movies with long RUN Times

Well, since you asked, "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" is 201 minutes; "Lawrence of Arabia" is 216 minutes; "Once Upon a Time in America" is 229 minutes; "Gone With the Wind" is 238 minutes; "Shoah" (1985) is a documentary on the Holocaust that lasts around 560 minutes, or about 9 and a half hours; and the infamous, plotless "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987) is a whopping 5,220 minutes long, or about 87 hours.

The 30th separate version of Das Boot came out not too long ago (it's actually the director's cut) and is 293 minutes or so.

ty for your help. i will add them. lol cant believe i forgot about Lord of the rings.

ty

Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (1970) - 2880 mins. Gettysburg (1993) - 261 mins. Gods and Generals (2003) - 231 mins. Empire (2002) - 485 mins. Cleopatra - 320 mins (director's cut). Sleep (1963) - 321 mins. 1900 (1976) - 318 mins.

I was going to say Rose Red and The Stand, but those are actually TV miniseries and that's why they are so long.

I would have stuck all 3 lord of the rings into one movie - they really are just that - one movie split into 3 parts. I don't actually know the full length. Also, I would use the speical editions - I think they're about 4 hours each, maybe more - that comes out to around a 12 hour movie total!

The Godfather: Part II - 200 min.
The Seven Samurai - 206 min.
The Ten Commandments - 220 min.
The Loyal 47 Ronin - 241 min.

The times are from imdb, which really should offer the ability to search on runtime for this sort of thing.

Is there a reason you still haven't added several of my suggestions?

I would have to include: QBVII. Not only is this movie long, but it's also incredibly boring which makes it even longer.

A great list would be short films that feel interminably long.

And there's another bizarre one called Berlin Alexanderplatz you might wanna list. cuz it's really freakin' long.

Tallyho

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War and Peace (1956) is 205 minutes long.

I wonder why you're including movies under 200 minutes at all - there are dozens of movies longer than 200 minutes. And Donnie Darko Director's cut? Probably the 10,000th longest running time for a movie ever. Woo-hoo!

Okay, just theatrical movies, well there's War & Peace by Sergei Bondarchuck (or something like that) at a wopping 507 minutes, Russian film though. Tis a long one, but strangely never boring.

And 1900 by Bertolucci which is 250 or there abouts and talk about boring. Fell asleep on it twice. Still pretty good though.

And then there's most films by Ken Loach which just feel really long...a preachy...and boring...and long-winded...etc.

Tallyho

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Dunno if this qualifies, but I just remembered that three Godfather movies were edited together in chronological order for home video release in 1992. If so, The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 clocks in at 583 minutes.

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Greed (1924), if it had a 'director's cut', would be more than 9 hours long. But I'm not sure exactly how long, and there is no director's cut surviving :-)

I'd suggest:
Napoléon (1927) (378 mins)
The Birth of a Nation (1915) (190 mins)

I'd mention Warren Beatty's "Reds" (194 mins).

Don't worry, it's not as long as it feels...

Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) is 190 minutes long (as is the copy I got from the library), although imdb lists the USA release runtime as only 163 minutes.

As long as we've got Andy Warhol in the door, we should also mention "Imitation of Christ" (480 mins), "The Chelsea Girls" (210 mins) and the original cut of "Four Stars" (1100 mins).

Here's some more stuff, too:

"Hamlet" (1996) - 242 mins
"La Belle Noiseuse" - 240 mins
"A Brighter Summer Day" - director's cut runs 237 mins
"Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India" - 224 mins
"Andrei Rublev" - Criterion DVD runs 205 mins
"Spartacus" - 1991 rerelease runs 196 mins
"Schindler's List" - 194 mins
"Titanic" - 194 mins
"Celine and Julie Go Boating" - 193 mins
"Magnolia" - 188 mins
"Short Cuts" - 187 mins
"A Touch of Zen" - 187 mins
"The Falls" - 185 mins
"Red Beard" - 185 mins
"Barry Lyndon" - 184 mins
"O Lucky Man!" - 183 mins
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - 179 mins
"Casino" - 178 mins
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" - 178 mins
"My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into an Argument" - 178 mins
"Dogville" - 177 mins
"Les Miserables" (1995) - 175 mins
"Yi Yi" - 173 mins
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" - 172 mins
"Hoop Dreams" - 170 mins
"The Thin Red Line" (1998) - 170 mins
"Tokyo Olympiad" - 170 mins
"Los Angeles Plays Itself" - 169 mins
"Up, Down, Fragile" - 169 mins
"Underground" (1995) - US cut runs 167 mins
"Gangs of New York" - 166 mins
"Secret Defense" - 166 mins
"Solaris" (1972) - 165 mins
"The Last Temptation of Christ" - 164 mins
"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" - 163 mins
"Scenes from a Marriage" - US theatrical version runs 163 mins
"Stalker" - 163 mins
"Troy" - 163 mins
"The Godfather Part III" - 162 mins
"Titus" - 162 mins
"Kwaidan" - 161 mins
"Amadeus" - 160 mins
"The English Patient" - 160 mins
"Topsy-Turvy" - 160 mins
"Eyes Wide Shut" - 159 mins
"Nashville" - 159 mins
"Richard III" (1955) - 159 mins
"Fitzcarraldo" - 158 mins
"Time Regained" - 158 mins
"New York, New York" - 155 mins
"The Color Purple" - 154 mins
"Empire of the Sun" - 154 mins
"The Ruling Class" - 154 mins
"Va Savoir" - 154 mins
"Apocalypse Now" - 153 mins ("Redux" runs 202 mins)
"Breaking the Waves" - 153 mins
"Hamlet" (1948) - 153 mins
"Amistad" - 152 mins
"Boogie Nights" - 152 mins
"Cold Mountain" - 152 mins
"Lolita" (1962) - 152 mins
"Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" - 150 mins
"Humanite" - 148 mins
"Mulholland Drive" - 147 mins
"Traffic" - 147 mins
"A Woman Under the Influence" - 147 mins
"AI" - 146 mins
"The Corporation" - 145 mins
"Minority Report" - 145 mins

Wow! thx ..dang thats alot! ok im going too put it in but make have is own section for now because it will take along time to find the right places by time. But Thx so much! ty

Here another film with a long run time:
JFK (189 mins)

Maybe I overlooked this.

But, I think "Dances With Wolves" is pretty darn long.

I forgot about Fanny And Alexander, which runs 312 minutes in its original director's cut.

'Les Vampires' (1915) by Louis Feuillade has a run time of 440 minutes.

I figured if I'm ragging on you for not being exhaustive, I ought to at least help you out a bit, eh?

Are you including serials (I wouldn't)? Isn't Les Vampires a serial? If so, then there are hundreds of serials you should include.

Are you including TV movies? If so, there are several hundred titles you could add, including The Trials of Vera B (2001), at 286 mins, and Cathering Courage (1993), which in Germany ran 270 mins.

If you're including video releases (which, if you're counting the DVD release of the entire Godfather trilogy), then there are hundreds more titles you can include).

I hope to God you're not including miniseries because then almost every miniseries ever made will make the list.

Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime (1922) is 297 minuts (restored version)
Heaven and Earth (1982) - 285 mins
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777 (1996) - 285 mins
Die Große Flatter (1979) - 282 mins
Until the End of the World (1991) - 280 mins (director's cut)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973), the German version, is 275 mins
The Gate of the Sun (2004) is 270 mins
Hotel Terminus (1988) is 267 mins
The Sorrow and the Pity is 265 mins
L' Amour four (1969) is 252 mins
Return of the King's extended edition will be 251 mins
Last Tango in Paris' original cut was 250 mins
My Voyage to Italy (1999) is 246 mins
The Three Musketeers (1933) is 246 mins
Ludwig (1972): the French cut was 245 mins
Belfast, Maine (1999) is 245 mins
The Sand Pebbles (1966) - before it was censored, it was 243 mins (more than an HOUR was censored by the BBFC)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) was 241 mins in the UK
The Olympics in Mexico (1969) is 240 mins
The Gregersen Family (2004) is 240 mins
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991) is 240 mins
My Name is Joker (1970) is 240 mins

Well, that's a start, anyway.

I tried not to repeat titles that you've already got, sorry if I repeated a couple anyway.

I think you should probably clearly define the criterion for your list, such as whether or not to include: video-only releases, TV movies, TV miniseries, serials, non-theatrically released cuts of films, foreign cuts of films, etc.

And personally, I'd much rather see every item on the list ranked rather than seperated by contributor.

I Wasnt really thinking of including Tv movies and the like but i'll use your suggestions.

Thakns for all your suggestions. by ranked do you mean something like this:

All Movies under 165

all movies above 165

something like that or did you mean another thing?

Hope this is still going on...

Il Gattopardo- 183 mins
La dolce vita- 174 mins

The version of the Italian film 'Best of Youth' that was released in the United States a few days ago has a runtime of 366 minutes.

I've got one more suggestion:
Woodstock, which lasts 184 minutes, and in its director's cut (which I'm gonna tape tomorrow) 228 minutes.