The research Times of Chance: the discontinuous temporality and the thematization of chance in contemporary film analyses how time has been represented in contemporary film narratives. In order to give a panorama of temporality as it is perceived nowadays, first we discuss the changes related to the way modern western society has experienced time since the late nineteenth century, taking into consideration the loss of faith in progress as well as in the ideals of modernity. Based on this main idea, we then approach the thematization of chance, which we believe to be directly linked to what we call discontinuous temporality, because of the disbelief in the modern linear order and in the idea that one event causes the next (and so forth). Therefore, in the narratives - Love`s a Bitch and 21 grams, by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and The Lovers of the Artic Circle and Sex and Lucía, by Julio Medem, - we analize some of the possible representations of time in our age. These films, which break the linear timeline and have chance as a trigger of stories, are considered emblematic of some of the ways current temporality might be faced.