Best Lebanese music movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch music films from Lebanon, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Warsha

    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.

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  • Poster for Bosta

    Bosta 2005

    After 15 years in France, Kamal returns to his native Beirut and reassembles his dance crew, striving to modernize traditional Dabke routines.

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  • Poster for Safar Barlek

    Safar Barlek 1967

    The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he's arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber. Meanwhile the Ottomans prevent the wheat from arriving to certain villages because they want to defuse the ongoing resistance operations led by Abou Ahmed. Adla travels to where some say Abdou is held prisoner and she meets with Abou Ahmed. She along other villagers start helping the resistance get the wheat to the people. When they accomplish their mission, Abou Ahmed, freed Abdou and others escape because now they're wanted, but on a promise to return and to continue fighting.

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  • Poster for The Ring Seller

    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 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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  • Poster for Mays Al-Reem

    Mays Al-Reem 1975

    The play takes place in the village of Mays Al-Reem, which Zayoun (Fayruz) arrives on her way to Kazaa Kahlon to attend the wedding of her cousin, along with the wedding dress. Zayoun is a free, civil, and decision-making civilian girl. Her car broke down in Mays Al-Reem, and she asked about a car repair workshop in Al-Dayaa.

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  • Poster for Daughter Of The Guardian

    Daughter Of The Guardian 1967

    Chaos erupts in a village after a series of burglaries take place, prompting Najma, the daughter of a guard, to think of a solution. She disguises herself as a man and becomes the village vigilante.

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  • Poster for Machtat

    Machtat 2023

    Mahdia, Tunisia. Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as “machtat”, traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies. Their music evokes love and its promises, but the reality is much more complex and painful. Between illusions and disillusionment, Machtat is a powerful and liberating portrait of three women asserting their voices.

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  • Poster for The Urgent Call of Palestine

    The Urgent Call of Palestine 1973

    Ismail Shammout, an artist who is primarily known for his paintings, also served as director of the Cultural Arts Section of the PLO and worked with the organization’s Film Unit in the 1970s. In this short film, Shammout records a solidarity song by the Palestinian Egyptian singer Zeinab Shaath to announce the most urgent call of Palestine. The song and the words of Kamal Nasser that break through the ballad continue to hold striking relevance today. Lyrics by Lalitha Punjabi.

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  • Poster for Beirut Dreams in Color

    Beirut Dreams in Color 2022

    A short documentary that tells the stories of Masrou’ Leila, a Lebanese rock band with an outspoken gay singer, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian activist. Both parties have experienced oppression because of their sexual orientation and beliefs. The film shows what it’s like for the LGBTQIA+ community to be oppressed and threatened by the governments in the Middle East.

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  • Poster for American Motion Picture

    American Motion Picture 1980

    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.

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  • Poster for Lulu

    Lulu 1974

    Lulu was charged with the murder of a man named Younes, and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, after which she was found innocent, so she returned to her hometown intending to take revenge on those who testified against her. She met Jerji, a shoe polisher, and told him her story, Jerji spread the news of her release from prison in the town, and people were busy threatening her and spent their time worrying and afraid of her revenge.

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  • End of Summer 1980

    a father will travel the next day to the Diaspora that he came from, and tomorrow will get separated again from his son, who should stay in Beirut, where he will live in a boarding school without his parents, His mother had gone years ago, the two feel that the last day of summer, must be special. They go to the funfairs and gardens and then at the end of the day, carrying with him the most beautiful memories.

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