12 Best Lebanese Movies to Watch

By Vlad Zakh · September 13, 2026

Lebanon Drama thought provokingintense

Lebanese cinema keeps working through the same wound, the civil war and its long aftermath, whether directly, as in West Beirut, or through the poverty and sectarian tension it left behind.

Ghadi (2013) 01

Ghadi (2013)

IMDb ★ 6.7

A father hides his son's disability from an entire building of nosy, judgmental neighbors.

A Perfect Day (2005) 02

A Perfect Day (2005)

IMDb ★ 6.5

A brother and sister mark the day their long-missing father is officially declared dead.

Very Big Shot (2015) 03

Very Big Shot (2015)

IMDb ★ 6.7

Three brothers smuggle cocaine inside pizza boxes disguised as a film-production shoot.

Beirut Hotel (2011) 04

Beirut Hotel (2011)

IMDb ★ 6.0

A French singer's affair in postwar Beirut gets tangled up with a real, unresolved political assassination.

The Insult (2017) 05

The Insult (2017)

IMDb ★ 7.6

A minor plumbing dispute between two men escalates into a national reckoning with Lebanon's civil war.

Incendies (2010) 06

Incendies (2010)

IMDb ★ 8.2

Twins fulfill their late mother's wish by uncovering her hidden, brutal past in an unnamed Middle Eastern country.

Where Do We Go Now? (2011) 07

Where Do We Go Now? (2011)

IMDb ★ 7.5

The women of a mixed Christian-Muslim village conspire to keep their men from reigniting old religious conflict.

West Beirut (1998) 08

West Beirut (1998)

IMDb ★ 7.6

Two teenage friends keep filming their neighborhood on Super 8 even as civil war closes in around them.

Caramel (2007) 09

Caramel (2007)

IMDb ★ 7.2

Five women at a Beirut beauty salon navigate love, tradition, and each other's secrets.

Capernaum (2018) 10

Capernaum (2018)

IMDb ★ 8.4

A homeless child sues his own parents for the crime of giving him life.

1982 (2020) 11

1982 (2020)

IMDb ★ 7.4

An eleven-year-old boy tries to confess his feelings for a classmate on the exact day Israel invades Lebanon.

Heaven Without People (2017) 12

Heaven Without People (2017)

IMDb ★ 6.9

A sprawling Christian family's Easter reunion curdles into old grudges under the shadow of Lebanon's civil war.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix, built to fix a specific annoyance: most recommendation sites are just algorithm-driven noise. Our lists are researched and organized by who's in a film, where it's from, and the mood you're actually in tonight.