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10 Best Movies Like West Beirut

If you loved West Beirut, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
My Favourite Cake

My Favourite Cake

2024★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to West Beirut for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revit...

#2
Ransomed

Ransomed

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to West Beirut for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 ...

#3
Sun and Concrete

Sun and Concrete

2023★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to West Beirut for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day...

#4
The Divide

The Divide

2021★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to West Beirut for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter wi...

#5
Shepherds

Shepherds

2024★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to West Beirut for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job....

#6
For My Country

For My Country

2023★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to West Beirut for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears ...