List of nonlinear narrative films

The following is a chronological list of nonlinear narrative films.

## 2020s

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2025 | HIT: The Third Case | Sailesh Kolanu |
Retro | Karthik Subbaraj |
2024 | We Live in Time | John Crowley |
Deadpool & Wolverine | Shawn Levy |
Challengers | Luca Guadagnino |
Orion and the Dark | Sean Charmatz  |
Captain Miller | Arun Matheswaran |
2023 | Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire | Prashanth Neel |
Animal | Sandeep Reddy Vanga |
Mark Antony | Adhik Ravichandran |
Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | James Gunn |
Iratta | Rohit M. G. Krishnan  |
2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson |
Cobra | R. Ajay Gnanamuthu |
Thallumaala | Khalid Rahman |
Sita Ramam | Hanu Raghavapudi |
Iravin Nizhal | R. Parthiban | Single-Shot film
Vikram | Lokesh Kanagaraj |
Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook |
Don | Cibi Chakaravarthi  |
Mahaan | Karthik Subbaraj |
2021 | The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson |
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes | Kevin Kopacka |
Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright |
Eternals | Chloé Zhao |
Sardar Udham | Shoojit Sircar | Indian film
Quarantine | Diana Ringo | Finnish-Russian film
2020 | Mank | David Fincher | Netflix biographical drama film
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  | Dual narrative
One Day We'll Talk About Today | Angga Dwimas Sasongko | Indonesian film

## 2010s

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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 | KGF: Chapter 1 | Prashanth Neel |
Odiyan | V. A. Shrikumar Menon |
Vada Chennai | Vetrimaaran |
Bad Times at the El Royale | Drew Goddard | hyperlink cinema
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Ol Parker |
You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay |
2017 | Jigsaw | The Spierig Brothers |
Arjun Reddy | Sandeep Reddy Vanga |
Vikram Vedha | Pushkar–Gayathri |
Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan |
Merry-Go-Round | Ihor Podolchak |
Maanagaram | Lokesh Kanagaraj | hyperlink cinema
Have a Nice Day | Liu Jian |
2016 | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve |
Brimstone | Martin Koolhoven |
Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
The Truth Beneath | Lee Kyoung-mi |
The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook |
Jil Jung Juk | Deeraj Vaidy  |
Deadpool | Tim Miller |
2015 | The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino |
Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka | Sathya Prabhas Pinisetty  |
Too Late | Dennis Hauck  |
Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle |
11 Minutes | Jerzy Skolimowski | [4]
Anegan | K. V. Anand |
Yennai Arindhaal | Gautham Vasudev Menon |
I | Shankar |
2014 | The Last Five Years | Richard LaGravenese |
Comet | Sam Esmail |
The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum |
Gone Girl | David Fincher |
Predestination | The Spierig Brothers |
2013 | Oculus | Mike Flanagan |
Delirium | Ihor Podolchak |
Trance | Danny Boyle |
Man of Steel | Zack Snyder |
2012 | Pizza | Karthik Subburaj |
Premium Rush | David Koepp |
The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan |
3 | Aishwarya Rajinikanth |
2011 | Aaranya Kaandam | Thiagarajan Kumararaja |
The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
2010 | Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance | [5]
The Social Network | David Fincher |

## 2000s

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### 2009

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 2008

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 2007

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 2006

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 2005

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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 |

### 2004

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 2003

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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 |

### 2002

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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.

### 2001

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 2000

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

## 1990s

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### 1999

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 1998

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 1997

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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]

### 1996

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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 |

### 1995

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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1995 | Nixon | Oliver Stone |
Love Letter | Shunji Iwai |
The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | [78][113]

### 1990–1994

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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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 |

## 1980s

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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1988 | Om-Dar-Ba-Dar | Kamal Swaroop |
1987 | Siesta | Mary Lambert | [116]
Nuts | Martin Ritt | [117][118]
1986 | Street of Crocodiles | Quay brothers |
1985 | Return to Waterloo | Ray Davies |
1984 | Broadway Danny Rose | Woody Allen |
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 |
The Beyond | Lucio Fulci |
1980 | Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg |
In the Shadow of the Sun | Derek Jarman |
Stardust Memories | Woody Allen |

## 1970s

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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1979 | More American Graffiti | Bill L. Norton |
1978 | Interiors | Woody Allen |
1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
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
Voldtekt | Anja Breien |
1970 | Catch-22 | Mike Nichols |
The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci |
Zabriskie Point | Michelangelo Antonioni |

## 1960s

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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1969 | The Milky Way | Luis Buñuel |
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 |
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]
Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard |

## 1950s

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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1959 | Hiroshima, My Love | Alain Resnais |
1958 | La vida por delante | Fernando Fernán Gómez |
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]

## 1910s – 1940s

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Note

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1947 | Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa |
1947 | Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur |
1946 | The Locket | John Brahm |
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 |
Destiny | Fritz Lang |
1916 | Intolerance | D. W. Griffith | [132]

## See also

[edit]

* Nonlinear narrative
* Nonlinear gameplay
* Reverse chronology
* Hypertext fiction
* Hyperlink cinema
* Lists of films
* List of non-narrative feature films

* v
* t
* e

Narrative

Character|

* Antagonist
* Archenemy
* Character arc
* Character flaw
* Characterization
* Confidant
* Deuteragonist
* False protagonist
* Focal character
* Foil
* Gothic double
* Hamartia
* Hero
* Anti
* Byronic
* Tragic
* Narrator
* Protagonist
* Stock character
* Straight man
* Supporting character
* Title character
* Tritagonist
* Villain

Plot|

* Ab ovo
* Action
* Backstory
* Origin story
* Chekhov's gun
* Cliché
* Cliffhanger
* Conflict
* Deus ex machina
* Dialogue
* Dramatic structure
* Eucatastrophe
* Foreshadowing
* Flashback
* Flashforward
* Frame story
* In medias res
* Kishōtenketsu
* MacGuffin
* Pace
* Plot device
* Plot twist
* Poetic justice
* Red herring
* Reveal
* Self-insertion
* Shaggy dog story
* Stereotype
* Story arc
* Story within a story
* Subplot
* Suspense
* Trope

Setting|

* Alternate history
* Backstory
* Crossover
* Dreamworld
* Dystopia
* Fictional location
* city
* country
* universe
* parallel
* Utopia
* Worldbuilding

Theme|

* Irony
* Leitmotif
* Metaphor
* Moral
* Moral development
* Motif
* Deal with the Devil
* Conflict between good and evil
* Self-fulfilling prophecy
* Time travel

Style|

* Allegory
* Bathos
* Comic relief
* Diction
* Figure of speech
* Imagery
* Mode
* Mood
* Narration
* Narrative techniques
* Hook
* Show, don't tell
* Stylistic device
* Suspension of disbelief
* Symbolism
* Tone

Structure|

* Act
* Act structure
* Three-act structure
* Freytag's Pyramid
* Exposition/Protasis
* Rising action/Epitasis
* Climax/Peripeteia
* Falling action/Catastasis
* Denouement/Catastrophe
* Linear narrative
* Nonlinear narrative
* films
* television series
* Premise
* Types of fiction with multiple endings

Form|

* Drama
* Fabliau
* Flash fiction
* Folklore
* Fable
* Fairy tale
* Legend
* Myth
* Tall tale
* Gamebook
* Narrative art
* Narrative poetry
* Epic poetry
* Novel
* Novella
* Parable
* Short story
* Vignette

Genre
(List)|

* Fiction
* Action fiction
* Adventure
* Comic
* Crime
* Docu
* Epistolary
* Ergodic
* Erotic
* Historical
* Western
* Mystery
* Nautical
* Paranoid
* Philosophical
* Picaresque
* Political
* Pop culture
* Psychological
* Religious
* Rogue
* Romance
* Chivalric
* Prose
* Saga
* Satire
* Speculative fiction
* Fantasy
* Gothic
* Southern
* Horror
* Magic realism
* Science
* Hard
* Utopian and dystopian
* Underwater
* Superhero
* Theological
* Thriller
* Urban
* Nonfiction
* Autobiography
* Biography
* Novel
* Creative

Narration|

* Diegesis
* First-person
* Second-person
* Third-person
* Third-person omniscient narrative
* Subjectivity
* Unreliable narrator
* Multiple narrators
* Stream of consciousness
* Stream of unconsciousness

Tense|

* Past
* Present
* Future

Related|

* Dominant narrative
* Fiction writing
* Continuity
* Canon
* Reboot
* Retcon
* Parallel novel
* Prequel / Sequel
* Genre
* List
* Literary science
* Literary theory
* Narrative identity
* Narrative paradigm
* Narrative therapy
* Narratology
* Metafiction
* Political narrative
* Rhetoric
* Glossary
* Screenwriting
* Series of works
* Storytelling
* Tellability
* Verisimilitude

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