List of Longest Films by Running Time
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This list included experimental films, cinematic films and films released in separate parts. Some releases for cinematic films are extended cuts or director's cuts, are ranked according to the longest verified running time, and may differ from the running time in the IMDb.
This list included experimental films, cinematic films and films released in separate parts. Some releases for cinematic films are extended cuts or director's cuts, are ranked according to the longest verified running time, and may differ from the running time in the IMDb.
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- DirectorGérard CourantStarsMarie-Louise AlemannHalim AnouTina AumontA 151-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It is considered to be the longest film ever released.9660 min (161 hr / 6 days, 16 hours)
- DirectorKarin HoerlerA German girl eats yogurt, looks through a phone book, and tries to sleep on a couch to no avail.5700 min (95 hr / 3 days, 23 hours)
- DirectorJohn Henry Timmis IVStarsCosmic LightningL.D. GrobanJ.T.4Not really following any standard plot structure, the film mostly consists of poet L.D. Groban reciting his own poem of 4,080 pages, inter-spliced with X-rated film footage and rock music videos.5220 min (87 hr / 3 days, 15 hours)
- DirectorVincent PatouillardStarsBob SeelyThe Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World is an underground movie made in the UK that runs to 48 hours long.2880 min (48 hr)
- DirectorShichuan ZhangStarsXiaoqiu ZhengPeizhen XiaLihen GaoThis movie was adapted from a newspaper serial (Strange Tales of the Adventurer in the Wild Country) and released in 18 feature-length parts over a period of 3 years (1928-31). In its entirety it would be 27 hours long.1620 min (27 hr)
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsBrigid BerlinTally BrownDavid CrolandOriginally a twenty five hour film made up of shorter film segments. It consists of 83 reels each lasting approximately 33 minutes. A short story odyssey of film designed to be shown with two projectors playing simultaneously.1500 min (25 hr / 1 day, 1 hour)
- StarsGünter LamprechtClaus HolmHanna SchygullaIn late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.931 min (15 hr 31 min)
- StarsMarita BreuerRüdiger WeigangKurt WagnerThe village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982.924 min (15 hr 24 min)
1532 min (25 hr 32 min) - DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsFrancine BastienBrian MulroneyMila MulroneyA global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it.873 min (14 hr 33 min)
- StarsLiliane TigerGeorgia PeachClaudia Rossi840 min (14 hr)
- DirectorJacques RivetteSuzanne SchiffmanStarsMichèle MorettiHermine KaragheuzKaren PuigFollowing the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.773 min (12 hr 53 min)
- DirectorJoris IvensMarceline Loridan IvensJean BigiaouiFrom 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. The vast amount of footage they shot was edited into twelve films of varying lengths. Focusing on ordinary people spread over a wide geographic area-many of whom were living and working in collectives-the filmmakers recorded a unique moment in history, and also captured some of the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture.763 min (13 hr 43 min)
- DirectorLav DiazStarsElryan de VeraAngie FerroPen MedinaThe collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.643 min (10 hr 43 min)
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaChikage AwashimaA Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.579 min (9 hr 39 min)
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsSimon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke ZaïdlClaude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.566 min (9 hr 26 min)
- DirectorWang BingThe impact of the decline of heavy industry on workers and their families in the Tiexi district of Shenyang, China, at the turn of the 21st century, documented unflinchingly by a fly-on-the-wall camera.556 min (9 hr 26 min)
- DirectorLav DiazStarsRoeder CamanagAngeli BayaniPerry DizonFilipino poet Benjamin Agusan (Roeder Camanag) is a hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. For the past seven years, Benjamin has been living in an old town called Kaluga in Russia. With his grant and residency, he taught and conducted workshops in a university; in the process he published two poetry books of sadness and longing. In Russia, Benjamin shot video collages, fell in love with a Slavic beauty, buried a son, and almost went mad. He came back to bury his dead--father, mother, sister, and a lover. He came back to face Mount Mayon, the raging beauty and muse of his youth. He came home to confront the country that he so loved and hated, the Philippines. He came back to die in the land of his birth. He wanders around the obliterated village meeting old friends and lovers.540 min (9 hr)
- DirectorLav DiazStarsRonnie LazaroJordanSid LuceroA wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.540 min (9 hr)
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsRuth LeuwerikHannes MessemerGünter PfitzmannA German woman doctor in a Siberia prison camp during WWII inspires her fellow detainees with her compassion and strength.501 min (8 hr 31 min)
- DirectorJohn PalmerAndy WarholStarsJonas MekasAndy WarholA single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.485 min (8 hr 5 min)
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.484 min (8 hr 4 min)
- DirectorLav DiazStarsAngeli BayaniPerry DizonRoeder CamanagThree people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.480 min (8 hr)
- DirectorCharles Taze RussellThe Photo-Drama of Creation, is a four-part Christian film produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. The film presents the Bible's account of God's plan from the creation of the earth through to the end of the 1,000 year reign of Christ.480 min (8 hr)
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsBrigid BerlinOndinePat CloseA boy (Pat Close) wanders aimlessly and wonders about life and love.480 min (8 hr)
- DirectorJuan María CodinaStarsLola ParísBaltasar BanquellsBianca Valoris480 min (8 hr)
- DirectorMichael KviumChristian LemmerzStarsClaus ChristensenNiels Olaf GudmeSarah BobergA large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (London 1939), a limit-transgressing, perhaps even limit-dissolving book that not only transgresses the limits of what literature is and is capable of, but inscribes transgressions on almost all conceivable levels. It is at the same time dream book, history book and necrology. It is almost impossible to determine whether we are dealing with a long poem, a prose narrative or a piece of drama.462 min (7 hr 42 min)
- DirectorJuan María CodinaStarsJosep BalaguerLaura BoveJulián de la Cantera460 min (7 hr 40 min)
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsMihály VigPutyi HorváthLászló feLugossyOn the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.450 min (8 hr 30 min)
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsHeinz SchubertPeter KernHellmut LangeDirector Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. Syberberg, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.442 min (7 hr 22 min)
- DirectorR. Bruce ElderStarsMichael CartmellRobert FothergillKristina JonesLike Ezekiel's vision in the valley of dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation occur intimations of the final culbute general, of the dissolution of time, of a now that vanishes between the no longer and the not yet.427 min (7 hr 7 min)
- DirectorJoe DanteStarsAnn-MargretNgo Dinh DiemDwight D. EisenhowerA montage of 1950s B-movies, TV shows & vintage commercials create a nostalgic collage about aliens & monsters attacking America.420 min (7 hr)
- DirectorBoris SvetlovStarsHuseyngulu SarabskiAhmed AgdamskiAlakbar HuseynzadeSet in turn of the century Baku at the dawn of the 20th century, a young man wishes to marry. Since he is a rich and successful business man, despite his young age, he feels that he should have his pick of any bride that he fancies, however, Azerbanjani tradition dictates otherwise. He then decides to get stealthy about the matter and disguises himself as a mere cloth peddler. As the peddler, a young woman falls in love with him, but grieves that he father will not marry her to a mere peddler. Young Askar then reveals who his he to her father and asks for he hand in marriage. Seeing that he is indeed a wealthy young man, the father hardly agrees and the two are permitted to marry.420 min (7 hr)
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraPatricia BarzykAnne ConsignyDuring the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.410 min (6 hr 50 min)
- DirectorKen JacobsStarsJack SmithJerry SimsGib TaylorStar Spangled to Death is a 2004 experimental film directed by Ken Jacobs, consisting almost entirely of archive footage, depicting the history of the United States in film.402 min (6 hr 42 min)
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.400 min (7 hr 40 min)
- DirectorSándor SáraStarsRóbert Bergert400 min (7 hr 40 min)
- DirectorGiuseppe MorandiA documentary dedicated to detailing the daily lives of Italian folk.392 min (7 hr 32 min)
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsSandra MilovanoffGeorges BiscotFernand HerrmannA cine-roman following the fates of a Portuguese nobleman, a Carmelite nun, and a mysterious lookalike.380 min (6 hr 20 min)
- DirectorBoris LehmanStarsNathalie BalouFrançois BeukelaersMaggy CollardIt tells the daily life of filmmaker Boris Lehman wandering in his own city of Brussels, who seeks to go to Mexico in the footsteps of Antonin Artaud, among the Tarahumara Indians.380 min (6 hr 20 min)
- DirectorRobert EnricoRichard T. HeffronStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerJane SeymourFrançois CluzetA chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.360 min (6 hr)
- StarsMatthew MacfadyenClaire FoyTom CourtenayThe Dorrits are a family whose life revolves around the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. Amy Dorrit's kind nature brings the family into contact with a wide swath of English society, from the poorest to the richest, and back again.360 min (6 hr)
- DirectorAndrás SzirtesFor the 100th anniversary of the film's birth "The baby's breakfast. Two friends followed Audras Szirtes everywhere with small camcorders and documented how he worked.360 min (6 hr)
- DirectorHenri FescourtStarsGabriel GabrioPaul JorgeSandra MilovanoffJean Valjean is a good man who is nevertheless convicted and imprisoned for a minor offense. When he escapes, he is pursued for decades by the unrelenting lawman, Javert.359 min (5 hr 59 min)
- StarsHelmut HellstorffVyacheslav TikhonovArtyom KarapetyanThe battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.358 min (5 hr 58 min)
- DirectorFrederick WisemanRenowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman profiles the doctors, nurses, physicians, and patients at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, as he watches medical staff work around the clock trying to provide care and comfort for patients possibly experiencing the last moments of their lives and console family members of the patients in addition.358 min (5 hr 58 min)
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsMartín AndradeThe documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Peron and his government, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentinian History in the 20th century.346 min (5 hr 46 min)
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsEliane Annie AdaltoPierre BarbieuxBernard BombeauIn this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.345 min (6 hr)
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsPyotr GlebovElina BystritskayaZinaida KirienkoAn epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.340 min (5 hr 40 min)
- DirectorLeonardo FavioStarsMartín AndradeThe documentary deals on the life and achievements of Juan Domingo Peron and his government, the key political facts and figures and also about Argentinian History in the 20th century.340 min (5 hr 40 min)
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsDenis DevelouxYvan LagrangeCatherine Guezennec338 min (5 hr 38 min)
- DirectorAleksey SakharovStarsSergey ShakurovValeri RyzhakovErnst Romanov336 min (5 hr 36 min)
- DirectorAbel GanceStarsAlbert DieudonnéVladimir RoudenkoEdmond Van DaëleA film about the French general's youth and early military career.330 min (5 hr 30 min)
- DirectorDavid PerlovStarsDavid PerlovMira PerlovYael PerlovShot over a ten-year period, Diary is not only the political, professional, and personal diary of a man, but is a testimony on the turbulent reality of a war-torn country, Israel. In six chapters, Perlov travels to Tel Aviv, Paris, London, and finally to Brazil, where he was born. The film is also a family diary in which Perlov records the coming of age of his two daughters, Yael and Naomi.330 min (5 hr 30 min)
- DirectorVithalbhai JhaveriStarsMohandas K. Gandhi330 min (5 hr 30 min)
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsMusidoraÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueAn intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.329 min (5 hr 29 min)
- 1995– 5 eps7.4 (214)TV SeriesStarsAleksandr SokurovIn 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engaged the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov's haunting documentary chronicles the downtime between activity.328 min (5 hr 28 min)
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsGeorges BiscotAndrée LionelGinette Maddie320 min (5 hr 20 min)
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczRouben MamoulianStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonRex HarrisonQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.320 min (5 hr 20 min)
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasStan BrakhageRobert BreerDirector Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.320 min (5 hr 20 min)
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsRobert De NiroGérard DepardieuDominique SandaThe epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.318 min (5 hr 18 min)
- DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsClaude LanzmannEhud BarakAvigdor FeldmanA documentary about the Israel Defense Forces.316 min (5 hr 16 min)
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanStarsDaniel OlbrychskiMalgorzata BraunekTadeusz LomnickiDuring the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.316 min (5 hr 16 min)
- DirectorLav DiazStarsYul ServoJoel TorreGloria DiazA Filipino teenager is shot to death on a New Jersey, USA sidewalk: an investigation starts and his family and friends are interviewed. Along the way, more about him is revealed and so is more about the Filipino community in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past.315 min (5 hr 15 min)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.312 min (5 hr 12 min)
- DirectorJeremy SummersStarsJohn BluthalPatrick DurkinPaul Shelley312 min (5 hr 12 min)
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsLembit UlfsakNatalya BelokhvostikovaEvgeniy LeonovA story of two orphans growing up in Flemish town at the time of witch-hunts, fear and ever present chance to get caught and been tortured and killed with or without a reason.311 min (5 hr 11 min)
- DirectorRaymond BernardStarsHarry BaurCharles VanelPaul AzaïsThe lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.305 min (5 hr 5 min)
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsWinifred WagnerGottfried WagnerHans-Jürgen SyberbergHans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.302 min (5 hr 2 min)
- StarsSamuel WestAdolf BuchnerJutta RüdigerAn examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.299 min (4 hr 59 min)