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1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

Votes: 314,516 | Gross: $44.82M

2. Capernaum (2018)

R | 126 min | Drama

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad

Votes: 105,495 | Gross: $1.66M

3. Munich (2005)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 238,367 | Gross: $47.40M

4. Spy Game (2001)

R | 126 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane

Votes: 167,135 | Gross: $0.03M

5. Deep Red (1975)

R | 127 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril

Votes: 42,669

6. Syriana (2005)

R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.

Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak

Votes: 134,291 | Gross: $50.82M

7. The Delta Force (1986)

R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is sent in to resolve the crisis.

Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop

Votes: 21,930 | Gross: $17.77M

8. Ghosts of Beirut (2023)

TV-MA | History, Thriller

Follows the hunt for Imad Mughniyeh, a Lebanese terrorist who evaded his adversaries in the Mossad and the CIA for more than two decades.

Stars: Dina Shihabi, Navid Negahban, Sarah Oliver-Watts, Nick Donadio

Votes: 2,681

9. Navy Seals (1990)

R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A battle-hardened SEAL Team set off on a mission to destroy a shipment of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.

Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Rick Rossovich

Votes: 17,986 | Gross: $25.07M

10. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,216 | Gross: $0.27M

11. Waltz with Bashir (2008)

R | 90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan

Votes: 60,419 | Gross: $2.28M

12. The Burdened (2023)

91 min | Drama

Centers on Ahmed and Isra'a parents of three children who lost their job due to the country's economic crisis. Isra'a finds out about her fourth pregnancy at this time when they cannot afford to raise one more child.

Director: Amr Gamal | Stars: Khaled Hamdan, Abeer Mohammed, Samah Alamrani, Awsam Abdulrahman

Votes: 369

13. The Insult (2017)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

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.

Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud

Votes: 18,103 | Gross: $1.00M

14. Daniel (II) (2023)

72 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

Daniel Northcott began documenting his surroundings at 7 when he got his dad's video camera. He filmed his family and friends growing up then traveled, capturing meaningful moments with new people and places.

Director: Daniel Northcott | Stars: Daniel Northcott, Erin Northcott, Felix Becerra, Tanya Northcott

Votes: 428

15. Carlos (2010)

Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.

Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra, Karam Ghossein

Votes: 14,415 | Gross: $0.15M

16. The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)

104 min | Drama

His own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Stars: Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koen De Bouw, Darina Al Joundi

Votes: 7,112

17. Rosebud (1975)

PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Renowned producer-director Otto Preminger captures international terrorism in this film about five teenage girls who are kidnapped from a yacht by the P.L.O. Stars Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin

Votes: 1,011 | Gross: $0.55M

18. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent

Votes: 8,739

19. Where Do We Go Now? (2011)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Layla Hakim

Votes: 13,508 | Gross: $0.53M

20. HyperNormalisation (2016)

166 min | Documentary

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum

Votes: 7,378

21. Jalla! Jalla! (2000)

88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend and wants to marry her, but he is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to her homeland, Lebanon. ... See full summary »

Director: Josef Fares | Stars: Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny, Laleh Pourkarim

Votes: 14,665

22. Parisienne (2015)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama

The 90s. Lina, 18, arrives to Paris for her studies. She is looking for what she can't find in her home country Lebanon: a taste of freedom. She experiences different sides of the Parisian jungle and becomes conscious of her own place.

Director: Danielle Arbid | Stars: Manal Issa, Vincent Lacoste, Paul Hamy, Damien Chapelle

Votes: 762

23. Dagger Eyes (1983)

84 min | Horror, Thriller

Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.

Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Carole Bouquet, Phil Coccioletti, Duilio Del Prete, John Steiner

Votes: 282

24. Caramel (2007)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Yasmine Al Massri

Votes: 14,610 | Gross: $1.06M

25. Faces of Death II (1981)

85 min | Documentary, Horror

This movie continues in the same vein as F.O.D. 1 with short scenes of death related material. Mortuarys, accidents, police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of the ... See full summary »

Director: John Alan Schwartz | Stars: Michael Carr, James Brady, Mickey Crowe, Thomas K. Delahanty

Votes: 2,096

26. Lebanon (2009)

R | 93 min | Drama, War

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

Director: Samuel Maoz | Stars: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov

Votes: 11,968 | Gross: $0.37M

27. Perfect Strangers (2022)

TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows the story of seven friends who stay together for dinner and decide to play a game that involves them placing their cell phones on the dinner table, and accepting to share every call, text and voice message as it comes.

Director: Wissam Smayra | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Mona Zaki, Eyad Nassar, Adel Karam

Votes: 5,371

28. West Beirut (1998)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: ... See full summary »

Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Rami Doueiri, Naamar Sahli, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin

Votes: 4,860 | Gross: $0.34M

29. Arzé (2024)

Comedy, Drama

Arzé, a single mother, takes her teenage son on a journey across sectarian Beirut in search of their stolen scooter, their only source of livelihood.

Director: Mira Shaib | Stars: Diamand Abou Abboud, Betty Taoutel, Bilal Al Hamwi, Shaden Fakih

30. The Gatekeepers (2012)

PG-13 | 101 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.

Director: Dror Moreh | Stars: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter, Yaakov Peri

Votes: 5,890 | Gross: $2.42M

31. 1982 (I) (2019)

100 min | Drama, History, Romance

During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.

Director: Oualid Mouaness | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Mohamad Dalli, Rodrigue Sleiman, Aliya Khalidi

Votes: 1,177

32. Hostages (1992 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Drama

This is the story of Peggy Say and her battle to free the hostages in Beirut. Witness the cruel abduction of innocent citizens thrown into the dark, insect infested cells and abandoned by their homelands.

Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Kathy Bates, Colin Firth, Ciarán Hinds, Natasha Richardson

Votes: 294

33. A World Not Ours (2012)

93 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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,... See full summary »

Director: Mahdi Fleifel | Star: Mahdi Fleifel

Votes: 528

34. Zozo (2005)

105 min | Drama, Family, War

A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.

Director: Josef Fares | Stars: Imad Creidi, Antoinette Turk, Elias Gergi, Carmen Lebbos

Votes: 3,379

35. A Fine Pair (1968)

PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.

Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, Leon Askin

Votes: 528

36. Skies of Lebanon (2020)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

Director: Chloé Mazlo | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Zighondi, Mariah Tannoury

Votes: 1,140

37. Copilot (2021)

118 min | Drama, Romance

Two students marry in secret despite objections from the woman's mother. In a mosque in Hamburg, they promise to stay together, but the man commits to an act that will shake the whole world.

Director: Anne Zohra Berrached | Stars: Canan Kir, Roger Azar, Darina Al Joundi, Hans Jürgen Alf

Votes: 406

38. Memory Box (2021)

102 min | Drama

The lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.

Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | Stars: Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clémence Sabbagh

Votes: 803

39. Where the Spies Are (1965)

Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Niven, Françoise Dorléac, John Le Mesurier, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 907

40. Born from the Flank: Wilada Min Alkhasira (2011–2013)

Action, Crime, Drama

The life is different workers from many communities level with their own problem, like they are born from the Flank. It describes the life of Syrian citizen, and the pain in their own life.

Stars: Kosai Khauli, Mona Wassef, Abed Fahed, Kinda Hanna

Votes: 645

41. Yes (I) (2004)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ... See full summary »

Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson

Votes: 3,244 | Gross: $0.40M

42. Shelter (VI) (2017)

93 min | Drama, Thriller

A Lebanese informer and an Israeli Mossad agent are trapped together in a safehouse where nothing is safe and no one can be trusted.

Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Neta Riskin, Golshifteh Farahani, Yehuda Almagor, Doraid Liddawi

Votes: 524

43. Khawatir (2005–2015)

TV-14 | 25 min | Family, Reality-TV, Sci-Fi

A TV show devoted to help young people to be mature in their faith, work, and knowledge.

Star: Ahmad Al Shugairi

Votes: 4,267

44. Witness in the War Zone (1987)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

Director: Nathaniel Gutman | Stars: Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Arnon Zadok

Votes: 559 | Gross: $0.14M

45. Zaytoun (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee helps an Israeli fighter pilot escape from PLO captivity because he wants to visit his ancestral family home. En route through war-torn Lebanon their relationship develops into a close bond.

Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Nofi

Votes: 1,728 | Gross: $0.04M

46. Beaufort (2007)

Unrated | 131 min | Action, Drama, War

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.

Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Ohad Knoller

Votes: 4,840 | Gross: $0.10M

47. Abi foq al-Shagara (1969)

142 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.

Director: Hussein Kamal | Stars: Abdel Halim Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, Mervat Amin, Samir Sabri

Votes: 359

48. Naji Attallah's Squad (2012)

Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Naji Atallah, a former egyptian diplomat in the egyptian embassy in israel, seeks revenge against israelis as he plans to rob a bank in telaviv with a squad of youths he recruited.

Stars: Adel Emam, Ahmed Eltohamy, Mohamed Emam, Bassem Qahar

Votes: 1,860

49. Death of a Virgin and the Sin of Not Living (2021)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

Etienne is taken by his friends to a prostitute for the first time. Three troubled teens on their way to win their acceptance into manhood. Though several unexpected occurrences take Etienne on an unforeseen journey into himself.

Director: George Peter Barbari | Stars: Etienne Assal, Adnan Khabbaz, Jean Paul Franjieh, Saad Elie Dankoura

Votes: 299

50. The Sell-Out (1976)

PG | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

While vacationing in Lebanon, a former secret agent finds he has been marked for assassination.

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Oliver Reed, Richard Widmark, Gayle Hunnicutt, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 625