Movies and TV shows set in lebanon
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in lebanon ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, emotional, suspenseful and tense films and TV shows about / with arab, soldier, family relations, friendship, society, islam, war, husband wife relationship, military and lebanese civil war plots mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres shot in Lebanon, France, Israel and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lebanon: Under the Bombs (2007), The Kite (2003), Caramel (2007), Yes (2004), The Best Man's Wedding (2000), Where Do We Go Now? (2011), Capernaum (2018), Incendies (2010), Cannon Fodder (2013), The Insult (2017).
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Lebanon, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, offbeat ...
Plot:
friendship, on the road, bombing, unlikely couple, missing person, couples, family relations, danger, couple relations, wartime life, parents and children, demolished city ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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 barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, introspection, society, wartime life, life is a bitch, military, youth, couples, fall in love, political unrest, culture clash, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, arab, sexual attraction, lesbian, friendship, lesbian subtext, wedding, actress, self discovery, police officer, gender, destiny ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, lebanon, persia, maghreb, beirut lebanon ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and ...
Style:
witty, stylized, philosophical, lyrical, serious ...
Plot:
culture clash, racism, infidelity, social differences, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, exile, dialogue, husband wife relationship, blues, hospital ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
london, cuba, latin america, england, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Roro and Måns who are best friends, work at the park management and get to do all the shit jobs - clean up duck ponds and pick up dog poop. Roro's Swedish girlfriend Lisa wants to be introduced to his family but he refuses for a long time ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sweet, intense, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, couples, impotence, culture clash, friends, love triangle, sexual dysfunction, wedding planning, nothing goes right, understanding, proposal, family life ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
lebanon, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Qatar
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact ...
Style:
touching, sincere, uplifting, humorous, poignant ...
Plot:
religious differences, muslim, arab, religion, peaceful mission, disagreement, society, strong female character, religious, christianity, women of color, civil war ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, maghreb, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
sad, social, depressing, rough, cynical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, neglected child, child abuse, low lives, child neglect, child protagonist, starving child, child labor ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, sarajevo ...
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246K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, rape, last will and testament, unwanted pregnancy, incest, twists and turns, civil war, pregnant from rape, incest rape, torture, lebanese civil war, family problems ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2009, year 1970, y2k ...
Place:
middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal ...
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Doron, a security operative, who takes on one last mission: to capture, number 3 in the terrorist organization of Hezbollah, in Lebanon. With an elite force, Doron enters Lebanon to complete his last mission. Very soon he discovers that reality is ...
Style:
exciting, scary, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
zombie, military, soldier, survival, heroic mission, supernatural, danger, bio weapon, military life, gory, mossad, spy ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Cyprus, Belgium, Lebanon, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
political, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, trial, attorney, prejudice, racial tension, insult, court case, idealism, media coverage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, maghreb, palestine, beirut lebanon
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A former U. S. diplomat returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut.
Style:
political, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, hostage, mossad, spy, arab, israeli palestinian conflict, espionage, heroes, fight, covert operation, secret service ...
Time:
year 1982, year 1972, 80s, 70s
Place:
middle east, lebanon, beirut lebanon, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rabih, 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 ...
Plot:
lebanese civil war, blindness, choir, passport, identity, fake identification, bureaucracy, wedding party, violin, war veteran, secret past, single mother ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
lebanon
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
To escape the civil war between Christians and Muslims, a Lebanese family moves from the countryside to Beirut, only to find themselves caught in an equally dangerous situation
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious
Plot:
survival, terrorist, soldier, missing person, tragic event, civil war, politics, christian, moral dilemma, fall in love, lebanese civil war, mobster ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1990
Place:
lebanon, israel, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Norway, Lebanon, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, melancholic, emotional, islamic ...
Plot:
politics, friendship, coming of age, prejudice, segregation, arab, sex, civil war, lebanese civil war, survival, honest, poetry ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1975
Place:
middle east, lebanon, israel, syria, beirut lebanon ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, reflective, bleak, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
moral dilemma, realism, israeli army, combat, moral ambiguity, guerilla warfare, soldier, political conflict, platoon, occupation, fear, loss ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
July 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 ...
Style:
reflective, art house, independent film, non-linear, semi documentary ...
Plot:
road trip, destruction, ruins, trauma, post war, memory, investigation, experimental narrative, intimate, humanitarian, war trauma, testimony ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, beirut lebanon
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, social, islamic ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, introspection, lgbt, injustice, rebellion, life is a bitch, starting over, love and romance, hopes, society, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 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 ...
Style:
art house, psychological, melancholic, emotional, existential ...
Plot:
insomnia, family drama, character study, longing, slice of life, loss, grief, mother son relationship, memories, intimate, loneliness, regret ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
lebanon, middle east
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
military, arab israeli conflict, confined, sergeant, tank, israeli, israeli soldier, army vs civilians, military life, mission gone awry, moral dilemma, danger ...
Time:
year 1982, year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine, big ben london
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.
Style:
semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic
Plot:
youth, obsessive quest, disorder, escapades, nothing goes right, nightlife, summer, conflict, profanity, violent content, dark humor, hit and run ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lebanon, middle east, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A comedy about three military band reservists who wake to discover that the Israeli army has withdrawn from Lebanon and left them behind.
Style:
buddy comedy, satirical, offbeat, dark comedy, lighthearted ...
Plot:
rock band, friendship, fish out of water, drug smuggling, misadventure, escape, political satire, corruption, satire, survival, irreverent, islam ...
Place:
lebanon, israel, palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that ...
Style:
rough, tense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, bomb squad, israeli, military life, danger, evacuation, battle zone, military base, military, militia, officer, bombing ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 80s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, israel, palestine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Do we truly know one another? Every one of us has three lives: a public, a private and secret one. What we once stored in our memories is now being stored in our phones - what happens when these are made public?
Style:
satirical, social, semi serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
infidelity, arab, homosexuality, society, friendship, secret, learning the truth, friends, truth or dare, satire, group of friends, uncover truth ...
Place:
lebanon, egypt, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity, memory, homecoming, self discovery, introspection, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, trauma, haunted house, family secret ...
Place:
lebanon
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
parenthood, disability, down syndrome, tolerance, acceptance, relationship problems, satire, husband wife relationship, family problems, intolerance, community, father son relationship ...
Place:
lebanon
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, independent film
Plot:
family drama, family gatherings, family secret, character study, matriarchy, sibling rivalry, claustrophobia, social commentary, social satire, single, moral ambiguity, class conflict ...
Place:
lebanon
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup, he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
soccer, football, israeli, military, life is a bitch, war, confined, soldier, wartime life, infantrymen, hapless soldier, anti war ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
lebanon, middle east, palestine
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
rescue mission, taxi driver, diplomacy, diplomat, kidnapping, ransom, hostage rescue, lebanese civil war, problem, fighting crime, moral dilemma, international relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, geneva switzerland
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3K
Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: Sweden, Czech Republic, UK, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
orphan, childhood trauma, child romance, immigrant, young heroes, fish out of water, youth, society, life is a bitch, wartime life, parents and children, boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, europe, lebanon, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story:
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, sad, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, sister in law sister in law relationship, mental illness, cafe, politics, musician, idealism, hopes, couple relations, friendship, storytelling, police brutality ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 2003, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, sicily, lebanon, europe ...
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