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84
8.4
/121040/
83
/2682/
81
/1879/
4.2
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90
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93
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75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.6
/18894/
75
/529/
74
/465/
3.7
/13080/
86
/116/
88
/70/
72
/25/
cc age 16+

The Insult (2017)
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
poster
79
8.1
/53315/
75
/577/
72
/379/
3.9
/12847/
92
/304/

The Message (1976)
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
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Kanopy
77
6.7
/7604/
68
/233/
66
/162/
3.6
/22729/
96
/115/
58
/40/
89
/26/

Zama (2017)
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
poster
76
7.3
/1401/
70
/22/
71
/43/
3.6
/1562/
100
/18/
62

A Son (2020)
Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?
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Kanopy
76
7.3
/2867/
73
/130/
70
/57/
3.8
/3837/
96
/23/
75
/9/
70
/7/

Of Fathers and Sons (2017)
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
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Kanopy
75
6.7
/1242/
65
/35/
64
/27/
3.6
/3247/
89
/38/
88
/2/
80
/14/
cc age 14+

Costa Brava, Lebanon (2022)
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
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Kanopy
75
7.1
/4721/
70
/147/
68
/89/
3.5
/1659/
86
/58/
77
/103/
74
/24/

The Attack (2012)
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.7
/324/
58
/14/
68
/3/
3.6
/1483/
98
/49/
87
/4/
72
/11/

Sirens (2022)
True to their name, Slave to Sirens — the first and only all-woman thrash metal band in the Middle East — are utterly magnetic. Amid a backdrop of political unrest and the heartbreaking unraveling of Beirut, five bandmates form a beacon of expression, resistance, and independence. Director Rita Baghdadi follows founders and guitarists Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara as their tenderness, and sometimes bitterness, for one another grows in ways both unexpected and deeply moving. Joined by vocalist Maya Khairallah, bassist Alma Doumani, and drummer Tatyana Boughaba, these women negotiate their emotional journeys through young adulthood in tumultuous circumstances with grace, raw passion, and a ferocious commitment to their art. Their grit is tested as they grapple with the complexities of friendship, sexuality, and the destruction around them.
poster
Kanopy
73
6.8
/3558/
71
/182/
70
/153/
3.6
/24387/
94
/80/
73
/10/
68
/17/
cc age 14+

Rafiki (2018)
Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
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75
73
7.1
/15158/
70
/268/
68
/239/
3.8
/15255/
93
/81/
81
/1050/
70
/26/

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.
poster
72
6.9
/164/
40
/4/
64
/4/
3.6
/1043/
100
/5/

See You Friday, Robinson (2022)
"We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I'll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson!" And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wisely desperate, and sends images and words from Switzerland to the other side of the Channel. In his mansion in Sussex, Ebrahim Golestan tries to decode these UFO-messages and skilfully seeks to bring them back to the appearance of reason. And so on, until the day a veil falls over the two Gods on the run. Does the existence of poets still have any meaning in these times of distress?
poster
71
7.1
/5290/
70
/227/
73
/133/
3.5
/3582/
64
/69/
75
/40/
61
/21/
cc age 9+

The Prophet (2014)
Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
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Kanopy
70
6.4
/1224/
64
/32/
62
/46/
3.0
/1776/
90
/21/
69
/8/

Yalda (2020)
Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.
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80
70
7.6
/5122/
73
/72/
69
/46/
4.0
/8469/
94
/16/
91
/77/

West Beirut (1998)
In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut.
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Kanopy
69
6.5
/1216/
59
/25/
67
/39/
3.4
/1846/
98
/46/
52
/5/
75
/13/

Félicité (2017)
Félicité, a strong and proud woman, sings in bars in Kinshasa. She drifts away from reality when her 14-year-old son gets into an accident. In electric Kinshasa, she wanders in a world of music & dreams... until love unexpectedly brings her back to life.
poster
67
7.4
/13984/
73
/225/
74
/205/
3.9
/11473/
52
/73/
73
/144/
60
/25/

Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the country around them, the women in the village try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark by sabotaging the village radio, and then destroying the village TV.
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Netflix
55
4.7
/1855/
48
/110/
55
/45/
2.6
/3857/
cc age 14+

The Sand Castle (2024)
Stranded on a deserted island, a family of four scavenges for survival as their past unravels, sending them into a downward spiral of painful events.
poster
Kanopy
74
52
7.1
/3087/
74
/111/
64
/81/
3.6
/2034/
89
/45/
77
/3/

In Syria (2017)
A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.
poster
Kanopy
72
52
7.1
/2902/
71
/98/
70
/85/
3.8
/5388/
70
/23/
86
/3/
65
/10/

Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.
poster
52
5.3
/6452/
67
/203/
50
/73/
2.7
/2907/
29
/7/
40
/127/
48
/8/

Doctor Detroit (1983)
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
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71
51
6.6
/948/
64
/31/
62
/29/
3.5
/2864/
93
/29/
73
/10/

Memory Box (2021)
Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
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59
50
5.8
/5683/
59
/136/
60
/81/
3.0
/5516/

Perfect Strangers (2022)
A dinner party unravels when a tight group of friends agree to leave their phones unlocked on the table, exposing juicy interactions and dark secrets.
poster
Kanopy
71
46
6.7
/1244/
61
/28/
66
/23/
3.6
/1769/
95
/21/
83
/12/
59
/9/

1982 (2020)
On the eve of an invasion in 1982 Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy at a mountain school is determined to express his feelings to a classmate. As tension builds across the country, the day takes an unexpected turn, reflecting the fragile line between innocence and conflict. Through a child's eyes, the film explores the impact of war, the power of love, and the resilience of the human spirit.
poster
71
45
7.0
/1804/
66
/30/
66
/26/
3.5
/598/
83
/6/
73
/56/

Under the Bombs (2007)
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
44
7.8
/833/
72
/30/
64
/12/
3.6
/431/
100
/11/
87
/30/
71
/6/

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
American academic Norman Finkelstein discusses foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
72
43
7.0
/1255/
71
/86/
70
/26/
79
/303/

Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus (2015)
A debate rages over the credibility of the Bible. Most archaeologists today have concluded that there's no evidence that the Exodus of Israelite slaves from Egypt ever happened. Filmmaker Timothy Mahoney faces a crisis of faith: "Is this foundation event of the Bible really just a myth?" He embarks on a 12-year journey around the world to search for answers. The Exodus unlocks the mystery of this ancient saga, combining a scientific investigation with a retelling of the Exodus story to reveal an amazing pattern of evidence matching the biblical account that may challenge our understanding of history.
poster
75
42
6.6
/330/
61
/11/
73
/13/
3.8
/2959/
100
/9/

Rewind & Play (2023)
The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.
poster
82
41
7.6
/346/
81
/10/
70
/12/
4.2
/1522/
100
/11/

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege (2021)
During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) is a film that follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.
poster
81
41
7.9
/656/
85
/14/
80
/9/
4.1
/1562/
100
/16/
81
/5/
65
/5/

A World Not Ours (2014)
An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.
poster
Kanopy
83
39
7.6
/105/
100
/3/
52
/3/
100
/6/
89
/170/

Grandma, a Thousand Times (2011)
Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. She’s been gripped as of late by the silence of her once-buzzing household where she raised children and grandchildren. Resigned to Argileh smoking and day-long coffee drinking on a now-empty balcony, Teta now invokes the deepest memories of her violinist husband who died twenty years ago. She claims a preparedness to re-unite with him.
poster
69
39
6.1
/426/
62
/14/
58
/24/
3.3
/1210/
100
/9/

Initials S.G. (2019)
An aging, Argentine, Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles to deal with a career he can't seem to get on track, an affair he doesn't want, and a crime he didn't mean to commit.
poster
Netflix
53
37
5.3
/1670/
61
/230/
67
/85/
2.5
/4277/
36
/4/
cc age 13+

Honeymoonish (2024)
Two newlyweds on their honeymoon discover that they are different in almost every way — but can these opposites attract?
poster
71
37
6.3
/600/
72
/17/
55
/11/
3.2
/403/
88
/475/
88
/6014/

Halal Love (2016)
Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
poster
66
36
6.8
/787/
66
/39/
62
/31/
3.5
/4096/

Waves '98 (2015)
Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.
poster
65
34
6.5
/332/
45
/9/
68
/23/
3.4
/914/
83
/12/

Nezouh (2023)
Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.
poster
72
33
6.4
/78/
71
/5/
65
/2/
3.5
/648/
77
/65/
90
/3544/

If the Sun Drowned Into an Ocean of Clouds (2023)
Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters—mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?
poster
71
33
7.4
/81/
40
/5/
70
/21/
3.6
/503/
100
/7/

Q (2023)
An intimate portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, Q depicts the influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order on filmmaker Jude Chehab’s family and the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. A love story of a different kind, Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning.
poster
66
33
6.8
/539/
51
/13/
58
/19/
3.5
/890/
86

Out of Life (1991)
Patrick 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.
poster
69
31
6.2
/224/
78
/90/
62
/10/
4.0
/2783/
63
/17/

The Last of Us (2018)
N is coming from the desert to reach the north of Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. Alone in Tunisia, he decides to cross the solitary sea. He steals a boat and begins his journey, but it soon sinks into the water. From that moment, N embarks in a special and unique voyage: he discovers different and infinite spaces, makes intense and fleeting encounters, and meets another altered image of himself.
poster
72
31
7.1
/1353/
66
/25/
62
/29/
3.8
/1890/
86
/2/

3000 Nights (2015)
Iman, a young newly wed Palestinian bride, is arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. As she struggles to survive and raise her child behind bars, she is torn between her instinct as a mother and the difficult decisions she must make, finding through her relationship with the other prisoners - both Palestinian and Israeli – the time and space to reflect, develop and mature as a young woman.
poster
66
28
7.1
/459/
69
/21/
53
/16/
3.7
/2636/

Warsha (2022)
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.
poster
Hoopla
76
27
7.2
/690/
70
/11/
68
/11/
3.6
/464/
92
/13/
87
/4/

A Syrian Love Story (2015)
Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
poster
72
26
7.6
/355/
67
/7/
66
/10/
3.7
/470/
80

Silvered Water (2014)
Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians” according to the filmmakers, SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT impressionistically documents the destruction and atrocities of the civil war through a combination of eye-witness accounts shot on mobile phones and posted to the internet, and footage shot by Bedirxan during the siege of Homs. Bedirxan, an elementary school teacher in Homs, had contacted Mohammed online to ask him what he would film, if he was there. Mohammed, working in forced exile in Paris, is tormented by feelings of cowardice as he witnesses the horrors from afar, and the self-reflexive film also chronicles how he is haunted in his dreams by a Syrian boy once shot to death for snatching his camera on the street.
poster
60
25
5.8
/167/
37
/4/
63
/7/
3.3
/714/
80
/10/

The Dam (2023)
Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.
poster
68
25
6.9
/1582/
64
/22/
69
/22/
3.5
/493/

Very Big Shot (2015)
A dark comedy about brothers running a drug-dealing business out of their takeout pizzeria.
poster
71
25
7.3
/1273/
76
/38/
63
/29/
3.5
/675/
76
/4/

Ghadi (2013)
Leba is a music instructor who lives in a small Lebanese town. Social pressure leads him to get married and have children. Lara, his beloved wife, births a girl, later other one and finally Ghadi, a boy with special needs related with Down Syndrome. Ghadi could have been a burden, but he is a cause of pride and joy for all of them —but a test too that proves the intolerance of other people.
poster
73
24
7.6
/233/
80
/8/
57
/6/
4.1
/3661/

Leila and the Wolves (1984)
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.


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