Best Lebanese comedy movies

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.

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.

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.

Samar is a beautiful girl living with her sisters. When someone tried to exploit her in some illegal activities, Samar decides to volunteer for civil defense. There, she falls in love with one of her colleagues.

Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!

To find her stolen scooter, Arze drags her rebellious son on an adventurous journey across Beirut, navigating the city’s web of sectarianism with wit and courage while revealing to her son a long- overdue family secret.

In Differdange, in the South of Luxembourg, six unemployed men decide to create the "Dole Club", whose rules forbid its members to work, even in the very unlikely event that they are offered a job. Geronimo, Théid, Frunnes, Sonny Boy, Abbes and Petz all agree to abide by the strict regulations of the club. In accordance with them, they manage to survive. But they can do it only on petty theft and other swindles, which is bound to end badly...

A researcher in plant sciences returns home to his village in rural Lebanon to attend his father's funeral. During the three-day-long Christian Greek Orthdox memorial he discovers that a pathogen is infecting the trees across his village. A dark comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.

As Reem is preparing for her wedding at a big resort, her sister Amal, who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital, seeks to spoil the big day with the help of Reem's ex-boyfriend, Adel.

Mazen, a struggling young man, is addicted to living large on a less-than-mediocre income. He falls in love with a co-worker, Elsa, who happens to be high-society. One day, Mazen saves a rich philanthropist’s life and is awarded a credit card that can withdraw a thousand US dollars every day. Mazen’s life turns around overnight.

Ayman, Syrian refugee in Lebanon, teaching his wife how to drive his car, the only thing left for him from his country. The lesson takes a wrong turn into madness and nostalgia.

A woman who works as a DJ is known to live alone and has her own messy world, but when she meets a teacher who is always serious and well organized, the contradiction between their personalities result in many comedic situations.

Luxembourg is a small country in the heart of Europe. It's a multi-cultural society, foreigners representing almost 40% of its population. It's famous for its forward-thinking social policies and - especially - for its financial services. It used to be known for its steel industry and it still boasts one of the most important media groups in the world. But it's certainly not known either for soccer or unemployment. So this is 'Revanche's' recipe: take Luxembourg's unemployed. Put them in business suits. Encourage them to create an international football club which begins to win all its matches. Into this strange mix, throw in a bunch of international criminals, and a bevy of glamorous Eastern European dream creatures all looking for husbands, fame and fortune. The result is a delicious humanist fable, a comedy in which love conquers money.

Sami and Makram live in difficult financial conditions. They plan to seize a valuable artifact to pay off their debts to their rich friend, so the duo goes through a series of adventures and dangers

What starts off as a trip to attend a funeral in Egypt turns into a full-blown treasure hunt for war veteran Abu Riad and his novice, Abbas.

With her wedding day approaching, Sahar's fear of getting married magnifies due to the increasing divorce rates she witnesses. To escape such a devastating end, she agrees with her conservative fiancé Shafiq to alternate between being married and breaking loose of their bond

Adel (Adel Karam), who works three jobs and takes care of his grandmother, falls in love with Roula (Roula Chamieh) and wants to marry her. However, her father disagrees because of Adel's low income and social status, and her Aunt fixes her up with a wealthy older man. Adel tries to win Roula back after a series of unfortunate ironic events, all in a sarcastic and weird way.

As Hicham Haddad goes to jail under false accusations, he's in fear of losing his top hit lebanese talk show. When he discovers that his bestfriend and cohost Jad bou Karam backstabbed him ...

Four elderly men (Fons, Lull, Nuckes and Jängi) are fed up with being walked all over and treated like children. Together with their friends, they plan a future without old people's homes. But that's easier said than done.

In a remote and poor village, three girls decide to change their destiny. They plan to rub a truck assuming its loaded with cash.. but what they never imagined is found in the truck and this changes their village and own lives forever.

The movie revolves around Mohsen El-Saagh who decides to challenge his clan in order to win the heart of Haifa, in the midst of the struggle of the leaders to lead the clan.

Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian 'hummus tragic'. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina. But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was hungry for more. But this war ha no soldiers, bullets or tanks. Just chickpeas and hummus. Make Hummus Not War is a humorous homage to the chickpea's most distinguished dish. But there's a personal story, how Graham became a hummus tragic, a father who served in Palestine during WW2 and two lovers in his life, one Syrian, one Jewish, with whom he shared a great culinary passion.

Tarek, a taxi driver delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called “L’Oisellerie” (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates would like nothing better than their freedom, Tarek finds that leaving is not so easy.

Jad works as an architect, and he has been busy for two years on a huge project in the hope that he will become the project manager. He loves his new boss.

A millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they find themselves accidental partners-in-crime.

A wealthy woman will allow her grandson to inherit her money on one condition, which is to marry a girl who looks like one of her friends. He starts his search for the suitable girl, eventually meeting Sevannah, an Armenian, who seems to meet the criteria.

Once again, the comedian Abbas Shaheen and his fiancée Rima are trying to get the necessary money that will enable them to travel abroad, and start a reckless journey on a bus, and they face Aqaba after the other, so will they succeed this time in this very tight time?

The film revolves around Feras Al Rayes, son of MP Waleed Al Rayes, who is getting ready to marry his fiancée, Layal. Since he is marrying his first love, his personal trainer, Fadi Nasr, encourages him to meet other women through a dating website using a fake name. This leads to Feras being fooled and blackmailed with a video showing him naked. To avoid scandal and solve the problem, he seeks help from his childhood friend Mazen, just a day before his wedding. A series of adventures and comic situations follows.

During the early years of the Lebanese civil war inside a mental hospital located in West Beirut, we met seven patients and two drug addicts inside the walls of this hospital who suffer from severe cases, some of which came as a direct result of what happened during the war.

When a man gets out of prison, he starts looking for work, but he discovers that he is alone with no family, so he decides to return to prison again. He starts to commit many crimes to return to prison, but fails to attract the attention of the police.

Two friends work as guards at a luxurious villa, whose owner only comes at long intervals. They turn it into a hotel but the owner suddenly comes with his fiancée, and he discovers the situation,causing funny situations to happen.

A humble man encounters a group of hippies and develops feelings for one of them. As they get married, they cannot find a place to stay, and he resorts to a friend of his who abhors all hippies. Can their stay at his house alter his prespective?