Originally Posted by TheBang

Your examples are similar in that they usually all explore a common theme, but the individual storylines are told discretely and separately (like Story 1, then Story 2, then Story 3), and usually don't intersect.

Hyperlink cinema, OTOH, has multiple storylines being told simultaneously (though not necessarily chronologically or even within the same time scale (see Dunkirk)), cutting between segments from the disparate storylines, and at various points, storylines will intersect and diverge.

Originally Posted by dom56

Dreams

The last part about the small Japanese viilage is my personal favorite.

Originally Posted by Dan

This topic is not quite what I thought it was when I clicked on it, as I thought it'd be about multiple movies that are interconnected but aren't prequels/sequels in the normal sense.

Anyway... Nashville and Go are both good examples of the OP's intent.