Since its release at the end of 2024, Brady Corbet’s period drama, The Brutalist, has garnered a great deal of acclaim. Almost every aspect of the film works in concert to advance its themes of artistic integrity, resistance, and assimilation. nother astonishing aspect of the film is just how long The Brutalist really is. With a runtime of 215 minutes and a 15-minute intermission, theater-goers could easily spend up to four hours watching The Brutalist.
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Although positive reviews of The Brutalist make it clear that it more than earns its runtime, the 3 hours and 35 minutes of screentime makes it one of the longest movies of 2024. Despite that length, however, The Brutalist is far from the longest movie of all time. Plenty have outdone it in that area, and still managed to keep audiences entertained, as evidenced by their great reviews and enduring popularity.
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Runtime: 3 Hours & 36 Minutes
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Lawrence of Arabia
PG
War
Biography
Adventure
History
Drama
9.4/10
Release Date
December 11, 1962
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Runtime
228 minutes
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Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the best films ever made. When it released, Lawrence of Arabia won 10 Oscars, a Golden Globe, and two BAFTAs, and in the decades since, Lawrence of Arabia has been recognized by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” With its sweeping shots of the Arabian desert, and Peter O’Toole’s captivating performance as the titular T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia remains as powerful a film in 2025 as it was when it released in 1962.
As for what necessitated such a long runtime, it’s important to note that Lawrence of Arabia offers a deep and arduous journey for its main character set primarily in World War I. It goes through the many trials that he went through in painstaking detail, giving every moment some level of value. If the period drama of The Brutalist was appealing, and the length was not a problem, then sitting through one additional minute to watch one of the greatest movies of all time, Lawrence of Arabia, is certainly worthwhile.
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The Lord Of The Rings Extended Editions
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There were few film series more iconic than The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the early 2000s. From 2001 to 2003, director Peter Jackson released the movie adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s beloved novels by the same names. During the theatrical releases, the films were edited to have shorter run times in order to appeal to a broader audience. This meant cutting out scenes in The Lord of the Rings that highlighted relationships and details from the books, or pieces of backstory that, while not strictly necessary, further fleshed out Tolkien’s “Middle Earth.”
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Extended Edition Runtime |
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The Fellowship of the Ring |
2 hours 58 minutes |
3 hours 28 minutes |
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The Two Towers |
2 hours 59 minutes |
3 hours 55 minutes |
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The Return of the King |
3 hours 21 minutes |
4 hours 23 minutes |
When the trilogy released on Blu-ray, however, Jackson revealed an extended cut of each of the three movies. The Fellowship of the Ring has a runtime of three hours 48 minutes, The Two Towers has a runtime of 3 hours 55 minutes, and The Return of the King has a runtime of 4 hours 23 minutes. This easily puts all three extended editions well ahead of The Brutalist in terms of length and means when friends sit down for a Lord of the Rings marathon, they are strapping in for about 12 hours of film.
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An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
Runtime: 3 Hours & 50 Minutes
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An Elephant Sitting Still
G
Drama
Release Date
December 14, 2018
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Runtime
234 minutes
Director
Hu Bo
Writers
Hu Bo
Producers
Wang Xiaoshuai, Dongyan Fu
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Peng Yuchang
Wei Bu
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Wang Yuwen
Huang Ling
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Zhang Yu
Yu Cheng
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Li Congxi
Wang Jin
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Although far less well-known than some of the other entries on this list, An Elephant Sitting Still is another excellent film with a runtime surpassing The Brutalist‘s 3 hours 35 minutes. An Elephant Sitting Still is a Chinese drama that released in China in 2018 and in the United States in 2019, and it tells the story of four people traveling to Northern China to see an elephant that refuses to move from a seated position no matter how it is provoked.
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Upon its release, An Elephant Sitting Still won numerous rewards from the Berlin International Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and many other awards and positive reviews. But An Elephant Sitting Still is also a film mired in tragedy. An Elephant Sitting Still was written, directed, and edited by Chinese author Hu Bo. Tragically, Hu passed away shortly after finishing work on the film in 2017, and thus never got to see An Elephant Sitting Still released. During production, Hu faced pressure to cut the film down to a more standard 120 minutes, but after Hu’s untimely passing the film was kept true to his artistic vision.
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Dances With Wolves (1990)
Runtime: 3 hours & 56 Minutes
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Dances With Wolves
PG-13
Adventure
Documentary
Drama
Romance
Western
24
8.8/10
Release Date
March 30, 1990
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181 minutes
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Dances With Wolves is a genre-defining Western released in 1990. Set during the Civil War, Dances with Wolves tells the story of Union Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Kevin Cosner) stationed in the American West. Beyond staring in the movie, however, Kevin Cosner also directed and produced Dances with Wolves as his directorial debut. Although now, 34 years later, some reviewers say that the harsh reality of Kevin Cosner’s career is that Dances with Wolves was not representative of the rest of Cosner’s filmography, there is no disputing the fact that Dances with Wolves itself is iconic.
Dances with Wolves paved the way for other Western best pictures like Unforgiven (1992) and No Country for Old Men (2007).
And as an iconic movie, Dances with Wolves saw a lot of success despite its nearly 4-hour runtime. During development, Dances with Wolves had a budget of $15 million, but it grossed $424.2 million at box offices worldwide, making Dances with Wolves an overwhelming box office triumph. At the 63rd Academy Awards, Dances with Wolves won 7 Oscars, including “Best Picture.” That made Dances with Wolves the second Western ever to win best picture, after 1931’s Cimarron, so Dances with Wolves paved the way for other Western best pictures like Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men.
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Gone With The Wind (1939)
Runtime: 3 hours & 58 Minutes
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pg-13
Drama
Documentary
Romance
War
10/10
9.3/10
Release Date
December 15, 1939
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238 minutes
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Thomas Mitchell
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Barbara O’Neil
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When Gone with the Wind released in 1939, it was an early example of a long film winning a lot of awards. Gone with the Wind received 10 Academy Awards and generally positive reviews when it debuted. Clocking in at two minutes shy of four hours, Gone with the Wind premiered with an intermission, much like The Brutalist, to allow movie-goers to stretch at the 2-hour mark. Gone with the Wind was also a crowning achievement in starring actress Vivien Leigh’s long career of excellent movies.
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Cleopatra (1963)
Runtime: 4 hours & 11 Minutes
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Cleopatra
G
Drama
History
Romance
Release Date
June 12, 1963
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Runtime
251 Minutes
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Cleopatra
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Richard Burton
Marcus Antonius
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Rex Harrison
Julius Caesar
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Pamela Brown
High Priestess
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In 1963, writer and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz astonished audiences with the historical epic Cleopatra, based on the real-life events of the historical Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Starring Elizabeth Taylor as the titular queen, Cleopatra was, unlike the other movies on this list, something of a flop in spite of its successes. Although Cleopatra won four of the nine Academy Awards for which it was nominated, the movie ultimately did not live up to expectations, and probably the clearest way in which Cleopatra fell flat was financially.
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Production cost an estimated $31 million, a failed British shoot of the film cost $5 million, and distribution and advertising cost an additional $13 million. So, although Cleopatra grossed $57.7 million in the United States and Canada, making it the highest grossing film of 1963, Cleopatra nevertheless lost money initially. For audiences, on the other hand, the stunning visuals and perhaps less-than-historically-accurate naval battles of Cleopatra made the movie’s 4-hour and 11-minute runtime more than worth the time. Besides, when Cleopatra released intermissions were still the expected norm for long movies.
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Trenque Lauquen (2022)
Runtime: 4 Hours & 22 Minutes
Argentine director Laura Citarella wrote and directed one of the longest films of 2022 in the form of the mystery-epic, Trenque Lauquen. Trenque Lauquen tells the story of a woman, who has vanished and the two men who set out to find her, all the while piecing together secrets about both their love for the missing woman and the town from which she vanished, the titular Trenque Lauquen, Argentina. Interestingly, Trenque Lauquen is a follow-up on Citrella’s much shorter 2011 film, Ostende.
While The Brutalist won the “Silver Lion” for director Brady Corbet at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Trenque Lauquen competed in the 79th Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section.
Like The Brutalist, Trenque Lauquen splits up its immense 4 hour and 22-minute runtime into two parts of roughly equal lengths. But the similarities between The Brutalist and Trenque Lauquen run deeper than just their runtime: both films premiered at the Venice Film Festival. While The Brutalist won the “Silver Lion” for director Brady Corbet at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Trenque Lauquen competed in the 79th Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section. Although Trenque Lauquen didn’t get much critical attention, the compelling mystery and vignettes of the film set Trenque Lauquen on track to become a future cult classic.
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The Weathered Underground (2010)
Runtime: 5 hours & 10 minutes
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The Weathered Underground
Action
Comedy
Drama
Release Date
January 26, 2010
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Runtime
6 minutes
Cast
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Michael Ciriaco
Eric Simmons
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Brea Grant
Liz
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Hollis McLachlan
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David N. Donihue
Stella
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In some ways, The Weathered Underground is perhaps the most unique movie on this list. For one, The Weathered Underground never got any kind of theatrical or festival release. This is because the fundamental format of The Weathered Underground makes it incompatible with any traditional release format. The Weathered Underground is a film inspired by “choose your own adventure” books, and, as such, allows audiences to direct the protagonist, Eric (Michael Ciriaco), through the film.
In a lot of ways, The Weathered Underground has more in common with Netflix’s 2018 film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch than it does with The Brutalist. However, while Bandersnatch only has 5 possible endings, The Weathered Underground has 30. With more than 1000 audience choices, there are 5 hours and 10 minutes’ worth of movie contained within The Weathered Underground, even if most viewers will never see a lot of it. The Weathered Underground then provides an alternative to the 2-part and intermission format of most other films on this list as a way to get audiences to engage with a film longer than The Brutalist.
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Happy Hour (2015)
Runtime: 5 Hours & 17 Minutes
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Happy Hour
Drama
Release Date
December 12, 2015
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Runtime
317 minutes
Director
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Writers
Tomoyuki Takahashi
Producers
Hideyuki Okamoto
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Hazuki Kikuchi
Sakurako
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Sachie Tanaka
Akari
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Maiko Mihara
Fumi
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Rira Kawamura
Jun
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Happy Hour released first at the Locarno Film Festival then in Japan in 2015 with relatively little fanfare. The movie follows a group of four women in Kobe, Japan, and how their friendship grows and changes when one woman decides to divorce her husband to pursue a relationship with a younger man. Although Happy Hour was not overwhelmingly popular, perhaps because its runtime made the movie impossible to release theatrically, reviews of Happy Hour are overwhelmingly positive, with some reviewers heralding it as one of the best films of its decade. Happy Hour, however, reveals just how much a long runtime can hurt a movie in the end.
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War And Peace (1965)
Runtime: 6 hours & 30 minutes
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War and Peace
War
Drama
History
Release Date
March 14, 1966
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Runtime
393 Minutes
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Ludmila Savelyeva
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Sergey Bondarchuk
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov
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Viktor Stanitsyn
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Based on Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel of the same name, War and Peace is one of the longest movies of all time, and one of the rare movies over 6 hours long to get a theatrical release. Like Tolstoy’s novel, War and Peace the movie is split into 4 parts, each of which released separately in order to make that theatrical release possible. The result is a film so epic in scale and proportion that critics have claimed its success is unrepeatable.
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One reason for this success was War and Peace was produced with the full support of the government of the USSR. War and Peace had a budget equivalent to between $60-70 million USD, and the enormous battles utilized thousands of extras and horses provided by the armed forces of the USSR. The result is unparalleled. Despite the Cold War hostilities between the United States and the USSR, War and Peace won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for best foreign language film. When compared to the immensity of War and Peace, the two-and-a-half-hour runtime of The Brutalist seems totally trivial.
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The Brutalist
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Drama
10/10
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8.1/10
Release Date
December 20, 2024
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Runtime
215 Minutes
Director
Brady Corbet
Writers
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
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Adrien Brody
László Tóth
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Guy Pearce
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