List of Longest Films by Running Time
by dan_dassow | created - 03 Jun 2011 | updated - 15 Dec 2011 | PublicThis list is based on the Wikipedia article [link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_films_by_running_time[/link]
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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1. Cinématon (1984)
TV-PG | 210 min | Documentary
A 151-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It is considered to be the longest film ever released.
Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Marie-Louise Alemann, Halim Anou, Tina Aumont, Cécile Babiole
Votes: 124
9660 min (161 hr / 6 days, 16 hours)
2. Matrjoschka (2006 Video)
5,700 min | Drama
A German girl eats yogurt, looks through a phone book, and tries to sleep on a couch to no avail.
Director: Karin Hoerler
Votes: 44
5700 min (95 hr / 3 days, 23 hours)
3. The Cure for Insomnia (1987)
Unrated | 5,220 min | Documentary, Music
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.
Director: John Henry Timmis IV | Stars: Cosmic Lightning, L.D. Groban, J.T.4
Votes: 418
5220 min (87 hr / 3 days, 15 hours)
4. The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (1970)
TV-14 | 2,880 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World is an underground movie made in the UK that runs to 48 hours long.
Director: Vincent Patouillard | Star: Bob Seely
Votes: 198
2880 min (48 hr)
5. Huo shao hong lian si (1928)
1,620 min | Drama
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). In its entirety it would be 27 hours long.
Director: Shichuan Zhang | Stars: Xiaoqiu Zheng, Peizhen Xia, Lihen Gao, Jiting Wang
Votes: 62
1620 min (27 hr)
6. **** (1967)
TV-MA | 1,500 min | Drama
Originally 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.
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: Brigid Berlin, Tally Brown, David Croland, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 103
1500 min (25 hr / 1 day, 1 hour)
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Not Rated | 931 min | Crime, Drama
In 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.
Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser
Votes: 4,902
931 min (15 hr 31 min)
8. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984)
924 min | Drama, History, War
The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982.
Stars: Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Kurt Wagner, Gertrud Bredel
Votes: 3,336
924 min (15 hr 24 min)
1532 min (25 hr 32 min)
9. Resan (1987)
873 min | Documentary, War
A global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Francine Bastien, Brian Mulroney, Mila Mulroney, Peter Watkins
Votes: 133
873 min (14 hr 33 min)
840 min (14 hr)
11. Out 1 (1971)
Not Rated | 776 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.
Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot
Votes: 1,554 | Gross: $0.03M
773 min (12 hr 53 min)
12. Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (1976)
763 min | Documentary
From 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens, Jean Bigiaoui
Votes: 118
763 min (13 hr 43 min)
13. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
Not Rated | 625 min | Drama
The collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Elryan de Vera, Angie Ferro, Pen Medina, Marife Necesito
Votes: 510
643 min (10 hr 43 min)
14. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (I) (1959)
Not Rated | 208 min | Drama, History, War
A 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.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Votes: 9,366
579 min (9 hr 39 min)
15. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,559 | Gross: $0.02M
566 min (9 hr 26 min)
16. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002)
551 min | Documentary
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.
Director: Wang Bing
Votes: 1,328
556 min (9 hr 26 min)
17. Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (2007)
540 min | Drama
Filipino 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Roeder Camanag, Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Dante Perez
Votes: 267
540 min (9 hr)
18. Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006)
519 min | Crime, Drama
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Ronnie Lazaro, Jordan, Sid Lucero, Dante Balois
Votes: 200
540 min (9 hr)
19. Taiga (1958)
100 min | Drama
A German woman doctor in a Siberia prison camp during WWII inspires her fellow detainees with her compassion and strength.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Ruth Leuwerik, Hannes Messemer, Günter Pfitzmann, Viktor Staal
Votes: 16
501 min (8 hr 31 min)
20. Empire (1964)
485 min | Documentary
A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
Directors: John Palmer, Andy Warhol | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol
Votes: 1,442
485 min (8 hr 5 min)
21. War and Peace (1965)
GP | 393 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava
Votes: 8,352 | Gross: $0.13M
484 min (8 hr 4 min)
22. Melancholia (2008)
Not Rated | 450 min | Drama
Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Dante Perez
Votes: 555
480 min (8 hr)
23. The Photo-Drama of Creation (1914)
480 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Taze Russell
Votes: 295
480 min (8 hr)
24. Imitation of Christ (1967)
105 min | Drama
A boy (Pat Close) wanders aimlessly and wonders about life and love.
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: Brigid Berlin, Ondine, Pat Close, Nico
Votes: 45
480 min (8 hr)
25. El protegido de Satán (1917)
480 min
Director: Juan María Codina | Stars: Lola París, Baltasar Banquells, Bianca Valoris, Carmen Rodríguez
480 min (8 hr)
26. The Wake (2000 Video)
462 min
A 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, ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz | Stars: Claus Christensen, Niels Olaf Gudme, Sarah Boberg, Elina Löwensohn
Votes: 10
462 min (7 hr 42 min)
27. Mefisto (1917)
460 min | Thriller
Director: Juan María Codina | Stars: Josep Balaguer, Laura Bove, Julián de la Cantera, Silvia Mariátegui
460 min (7 hr 40 min)
28. Satantango (1994)
Not Rated | 439 min | Drama
On 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.
Director: Béla Tarr | Stars: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László feLugossy, Éva Almássy Albert
Votes: 12,589
450 min (8 hr 30 min)
29. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 906
442 min (7 hr 22 min)
30. Lamentations a Monument for the Dead World (1985)
437 min | History, Mystery
Like 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 ... See full summary »
Director: R. Bruce Elder | Stars: Michael Cartmell, Robert Fothergill, Kristina Jones, David King
Votes: 38
427 min (7 hr 7 min)
31. The Movie Orgy (2009)
420 min | Documentary, History
A montage of 1950s B-movies, TV shows & vintage commercials create a nostalgic collage about aliens & monsters attacking America.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Ann-Margret, Ngo Dinh Diem, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Groucho Marx
Votes: 203
420 min (7 hr)
32. Arshin mal-alan (1917)
420 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Svetlov | Stars: Huseyngulu Sarabski, Ahmed Agdamski, Alakbar Huseynzade, Yunis Narimanov
Votes: 59
420 min (7 hr)
33. The Satin Slipper (1985)
410 min | Drama
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. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Anne Gautier
Votes: 190
410 min (6 hr 50 min)
34. Star Spangled to Death (2004)
402 min | Documentary, History
Star 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.
Director: Ken Jacobs | Stars: Jack Smith, Jerry Sims, Gib Taylor, Bill Carpenter
Votes: 173
402 min (6 hr 42 min)
35. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,217 | Gross: $0.27M
400 min (7 hr 40 min)
400 min (7 hr 40 min)
37. I paisan (1967)
392 min | Documentary
A documentary dedicated to detailing the daily lives of Italian folk.
Director: Giuseppe Morandi
392 min (7 hr 32 min)
38. Parisette (1921)
380 min | Drama
A cine-roman following the fates of a Portuguese nobleman, a Carmelite nun, and a mysterious lookalike.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Sandra Milovanoff, Georges Biscot, Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
Votes: 25
380 min (6 hr 20 min)
39. Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique (1991)
380 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
It 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.
Director: Boris Lehman | Stars: Nathalie Balou, François Beukelaers, Maggy Collard, Kathleen de Béthune
Votes: 24
380 min (6 hr 20 min)
40. The French Revolution (1989)
335 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.
Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 1,850
360 min (6 hr)
41. Little Dorrit (2008)
TV-PG | 34 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The 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.
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Claire Foy, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 10,493
360 min (6 hr)
42. Bevezetés a filmkészítés rejtelmeibe (1996)
360 min
For 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.
Director: András Szirtes
360 min (6 hr)
43. Les misérables (1925)
359 min | Drama
Jean 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.
Director: Henri Fescourt | Stars: Gabriel Gabrio, Paul Jorge, Sandra Milovanoff, Andrée Rolane
Votes: 94 | Gross: $0.42M
359 min (5 hr 59 min)
44. Bitva za Moskvu (1985)
358 min | Drama, History, War
The 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.
Stars: Helmut Hellstorff, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Artyom Karapetyan, Yakov Tripolsky
Votes: 472
358 min (5 hr 58 min)
45. Near Death (1989)
358 min | Documentary
Renowned 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... See full summary »
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Votes: 267
358 min (5 hr 58 min)
46. Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim (1996)
358 min | Documentary, History
Documentary about the history of Jerusalem.
Director: Ron Havilio
Votes: 36
358 min (5 hr 58 min)
47. Perón, sinfonía del sentimiento (1999)
340 min | Documentary
The 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.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Star: Martín Andrade
Votes: 191
346 min (5 hr 46 min)
48. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
345 min | Drama, History, War
In 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.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue
Votes: 1,336
345 min (6 hr)
49. Quiet Flows the Don (1957)
Not Rated | 330 min | Drama, History, Romance
An epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.
Director: Sergey Gerasimov | Stars: Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kirienko, Daniil Ilchenko
Votes: 1,312
340 min (5 hr 40 min)
50. Perón, sinfonía del sentimiento (1999)
340 min | Documentary
The 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.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Star: Martín Andrade
Votes: 191
340 min (5 hr 40 min)
51. L'idole des jeunes (1976)
338 min | Musical
Director: Yvan Lagrange | Stars: Denis Develoux, Yvan Lagrange, Catherine Guezennec, Martine Maréchal
338 min (5 hr 38 min)
52. Vkus khleba (1979)
336 min | Drama
Director: Aleksey Sakharov | Stars: Sergey Shakurov, Valeri Ryzhakov, Ernst Romanov, Nikolay Yeryomenko
Votes: 22
336 min (5 hr 36 min)
53. Napoleon (1927)
330 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky
Votes: 8,798
330 min (5 hr 30 min)
54. Diary 1973-1983 (1983)
330 min | Documentary
Shot 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 ... See full summary »
Director: David Perlov | Stars: David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Yael Perlov, Neomi Perlov
Votes: 188
330 min (5 hr 30 min)
55. Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948 (1968)
330 min | Documentary
Director: Vithalbhai Jhaveri | Star: Mohandas K. Gandhi
Votes: 23
330 min (5 hr 30 min)
56. Les vampires (1915)
Not Rated | 421 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé
Votes: 5,433
329 min (5 hr 29 min)
57. Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (1995– )
328 min | Documentary
In 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 ... See full summary »
Star: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 213
328 min (5 hr 28 min)
58. Sleep (1964)
321 min | Documentary
A man sleeps for five hours.
Director: Andy Warhol | Star: John Giorno
Votes: 534
321 min (5 hr 21 min)
59. Vindicta (1923)
320 min
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Georges Biscot, Andrée Lionel, Ginette Maddie, Lise Jaux
320 min (5 hr 20 min)
60. Cleopatra (1963)
G | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Votes: 37,433 | Gross: $57.78M
320 min (5 hr 20 min)
61. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
288 min | Documentary, Biography
Director 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.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton
Votes: 1,466
320 min (5 hr 20 min)
62. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,291
318 min (5 hr 18 min)
63. Tsahal (1994)
316 min | Documentary
A documentary about the Israel Defense Forces.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Claude Lanzmann, Ehud Barak, Avigdor Feldman, Shlomo Gazit
Votes: 112
316 min (5 hr 16 min)
64. The Deluge (1974)
287 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During 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.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Votes: 3,188
316 min (5 hr 16 min)
65. West Side Avenue (2001)
315 min | Crime, Drama
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Yul Servo, Joel Torre, Gloria Diaz, Angel Aquino
Votes: 214
315 min (5 hr 15 min)
66. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,520 | Gross: $4.97M
312 min (5 hr 12 min)
67. Nightmare (1972)
312 min
Director: Jeremy Summers | Stars: John Bluthal, Patrick Durkin, Paul Shelley, Ian Stirling
Votes: 16
312 min (5 hr 12 min)
68. Legenda o Tile (1977)
311 min | Adventure, History
A 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.
Directors: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Stars: Lembit Ulfsak, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Evgeniy Leonov, Mikhail Ulyanov
Votes: 263
311 min (5 hr 11 min)
69. Les Misérables (1934)
Not Rated | 281 min | Drama
The 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.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs, Max Dearly
Votes: 1,971
305 min (5 hr 5 min)
70. Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1976)
302 min | Documentary
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Winifred Wagner, Gottfried Wagner, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Votes: 88
302 min (5 hr 2 min)
71. The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
292 min | Documentary, History, War
An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Buchner, Jutta Rüdiger, Günther Ruschin
Votes: 1,722
299 min (4 hr 59 min)
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