Best award winning movies with a great story from Lebanon

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a great story from Lebanon! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a great story from Lebanon, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Capernaum (2018)

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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2018-09-20 | Drama

Cast

Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shifera

Rating

rating icon 8.15
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #28 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #104 for
    gut-wrenching
  3. Ranked #125 for
    social realism

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2 Zozo (2005)

A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.

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2005-09-02 | Drama

Cast

Imad Creidi, Antoinette Turk

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    good girl
  2. Ranked #112 for
    great to watch with a loved one
  3. Ranked #171 for
    sepia tone

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3 Caramel (2007)

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

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2007-08-09 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Massri

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #205 for
    blasphemous
  2. Ranked #211 for
    distinct impression
  3. Ranked #288 for
    unfaithful partner

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4 Very Big Shot (2015)

A dark comedy about brothers running a drug-dealing business out of their takeout pizzeria.

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2015-10-11 | Action / Drama

Cast

Alain Saadeh, Tarek Yaacoub

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #312 for
    loud explosion
  2. Ranked #325 for
    desperately hoping
  3. Ranked #335 for
    somewhat ambiguous ending

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5 Where Do We Go Now? (2011)

On 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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2011-09-14 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Claude Msawbaa, Leyla Hakim

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #181 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #236 for
    barbed dialogue
  3. Ranked #330 for
    confusing

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6 West Beirut (1998)

In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. A high school student named Tarek is thrilled by all the chaos and upheaval because he no longer needs to go to school. Plus, he finds negotiations between West and East Beirut interesting. Tarek is accompanied by his buddy Omar as the two shoot Super 8 films of the tumult around them. The jovial mood takes a tragic turn when Tarek's parents start fighting over whether or not to flee Beirut.

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1998-10-30 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #161 for
    like The Hateful Eight
  2. Ranked #161 for
    didactic
  3. Ranked #219 for
    fun-loving

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7 Blind Intersections (2013)

Three protagonists, one city, different backgrounds: Nour, India and Marwan pass each other but they never meet, though the effect of one incident will drastically alter their lives. Caught in a moment, their lives fall apart in just a matter of seconds.

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2013-02-21 | Drama

Cast

Alaa Hammoud, Ghida Nouri

Rating

rating icon 5.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #255 for
    deviant
  2. Ranked #446 for
    not shying away
  3. Ranked #496 for
    loud noise

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8 The Ring Seller (1965)

In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to villagers about the exploits of Rajeh, who kills and maims and steals. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) tells the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and they better be careful. Two smart men notice that the mayor was lying and that it is all his imagination. So they go on making good on the fictitious person and steal money and assault the mayor in the dark saying that they were Rajeh. Eventually, an old man with the name of Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings and he wanted to marry his son to Rima, the mayor's niece. The two bad guys willingly go to jail for making use of the mayor's joke.

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1965-01-02 | Drama / Music

Cast

Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15102 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #18640 for
    allusive
  3. Ranked #19683 for
    great story

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