Topic: Lebanese Civil War

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Lebanese Civil War. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


Incendies

2010 · Movie · 130 min. · Canada

Direction Denis Villeneuve

Cast Lubna Azabal · Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin · Maxim Gaudette · Rémy Girard

Plot A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey from Canada to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies...

7.7

21K votes

7.7

21K votes

Waltz with Bashir

2008 · Movie · 87 min. · Israel

Direction Ari Folman

Plot One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of...

7.5

23K votes

7.5

23K votes

The Insult

2017 · Movie · 110 min. · Lebanon

Direction Ziad Doueiri

Cast Adel Karam · Kamel El Basha · Christine Choueiri · Camille Salameh

Plot In today’s Beirut, an insult blown out of proportions finds Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, in court. From secret wounds to traumatic revelations, the media circus...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

West Beirut

1998 · Movie · 106 min. · Lebanon

Direction Ziad Doueiri

Cast Rami Doueiri · Mohammad Chamas · Rola Al Amin · Carmen Loubbos

Plot 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...

7.0

446 votes

7.0

446 votes

Lebanon

2009 · Movie · 93 min. · Israel

Direction Samuel Maoz

Cast Yoav Donat · Itay Tiran · Oshri Cohen · Michael Moshonov

Plot The First Lebanon War, June, 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force....

6.7

662 votes

6.7

662 votes

Skies of Lebanon

2020 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Chloé Mazlo

Cast Alba Rohrwacher · Wajdi Mouawad · Isabelle Zighondi · Mariah Tannoury

Plot In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

6.6

334 votes

6.6

334 votes

Under the Bombs

2007 · Movie · 98 min. · Lebanon

Direction Philippe Aractingi

Cast Nada Abou Farhat · Georges Khabbaz · Rawia Elchab · Bshara Atallah

Plot In 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...

6.4

78 votes

6.4

78 votes

Zozo

2005 · Movie · 103 min. · Sweden

Direction Josef Fares

Cast Imad Creidi · Antoinette Turk · Carmen Loubbos · Elias Gergi

Plot Zozo grows up in Beirut. In spite of the civil war, he leads a normal life with family, friends and school. But one day tragedy strikes and Zozo is torn...

6.2

64 votes

6.2

64 votes

I Want to See

2008 · Documentary · 75 min. · Lebanon

6.2

133 votes

6.2

133 votes

The Lebanon I Dream Of

2009 · Documentary · 46 min. · Lebanon

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My First War

2008 · Documentary · 82 min. · Israel

Direction Yariv Mozer

Plot At 28, Yariv Mozer is suddenly drafted as a soldier in the Second Lebanese War between Lebanon and Israel. Instinctively, he grabs his video camera and hangs it around his...

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Little Wars

1982 · Movie · 108 min. · Lebanon

Direction Maroun Bagdadi

Cast Soraya Khoury · Nabil Ismaïl · Roger Hawa · Reda Khoury

Plot Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman ; how Nabil,...

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Once Upon a Time in Beirut

1995 · Movie · 104 min. · Lebanon

Direction Jocelyn Saab

Cast Emile Accar · Pierre Chamassian · Abou El Abed · Myrna Maakaron

Plot Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they...

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Taxi Service (S)

1997 · Movie · 13 min. · Switzerland

Direction Elie Khalife · Alexandre Monnier

Plot In the Lebanese War, Tarek, a taxi driver who delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called "L'Oisellerie" (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates...

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Remnants of a War

2009 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jawad Metni

Plot In the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, one million cluster bomb munitions rained down upon the fields, orchards and villages of South Lebanon. An estimated 30% failed to detonate....

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Letter from a Time of Exile

1988 · Documentary · 51 min. · Lebanon

Direction Borhane Alaouié

Plot Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a...

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Violins in Wartime

2011 · Documentary · 70 min. · Israel

Direction Yael Katzir

Plot Violins in Wartime is a documentary feature that was shot during the second Lebanon War in 2006. It follows a group of internationally acclaimed conductors who traveled to Israel for...

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Lettre de Beyrouth (A Letter from Beirut)

1979 · Documentary · 50 min. · France

Direction Jocelyn Saab

Cast Etel Adnan

Plot This is Jocelyn Saab's portrait of her hometown just a few years before the outbreak of the Civil War. Born in 1948 in Beirut, Lebanon, Saab studied economics at university,...

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Erased, Ascent of the Invisible

2018 · Documentary · 76 min. · Lebanon

Direction Ghassan Halwani

Plot Ruminate on the thousands who disappeared during the Lebanese Civil War and their still-present absence in the lives of their loved ones.

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Frontiers of Dreams and Fears

2001 · Documentary · 56 min. · Palestine

Direction Mai Masri

Plot In this documentary, two Palestinian girls who both belong to the same cultural center maintain a tight friendship, despite the obstacles imposed by history and circumstance. Mona, 13, lives in...

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