A Few Films That Expand Narrative Boundaries

By: Antione​Oscar69

Films are often classically arranged in a plot that predictably progresses from A to B, with a dramatic climax, an obvious story, and a tight, conclusive ending. Various films are able to in some fashion transcend this, and become hard to classify works of art. Here is a brief list.

• 01
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 02
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 03
  The Thin Red Line
  Terrence Malick
• 04
  Mean Streets
  Martin Scorsese
• 05
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 06
  The Sweet Hereafter
  Atom Egoyan
• 07
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 08
  Three Colors: Red
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 09
  Walkabout
  Nicolas Roeg
• 10
  Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• 11
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 12
  Slacker
  Richard Linklater
• 13
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 14
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 15
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 16
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 17
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 18
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 19
  L'avventura
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 20
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 21
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 22
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 23
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 24
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 25
  Mystery Train
  Jim Jarmusch
• 26
  Shoot the Piano Player
  François Truffaut
• 27
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 28
  Cléo from 5 to 7
  Agnès Varda
• 29
  Belle de jour
  Luis Buñuel
• 30
  Killer of Sheep
  Charles Burnett
• 31
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  Werner Herzog
• 32
  The Passion of Anna
  Ingmar Bergman
• 33
  The Double Life of Véronique
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 34
  Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 35
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 36
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 37
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 38
  Exotica
  Atom Egoyan
• 39
  Taste of Cherry
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 40
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard