18 Films & TV Shows Set In Lebanon During The 20th Century
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Beirut
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970s The 1980sBeirut, 1982: The Paris of the Middle East Was Burning โ 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
๐ฑ๐ง 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
๐ฑ๐ง 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
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐น๐ฑ Timor-Leste ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sรฉrgio 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
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง 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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Munich
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง 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. โ 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 ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia ๐ธ๐ฑ Sierra Leone ๐ง๐ด Bolivia ๐จ๐ด Colombia ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon โ 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
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ฑ๐ง 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 ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIt's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you. โ On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protรฉgรฉ 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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Civilisรฉes
๐ฑ๐ง 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 naรฏve 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
๐ฑ๐ง 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
๐ฑ๐ง 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 ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1980sYou've read the ad, now see the movie! โ 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
๐ฑ๐ง 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
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1980sThey don't negotiate with terrorists... they blow them away! โ 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.
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The Little Wars
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970sBeirut resident Soraya is drawn to two men: daredevil photographer Nabil and Talal, who must embrace his feudal heritage when his father is kidnapped.
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Beirut: The Encounter
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970sZeina (Nadine Acoury) is a Catholic student whose good friend Haidar (Haithem El Amine), a Muslim, has always been particularly close. After a futile attempt to get together (he gets caught in traffic), they each decide to make an audio tape trying to explain, based on their own ideas, why there continues to be fighting in Lebanon now, in 1977, and why they are against it. Zeina is about to leave for the United States and Haidar is to meet her at the airport, where they will exchange their tapes. Alas, fate intervenes because when he arrives early at the airport, he is harassed by someone looking to prey on gullible refugees and he gets so angry that he grabs a taxi out of there, throwing his tape away as he does so. When Zeina arrives and realizes he is not there, she is broken-hearted. In a strange twist at the end, the cast and the director (Borhane Alaouie) have a discussion as to whether or not the character of Haidar should kill himself.
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Backfire
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 20th CenturyA greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.