Movies Told in Chapters

Kinora's catalogue lists 75 films structured as episodic chapters, spanning 1936–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1968

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  Space · Africa — Ancient · Near Future
  Off World · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick
• 1983

  A Christmas Story

  Indiana — 1940s
  Suburbandir. Bob Clark
• 2003

  American Splendor

  Cleveland — 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Robert Pulcini
• 1966

  Andrei Rublev

  Russia — Medieval
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1966

  Au Hasard Balthazar

  1960s
  Ruraldir. Robert Bresson
• 2022

  Babylon

  Los Angeles · New York City — 1920s · 1930s
  Urbandir. Damien Chazelle
• 1975

  Barry Lyndon

  Ireland · Germany — 1700s
  Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2003

  Big Fish

  Alabama — 1950s · 2000s
  Ruraldir. Tim Burton
• 2023

  BlackBerry

  Waterloo — 1990s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Matt Johnson
• 1997

  Boogie Nights

  Los Angeles — 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 2014

  Boyhood

  Texas — 2000s · 2010s
  Suburban · Urbandir. Richard Linklater
• 2005

  C.R.A.Z.Y.

  Quebec — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée
• 2002

  City of God

  Rio de Janeiro — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 2018

  Cold War

  Poland · Berlin · Paris · Yugoslavia — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski
• 1990

  Dreams

  Japan — 1800s · 1940s · Near Future · Timeless
  Rural · Mountain · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1989

  Driving Miss Daisy

  Atlanta — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Bruce Beresford
• 2022

  EO

  2020s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Jerzy Skolimowski
• 1981

  Excalibur

  England — Medieval
  Rural · Wildernessdir. John Boorman
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 1995

  Four Rooms

  Los Angeles — 1990s
  Urbandir. Allison Anders
• 2016

  Free State of Jones

  Mississippi — 1800s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Gary Ross
• 2012

  Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

  Dhanbad — 1940s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Anurag Kashyap
• 1990

  GoodFellas

  New York City · Tampa — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1986

  Hannah and Her Sisters

  New York City — 1980s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 2016

  In This Corner of the World

  Hiroshima · Kure — 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sunao Katabuchi
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska · California · South Dakota — 1990s
  Wilderness · Rural · Desertdir. Sean Penn
• 1976

  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

  Brussels — 1970s
  Urbandir. Chantal Akerman
• 2014

  Jersey Boys

  New Jersey · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
• 1960

  La Dolce Vita

  Rome — 1960s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
• 2017

  Lady Bird

  Sacramento — 2000s
  Suburbandir. Greta Gerwig
• 1994

  Legends of the Fall

  Montana — 1910s · 1920s · 1960s
  Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Edward Zwick
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  New York City · Boston · Mecca — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 1936

  Modern Times

  1930s
  Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin
• 1975

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  England — Medieval · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Terry Gilliam
• 2016

  Moonlight

  Miami · Atlanta — 2000s · 2010s
  Urbandir. Barry Jenkins
• 2021

  Nomadland

  Nevada · Arizona · South Dakota · California — 2010s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao
• 2000

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  1930s
  Ruraldir. Joel Coen
• 2023

  Past Lives

  New York City · Seoul — 1990s · 2010s · 2020s
  Urbandir. Celine Song
• 2016

  Paterson

  Paterson — 2010s
  Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch
• 2023

  Perfect Days

  Tokyo — 2020s
  Urbandir. Wim Wenders
• 2020

  Pieces of a Woman

  Boston — 2010s
  Urbandir. Kornél Mundruczó
• 1980

  Pixote

  Rio de Janeiro — 1980s
  Urbandir. Héctor Babenco
• 1967

  PlayTime

  Paris — 1960s
  Urbandir. Jacques Tati
• 2023

  Poor Things

  London · Lisbon · Alexandria · Paris — 1800s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• 1980

  Raging Bull

  New York City · Miami — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1999

  Ratcatcher

  Glasgow — 1970s
  Urbandir. Lynne Ramsay
• 2022

  Return to Seoul

  Seoul — 2020s
  Urbandir. Davy Chou
• 1954

  Sansho the Bailiff

  Japan — Medieval
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi
• 2010

  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  Toronto — 2010s
  Urbandir. Edgar Wright
• 1992

  Singles

  Seattle — 1990s
  Urbandir. Cameron Crowe
• 2003

  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

  South Korea — Timeless
  Mountain · Wildernessdir. Kim Ki-duk
• 1989

  Steel Magnolias

  Louisiana — 1980s
  Ruraldir. Herbert Ross
• 1985

  Tampopo

  1980s
  Urbandir. Jūzō Itami
• 1983

  Terms of Endearment

  Houston · Iowa · Nebraska — 1970s · 1980s
  Suburbandir. James L. Brooks
• 1978

  The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

  China
  Ruraldir. Lau Kar-leung
• 2008

  The Baader Meinhof Complex

  Germany — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Uli Edel
• 2024

  The Brutalist

  Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brady Corbet
• 1985

  The Color Purple

  Georgia — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
  Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg
• 2022

  The Fabelmans

  New Jersey · Phoenix · Los Angeles — 1950s · 1960s
  Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2021

  The Green Knight

  Medieval
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lowery
• 2008

  The Hurt Locker

  Iraq — 2000s
  Urban · Desertdir. Kathryn Bigelow
• 1983

  The Right Stuff

  California · Space — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Desert · Off Worlddir. Philip Kaufman
• 2001

  The Royal Tenenbaums

  New York City — 2000s
  Urbandir. Wes Anderson
• 1964

  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

  Cherbourg — 1950s · 1960s
  Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jacques Demy
• 2021

  The Worst Person in the World

  Oslo — 2020s
  Urbandir. Joachim Trier
• 2007

  There Will Be Blood

  California — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s
  Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1994

  To Live

  China — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Zhang Yimou
• 2018

  Tumbbad

  India — 1900s · 1910s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Rahi Anil Barve
• 2001

  Waking Life

  2000s
  Urbandir. Richard Linklater
• 2011

  War Horse

  England · France — 1910s
  Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg
• 1989

  When Harry Met Sally...

  New York City — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Rob Reiner
• 2012

  Zero Dark Thirty

  Pakistan · Abbottabad · Afghanistan · Washington, D.C. — 2000s · 2010s
  Urbandir. Kathryn Bigelow
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. David Fincher