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Top Long Films

This list is sorted from the longest film to the (relatively) shortest film. Several of these are made-for-television miniseries, and Les Vampires (1915) is a serial. For the rest of the films, there are sometimes even longer cuts and/or shorter versions.

Length in
Minutes
Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
931 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1684
924 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 2163
776 Out 1 1971 Jacques Rivette 2279
572 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 508
566 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 254
551 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 Wang Bing 1927
467 O.J.: Made in America 2016 Ezra Edelman 1302
439 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 776
426 War and Peace 1965 Sergey Bondarchuk 1787
421 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 1069
374 The Best of Youth 2003 Marco Tullio Giordana 1024
334 Carlos 2010 Olivier Assayas 2518
330 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 621
321 Gangs of Wasseypur 2012 Anurag Kashyap 1857
317 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 2059
288 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas 2897
271 Gettysburg 1993 Ron Maxwell 2000
267 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 Jean-Luc Godard 1340
260 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas 2087
255 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006 Spike Lee 1800
251 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 766
242 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1307
242 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 2444
242 Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021 Zack Snyder 2832
240 A Grin without a Cat 1977 Chris Marker 2967
238 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1698
238 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
237 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 659
237 Love Exposure 2008 Sion Sono 2109
230 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1627
229 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 157
224 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1228
220 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 603
219 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1107
218 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
212 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 188
212 World on a Wire 1973 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1917
210 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1915
210 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins 2468
210 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1806
210 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 922
209 The Irishman 2019 Martin Scorsese 976
208 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 1689
207 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
206 Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 Martin Scorsese 2409
202 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 23
202 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 321
202 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 555
201 Giant 1956 George Stevens 829
201 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 52
200 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1293
197 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 393
197 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
196 Winter Sleep 2014 Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2164
195 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
195 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 1837
195 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
194 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 96
193 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 764
193 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 589
192 Avatar: The Way of Water 2022 James Cameron 2986
192 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1904
192 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 2803
191 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 626
191 Grindhouse 2007 Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino 2567
190 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1766
189 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
189 The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride 1995 Aditya Chopra 2067
189 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 216
189 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 296
189 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 745
188 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
188 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 387
188 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 1032
187 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson 1038
187 RRR 2022 S.S. Rajamouli 3039
186 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 340
186 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1620
185 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 233
185 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1437
184 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 858
183 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 121
183 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
182 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 2872
182 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Robert Wise 2795
182 The Saragossa Manuscript 1965 Wojciech Has 2459
181 Avengers: Endgame 2019 Anthony and Joe Russo 373
181 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 356
181 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 1067
181 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 2640
180 49 Up 2005 Michael Apted 1209
180 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 708
180 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
180 Oppenheimer 2023 Christopher Nolan 1446
180 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese 613
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