Great movies under 90 minutes running length (1 Viewer)

[Arman]

I love great short full-feature length films ! Some of my favorite shortest great(est) classic films I've seen mostly last year (or just few days ago):
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) - USA ver.:66 min, 1925, Eisenstein/Aleksandrov
Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - 67 min, 1920, Wiene
The Gold Rush - USA:72 min (1942 re-issue), 1925, Chaplin
Pickpocket - 75 min, 1959, Bresson
Rope - 80 min, 1948, Hitchcock
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) - 81 min, 1922, Murnau
elephant - 81 min, 2003, Van Sant
A nous la liberte - USA:83 min (re-release), 1931, Clair
Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les (Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, The) - 84 min, 1945, Bresson
Vivre sa vie(My Life to Live) - 85 min, 1962, Godard
L' Argent (Money) - 85 min, 1983, Bresson
Brief Encounter - 86 min, 1945, Lean
The 39 Steps - 86, 1935, Hitchcock
Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) - 86 min, 1988, Miyazaki
Paths of glory - 87 min, 1957, Kubrick
À bout de souffle (Breathless) - 87 min, 1960, Godard
City Lights - 87 min, 1931, Chaplin
Modern Times - 87, 1936, Chaplin
The Magnificent Ambersons, - 88 min, 1942, Welles
Rashomon - 88 min, 1950, Kurosawa
Raising Victor Vargas - 88 min, 2003, Sollett
Fury - 90 min, 1936, Lang
Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses) - 90 min, 1968, Truffaut
Broken Blossoms - 90 min, 1919, Griffith
Little over 90 min!
Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) - 91 min, 1957, Bergman
Umberto D. - 91 min, 1952, De Sica
Radio Inside - 91 min, 1994, Bell
His Girl Friday - 92 min, 1940, Hawks
Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) - 93 min, 1948, De Sica
Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) - 93 min, 1988, Takahata
Ying xiong (Hero) - China ver.:93 min, 2002, Zhang
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 93 min, 1964, Kubrick
Ángel exterminador, El (Exterminating Angel) - 95 min, 1962, Bunuel
Ta'm e guilass (A Taste of Cherry) - 95 min, 1997, Kiarostami
Heaven - 96 min, 2002, Tykwer
The Lady Vanishes - 97 min, 1938, Hitchcock
The Lady Eve - 97 min, 1941, Sturges
Very good and probably will be regarded as great someday (IMHO, they are great films):
Manito - 78, 2003, Eason
Phone Booth - 81 min, 2003, Schumacher
Vendredi soir (Friday Night) - 90 min, 2003, Denis
Waking Ned - 91 min, 1998, Jones
Blue Car - 96 min, 2003, Moncrieff
The Virgin Suicides - 97, 1999, S. Coppola
Most people said these are great but IMHO, they are very good but not great:
High Noon - 81 min, 1952, Zinnemann
Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) - Germany ver. 93 min, 1943, Dreyer

 

[Greg Krewet]

John Huston's The Dead, a masterpiece that needs to be on DVD soon. 83min.

 

[DavidAls]

Rashomon (Kurosawa) - 88 mins

Breathless (Godard) - 87 mins

 

[Law]

A little bit longer then 90 minutes, but Trainspotting was the first thing that popped into my head. It's 94 minutes.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Spinal Tap clocks in at 82 minutes.

High Noon went 85 minutes...

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

Gus Van Sant's Elephant runs at 81 minutes.
Kevin Smith's Clerks is 94 minutes long.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie clocks in at a quick 74 minute runtime.

 

[clayton b]

Babe runs at 89 minutes as well.

 

[Patrick McCart]

The Evil Dead

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

The Producers

The Thing From Another World

 

[Jay W.]

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

 

[Scott Ware]

The Nightmare Before Christmas clocks in at a mere 76 minutes. Night of the Living Dead and Halloween are both just over the 90 minute mark at 96 minutes and 92 minutes.

 

[Guy Martin]

All three films in Kieslowski's colors trilogy (Blue, White, Red) run just over 90minutes each.

Also Days of Heaven clocks in at 93 mins

- Guy

 

[Bill J]

Darren Aronofsky's Pi is 84 minutes.

 

[Ernest Rister]

Bambi and Dumbo.

 

[Bob Turnbull]

Pickup On South Street is 80 minutes long (just viewed the Criterion disc last night). Jumps right into the story and doesn't really lag.

 

[Richard_D_Ramirez]

Sexy Beast runs 89 minutes.
8^B

 

[Ernest Rister]

Oh yes -- the only perfect film ever made runs under 90 minutes...

Chuck Jones' One Froggy Evening. Clocks in at 8 minutes or so.

 

[Artur Meinild]

Evil Dead, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness are all under 90 minutes. So are Toy Story and Toy Story 2.

 

[Mark_vdH]

Nobody's named my favorite movie under 90 minutes yet:
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
Other (I believe not yet named) noteworthy "short" movies (in 'great to good order'):
Annie Hall
Brief Encounter
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Eraserhead
Following
The Blair Witch Project
Office Space

 

[David_Blackwell]

Many of the old films that were part of a series like The Saint and The Falcon movies are quite good. many of them clock in under 70 minutes each.

 

[david stark]

the nightmare before christmas