By the Bluest of Seas

By the Bluest of Seas 1936

6.40

Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.

1936

The Mother in Law

The Mother in Law 1978

6.30

The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.

1978

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You

Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You 1981

6.50

The story developed during XX century in Russian empire, Azerbaijan. Two circus actors Rustam and his friend San Sanich travel to a village where Rustam was born after long years of absence, to burry his aunt. After burring his aunt, friends decide to stay in her house for couple of days. A local wealthy inhabitant of the village Farzali bek, is looking for oil, and finds out that the land which now officially owned by Rustam might have some oil repositories. He learns that Rustam is back and wants to take him out, to put his hands on valuable land. A young theater singer Teymur is in love with Farzali bey's beautiful daughter, Telli, but has nothing to offer to marry her. Yet he decides to speak with her father. While planning to "sell" his daughter to one of other wealthy bey's son, Farzali bey still promises that if Teymur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Teymur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help ...

1981

My Seven Sons

My Seven Sons 1970

4.20

This film was based on Samad Vurgun's "Komsomol poem". Seven sons, like seven samurai become the seven komsomols (communist leaders) who were sent to a village to establish Soviet power. Seven sons become the romanticized images of people's heroes ready to take revenge.

1970

It's Dangerous to Put Out to Sea

It's Dangerous to Put Out to Sea 1973

1

The film is about special sea expedition which put out to sea to deliver oil to Russia at the cost of their lifes.

1973

The Contact

The Contact 1990

4.20

In search of housing, a student stumbles upon an advertisement for renting an apartment at a very reasonable fee—and promptly agrees with a woman who recently laid her son to rest, complying with all her conditions. The young man settles into the apartment and gradually becomes a witness to inexplicable mystical phenomena.

1990

The Pain of a Baby Tooth

The Pain of a Baby Tooth 1987

4.00

A young boy through a period of transition. His last baby tooth, which symbolises this period, is sore. He is scared of pulling it out, of saying goodbye to his dead mother and to his childhood. No one understands him, be is deprived from material physical affection. He himself does not understand his father who has brought another woman home. He feels this is an act of betrayal towards his dead mother.

1987

The Secret of the Mountain

The Secret of the Mountain 1959

6.40

The struggle of the people against the shakh (king) who seized all of land and water resources.

1959

Stepmother

Stepmother 1958

5.40

The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.

1958

The Kidnapping of Groom

The Kidnapping of Groom 1985

5.00

Being unable to shoot a film about Azerbaijani wedding customs, hopeless director decide to make a film about real wedding event. Though the stubborn father of bride resists approval the plan.

1985

The Last Night of Childhood

The Last Night of Childhood 1968

4.70

Murad, a young man fails the entrance exam to the Institute and starts working at the meat factory. His cousin Rustam, a worker on a building site, fights with him against the dishonest people who sell pieces of meat from the factory. After a series of dramatic situations, Murad and Rustam manage to uncover the thieves.

1968

On Distant Shores

On Distant Shores 1958

5.40

The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.

1958

Cold as Marble

Cold as Marble 2022

1

The movie is about the mixed relationships between a failed artist and his girlfriend. Returning home after a long period of imprisonment, the father tries to improve his son's life in the most radical ways.

2022

Nasimi

Nasimi 1974

6.40

The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.

1974

Our Teacher Jabish

Our Teacher Jabish 1969

4.30

Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other processes are shown in the course of the war.

1969

Nizami

Nizami 1982

7.20

The historical film about great Azerbaijan poet and philosopher Nizami Ganjavi's life.

1982