Discover the best of Lebanese cinema, film, and television
Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Lebanon. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The cinema of Lebanon
Lebanese cinema is a story of incredible glamour and an even more incredible, unbreakable spirit. It is a film culture that consistently produces beauty and art against all odds. Its modern golden age is led by a wave of world-class filmmakers. The visionary Nadine Labaki has captivated global audiences, first with the charming Caramel and then with her stunning, Oscar-nominated masterpiece Capernaum. Alongside her, directors like Ziad Doueiri, with his powerful drama The Insult, have also earned Academy Award nominations, placing Beirut firmly at the centre of the region’s artistic heart. This creative fire now fuels a boom in glossy, high-budget television. Lebanese series have become pan-Arab sensations, famous for their dramatic plots and stylish production, becoming some of the most addictive shows in the region. What makes Lebanese screen culture so compelling is its powerful spirit of survival. It is a cinema notably powered by some of the region's most prominent female directors, telling stories that are multilingual, cosmopolitan, and fearless. It’s a cinema that speaks with a voice that is glamorous, courageous, and utterly essential to the modern Middle East.
Best Lebanese series
Franklin 2025
A counterfeit artist, also a single father, is forced to work with his ex-lover to craft the perfect $100 bill — all to save his dying daughter.
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Dollar 2019
Beautiful executive assistant Zeina reluctantly teams up with the self-assured Tarek to chase down an elusive dollar bill worth $1 million.
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Five : Thirty 2019
A love triangle that starts when a love story between a strong woman and a power seeking politician deteriorates because of his hunger to power and money, and she only finds comfort with his own bodyguard.
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Hello country 2024
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Bride of Beirut 2019
Thuraya a simple girl living a modest life with her aunt, her life changes forever when she meets Faress a young and ambitious young man.
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2020 2021
Seeking revenge, a woman goes to the village where her brother was killed, but her ride becomes bumpy when she finds herself falling in love.
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Best Lebanese movies
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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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