Thai movies date back to before Second World War. Action films are the predominant genre of Thai films. People love Thai rom-com movies. They are the cutest! If you are a horror genre fan, Thai movies are the scariest. But did you know there are some exceptionally long movies in the Thai industry? Thai movies are a minimum of 1 hour 45 minutes long, and that’s just the minimum duration. What is more impressive is that they are long but at the same time so engaging that you won’t even notice when the time flew by. The plot keeps you wanting to watch more and more of it. Here are the longest Thai movies that we could find for you to watch-
1. 4bia
4bia or phobia is the longest horror Thai film ever! It is a 4 hours long movie and imagines the four hours of horror and that rush! It is a 2008 movie that deals with four unrelated stories. It is a series of events where everyone ends up dying. The four series of events depicted are loneliness, deadly charm, the main in the middle, and flight 244. It also has a sequel called Phobia 2.
2. The Legend Of Suriyothai
This 2001 movie is Thailand's most expensive movie and the most grossing movie until it was overtaken by Pee Mak. It is a 3 hour 5-minute long historical movie that portrays the life of queen Suriyothai from her adolescence to her death. She is a young minor royalty who gains attention due to her boldness. It's her story of gaining the royal throne and how she saves the kingdom afterward.
3. Love Of Siam
It is a 2007 Thai multi-layered romantic-drama movie that tells the story of love, friendship, and family. It is a 2 hour 58 minutes long movie. The movie won many awards in all major events. The story is about two neighbors whose rivalry turns into friendship which turns into love. Years later, when they meet at the siam square, their childhood love gets re-created, and they fall for each other again. It's a gay love story with many difficulties between them.
4. A Gift
A 2016 movie that means blessings from the sky is a musical movie. It is a 2-hour, 25-minute movie divided into three segments where they explore the musical theme as a gift and pay tribute to late King Bhumibol Adulyadej's musical compositions. The first segment is on his song called love at sun dawn; the second is on a song called still on my mind, and the third is New Year greet. It is a sweet and sentimental film.
5. One Day
A 2016 romantic drama film is a 2-hour 15-minute film about a guy who does everything in his power to be with his dream girl for just one day and pretends to be his boyfriend after she suffers a temporary memory loss. Before her memory loss, the guy has a crush on the girl but is courage-less and finally, he does one day. He wishes to be with her for just one, which comes true.
6. Homestay
A 2018 thriller-fantasy drama film is distributed by GDH 559. Based on a Japanese novel called colorful. It is a 2 hour 15 minutes movie like one day. The story starts when the main lead wakes up in a hospital morgue. He discovers himself as a spirit ina different boy's body who took his life. He has only 100 days to find out the reason behind his death and in return will make him come back to his real body. In the end, he realizes he is the suicidal boy and realizes the mistake he made.
7. Body
A 2007 horror-thriller movie is a 2 hour 15 minutes movie. Based on a real story but in a similar way, in Thailand, there was an actual murder case in which the physician was convicted and given the death penalty because he strangled his wife to death. On the scale of 1 to 10, 10 being scariest, this movie is eight, which is pretty horrific, and not for faint-hearted.
8. Heart Attack
A 2015 romantic Thai film is a love story where a workaholic freelancer falls in love with a woman who happens to be a doctor. He suffered a heart attack, and she was in progress, but somehow, he couldn't confess his undying love for her. It's a 2 hour 12 minutes movie but still considered a long movie.
9. The Billionaire
2011 is a Thai biographical film or a biopic of a Thai entrepreneur Itthipat Kulapongvanich. This movie is also called a top-secret: Wai Roon Pan Lanis a 2 hour 11 minutes movie. The movie tells the struggle of the businessman Itthipat, at the age of 19, who dropped out of the university to open his own business of packaged fried seaweed and became Thailand's one of the youngest billionaires. This movie is about struggle, beliefs, self-doubts, and success.
10. The Medium
The 2021 supernatural horror mockumentary ( fictional documentary) film is a 2 hour 11 minutes movie like the billionaire. This movie was the 6th highest-grossing movie in South Korea last year. The medium was also selected as the entry for the Oscars but couldn't get the nominee. This movie is about how a team of documentary crew travels to the Northeast part of Thailand to find out the holy spirit that possesses the particular family's woman for decades and how things go upside down.
