50 Films & TV Shows Set In Lebanon
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The Man Who Sold His Skin
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇸🇾 Syria The 2010sTo be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
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Beirut
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970s The 1980sBeirut, 1982: The Paris of the Middle East Was Burning — In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
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Capernaum
🇱🇧 LebanonIt takes courage to hope. — 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.
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Phantom
Illinois 🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇸🇾 Syria The 2000sA Story You Wish Were True — Phantom is an action thriller that unfolds across various countries around the world. The plot revolves around protagonist Daniyal, whose journey to seek justice takes him from India to Europe, America and the volatile Middle East. However, he finds out that in a mission like this, there is always a price to pay, in this case, a very personal price.
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Zaytoun
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sBeirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.
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Where Do We Go Now?
🇱🇧 LebanonOn 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 and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark, sabotaging the village radio, then destroying the village TV.
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Beirut Hotel
🇱🇧 LebanonOne 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.
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Incendies
Quebec 🇱🇧 LebanonThe search began at the opening of their mother's will. — 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 the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
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Light of My Eyes
🇱🇧 LebanonNour Einy — The role of the movie is about two friends, one travels to a European country And The Other One combat To blind girl falls in love and when return to Egypt together they discover the same girl that he loves his friend and she traveled to this country to search for a way modern medical help to restore its consideration.
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Brüno
Arkansas California Texas Alabama 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 LebanonBorat was so 2006 — Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
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Lebanon
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sDuring the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
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Sergio
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste 🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sérgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.
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Waltz with Bashir
🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980s The 2000sAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
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Beaufort
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 2000sBEAUFORT 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 drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
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Under the Bombs
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 2000sIn 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.
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Syriana
District of Columbia Texas 🇪🇸 Spain 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇱🇧 LebanonEverything is connected. — The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
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Munich
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. — During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Lord of War
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Zozo
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sA Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
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In the Battlefields
🇱🇧 LebanonLina, 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.
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Spy Game
Jiangsu Province 🇩🇪 Germany 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIt's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you. — On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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Civilisées
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sLebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag spins this bleak war drama about the brutal absurdity of the urban warfare of Beirut during the 1980s. Opening with the shocking image of kittens being blown apart, the film loosely follows the travails of Bernadette (Nada Ghosn), a naïve country girl sent to the city as a maid for a mansion long since abandoned by the owners. There she meets Therese (Renee Dick), a veteran house cleaner who takes her under her wing. One day, while accompanying her friend to the cemetery, she meets a rakish Arab militiaman, and the two fall in love.
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West Beirut
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970sIn 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.
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Out of Life
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sPatrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
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