Running 85 minutes, English Dogs is a 2021 Lebanese crime drama feature from director Philippe Asmar, built as a single, contained story rather than an episodic run, with a cast familiar from other work in the same corner of Lebanese cinema.
What is English Dogs about?
English Dogs keeps its crime-and-drama plot inside one feature-length sitting, which shapes how the tension is built: instead of stretching conflict across episodes, the film has to land its shifting loyalties and buried grievances within 85 minutes. That format favors a tighter, more compressed take on the genre's usual concerns of family, retribution and small-town power, and it separates this film from the longer, serialized versions of similar material that circulate in the same Lebanese crime-drama space.
About the cast
Kosai Khauli and Nadine Njeim head the cast, with Hussein Mokadem, Carmen Lebbos and Ramy Ayash filling out the ensemble. Within a single 85-minute runtime, the same performers who anchor other Lebanese crime dramas bring a compressed, feature-length version of that register here, giving the film a tighter shape than a multi-episode telling of comparable material would allow under the same director.
Context & significance
English Dogs sits within Lebanon's crime-drama tradition, a genre shaped around family honor, revenge and local power struggles that has traveled to audiences well past its home country. Philippe Asmar directs with an eye for slow-built tension rather than spectacle, a hallmark of the genre, and the choice to tell this story as a standalone 85-minute feature rather than a series marks it out from other 2021 Lebanese crime dramas that unfold over multiple episodes. Crime cinema from Lebanon has often used a tight runtime like this one to keep its focus on a small circle of characters rather than a sprawling cast, and English Dogs follows that pattern closely.
Watching English Dogs on Ktime
English Dogs is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, giving Farsi-speaking audiences a way into a film that was not made in Persian originally. The page is free to read, and streaming the film on K-Time asks only for a free account login, through a viewing experience built around a Farsi-first interface for the Iranian diaspora.