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
Direction Joana Hadjithomas · Khalil Joreige
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Rabih Mroue
6.2
133 votes
6.2
133 votes
The Lebanon I Dream Of
2009 · Documentary · 46 min. · Lebanon
Direction Pierre Dawalibi
Cast Tony Hanna · Hiba El-Kawas
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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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