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List of the longest movies in history

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This is a list of the some of the longest movies ever released.

Major releases

Note: Some releases are extended cuts or director's cuts, and are ranked accordingly to the longest verified running time.

Title	Running Time	Country	Released
War and Peace	511	Soviet Union	1968
Napoleon	330	France	1927/2001 (restoration)
Cleopatra	320	USA	1963
1900	318	Italy	1976
Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	312	Sweden	1983
Das Boot	293	Germany	1981
Until The End of The World - Director's Cut	279	Germany	1991
Gettysburg	261	USA	1993
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	251	USA/New Zealand	2003
Greed	250	USA	1925
Hamlet	242	USA	1996
Gone with the Wind	238	USA	1939
Once Upon a Time in America	238	USA/Italy	1984
Dances With Wolves	236	USA	1990
Gods and Generals	231	USA	2003
Lawrence of Arabia	228	USA	1962
Woodstock: The Movie	228	USA	1970
Ben-Hur	224	USA	1959
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	222	USA/New Zealand	2002
The Ten Commandments	220	USA	1956
The Last Emperor	219	USA	1987
Eureka	217	Japan	2000
Heaven's Gate	216	USA	1980
Nixon	212	USA	1995
Caligula	210	USA	1979
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	208	USA	2001
War and Peace	208	USA	1956
The Seven Samurai	206	Japan	1954
JFK	206	USA	1991
Apocalypse Now Redux	202	USA	1979/2001
Malcolm X	202	USA	1992
Giant	201	USA	1955
The Godfather, Part II	200	USA	1974
Spartacus	200	USA	1960
Doctor Zhivago	200	USA	1965

Aside from the cast of Lord of the Rings, Robert De Niro stars in the greatest number of movies, three: 1900, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Godfather, Part II. Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra, Giant), Martin Sheen (Gettysburg, Apocalypse Now), Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, JFK) and Charleton Heston (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur) each star in two. Heston also appears in Hamlet.

It should also be noted that the 1927 movie Metropolis is assumed to have been 210 minutes long or more in the original release, but it was considered too long, so it was cut to a little over one-third of this length. It is hard to determine, since much of the footage was lost a long time ago.

Movie serials

This is a list of serial films that were made as one continuous film, or series that have been released as a continuous film, combining their running times.

Title	Running Time	Country	Released
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si)	2220 (or 1620)	China	1928 1931 (serial)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy	680	USA/New Zealand	2001, 2002, 2003
The Godfather Saga	583	USA	1972, 1974, 1990
Les Vampires	399	France	1915
The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions	267	USA	2003
Kill Bill	247	USA	2003, 2004
Back to the Future Part I, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III	226	USA	1989, 1990

Non-major releases

Title	Running Time	Country	Released
The Cure for Insomnia (video)	5220	USA	1987
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World	2880	UK	1970
Shoah	566	USA	1985
Empire (Andy Warhol)	480	USA	1964
Satan's Tango (Bela Tarr) (Satanntango)	450	Hungary	1994
Sleep	321	USA	1963

Note: The original version of Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924 movie) reportedly ran at over 8 hours. However, it was only ever shown once at this length, and no such copy currently exists. The length of the final release (edited against von Stroheim's wishes) was approximately 2 hours.

Longest film titles

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1967)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Sin City - Possibly Rodriguez's best film to date.

Sin City was CafeDVD's top rental title last week.

"A movie of such high style, done in such a spirit of electrifying fun and creativity, that it kisses the blood right off its own violent hands."
- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Sin City is a hard, cold, relentless assault. It's also something Hollywood seems to have given up on: a bold, uncompromised vision."
- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

"Robert Rodriguez is one audaciously talented man."
- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER

Here is a list of other movies
directed by Robert Rodriguez.

2005 DVD Hall of Fame

Best Music DVD
The Beatles Anthology (Capitol)
Here quite simply is the ultimate collection of the ultimate musical group, their concerts, "videos," new interviews, and so much more in Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS, with an exclusive bonus disc.

Best TV on DVD
Freaks and Geeks Limited Edition (Shout! Factory)
Rescuing a snubbed A-list-quality show from obscurity, the six-disc Complete Series contains 40+ hours of extras (including 29 total commentaries) for the entire 18-episode run, while the L.E. here packs two additional DVDs that go beyond the beyond.

Best Extras
The Alien Quadrilogy (Fox)
Four movies each in two-disc sets with alternate cuts, commentary tracks, extensive, interwoven behind-the-scenes exposés and new interviews, plus an exclusive ninth disc just to remove all doubt who's the champ here.

Best Video
Finding Nemo (Disney)
Apparently exploiting every advance in computer animation and digital video mastering, Pixar's 2004 DVD is a masterpiece of clarity, depth of field, and vibrant color.

Best Audio
Saving Private Ryan DTS (Dreamworks)
The finest exploitation of five channels and subwoofer I have ever heard, Ryan uses audio as it should be used, as an essential storytelling tool.

Best Overall
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Special Extended DVD Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended DVD Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Special Extended DVD Edition (all New Line)
With greatly enhanced new cuts, astounding new extras, and impeccable audio and video, this trilogy of four-DVD sets makes good on Peter Jackson's promise to do J.R.R. Tolkien justice. Have these discs by now received too much praise? That just isn't possible.

Best Learn-to-Swim Instruction for Children

Cafedvd recommends:

A fun guide for teaching children to swim from babies to teens, Waterproof Kids (2004) will help parents teach children of all ages how to swim in a fun way.

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

"The real usefulness of...a book like '1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die,' is that it provides good ideas for DVD rentals. I have, by the way, seen 943 of the 1,001 movies, and am carefully rationing the remaining titles to prolong my life." -Roger Ebert

"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is one heavy, fat tome, but it's a great motivating guide to cinema. After reading one of its engaging, often profound entries on a missed film, you want to run out to Premiere Video and rent it. Best of all, it includes international, silent, animated and recent films such as City of God. And yes, Richard Linklater's Slacker is here." - Dallas Morning News, April 29, 2004

"Instead of simply summarizing the plot, Schneider and his team of experts briefly explain why each film is a must see. - Schneider's choices are irrefutable. Highly recommended for all film, general public, and academic reference collections."
- Library Journal, April 15, 2004

100 MOVIE QUOTES BY AFI

"FRANKLY, MY DEAR,
I DON'T GIVE A DAMN"
TOPS AFI'S LIST OF
100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME

OTHER WINNERS INCLUDE
THE GODFATHER, "I'M GOING TO MAKE HIM AN OFFER HE CAN'T REFUSE,"
THE WIZARD OF OZ, "TOTO, I'VE GOT A FEELING WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE"
AND CASABLANCA, "HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID"

The Honorees Are...

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1 Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
GONE WITH THE WIND - 1939

2 I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
THE GODFATHER - 1972

3 You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
ON THE WATERFRONT - 1954

4 Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
THE WIZARD OF OZ - 1939

5 Here's looking at you, kid.
CASABLANCA - 1942

6 Go ahead, make my day.
SUDDEN IMPACT - 1983

7 All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
SUNSET BLVD. - 1950

8 May the Force be with you.
STAR WARS - 1977

9 Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
ALL ABOUT EVE - 1950

10 You talking to me?
TAXI DRIVER - 1976

11 What we've got here is failure to communicate.
COOL HAND LUKE - 1967

12 I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
APOCALYPSE NOW - 1979

13 Love means never having to say you're sorry.
LOVE STORY - 1970

14 The stuff that dreams are made of.
THE MALTESE FALCON - 1941

15 E.T. phone home.
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL - 1982

16 They call me Mister Tibbs!
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT - 1967

17 Rosebud.
CITIZEN KANE - 1941

18 Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
WHITE HEAT - 1949

19 I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
NETWORK - 1976

20 Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
CASABLANCA - 1942

21 A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - 1991

22 Bond. James Bond.
DR. NO - 1962

23 There's no place like home.
THE WIZARD OF OZ - 1939

24 I am big! It's the pictures that got small.
SUNSET BLVD. - 1950

25 Show me the money!
JERRY MAGUIRE - 1996

26 Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
SHE DONE HIM WRONG - 1933

27 I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
MIDNIGHT COWBOY - 1969

28 Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
CASABLANCA - 1942

29 You can't handle the truth!
A FEW GOOD MEN - 1992

30 I want to be alone.
GRAND HOTEL - 1932

31 After all, tomorrow is another day!
GONE WITH THE WIND - 1939

32 Round up the usual suspects.
CASABLANCA - 1942

33 I'll have what she's having.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY - 1989

34 You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT - 1944

35 You're gonna need a bigger boat.
JAWS - 1975

36 Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE - 1948

37 I'll be back.
THE TERMINATOR - 1984

38 Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES - 1942

39 If you build it, he will come.
FIELD OF DREAMS - 1989

40 Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
FORREST GUMP - 1994

41 We rob banks.
BONNIE AND CLYDE - 1967

42 Plastics.
THE GRADUATE - 1967

43 We'll always have Paris.
CASABLANCA - 1942

44 I see dead people.
THE SIXTH SENSE - 1999

45 Stella! Hey, Stella!
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - 1951

46 Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
NOW, VOYAGER - 1942

47 Shane. Shane. Come back!
SHANE - 1953

48 Well, nobody's perfect.
SOME LIKE IT HOT - 1959

49 It's alive! It's alive!
FRANKENSTEIN - 1931

50 Houston, we have a problem.
APOLLO 13 - 1995

51 You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?
DIRTY HARRY - 1971

52 You had me at "hello."
JERRY MAGUIRE - 1996

53 One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
ANIMAL CRACKERS - 1930

54 There's no crying in baseball!
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN - 1992

55 La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
ANNIE HALL - 1977

56 A boy's best friend is his mother.
PSYCHO - 1960

57 Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
WALL STREET - 1987

58 Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
THE GODFATHER II - 1974

59 As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
GONE WITH THE WIND - 1939

60 Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
SONS OF THE DESERT - 1933

61 Say "hello" to my little friend!
SCARFACE - 1983

62 What a dump.
BEYOND THE FOREST - 1949

63 Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?
THE GRADUATE - 1967

64 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
DR. STRANGELOVE - 1964

65 Elementary, my dear Watson.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - 1929

66 Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
PLANET OF THE APES - 1968

67 Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
CASABLANCA - 1942

68 Here's Johnny!
THE SHINING - 1980

69 They're here!
POLTERGEIST - 1982

70 Is it safe?
MARATHON MAN - 1976

71 Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!
THE JAZZ SINGER - 1927

72 No wire hangers, ever!
MOMMIE DEAREST - 1981

73 Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
LITTLE CAESAR - 1930

74 Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
CHINATOWN - 1974

75 I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - 1951

76 Hasta la vista, baby.
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY - 1991

77 Soylent Green is people!
SOYLENT GREEN - 1973

78 Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - 1968

79 Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.
AIRPLANE! - 1980

80 Yo, Adrian!
ROCKY - 1976

81 Hello, gorgeous.
FUNNY GIRL - 1968

82 Toga! Toga!
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE - 1978

83 Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
DRACULA - 1931

84 Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
KING KONG - 1933

85 My precious.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS - 2002

86 Attica! Attica!
DOG DAY AFTERNOON - 1975

87 Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
42ND STREET - 1933

88 Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!
ON GOLDEN POND - 1981

89 Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN - 1940

90 A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
GOLDFINGER - 1964

91 Who's on first.
THE NAUGHTY NINETIES - 1945

92 Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
CADDYSHACK - 1980

93 Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
AUNTIE MAME - 1958

94 I feel the need - the need for speed!
TOP GUN - 1986

95 Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY - 1989

96 Snap out of it!
MOONSTRUCK - 1987

97 My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY - 1942

98 Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
DIRTY DANCING - 1987

99 I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
WIZARD OF OZ, THE - 1939

100 I'm king of the world!
TITANIC - 1997

All Time 100 Movies by TIME MAGAZINE

TIME's movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel
presented the ALL_TIME 100 best films.
Why do the list?

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The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Baby Face (1933)

Bande à part (1964)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Blade Runner (1982)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Brazil (1985)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Camille (1936)

Casablanca (1942)

Charade (1963)

Children of Paradise (1945)

Chinatown (1974)

Chungking Express (1994)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City Lights (1931)

City of God (2002)

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

The Crowd (1928)

D - F
Day for Night (1973)

The Decalogue (1989)

Detour (1945)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Dodsworth (1936)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Drunken Master II (1994)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

8 1/2 (1963)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Finding Nemo (2003)

The Fly (1986)

The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)

Goodfellas (1990)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Ikiru (1952)

In A Lonely Place (1950)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

It's A Gift (1934)

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

K - M
Kandahar (2001)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

King Kong (1933)

The Lady Eve (1941)

The Last Command (1928)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Léolo (1992)

The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)

The Man With a Camera (1929)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Metropolis (1927)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)

Mouchette (1967)

N - P
Nayakan (1987)

Ninotchka (1939)

Notorious (1946)

Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Out of the Past (1947)

Persona (1966)

Pinocchio (1940)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Pyaasa (1957)

Raging Bull (1980)

Schindler's List (1993)

The Searchers (1956)

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

The Singing Detective (1986)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Star Wars (1977)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Sunrise (1927)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Swing Time (1936)

T - Z
Talk to Her (2002)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Tokyo Story (1953)

A Touch of Zen (1971)

Ugetsu (1953)

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

Umberto D (1952)

Unforgiven (1992)

White Heat (1949)

Wings of Desire (1987)

Yojimbo (1961)

Introducing Ebertfest

Every year Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert chooses a dozen or so films he feels are "overlooked" by mass audiences. He states that he defines any film as 'overlooked' if he wants to show it badly enough. His annual Overlooked Film Festival was held at the historic Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign in April 2005.

1999
Dance Me to My Song
A Tale of Autumn
Surrender Dorothy
Hamsun
Maborosi
Battleship Potemkin
Household Saints
Shiloh
Thirteen
Tron

2000
Sidewalk Stories
Grave of the Fireflies
American Movie
Legacy
The Terrorist
The Castle
A Woman’s Tale
Children of Heaven
The Last Laugh
Dark City
Oklahoma!
Deja Vu

2001
Everyone Says I Love You
Girl On the Bridge
Jesus’ Son
The King of Masks
Maryam
Nosferatu
On the Ropes
Panic
Songs from the Second Floor
A Simple Plan
Such A Long Journey
3 Women
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

2002
Patton
Innocence
Grand Canyon
Diamond Men
Paperhouse
Hyenes
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
Kwik Stop
Metropolis
Metropolis (anime)
Two Women
George Washington
Say Amen, Somebody
Wonder Boys

2003
The Right Stuff
Stone Reader
The Grey Automobile
Your Friends and Neighbors
Blood and Wine
Medium Cool
What’s Cooking?
The Black Pirate
L.627 (only available on VHS and PAL DVD)
The Golden Age of Silent Comedy
Shall We Dance?
Charlotte Sometimes
13 Conversations About One Thing
Singin’ in the Rain

2004
Lawrence of Arabia (VHS and DVD)
Tarnation (DVD)
The Son (DVD)
Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored (DVD)
Tully (DVD)
The General (VHS and DVD)
The Scapegoat (not available -- short film by Darren Ng)
El Norte (only available on VHS)
My Dog Skip (VHS and DVD)
Gates of Heaven (VHS and DVD)
People I Know (DVD)
Invincible (DVD)
Louie Bluie (not available)
Sweet Old Song (not available)

2005
Playtime (VHS and Criterion DVD)
Murderball (not yet available)
The Saddest Music in the World (DVD only)
The Heart of the World (DVD) (on the "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs" DVD)
After Dark, My Sweet (VHS and DVD)
Yesterday (not yet available)
The Phantom of the Opera (VHS and DVD)
Baadassss! (DVD)
The Secret of Roan Inish (VHS and DVD)
Primer (DVD)
Map of the Human Heart (VHS and DVD)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (not yet available)
Taal (DVD)