What if the truth changes depending on who’s telling the story? This curated list showcases the best films where the plot unfolds through different characters’ eyes. From groundbreaking classics like «Rashomon» to modern masterpieces like «Gone Girl» and «The Last Duel», these movies brilliantly prove there are always multiple sides to every story. Discover how perspective shapes reality in cinema’s most compelling multi-narrative films!
30 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (À la folie… pas du tout), 2002
Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. We see her attempts to make him leave his pregnant wife, but he does not appear for meetings or finally the booked journey to Florence. Then the movie is turned back to the beginning, and the view changes: We are now following the view of the doctor instead of Angeliques. And things look quite different now…
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Writers: Laetitia Colombani, Caroline Thivel
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré
Box office: $5 324 000
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29 Basic, 2003
An Army sergeant takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier killing another and carrying a wounded comrade. As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer protests, but her commanding officer nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting.
Director: John McTiernan
Writer: James Vanderbilt
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen
Budget: $50 000 000
Box office: $42 792 000
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28 Elephant, 2003
A day in the lives of a group of average teenage high school students. The film follows every character and shows their daily routines. However two of the students plan to do something that the student body won’t forget.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson
Budget: $3 000 000
Box office: $10 012 000
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27 Vantage Point, 2008
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters’ actions. Gradually, we discover who’s behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President’s adversaries thought of everything?
Director: Pete Travis
Writer: Barry L. Levy
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker
Budget: $40 000 000
Box office: $151 161 000
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26 Go, 1999
Told from three perspectives, a story of a bunch of young Californians trying to get some cash, do and deal some drugs, score money and sex in Las Vegas, and generally experience the rush of life.
Director: Doug Liman
Writer: John August
Starring: Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner
Budget: $20 000 000
Box office: $28 451 000
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25 11:14, 2003
Tells the seemingly random, yet vitally connected, story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 p.m. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.
Director: Greg Marcks
Writer: Greg Marcks
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze
Budget: $6 000 000
Box office: $3 810 000
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24 Magnolia, 1999
The film begins with a narrator telling us three separate stories based on the theme of coincidence. From there, we meet 9 characters whose lives are all connected in one way or another. We follow them all over the course of one day and watch their lives change forever.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Budget: $37 000 000
Box office: $48 451 000
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23 Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018
1969. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests’ reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.
Director: Drew Goddard
Writer: Drew Goddard
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson
Budget: $32 000 000
Box office: $31 882 000
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22 The Last Duel, 2021
Based on the true story of France’s last trial by combat in the Middle Ages. Knight Jean de Carrouges challenges his former friend Jacques Le Gris to a duel after Jean’s wife Marguerite accuses Le Gris of rape. Told in multiple «Rashomon-style» points of view.
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
Starring: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer
Budget: $100 000 000
Box office: $30 552 000
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21 Monster (怪物 | Kaibutsu), 2023
When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer: Yuji Sakamoto
Starring: Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Sakura Ando
Box office: $434 000
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