The best Nadine Labaki’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Nadine Labaki’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Nadine Labaki.
Capernaum
8.4/10
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Mea Culpa
6.1/10
Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.
Caramel
7.1/10
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.
Rio, I Love You
5.2/10
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
Where Do We Go Now?
7.4/10
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark, sabotaging the village radio, then destroying the village TV.
The Price of Fame
5.6/10
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
The Idol
6.7/10
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
1982
6.7/10
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a secular mixed school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
The Father and the Foreigner
6/10
Stray Bullet
6.3/10
Noha is about to marry. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her old sister. All is well in the brave new world and yet, this Sunday in the month of August in the year 1976 in Lebanon, two weeks before the wedding, while the same night his brother organized a dinner in his honor friendly, Noha changes her mind.
Rock the Casbah
6.5/10
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Ashes
Nabil returns to Beirut with the ashes of his father who died abroad. He tries to overcome his bereavement while his family insists on respecting rites and customs by burying a non-existent corpse.
