Boyhood (2014)
12 Years
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Poll: Movies With Longest Production Time
In general, the time that a movie stays in production is from a couple of months to about two years. The Other Side of the Wind (2018) holds the record for a movie to be in production for the longest time.
Here is a list of movies with at least 2,000 votes that took at least three years in production.
Which of these movies do you think was worth the wait?
Make Your Choice
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Sleeping Beauty (1959)
7 Years -
The Fall (2006)
4 Years -
Eraserhead (1977)
6 Years -
Movie 43 (2013)
4 Years -
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
18 Years -
Bad Taste (1987)
4 Years -
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
8 Years -
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
7 Years -
The Act of Killing (2012)
8 Years -
Samsara (2011)
4 Years -
Hoop Dreams (1994)
5 Years -
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
29 Years -
Meru (2015)
3 Years -
Redline (2009)
7 Years -
Begotten (1989)
4 Years -
Shoah (1985)
11 Years -
Othello (1951)
3 Years -
Mughal-E-Azam (1960)
14 Years -
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
6 Years -
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
48 Years -
Hard to Be a God (2013)
7 Years -
Hell's Angels (1930)
3 Years -
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
7 Years -
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016)
16 Years -
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
29 Years -
Marwencol (2010)
4 Years -
Roar (1981)
11 Years -
The Evil Within (2017)
13 Years -
Delgo (2008)
6 Years -
On the Silver Globe (1988)
12 Years -
Lake of Fire (2006)
16 Years -
Jet Pilot (1957)
8 Years
