Top 50 Lebanese Movies
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The best Lebanese movies after the end of the civil war (1990)
Last updated: March 2024
(Best Movies / Top films list in Lebanon - Lebanese Cinema - Lebanese Films)
The best Lebanese movies after the end of the civil war (1990)
Last updated: March 2024
(Best Movies / Top films list in Lebanon - Lebanese Cinema - Lebanese Films)
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- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn 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: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- DirectorLucien BourjeilyStarsLaeticia SemaanNadim Abou SamraSamira SarkisAs 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!
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAdel KaramKamel El BashaCamille SalamehAfter an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorMir-Jean Bou ChaayaStarsAlain SaadehFouad YammineWissam FaresIntending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsHippolyte GirardotRafik Ali AhmadHussein SbeityA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
- DirectorRanda Chahal SabagStarsFlavia BecharaMaher BsaibesRanda AsmarA 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 barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, as brutal as our countries and the events that are to follow.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorEly DagherStarsManal IssaRoger AzarYara Abou HaidarAfter a long time gone, Jana, a young woman, suddenly returns to Beirut. She finds herself reconnecting with the familiar yet strange life she had once left.
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsManal IssaVincent LacostePaul HamyThe 90s. Lina, 18, arrives to Paris for her studies. She is looking for what she can't find in her home country Lebanon: a taste of freedom. She experiences different sides of the Parisian jungle and becomes conscious of her own place.
- DirectorGeorges HachemStarsDana AbedBadih Bou ChakraTakla ChamounNoha is about to get married. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her sister. Everything seems to be going well. However, on this special Sunday of August 1976 in Lebanon, on the same evening her elder brother is organizing a dinner in her honor 15 days prior to the wedding, Noha changes her mind.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsCarol AbboudFadi Abi SamraMounzer BaalbakiAfter surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.
- DirectorVatche BoulghourjianStarsBarakat JabbourJulia KassarToufic BarakatRabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give Rabih minor clues about his true identity. Descending into a void at the heart of his existence, Rabih encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsBernadette HodeibTalal JurdiRenée DickZiyad 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 learn that Maryam is infertile. Ziyad repeatedly reassures her of his undying love, but family and social pressure, particularly his evil, meddling mother, gradually poison their happy relationship until the love, enthusiasm and humour of their early days soon take a tragic turn.
- DirectorGeorges HachemStarsFadi Abi SamraYara Abou HaidarAdila BendimeradStill Burning tells the unexpected reunion in Paris in June 1998 of André, a Lebanese filmmaker living and working in France, and Walid, the very close friend he has not seen for years. In their youth, in Beirut, during the civil war, they were both possessed by the same artistic vocation: Cinema, but also by the same woman: Amira. Their reunion, all night long, will not fail to awaken their old repressed demons for better or for worse.
- DirectorMahmoud HojeijStarsCamille SalamehFadi Abi SamraNada Abou FarhatIn an apartment building in Beirut, on the last day of the year, seven characters start their day by visiting their psychologist as part of the weekly ritual. On that couch in their psychologist's office, they face themselves and their loved ones in trying to define what is most important to them. Each of them, from the patients to the residents of the building, has a different story to share, inner secrets and hidden wishes. All keep to themselves, except for the porter Abou Karim, who extends his presence and allows himself to interfere in the lives of others and in their destinies.
- DirectorRana EidPanoptic explores Lebanon's schizophrenia. Depicting a nation thriving for modernity while ignoring the vices preventing it from achieving its goal, director Rana Eid examines this paradox through sound, iconic monuments and secret hideouts.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsVahina GiocanteMoa KhouasKarim Ben HaddouTwo inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila's sexually explicit overtures.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsDarine HamzeRodrigue SleimanZeinab Hind KhadraFour tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
- DirectorBahij HojeijStarsHassan MradJulia KassarCarmen LebbosKidnapped during the war, Ramez is suddenly released from prison after 20 years and returns to his family profoundly changed. Unable to relate to them, he often wanders in the streets of Beirut, where he meets a sad young woman whose husband was kidnapped under similar circumstances...
- DirectorNadim TabetStarsPanos AprahamianNicolas CardahiJulian FarhatBeirut, on an autumn day. The city is on the edge of chaos, but for Maya, Tarek, Yasmina and Rami, aged between 17 and 22 years old, it is just an ordinary day during which they question themselves about sex, love and night time hanging out.
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsImad CreidiAntoinette TurkElias GergiA Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsHanane AbboudFadi Abi SamraAnne-Marie AfifLa 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, their immediate environment is rapidly changing as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are torn down to be replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the Pink House, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial center, the residents of the neighborhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favor of modernity and the families being evicted against the project for sentimental reasons.
- DirectorFouad AlaywanStarsYara Abou HaidarOmar ChammaaWissam Fares1975, the residents of a traditional building decide to repaint the facade, but the civil war begins leaving it on hold. Peace announced, Karim returns from US with hope to rescue the building of his childhood threatened by the project of the country's reconstruction.
- DirectorMichel KammounStarsElie MitriGabrielle Bou RachedCaroline AzzamEverything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip through Beirut.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNada Abou FarhatGeorges KhabbazRawia ElchabIn 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.
- DirectorJoe Bou EidStarsJoy KaramChady TinehCarol AbboudIt 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 narrator who tells with nostalgia and poetry the meeting of his parents until their marriage...
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsAouni KawasDarina Al JoundiRabih MroueLate in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle, he took advantage of the confusion and pretended he was dead.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsCarol AbboudAbla KhouryWalid SadekIn Beirut, the destinies of several thirtysomethings (an architect, a tour guide, a mystic, a radio operator, and an exile returned home) collide.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsAouni KawasZahia SalhabIn 1958, in Senegal, land of emigration, Zahia Salhab gave birth to her first child Ghassan. During the same period, Lebanon, their homeland, is driven into a significant local conflict, a preamble to the next civil war.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsZiad SaadJulia KassarAlexandra KahwagiA day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ago during the civil war.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsCatherine DeneuveBrigitte CurmiJoseph SilvaJuly 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih Mroue;, on the roads of South Lebanon. Together, they will drive through the regions devastated by the conflict. It is the beginning of an unpredictable, unexpected adventure...
- DirectorSophie BoutrosStarsJulia KassarAli El KhalilBassam KousaTherese, 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 with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsBrenda ClarkHampar KarageozianHarry KoundakjianFrom 1960 to 1966, a space project was undertaken in Lebanon. Several rockets, which became larger and more powerful with time, were launched from the hills surrounding Beirut by a group of scientists, university students and army experts. This group, led by Manoug Manougian, was called: The Lebanese Rocket Society.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsRodney El HaddadNadine LabakiNada Abou FarhatFifteen 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 friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNagham AbboudRafik Ali AhmadBshara AtallahDespite 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 different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsLuc ArachtingiDiane AractingiPhilippe AractingiWhen director Philippe Aractingi is forced to leave his motherland for the third time, the realisation dawns on him: his ancestors have been fleeing wars for five generations. Exploring his roots, Aractingi goes back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the Lebanese Civil War. Experimenting with a radical new film-making style, he interlaces directed scenes and archive images with video-filmed personal diaries, family photos and super 8 reels.
- DirectorMaria Abdel KarimNaji BecharaJad BeyrouthyStarsCarol AbboudDiamand Abou AbboudTakla ChamounSix Lebanese women, different ages, await the return of their sons, brothers, husbands or lovers, who have been missing since the Civil War. VOID depicts the events that take place on the eve of the Beirut Parliament Square sit-in, where the women petition to renew the cases of their missing men. The lives of these women revolve around waiting for the men in their lives. A wait filled with uncertainty, and hope.
- DirectorLara SabaStarsAlae HamoudGhida NouriCarole HajjThree 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 of them! Three characters, caught at a moment when their lives fell over, in just a matter of seconds... knocked down by a chain of other's actions/reactions...
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsCharles BerlingDarine HamzeFadi Abi SamraOne 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.
- DirectorKahlil Dreyfus ZaarourStarsVanisa AyyoobJulia KassarKahlil Dreyfus ZaarourWhen fifteen-year-old Nour is forced to marry Maurice whom she despises, her carefree summer days morph into claustrophobic confinement and household chores. Nour mourns her lost childhood and scattered dreams.
- DirectorSam AndraosHassan JaberStarsAntoinette AkikiJoseph AzouryNada Abou FarhatThe issues of extremism and social prejudice through the scope of sexism and gender equality.
- DirectorElie KhaliféStarsWalid ArakjiNebal AraqjiTania AssiSingle, 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.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsGhida MajzoubDori Al-SamaraniWalid ArakjiYalla 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.
- DirectorSalim el TurkStarsLorraine KodeihShady HannaZiad SaidThe true story of a fake identity. Is she a prostitute who will commit suicide or just a virtual character in an unfinished film by a crazy color blind director?
- DirectorJean Khalil ChamounStarsMajdi MachmouchiChristine ChoueiriAmmar Shalak12-year-old Rami moves from South Lebanon to Beirut with his family to escape the Israeli bombings. In the city he befriends a few local children and falls in love with his neighbor Yasmine. However, the horrors of war catch up with him when the civil war erupts. His friend is murdered in cold blood; he gets separated from Yasmine when her family moves away to escape the war; and his father gets kidnapped by the militia. Despite his opposition to violence and warfare, Rami finds himself signing up to be a militia fighter for a different faction, in a bid to find his father. He meets Siham, a young mother whose husband was kidnapped; in spite of the obstacles in her way, she is determined to find her husband. When his fellow militia fighters capture a prisoner and decide to kill him, Rami must make a choice between his humanity and his allegiance to his faction, in a war that has pitted him against his own friend.
- DirectorJocelyne SaabStarsHanan TurkMohamed MounirFathi AbdulwahhabAfter studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsMarianne FeghaliRawia ElchabLaudi ArbidLina, 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.
- DirectorDaniel JosephStarsHiam Abou ChedidHabib AlbertoSahar AssafDriving a cab wasn't his first option, but that's a long story.
- DirectorLayal M. RajhaStarsTakla ChamounZeina MakkiLorraine KodeihIn 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.
- DirectorBahij HojeijStarsReem KhouryGabriel YammineBahij HojeijA former Interior Security Forces General of 80 years old, and a former Army doctor of 84, go every day to the same coffee shop, to sip quietly their espresso, and to make crossword puzzles, to avoid loss of memory, Alzheimer's disease.
- DirectorOualid MouanessStarsNadine LabakiMohamad DalliRodrigue SleimanDuring 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.
- DirectorAhmad GhosseinStarsKaram GhosseinFlavia BecharaIssam Bou KhaledLebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village and leaves his wife Rana preparing alone their immigration to Canada. Marwan finds no traces of his father and the ceasefire is quickly broken, forcing him to take shelter in Najib's house, his father's friend. Marwan finds himself trapped under the rain of bombs with Najib and a group of elders, friends of his father. Tension rises inside and outside of the house. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. The next three days sees the situation spiral out of control.
- DirectorMounia AklStarsYumna MarwanNadine LabakiSaleh BakriA 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.
- DirectorMichel KammounStarsFadi Abi SamraRana AlamuddinSaleh BakriA small-time gambler in his 40s, struggling to rebuild his life after a few years in prison.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsRim TurkiManal IssaPaloma VauthierThe lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsHanane AbboudFadi Abi SamraAnne-Marie AfifLa 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, their immediate environment is rapidly changing as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are torn down to be replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the Pink House, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial center, the residents of the neighborhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favor of modernity and the families being evicted against the project for sentimental reasons.
- DirectorAbbas FahdelStarsMichelle WehbeElias FreiferMary AlkadyYara lives alone with her grandmother in an isolated valley, most of whose inhabitants have died or emigrated abroad. One day,Yara meets a young stranger.
- DirectorJimmy KeyrouzStarsTarek YaacoubRola BeksmatiMounir MaasriTrying to escape his war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood where music has been banned, a musician embarks on a journey to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by extremists.
- DirectorEliane RahebStarsRuben CardosoMiguel JelelatyFrançois NourA gay man confronts the ghosts of his past and explores hidden longings, unrequited love and tormenting feelings of guilt.
- DirectorMazen KhaledStarsCarol AbboudHadi Bou AyashMoustafa FahsA 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.
- DirectorGeorge Peter BarbariStarsEtienne AssalAdnan KhabbazJean Paul FranjiehEtienne is taken by his friends to a prostitute for the first time. Three troubled teens on their way to win their acceptance into manhood. Though several unexpected occurrences take Etienne on an unforeseen journey into himself.
- DirectorWissam CharafStarsClara CouturetZiad JalladRifaat TarabayBeirut, Lebanon. An impossible love story between an Ethiopian housemaid and a Syrian refugee whose body is witnessing mysterious changes.
- DirectorCarlos ChahineStarsMarilyne NaamanAntoine Merheb TarbNathalie BayeLayla, a young mother and model wife, spends the summer in the remote Christian mountains. One day she has an accidental encounter with a Frenchman that opens Layla's eyes to her condition as a woman living in a patriarchal society.
- DirectorLara SabaStarsShadi HaddadCynthia KaramJulia KassarHady, a famous actor, is shortlisted for the role of the young pope in an international production. To prepare for the decisive casting, Hady chooses to hole up, away from his hectic life, in Qannoubin where four nuns and a young woman lead him to a real transformation. But will he be able to make it to his long-awaited appointment?
- DirectorElie KhaliféStarsFadi Abi SamraMichele AounStephanie AtalaLiving in Beirut adjacent to a highway ramp, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overflow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.