Best Lebanese comedy movies

Make Hummus Not War (2012)

Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian 'hummus tragic'. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina. But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was hungry for more. But this war ha no soldiers, bullets or tanks. Just chickpeas and hummus. Make Hummus Not War is a humorous homage to the chickpea's most distinguished dish. But there's a personal story, how Graham became a hummus tragic, a father who served in Palestine during WW2 and two lovers in his life, one Syrian, one Jewish, with whom he shared a great culinary passion.

Caramel (2007)

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

Halal Love (2016)

Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.

Time Out (2018)

A woman who works as a DJ is known to live alone and has her own messy world, but when she meets a teacher who is always serious and well organized, the contradiction between their personalities result in many comedic situations.

Vitamin (2014)

In a remote and poor village, three girls decide to change their destiny. They plan to rub a truck assuming its loaded with cash.. but what they never imagined is found in the truck and this changes their village and own lives forever.

Around the Pink House (1999)

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.

Zafafian (2017)

A wealthy woman will allow her grandson to inherit her money on one condition, which is to marry a girl who looks like one of her friends. He starts his search for the suitable girl, eventually meeting Sevannah, an Armenian, who seems to meet the criteria.

Love in Istanbul (1966)

Queen Nazli's daughter disappears at a young age, and the queen dies without seeing her. The heirs take advantage of the disappearance of the daughter to divide the wealth among them, but when the daughter suddenly appears, they try to stop her from having the wealth.

American Motion Picture (1980)

Where Do We Go Now? (2011)

In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the country around them, the women in the village try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark by sabotaging the village radio, and then destroying the village TV.

Heaven Sent (2016)

After 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes.

Dégradé (2016)

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?

Guests of Honor (2022)

As Reem is preparing for her wedding at a big resort, her sister Amal, who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital, seeks to spoil the big day with the help of Reem's ex-boyfriend, Adel.

The Trees (2021)

A researcher in plant sciences returns home to his village in rural Lebanon to attend his father's funeral. During the three-day-long Christian Greek Orthdox memorial he discovers that a pathogen is infecting the trees across his village. A dark comedy about tradition, grief, and the environment.

Arzé (2024)

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.

Aziza (2019)

Ayman, Syrian refugee in Lebanon, teaching his wife how to drive his car, the only thing left for him from his country. The lesson takes a wrong turn into madness and nostalgia.

Taxi Service (1996)

Tarek, a taxi driver delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called “L’Oisellerie” (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates would like nothing better than their freedom, Tarek finds that leaving is not so easy.

The Adorable Thief (1970)

Unless (2018)

Cash Flow (2012)

Mazen, a struggling young man, is addicted to living large on a less-than-mediocre income. He falls in love with a co-worker, Elsa, who happens to be high-society. One day, Mazen saves a rich philanthropist’s life and is awarded a credit card that can withdraw a thousand US dollars every day. Mazen’s life turns around overnight.

أبو رياض مين قدو (2008)

One Day Yes, One Day No (2020)

With her wedding day approaching, Sahar's fear of getting married magnifies due to the increasing divorce rates she witnesses. To escape such a devastating end, she agrees with her conservative fiancé Shafiq to alternate between being married and breaking loose of their bond

You Get There...You Get Arrested (2019)

As Hicham Haddad goes to jail under false accusations, he's in fear of losing his top hit lebanese talk show. When he discovers that his bestfriend and cohost Jad bou Karam backstabbed him ...

Balahayba (2019)

The movie revolves around Mohsen El-Saagh who decides to challenge his clan in order to win the heart of Haifa, in the midst of the struggle of the leaders to lead the clan.

Bi Ghamdet Ein (2017)

Jad works as an architect, and he has been busy for two years on a huge project in the hope that he will become the project manager. He loves his new boss.

One And a Half Hours And 5 Minutes (2019)

Once again, the comedian Abbas Shaheen and his fiancée Rima are trying to get the necessary money that will enable them to travel abroad, and start a reckless journey on a bus, and they face Aqaba after the other, so will they succeed this time in this very tight time?

Are You Glad I'm Here (2019)

A millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they find themselves accidental partners-in-crime.

مغامرات شوشو (1966)

Malla 3al2a: Trouble (2018)

The film revolves around Feras Al Rayes, son of MP Waleed Al Rayes, who is getting ready to marry his fiancée, Layal. Since he is marrying his first love, his personal trainer, Fadi Nasr, encourages him to meet other women through a dating website using a fake name. This leads to Feras being fooled and blackmailed with a video showing him naked. To avoid scandal and solve the problem, he seeks help from his childhood friend Mazen, just a day before his wedding. A series of adventures and comic situations follows.

The Two Drifters (Al Sharidan) (1965)

When a man gets out of prison, he starts looking for work, but he discovers that he is alone with no family, so he decides to return to prison again. He starts to commit many crimes to return to prison, but fails to attract the attention of the police.