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      The Longest Movies Ever Made | Full List Inside

      Do you like movies so much you’d sit in front of a screen for eight or for more hours? Today we are bringing for you a list of 20 longest films ever made. These are some of the longest movies ever made in the English language.

      Yes of course, movies shot in other languages all over the world that are just as long, if not longer, than some of the movies in this list are seven-hour episodic film.

      List of Longest Movies Ever Made

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      • Year : 2012
      • Duration : 857 hours

      In 2008, Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson decide to follow the path of a common pedometer from its manufacture in a Chinese factory to its sale in a Stockholm store.

      The film, present in reverse chronological order in real time, lasts 35 days and 17 hours.

      Ambiancé
      • Year : 2020
      • Duration : 720 hours

      This film, by Swedish director Anders Weberg, is a special case. 

      Apparently, no one has seen it.

      Weberg vowed to destroy the film after its screening to make it the “longest film ever made that doesn’t exist.”

      In December 2021, after almost three years of silence, he simply decreed, “It’s done.”

      Modern Times Forever
      • Year: 2011
      • Duration: 240 hours

      A group of Danish artists create this film to show the ravages of time on a building.

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      For brevity, hundreds of years were compress into 10 days.

      The Clock
      • Year: 2010
      • Duration: 24 hours

      The Clock is compose of thousands of film clips put in order to form an entire day.

      Each scene contains a clock or dialogue indicating the time.

      This tour de force of research received a Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.

      The Hazards of Helen
      • Year: 1914
      • Duration: 23 hours and 48 minutes

      The Hazards of Helen is actually a compilation of of several 12-minute-long stories, so it’s not exactly a movie.

      Shooting 119 episodes when cinema was in its infancy, however, certainly earns it a spot on this list. Made between 1914 and 1917, 

      The Hazards of Helen features the countless adventures of a telegraph operator, who has a knack for finding herself on trains and amid horse chases.

      Resan
      • Year: 1987
      • Duration: 14 hours and 33 minutes

      At 14 hours and 33 minutes, Resan is certainly the longest documentary in the world.

      Directed by Peter Watkins, the film travels to no fewer than 12 countries to explore the links between nuclear weapons, military spending, and poverty.

      Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes
      • Type: 1976
      • Duration: 12 hours and 43 minutes

      For almost 13 hours, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan explore China as the Cultural Revolution comes to a close in a film some qualify as beautiful and moving. 

      Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes is divided into 12 parts, each showing anywhere from 14 to 108 minutes of daily life in various locations.

      Out 1, noli me tangere
      • Year: 1971
      • Duration: 12 hours and 56 minutes

      Directed by Frenchman Jacques Rivette and adapted from a story by Balzac, this feature film follows a deaf-mute hustler who stumbles upon a secret society.

      Despite lasting nearly 13 hours, Out 1 seems worthy of our patience. 

      Critics surveyed by the British Film Institute ranked it 127th among the best films of all time

      Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino Family)
      • Year: 2004
      • Duration: 10 hours and 43 minutes

      Intimate, austere, slow, minimalist, uncompromising, and lasting almost 11 hours, this film is probably not the best choice for a first date.

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      In fact, this is true of almost all of director Lav Diaz’s work.

      You’ll see his name again and again in this list.

      Shoah
      • Year: 1985
      • Duration: 9 hours and 26 minutes

      Claude Lanzmann’s documentary on the Holocaust, which uses no archival footage, but rather testimony from survivors and even former Nazis, changed the history of cinema.

      If any subject deserves a long, patient, nine-and-a-half-hour treatment, it’s this one.

      Tiexi qu (West of the Tracks)
      • Year: 2002
      • Duration: 9 hours and 11 minutes

      To document China’s transition from communism to a market economy, director Bing Wang set up his camera in the industrial district of Shenyang. Previously the symbol of a lush socialist economy, it now faces factory closures that put workers at risk of losing everything they own.

      Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos)
      • Year: 2007
      • Duration: 9 hours

      Lav Diaz start making this film after seeing the damage caused by Typhoon Durian in the Philippines in 2006.

      This is a fictional film, but the director spent a good amount of time examining regional destruction.

      Heremias : Unang aklat – Ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak
      • Year: 2006
      • Duration: 9 hours

      In Heremias: Book One – The Legend of the Lizard Princess, director Lav Diaz (again) recounts one man’s journey from his village to the city and back again.

      The voyage takes him from innocence to disillusionment as well, as the character discovers the prevalence of criminality and corruption throughout his region.

      Empire
      • Year: 1964
      • Duration: 8 hours and 5 minutes

      Filmed at 24 frames per second, but intended to be shown at 16 frames per second, Empire’s six and a half hours of footage become a feature film of just over eight hours.

      What’s it about? The film is no more than a static shot of the Empire State Building from dusk to dawn. 

      Andy Warhol made the movie to explore the passage of time.

      Hele sa hiwagang hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery)
      • Year: 2016
      • Duration: 8 hours and 5 minutes
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      Lav Diaz intertwines multiple narrative lines to explore the story of Andrés Bonifacio, the father of the Filipino revolution against the Spanish empire.

      Eight-hour films are inherently demanding, but this one may go a bit too far. As one critic pointed out, it’s difficult to sell a work by saying,

      “It picks up after the first three hours.”

      Sátántangó
      • Year: 1994
      • Duration: 7 hours and 19 minutes

      Sátántangó is based on a novel of the same name by László Krasznahorkai.

      The movie is nearly as long as a typical workday, so the book must be a brick, right? Nope, it’s barely 274 pages.

      Melancholia
      • Year: 2008
      • Duration: 7 hours and 30 minutes

      Lasting less than eight hours, this almost qualifies as a short film by Lav Diaz standards.

      It’s still a bit long, but Melancholia offers a kind of reward with its critically acclaimed finale.

      Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (Hitler : A Film from Germany)
      • Year: 1977
      • Duration: 7 hours and 22 minutes

      Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s portrait of the rise and fall of the Third Reich was not only ambitious in terms of its length.

      The director also incorporates a variety of filming techniques, such as puppet theatre and projections. Referring to the length of his work, Syberberg said, “Hitler prevented German cinema from existing for 20 years.

      Seven hours are not too long to re-appropriate the images and words confiscated by Nazism.

      Voyna i mir
      • Year: 1967
      • Duration: 7 hours and 2 minutes

      The novel War and Peace frequently serves as a classic punchline in jokes about things that last too long.

      It’s no surprise, then, that the film adaptation of the book made it onto this list.

      The seven-hour movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film in 1969.

      O sapato de cetim
      • Year: 1985
      • Duration: 6 hours and 50 minutes

      The film adaptation of Paul Claudel’s play Le soulier de satin was shot in Portugal, but with French dialogue.

      Despite lasting almost seven hours, the film does not include the play’s full text.

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