Tracing the thread…
His films like Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet obsessively explore non-linear time, temporal manipulation, and how consciousness experiences causality.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionHis philosophical science fiction films, especially Stalker and Solaris, meditate on time's passage, memory, and the human experience of temporal existence.
Terry Gilliam United States12 Monkeys and Brazil deconstruct time and reality through surreal narratives that blur past, present, and future into nightmarish, interconnected loops.