Out of Life

1991

French

6.8

♡ 4

86%

Maroun Bagdadi Director

Ninar Esber as

Phillipe Moyssan as

Maher Kassar as

Paul Mattar as

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

WINE and WAR

7.6

Mark Johnston Director

Youssef Nakhleh as Self

James Palgé as Self

Karim Saadé as Self

Michael Karam as Self

WINE and WAR is a documentary about one of the the oldest winemaking regions on earth and the resilience of the Lebanese entrepreneurial spirit seen through the lens of war and instability.

Beirut

2018

English

6.5

♡ 86

81%

israeli–palestinian conflict

lebanon

middle east

Mystery

palestinian-israeli conflict

terrorist

Thriller

Brad Anderson Director

Dean Norris as Donald Gaines

Jon Hamm as Mason Skiles

Alon Aboutboul as Roni Niv

Rosamund Pike as Sandy Crowder

In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.

Ransomed

2023

Korean

6.6

♡ 10

89%

Seong-hun Kim Director

Marcin Dorocinski as Hays

Nisrine Adam as Layla

Jung-woo Ha as Min-joon

Burn Gorman as Richard Carter

In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.

Capernaum

2018

Arabic

8.4

♡ 155

90%

Nadine Labaki Director

Beste Kökdemir as Ilva

Nadine Labaki as Nadine

Yordanos Shiferaw as Rahil

Zain Al Rafeea as Zain

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.

Syriana

2005

English

6.9

♡ 61

72%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Stephen Gaghan Director

George Clooney as Bob Barnes

Matt Damon as Bryan Woodman

Peter Gerety as Leland Janus

Will McCormack as Willy

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

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