Carmen Lebbos

Acting

Carmen Lebbos

Born 1963-02-12 · Lebanon

Carmen Lebbos is a Lebanese actress known for her roles in film, television, and theatre. She gained wider recognition for performances in acclaimed Lebanese cinema such as West Beirut and Caramel, and has worked extensively in Arab TV dramas and stage productions, noted for her emotional depth and versatility today.

Acting credits

Lila Says poster
6.5

Chimo develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.

Lila Says

2005

Battal min Al-Janub poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Battal min Al-Janub

2000

Whatever Lola wants poster
6.1

A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

Whatever Lola wants

2007

If it weren't for the space of hope poster
NR

Continuing the events regarding dignity and the stubborn people, and the officer's control over the area where the events take place in southern Lebanon, led by an advisory council with crazy laws.

If it weren't for the space of hope

1995

In the Battlefields poster
6.1

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.

In the Battlefields

2004

Regarding dignity and stubborn people poster
10.0

The events highlighted the resilience of the people of southern Lebanon in the face of any assault on their dignity, revealing how the enemy confronted a fierce opponent united in all its movements, currents, and factions.

Regarding dignity and stubborn people

1993

West Beirut poster
7.0

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.

West Beirut

1998

Zozo poster
5.8

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

Zozo

2005

Cinema of War in Lebanon poster
NR

In 1975, the Lebanese wars started when Maroun Bagdadi ended his first feature film "Beirutya Beirut". Did the war give an identity to Lebanese cinema? Productions of documentaries, action movies, actor films, co-productions, and emigration. Since 1975, the war has remained a major subject for feature fiIms shot in Lebanon. This is a history of stories about war and cinema.

Cinema of War in Lebanon

2003

Here Comes the Rain poster
NR

Abducted during the Lebanese Civil War and now in his 50s, Ramez is finally a free man. But he returns to society deeply traumatized by the past.

Here Comes the Rain

2011

Algae poster
10.0

The story of the film within the Abu Asaad family revolves around the inheritance of three brothers in the city of Hama in central Syria, but severe disagreements arise between them over how to divide this inheritance.

Algae

1990

Nightfall poster
NR

In 1975, a group of young Lebanese men joined the Palestinian organization “Fateh”. Known as the “Student Brigade”, they took part in the Lebanese Civil War. Some of them were killed, others left the country. Following the Israeli invasion in 1982, Palestinian armed forces left Lebanon. The “Student Brigade” disbanded, and the once young Lebanese fighters have now become old, nursing their solitude with alcohol, poetry, and songs.

Nightfall

2000

A Civilized People poster
7.0

Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag spins this bleak war drama about the brutal absurdity of the urban warfare of Beirut during the 1980s. Opening with the shocking image of kittens being blown apart, the film loosely follows the travails of Bernadette (Nada Ghosn), a naïve country girl sent to the city as a maid for a mansion long since abandoned by the owners. There she meets Therese (Renee Dick), a veteran house cleaner who takes her under her wing. One day, while accompanying her friend to the cemetery, she meets a rakish Arab militiaman, and the two fall in love.

A Civilized People

1999

American Motion Picture poster
10.0

During the early years of the Lebanese civil war inside a mental hospital located in West Beirut, we met seven patients and two drug addicts inside the walls of this hospital who suffer from severe cases, some of which came as a direct result of what happened during the war.

American Motion Picture

1980