andrzej Żuławski
Where Is Anne Frank
2021 animated film directed by Ari Folman

La bonne année
1973 film by Claude Lelouch

A Woman at Her Window
1976 film by Pierre Granier-Deferre

Happy End
2009 film by Arnaud Larrieu

Claire Darling
2018 film by Julie Bertuccelli

Group Portrait with Lady
1977 film by Aleksandar Petrović

Happenstance
2000 film by Laurent Firode

The Braid
2023 film directed by Lætitia Colombani