Top 20 Films 200+ Minutes
Longest films ever made? Or best long films ever made?
200+ Minutes is the bar or over 3h20min. Perhaps arbitrary, yet meaningful.
Even Tarantino & Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse (2007) back to back films and previews only amount to a combined running time of 191 min. Spectacular Titanic (1997) came close at 194 min, and Doctor Zhivago (1965) and amazing About Dry Grass (2023) both at 197 min, but which film made you happy to sit through 200 minutes or much more of your life? (comments welcome below)
After extensive research and viewing, I have gathered here the Top 20 in order from best - 10 hours long Japanese masterpiece: The Human Condition in 3 parts (Part I is 208 min) - to excellent and extras. See below...
Important notes and additional info:
1. Recent Oscar-winner 8 hours, 5 parts documentary O.J.: Made in America (2016) at 467 min.
2. Pseudo-documentary director Peter Watkins has two powerful films on this list at 210 and 345 min (see below), but also made four hour and a half Fritänkaren (1994) at 276 min and one of the longest cinematic film Resan (1987) at 873 min.
3. Three of writer Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece mini-series also had theatrical releases including the best: Scenes from a Marriage (1974) which is only 169 min compared to 283 min original 6 parts 1973 series. Fanny and Alexander (1982) feature is 188 min while the original 4 parts total 312 min and is included below. The Best Intentions (1992) is a worthy autobiography directed by Bille August in 1991 in 4 parts total 333 min and also edited down. Mini-series or films, they are all amazing.
4. Filipino writer/director Lav Diaz 250 min superb Norte, the End of History (2013) is complemented by at least 10 other long films
228 min The Woman Who Left (2016) which I rate 7/10
234 min Season of The Devil (2018)
276 min The Halt (2019)
315 min Batang West Side (2001)
338 min From What Is Before (2014)
450 min Melancholia (2008)
485 min A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016)
538 min Death in the Land of Encantos (2007)
540 min Heremias (2006)
643 min Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
He is decidedly the filmmaker with most films over 200 minutes.
5. Argentinian writer/director Mariano Llinás has two long films, starting with Historias extraordinarias (2008) at 245 min and La flor (2018) in 3 parts at over 13 hours (808 min)
6. 24-hour long UK films The Clock (2010) and 24 Hour Psycho (1993) each last 1440 minutes. I have not seen these and doubt when I can. I had a hard time convincing my brother seing a 12-hour long play called Utopie(s) from Hanna Abd El Nour.
7. For over 24 hours, The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (70) is 48 hours, The Cure for Insomnia (1987) is 87 hours, Beijing 2003 (2004) is 140 hours and Modern Times Forever (2011) is 240 hours.
8. For over a month(!), Ambiancé was released Dec 31, 2020 and last 30 days or over 43 000 minutes. The longest film I could find is Logistics (2012) is 857 hours or 35 days, 17 hours, or 51 420 minutes!
Other to see (when I can spare over 200 minutes):
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) 297 min
Foolish Wives (1922) 384 min
Napoleon (1927) 330 min
Ben Hur (1959) 212 min | 222 min (DVD)
L'amour fou (1969) 372 min - Jacques Rivette
Ryan's Daughter (1970) 206 min
The Mother and the Whore (1973) 217 min
1900 (1976) 317 min
The Deluge (1974) 315 min
Wagner (1981) 300 min
Time of Violence (1988) 288 min
Until the End of the World (1991) 280 min (director's cut) - Wim Wenders
Taiga (1992) 501 min
Smoking/No Smoking (1993) 298 min
Gettysburg (1993) 271 min
Sátántangó (1994) 450 min
Frost (1997) 270 min - Fred Kelemen
Turetskiy gambit (2005) 130 min (theatrical) | 208 min (TV)
Sa raison d'être (2008) 200 min
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, 2, 3 (2015) 125+131+125 = 381 min
Didn't quite make the cut:
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) 237 min
A Touch of Zen (1971) 200 min
Giant (1956) 201 min
Seven Samurai (1954) 207 min | 202 min (DVD)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 216 min | 227 min (restored)
Sangam (1964) 238 min
Heaven's Gate (1980) 325 min
JFK (1991) 189 min | 206 min (director's cut)
Jeanne La Pucelle (1994) 336 min (2 Parts: 160+176) | 270 min (USA) | 238 min (DVD)
Hamlet (1996) 242min
Love Exposure (2008) 237 min
Che: Part One & Two (2008) 134+135=269 min
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) 276 min
Time of Violence (1988) 288 min
The Woman Who Left (2016) 228 min
The New Land (1972) 204 min
Out 1 (1971) 760 min
Without further ado...
Drum roll...
200+ Minutes is the bar or over 3h20min. Perhaps arbitrary, yet meaningful.
Even Tarantino & Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse (2007) back to back films and previews only amount to a combined running time of 191 min. Spectacular Titanic (1997) came close at 194 min, and Doctor Zhivago (1965) and amazing About Dry Grass (2023) both at 197 min, but which film made you happy to sit through 200 minutes or much more of your life? (comments welcome below)
After extensive research and viewing, I have gathered here the Top 20 in order from best - 10 hours long Japanese masterpiece: The Human Condition in 3 parts (Part I is 208 min) - to excellent and extras. See below...
Important notes and additional info:
1. Recent Oscar-winner 8 hours, 5 parts documentary O.J.: Made in America (2016) at 467 min.
2. Pseudo-documentary director Peter Watkins has two powerful films on this list at 210 and 345 min (see below), but also made four hour and a half Fritänkaren (1994) at 276 min and one of the longest cinematic film Resan (1987) at 873 min.
3. Three of writer Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece mini-series also had theatrical releases including the best: Scenes from a Marriage (1974) which is only 169 min compared to 283 min original 6 parts 1973 series. Fanny and Alexander (1982) feature is 188 min while the original 4 parts total 312 min and is included below. The Best Intentions (1992) is a worthy autobiography directed by Bille August in 1991 in 4 parts total 333 min and also edited down. Mini-series or films, they are all amazing.
4. Filipino writer/director Lav Diaz 250 min superb Norte, the End of History (2013) is complemented by at least 10 other long films
228 min The Woman Who Left (2016) which I rate 7/10
234 min Season of The Devil (2018)
276 min The Halt (2019)
315 min Batang West Side (2001)
338 min From What Is Before (2014)
450 min Melancholia (2008)
485 min A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016)
538 min Death in the Land of Encantos (2007)
540 min Heremias (2006)
643 min Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
He is decidedly the filmmaker with most films over 200 minutes.
5. Argentinian writer/director Mariano Llinás has two long films, starting with Historias extraordinarias (2008) at 245 min and La flor (2018) in 3 parts at over 13 hours (808 min)
6. 24-hour long UK films The Clock (2010) and 24 Hour Psycho (1993) each last 1440 minutes. I have not seen these and doubt when I can. I had a hard time convincing my brother seing a 12-hour long play called Utopie(s) from Hanna Abd El Nour.
7. For over 24 hours, The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (70) is 48 hours, The Cure for Insomnia (1987) is 87 hours, Beijing 2003 (2004) is 140 hours and Modern Times Forever (2011) is 240 hours.
8. For over a month(!), Ambiancé was released Dec 31, 2020 and last 30 days or over 43 000 minutes. The longest film I could find is Logistics (2012) is 857 hours or 35 days, 17 hours, or 51 420 minutes!
Other to see (when I can spare over 200 minutes):
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) 297 min
Foolish Wives (1922) 384 min
Napoleon (1927) 330 min
Ben Hur (1959) 212 min | 222 min (DVD)
L'amour fou (1969) 372 min - Jacques Rivette
Ryan's Daughter (1970) 206 min
The Mother and the Whore (1973) 217 min
1900 (1976) 317 min
The Deluge (1974) 315 min
Wagner (1981) 300 min
Time of Violence (1988) 288 min
Until the End of the World (1991) 280 min (director's cut) - Wim Wenders
Taiga (1992) 501 min
Smoking/No Smoking (1993) 298 min
Gettysburg (1993) 271 min
Sátántangó (1994) 450 min
Frost (1997) 270 min - Fred Kelemen
Turetskiy gambit (2005) 130 min (theatrical) | 208 min (TV)
Sa raison d'être (2008) 200 min
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, 2, 3 (2015) 125+131+125 = 381 min
Didn't quite make the cut:
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) 237 min
A Touch of Zen (1971) 200 min
Giant (1956) 201 min
Seven Samurai (1954) 207 min | 202 min (DVD)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 216 min | 227 min (restored)
Sangam (1964) 238 min
Heaven's Gate (1980) 325 min
JFK (1991) 189 min | 206 min (director's cut)
Jeanne La Pucelle (1994) 336 min (2 Parts: 160+176) | 270 min (USA) | 238 min (DVD)
Hamlet (1996) 242min
Love Exposure (2008) 237 min
Che: Part One & Two (2008) 134+135=269 min
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) 276 min
Time of Violence (1988) 288 min
The Woman Who Left (2016) 228 min
The New Land (1972) 204 min
Out 1 (1971) 760 min
Without further ado...
Drum roll...
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