Tediously Long Films
According to Wikipedia, these are the 35 longest films by running time. Which would you find the most tedious to watch?
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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.
For a longer list please see:
List of Longest Films by Running Time
You may discuss the poll here?
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.
For a longer list please see:
List of Longest Films by Running Time
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- DirectorBjornstjerne Reuter ChristiansenJakob FengerRasmus NielsenStarsNicolas GaitanThe ever-slow decay of Helsinki's Stora Enso headquarters building.14400 min (240 hr / 10 days) - The film shows centuries of decay, compressed into the span of the film, marking Helsinki's Stora Enso headquarters building. The film was originally screened in front of the building itself on a 40m2 screen so people could see the original building simultaneously to the one on the screen.
- 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) - Composed over 35 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,792 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time.
- 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) - The film consists of images and sequences based on a single photo. It shows a boy riding a bicycle, a street, houses, garages, and sky. Over time, the image changes, but those movements are very slow and not directly visible.
- 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) - Not 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.
- 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) - No actual footage was shot for the project, which instead consists entirely of outtakes, commercials, strips of undeveloped film, Academy leader, and other filmic castoff material, creating a seemingly endless stream of newsreel and stock footage. Some portions of the film consist of the same commercial, repeated over and over again, for more than half an hour. Strips of 35mm still picture film are also included in the film; at times, the images are run upside down, and in reverse.
- 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) - This 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).
- 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) - The film is a 1967 avant-garde film by Andy Warhol, actually consisting of 25 hours of film. In typical Warhol fashion of the period, each reel of the film is 35 minutes long, or 1200 ft. in length, and is shot in sync-sound. The film's title is a pun on the rating system used by critics to rank films, with "four stars" being the highest rating.
- 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) - A global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it.
- StarsLiliane TigerGeorgia PeachClaudia Rossi840 min (14 hr) - The film is a 2008 Chinese documentary film directed by Wang Bing. Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, it follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
- 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) - "Out 1" is a very precise picture of post May '68 malaise - when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned.
- 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) - The Film is a 1976 French documentary film directed by Joris Ivens, about the last days of the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsElryan de VeraAngie FerroPen MedinaThe collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.643 min (10 hr 43 min) - The film is a Filipino film by Lav Diaz about a Filipino Family over a period of years.
- 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) - In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko.
- 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) - Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage.
- 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) - The 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.
- 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) - A Filipino poet named Benjamin Agusan (Roeder Camanag) is the hapless native who returns to his hometown.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsRonnie LazaroJordanSid LuceroA wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.540 min (9 hr) - The film is the story of a farmer (Ronnie Lazaro) who makes a pact with God to save a girl from rape"
- 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) - The film focuses on the life and rituals of nomadic peoples in Northern Mongolia, specifically the Darkhad nomads and the Sojon Urinjanghai.
- 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) - A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.484 min (8 hr 4 min) - Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsAngeli BayaniPerry DizonRoeder CamanagThree people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.480 min (8 hr) - Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
- 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) - The films is a four-part Christian film produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania under the direction of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement. The film presented their beliefs about God's plan from the creation of the earth through to the end of the 1,000 year reign of Christ.
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsBrigid BerlinOndinePat CloseA boy (Pat Close) wanders aimlessly and wonders about life and love.480 min (8 hr) - Andy Warhol shot sixteen 32-minute reels of film for all the interior shots during January 1967 in a Hollywood Hills home called the Castle.
- 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) - The film is based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (London 1939).
- 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) - In a small dilapidated village in 1990s Hungary, life has come to a virtual standstill.
- 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) - Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece.
- 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) - The film comprises two parts: “The Dream of the Last Historian” and “The Sublime Calculation.”
- 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) - A compilation film designed to evoke nostalgia for the shared entertainment experiences of early baby boomers.
- 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) - Set 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.
- 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) - During 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.
- 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) - The film consists almost entirely of archive footage, depicting the history of the United States in film.