13 Films & TV Shows Set In Lebanon During The 1980s
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
California 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sYou've read the ad, now see the movie! — When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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Beirut: The Last Home Movie
🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1980sBeirut: The Last Home Movie is a 1987 documentary film directed by Jennifer Fox. It follows the life of Gaby Bustros and her family, who live in in a 200-year old mansion in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. The Bustros family, one of the noble families of Beirut, remain in their ancestral home despite the endless war that surrounds them.
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The Delta Force
🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇩🇿 Algeria The 1980sThey don't negotiate with terrorists... they blow them away! — A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
