Fadi Abi Samra
Also Known As: فادي أبي سمرا
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lebanon
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Falafel
Overview: Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-10-17
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Carlos
Overview: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-07
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Talk to Me
Overview: Farid, who works abroad, locks himself on the last day of his stay in Beirut in his son Rawad's room, to find what he is hiding there. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic between them intensifies, and the past resurfaces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-10-24
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Beirut Hotel
Overview: One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-08
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A Lost Man
Overview: Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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The Sea Ahead
Overview: A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her anxieties resurface, leading her to find solace in another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-04-13
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Everyday Is a Holiday
Overview: It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison situated in a remote area of the country. Traveling through an arid landscape littered with mines and decapitated dreams, the journey transforms into the women's quest for their own independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-27
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La route du Nord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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The Gate of the Sun
Overview: Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.
Genres: War Romance Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-05-18
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Stable Unstable
Overview: In an apartment building in Beirut, on the last day of the year, seven characters start their day by visiting their psychologist as part of the weekly ritual. On that couch in their psychologist's office, they face themselves and their loved ones in trying to define what is most important to them. Each of them, from the patients to the residents of the building, has a different story to share, inner secrets and hidden wishes. All keep to themselves, except for the porter Abou Karim, who extends his presence and allows himself to interfere in the lives of others and in their destinies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-01-23
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The Mountain
Overview: Night falls over Beirut. Fadi, a forty year old, packs his luggage and sets out to the airport with his friend driving him. He is supposed to leave for a month, but instead of going up the plane, he heads to the arrivals section and rents a car. He takes the highway heading North then continues on a mountainous route. Far from anyone, on a deserted highway, a deviation forces him to quit the main road. A distinct sound coming from far is heard; the sound of a car honk. Fadi gets closer and closer to the sound and sees a wrecked car crashed in a tree alongside the road. A couple lay still inside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-13
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Arzé
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-04-21
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Broken Keys
Overview: In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-03-23
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Sharaf
Overview: Sharaf may dream of being fabulously rich, but when he ends up in prison after killing a man in defense of his honor, he has to wake up fast. Prison mirrors the outside world, with all its systemic inequality, injustice and corruption––although, even here, Sharaf believes he can make his fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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Beirut Hold'em
Overview: Beirut Hold’em depicts the life of Ziko, a 40-year old ex-con and petty gambler, and his three boyhood friends, in a seedy, lower-middle class district of Beirut. They’re fighting their way into a country on the edge of war and bankruptcy, where instability makes everyday life feel like Russian roulette, and sheer existence is yet another form of gambling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-07-28
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Around the Pink House
Overview: One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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The Valley
Overview: After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Canary in a Coal Mine
Overview: While one evening he is guarding his aunt's house in an isolated village in Lebanon, Anis will have to pretend to be a thief to save his life during a burglary.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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Sporting Club
Overview: Alex turns 60 in an old-fashioned seaside resort. She's waiting for her guests, but they will not come. Ali, the waiter, and Gina, a Russian dancer fleeing her pimp, will offer her a birthday out of the ordinary. Frank, the long-awaited friend, finally appears. Alex will be able to put his plan into action.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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West Beirut
Overview: In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Still Burning
Overview: Still Burning tells the unexpected reunion in Paris in June 1998 of André, a Lebanese filmmaker living and working in France, and Walid, the very close friend he has not seen for years. In their youth, in Beirut, during the civil war, they were both possessed by the same artistic vocation: Cinema, but also by the same woman: Amira. Their reunion, all night long, will not fail to awaken their old repressed demons for better or for worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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State of Agitation
Overview: Living in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2020-10-27
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