What do you call films that show the same timeline and can be watched in parallel
I don't know the "technical word" or category or kind of films where there is only one timeline but the story is told in two or more films.
The films have exactly the same timing such that you can play one in one TV and another in another, and they show the same timeline. One shows the life of one character and the other the life of another. Sometimes the films show the same situation.
I remember two films (but sorry I don't remember the titles). They were European romantic films which showed simultaneously the same plot but one with his perspective and the other hers.
I remember that some European TV channels streamed these films at the same time in two channels and you could change the channel and see the same timeline. I recall that these films were not Spanish, maybe they were French or Belgian.
I was looking in the English wikipedia about interactive films or something like that, because I think there are few films of this "unnamed category" but I don't know the "word".
What is the term for this kind of movie making.
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For what it's worth, Wiki refers to them as "companion pieces", although there is no link to that term on Wiki to better describe it.
I came to this conclusion by looking up the only American films I knew of that had this sort of plot line; Flags Of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters From Iwo Jima (2006).
This is different from Twin Films, which would be something like Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994).
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Answer 2
While you're description is very specific and so neither one of these may be quite right, usually if things run "along side" each other in time (and are not within the same work, meaning film, book, comic, tv series, etc), then they are sometimes refereed to as a concurrent story or a sidequel.
sidequel (plural sidequels)
A type of sequel which portrays events that occur at the same time as the original work, but with different characters in a different setting
Again, as you mentioned, your two referenced characters may share a setting, but perhaps not all the time? This is the closest thing I could think of.
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