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Lebanon Cinema
Top 17 films from Lebanon (out of 17 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dégradé | 2,016 | Tarzan Nasser | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 10 | Arabic | A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”? |
| Where To? | 1,957 | Georges Nasser | Drama | 7.3 | 15 | Arabic | A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great difficulty: the elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives to the village. |
| West Beirut | 1,998 | Ziad Doueiri | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7 | 46 | Arabic | In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut. |
| Q | 2,023 | Jude Chehab | Documentary | 7 | 21 | Arabic | An intimate portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, Q depicts the influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order on filmmaker Jude Chehab’s family and the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. A love story of a different kind, Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning. |
| Caramel | 2,007 | Nadine Labaki | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 241 | Arabic | In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations. |
| Maroun Returns to Beirut | 2,024 | Feyrouz Serhal | Documentary | 6.8 | 60 | Arabic | 2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of Maroun Baghdadi’s sudden and tragic death. Maroun was a Lebanese filmmaker who wrote and directed films during the Lebanese civil war and contributed to documentary and fiction filmmaking from 1973 up until his death in 1993. In this film, Feyrouz Serhal embarks on a day trip in Beirut and navigates the city that profoundly shaped Maroun’s journey in life and cinema. Here she encounters individuals who were close to him and who shared his experiences. And as she traverses Maroun’s life and career, the social and political backdrop moves to the foreground. The film reflects on the last fifty years of the history of the country from a present standpoint. Through Maroun’s story, we perceive how cinema can, beautifully and dramatically, portray our stories and discourse our life events.. |
| The Last of Us | 2,018 | Ala Eddine Slim | Drama | 6.5 | 11 | XX | N is coming from the desert to reach the north of Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. Alone in Tunisia, he decides to cross the solitary sea. He steals a boat and begins his journey, but it soon sinks into the water. From that moment, N embarks in a special and unique voyage: he discovers different and infinite spaces, makes intense and fleeting encounters, and meets another altered image of himself. |
| Waves '98 | 2,015 | Ely Dagher | Drama, Animation, Fantasy | 6.3 | 31 | Arabic | Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home. |
| Ghadi | 2,013 | Amin Dora | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6.3 | 29 | Arabic | Leba is a music instructor who lives in a small Lebanese town. Social pressure leads him to get married and have children. Lara, his beloved wife, births a girl, later other one and finally Ghadi, a boy with special needs related with Down Syndrome. Ghadi could have been a burden, but he is a cause of pride and joy for all of them —but a test too that proves the intolerance of other people. |
| Heaven Without People | 2,017 | Lucien Bourjeily | Drama | 6 | 10 | Arabic | Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling family, is delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for the first time in two years. While they all share a joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them gradually into chaos. |
| Martyr | 2,018 | Mazen Khaled | Drama | 5.9 | 16 | Arabic | 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 |
| The Sand Castle | 2,024 | Matty Brown | Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy | 5.5 | 46 | Arabic | Stranded on a deserted island, a family of four scavenges for survival as their past unravels, sending them into a downward spiral of painful events. |
| Halal Love | 2,016 | Assad Fouladkar | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 5.5 | 11 | Arabic | 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. |
| Doctor Detroit | 1,983 | Michael Pressman | Comedy | 5 | 73 | English | A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever. |
| Beirut Hotel | 2,011 | Danielle Arbid | Romance, Drama | 4.8 | 10 | French | One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear. |
| Wasp | 2,015 | Philippe Audi-Dor | Drama, Romance | 4.6 | 20 | English | Having left England for a romantic escapade in the South of France, Olivier and James invite Caroline along at the very last minute. The trio arrives in a little Provencal village, somewhat cut off from the world. Though everything seems calm between the pool, sunshine and a village visit, Olivier finds himself more and more intrigued by Caroline. A tension of sexual jealousy and possessiveness will then escalade between the three of them. |
| The Lady of the Black Moons | 1,971 | Samir A. Khouri | Drama, Romance | 3.5 | 10 | Arabic | In the depths of loneliness and despair, beautiful Aida visits her "tailor," Victoria, a woman who runs a sensual house where erotic fantasies are fulfilled. After satisfying her desires in the arms of one of Victoria's young men, Aida has a haunting nightmare where she envisions herself as a witch who, during a full moon, has the power to destroy her lovers' sensitivity. |
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