Lebanese Cinema
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1. Capernaum (2018)
R | 126 min | Drama
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad
Votes: 105,497 | Gross: $1.66M
2. Safar barlek (1966)
115 min | Musical, Drama
During the war in 1914, the Ottoman Empire forbade wheat to enter the lands of Lebanon in order to make the Lebanese people starve. In addition to that, the Ottoman Empire was taking men to... See full summary »
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Fairuz, Elie Choueiri, Berj Fazlian, Salwa Haddad
Votes: 200
3. When Maryam Spoke Out (2001)
98 min | Drama
Ziyad and Maryam are a happy young couple in Lebanon, yet after three years of marriage they remain childless. Due to intense family pressure, they try everything they can but eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Assad Fouladkar | Stars: Bernadette Hodeib, Talal Jurdi, Renée Dick, Umaya Lahoud
Votes: 102
4. The Insult (2017)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud
Votes: 18,103 | Gross: $1.00M
5. West Beirut (1998)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ... See full summary »
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin
Votes: 4,860 | Gross: $0.34M
6. Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Layla Hakim
Votes: 13,508 | Gross: $0.53M
7. Heaven Without People (2017)
91 min | Drama
As all the children and their spouses gathers for Easter's dinner, conversation flows. When something bad happens, everyone is on edge, especially Josephine, and Serge who wants to uncover the truth!
Director: Lucien Bourjeily | Stars: Laeticia Semaan, Nadim Abou Samra, Samira Sarkis, Etafar Aweke
Votes: 1,369
8. Ghadi (2013)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Ghadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
Director: Amin Dora | Stars: Georges Khabbaz, Lara Rain, Emmanuel Khairallah, Camille Salameh
Votes: 1,235
9. Biya el-Khawatim (1965)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to villagers about the exploits of Rajeh, who... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Joseph Azar, Phelemone Wehbe
Votes: 193
10. Caramel (2007)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Yasmine Al Massri
Votes: 14,610 | Gross: $1.06M
11. What Did I Mess (2018)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
The romp revolves around a dinner party hosted by the young and vicacious Nayla to introduce Fares, the love of her life, to Silvio, her new fiancé.
Director: Shady Hanna | Stars: Rola Beksmati, Junaid Zeineldine, Abboudy Mallah, Tony Benn
Votes: 763
12. Under the Bombs (2007)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Director: Philippe Aractingi | Stars: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Rawia Elchab, Bshara Atallah
Votes: 1,770
13. Very Big Shot (2015)
107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Intending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker.
Director: Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya | Stars: Alain Saadeh, Fouad Yammine, Wissam Fares, Tarek Yaacoub
Votes: 1,545
14. Are You Glad I'm Here (2018)
85 min | Drama
A millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they become accidental partners-in-crime.
Director: Noor Gharzeddine | Stars: Tess Harrison, Marwa Khalil, Nadim Deaibes, Wassim el Tom
Votes: 181
15. Solitaire (I) (2016)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement ... See full summary »
Director: Sophie Boutros | Stars: Julia Kassar, Ali El Khalil, Bassam Kousa, Nadine Khoury
Votes: 542
16. 1982 (I) (2019)
100 min | Drama, History, Romance
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.
Director: Oualid Mouaness | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Mohamad Dalli, Rodrigue Sleiman, Aliya Khalidi
Votes: 1,177
17. Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)
106 min | Drama
A couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.
Director: Mounia Akl | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Yumna Marwan, Saleh Bakri, Nadia Charbel
Votes: 1,013
18. Memory Box (2021)
102 min | Drama
The lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.
Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | Stars: Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clémence Sabbagh
Votes: 803
19. Blind Intersections (2012)
90 min | Drama
Three protagonists, one city... Coming from different backgrounds, they pass each other but they never meet, though, the effect of one incident will drastically alter the lives of the three... See full summary »
Director: Lara Saba | Stars: Alae Hamoud, Ghida Nouri, Carole Hajj, Chadi Haddad
Votes: 198
20. Listen (2017)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Despite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Aractingi | Stars: Nagham Abboud, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Bshara Atallah, Hadi Bou Ayash
Votes: 270
21. Beyrouth ya Beyrouth (1975)
111 min | Drama
Beirut Oh Beirut (1975) follows four young Lebanese after the defeat of Lebanon by Israeli forces in the Six Day War of 1967.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Ezzat El Alaili, Mireille Maalouf, Joseph Bou Nassar, Elie Adabachi
Votes: 139
22. Yalla 3a2belkon Chabeb (2016)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Yalla 3a2belkon Chabeb shows us through the eyes of men how hard nowadays it is to have a proper relationship, based on love respect, principles and values.
Director: Shady Hanna | Stars: Ghida Majzoub, Dori Al-Samarani, Walid Arakji, Nebal Araqji
Votes: 156
23. The Kite (2003)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the... See full summary »
Director: Randa Chahal Sabag | Stars: Flavia Bechara, Maher Bsaibes, Randa Asmar, Renée Dick
Votes: 789
24. Martyr (2017)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama
A young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.
Director: Mazen Khaled | Stars: Carol Abboud, Hadi Bou Ayash, Moustafa Fahs, Hamza Mekdad
Votes: 738
25. Bosta (2005)
142 min | Musical, War
Fifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Aractingi | Stars: Rodney El Haddad, Nadine Labaki, Nada Abou Farhat, Liliane Nemri
Votes: 637
26. Halal Love (2015)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
Director: Assad Fouladkar | Stars: Darine Hamze, Rodrigue Sleiman, Zeinab Hind Khadra, Hussein Mokadem
Votes: 558
27. In the Battlefields (2004)
88 min | Drama, War
Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.
Director: Danielle Arbid | Stars: Marianne Feghali, Rawia Elchab, Laudi Arbid, Aouni Kawas
Votes: 225
28. Habbet Loulou (2013)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
In modern day Lebanon, in a country divided between those who have too little and those who have too much, three women try to defy their social labeling and incapability.
Director: Layal M. Rajha | Stars: Takla Chamoun, Zeina Makki, Lorraine Kodeih, Elie Mitri
Votes: 212
29. Around the Pink House (1999)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
La Maison Rose (The Pink House) is an old mansion in Beirut. It is the place where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War and in which they feel good. Unfortunately for them, ... See full summary »
Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | Stars: Hanane Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Anne-Marie Afif, Asma Andraos
Votes: 110
30. Out Loud (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A modern tale of friendship and love in Lebanon today. It is also a bittersweet reflection on the social struggles of the after war generation.
Director: Samer Daboul | Stars: Rudy Moarbes, Ali Rhayem, Jad Hadid, Michel Sarkiss
Votes: 155
31. Perfect Strangers (2022)
TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows the story of seven friends who stay together for dinner and decide to play a game that involves them placing their cell phones on the dinner table, and accepting to share every call, text and voice message as it comes.
Director: Wissam Smayra | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Mona Zaki, Eyad Nassar, Adel Karam
Votes: 5,372
32. Neswen (2014)
100 min | Comedy, Family
The issues of extremism and social prejudice through the scope of sexism and gender equality.
Directors: Sam Andraos, Hassan Jaber | Stars: Antoinette Akiki, Joseph Azoury, Nada Abou Farhat, Zeina Makki
Votes: 110
33. Yalla Aa'belkon: Single, Married, Divorced (2014)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Single, Married, Divorced (Yalla 3a2belkon) is a social comedy about four women in their late 30's who have to face the pressure of the society for being singles.
Director: Elie Khalifé | Stars: Walid Arakji, Nebal Araqji, Tania Assi, Mario Naim Bassil
Votes: 209
34. Tannoura Maxi (2011)
95 min | Drama, Romance
It was the summer of 82, when a priest, about to be ordained, was exhausted by temptations and an arrogant girl felt passionately in love... A sifted memory and a personal history of a ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Bou Eid | Stars: Joy Karam, Chady Tineh, Carol Abboud, Diamand Abou Abboud
Votes: 346
35. Vitamin (2014)
116 min | Comedy
In a remote and poor village, three girls decide to change their destiny. They plan to rub a truck assuming its loaded with cash.. but what they never imagined is found in the truck and this changes their village and own lives forever.
Director: Elie F. Habib | Stars: Khitam Al Lahham, Jamal Awar, Carlos Azar, Farah Bitar
Votes: 278
36. Nuts (III) (2016)
104 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Jenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.
Directors: Henri Barges, Henri Bargès | Stars: Darine Hamze, Alexandra Kahwagi, Gabriel Yammine, Hassan Mrad
Votes: 133
37. Bebe (2013)
120 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
A 33 year old Mentally impaired girl leaves her home for the first time alone, with a bag of one million dollars in cash.
Director: Elie F. Habib | Stars: Jessy Abdo, Abeer Aoun, Maguy Bou Ghosn, Pierre Chamassian
Votes: 221
38. Wanted - Matloubin (2019)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Wanted is a very human comedy about four old people who run away from a nursing home in the name of love and solidarity.
Director: Nebal Araqji | Stars: Dori Al-Samarani, Walid Arakji, Toni Barood, Badih Bou Chakra
Votes: 642
39. Wilaneh (2016)
102 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Samar (Maguy Bou Ghosn) and her two brothers are a group of loser bandit outlaws who make their living out of burglaries and armed robberies. One day they find themselves obliged to ... See full summary »
Director: Elie F. Habib | Stars: Maguy Bou Ghosn, Carlos Azar, Christian El Zoghby, Ruaa Hossami
Votes: 167
40. Habbet Caramel (2017)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
Maya struggles with the effects of the caramel that gave her the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Director: Elie F. Habib | Stars: Jessy Abdo, Maguy Bou Ghosn, Christian El Zoghby, Hisham Haddad
Votes: 138
41. Lahon wa Habes (2019)
100 min | Comedy
As Hicham Haddad goes to jail under false accusations, he's in fear of losing his top hit lebanese talk show. When he discovers that his bestfriend and cohost Jad bou Karam backstabbed him ... See full summary »
Director: Shady Hanna | Stars: Ilyas Abbood, Esam Abdulnoor, Shaif Antwan, Jad Bou Karam
Votes: 586
42. A Petty Bourgeois Dream (2016)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A mother moves in with her thirty-something son, Ramzi, and his life-long friend, Tarek. This new situation precipitates a series of events and realizations that lead the two men to ... See full summary »
Director: Mazen Khaled | Stars: Wissam Fares, Christine Ganni, Wafa'a Celine Halawi, Jamal Jaafar
Votes: 786
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