The film chronicles the ordeals faced by Azerbaijan’s intellectuals - from the Red Terror to the present day - depicting how, amid shifting social and political upheavals, they endure physical and moral persecution. It also explores human betrayal and the ways people adapt their identities to survive changing circumstances.
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- 0.0 1998 • Azerbaijan
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Reflects the rich history, traditions, and development of national shipping in modern times. In addition, the film presents a generalized image of Azerbaijani sailors through the example of the sailor Haji Vahab Aligulu oglu, who lived in 1855-1916.
Üç Əsrə Şahid
0.0 2023 • Azerbaijan -
In 1989, Yavar, who was serving a sentence in one of the remote prisons of the Soviet Union, returned to his native land, Karabakh - to the village of Yukhari Veysalli in the Fuzuli region. But everything has changed here, and the massacre of peaceful Azerbaijanis by Armenian militants has resulted in the deployment of Soviet peacekeepers in the region. Moreover, there is no news of Garatel, whom Yavar has loved for years and whom he was preparing to marry. Yavar, who takes on the defense of Yukhari Veysalli and the surrounding villages, gathers fighters around him. But when he comes face to face with Alexander Rokhlin, who leads the Soviet peacekeepers, he is astonished and is faced with a choice.
Son nəfəsədək
0.0 2018 • Azerbaijan -
Based on the last wedding ceremony that was left unfinished 33 years ago due to the shelling of Khojaly by Armenians.
Khojaly. The Last Wedding
0.0 2025 • Azerbaijan -
The aftermath of the events, and a new adventure... In the sequel, the heroes who are marrying by abducting their future wives, leave for their honeymoon in Georgia by train.
Qız qaçırtma 2
0.0 2018 • Azerbaijan -
When Samir and Leyla decide to flee their families’ discord, Samir disappears the next morning. Leyla’s quest ensnares her, entwining her fate with his mysterious disappearance, becoming part of the mystery herself.
Sanki Yoxsan
5.0 2024 • Azerbaijan -
The film tells the story of two people, a man and a woman, who are isolated at different poles of our society, where many moral values are being eroded. Although one of them is wealthy and the other is poor, they try to forget their loneliness with each other...
The Istanbul Plane
0.0 2010 • Azerbaijan -
Jafar, a bank employee who receives invitations to five weddings and is looking at his salary, is left in a desperate situation. The only reason is money again. Finally, an earthquake saves Jafar from these weddings. The film criticizes our unnecessary customs and traditions at weddings and funerals. Also, while watching the film, the proverb "Extend your leg according to your blanket" comes to mind.
Invitation
0.0 2003 • Azerbaijan -
A student searching for hope recalls his childhood memories
My Hope
8.5 2022 • Azerbaijan -
The film tells the tragicomic events happening to four friends.
3 Almonds 1 Walnut
0.0 2017 • Azerbaijan -
He is Khagani Aliyev, a resident of Saricali village of Aghdam. On July 23, 1993, Khagani Aliyev, who heard about another Armenian attack on Aghdam, went home to take his parents who had not left the village to a temporary safe area...
The grave under the plum tree
0.0 2021 • Azerbaijan -
A group of young people decide to make a horror film about a character named Alajen (myth) in Lankaran. This is when Alajen becomes real. Can these young people make friends with Alajen, or do they leave the filming and return to Baku?
Bo Alajen
8.0 2024 • Azerbaijan -
In "Sovetsky" Alik, whose house was demolished, and Ramin, who was preparing to get married are being deceived into selling a house. Valid Huseynov, who had cruelly deceived them, is preparing for his son's wedding. After the heroes learn about this, they choose the most unusual way to get their money back...
Boy House
0.0 2015 • Azerbaijan -
The events and conversations that took place in Uncle Hasan's canteen at the beginning of the last century bring to life the color of the era. Uncle Hasan and his waiter, Zarbali, become victims of the tricks of the "hungry guys" who come here. The guys, who enter the canteen hungry, trick him into not paying for the food after eating.
Hungry Fellows
0.0 1993 • Azerbaijan -
The love story of Davud, a young man in search of his ‘true’ family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it's in the place he has always lived. But perhaps it is too late.
In Between Dying
6.2 2021 • Azerbaijan -
The couple Irada and Fuad, who love each other very much, face an unexpected misfortune. Irada dies of a serious illness. However, their 5-year-old daughter Zeynab is impatiently waiting for her. Zeynab's father and grandmother try to explain to the child that her mother is no longer alive, but the girl does not believe and continues to wait for her mother. On one of the city's billboards, Sanubar Khanum sees a shining star, Leyla, who looks very much like her deceased daughter-in-law. Perhaps, when Irada left this world, she left her twin Leyla her main treasure - the ability to love. Maybe Fuad and Leyla have a chance to be happy, and Zeynab can reunite with her mother?
A Train Called Time
0.0 2016 • Azerbaijan -
Nazli, despite being very intelligent and educated, prefers whims, luxurious living, night clubs, and an expensive lifestyle. Nazli's father Shamil is a serious businessman, faithful to tradition. He does everything he can to help his daughter start a family life. However, starting a family is not part of Nazli's plans. After Nazli's night out, Shamil's patience runs out. He sets a condition for his daughter: Either Nazli will get married, or Shamil will deprive his daughter of her wealth. After that, Nazli's adventures begin...
Nazlı
0.0 2017 • Azerbaijan -
Syama and her friends are scammers. But why do we love them? Because they donate the money they earn through fraud to people with serious illnesses. But what did they know that one day they would need this money themselves. Both friends and the angel of death will rush to meet with Syama.
Meeting Syama
0.0 2024 • Azerbaijan -
The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the victim of 1937-1938 USSR repression.
Cavid ömrü
0.0 2007 • Azerbaijan -
The film is about the khan of khans, the brave commander Javad Khan, who fought for his homeland against Russian troops led by Sisianov at the beginning of the 19th century, together with his sons, and died bravely.
Javad Khan
0.0 2009 • Azerbaijan -
Disasters happen when orphans who grow up together are thrown into the independent life.
The Sirat Bridge
0.0 2007 • Azerbaijan -
An Azerbaijanian veteran of battle for Brest fortress takes gun again 50 years later - to defend Nagorny Karabakh from Armenians.
Incomplete Memories
4.0 2015 • Azerbaijan -
The events occur during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address, two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin to identify the soldier, they find out that he is, in fact, Armenian - former citizen of Baku.
All For The Best
8.0 1997 • Azerbaijan -
Barq is a young and talented photographer. One day, when everything in the young man's life is going his way, he has a strange dream and wakes up in a state of excitement. While going to his trusted friend Gunay to talk about his dream, he meets the girl he saw in that dream. Later, this girl, Feza, who appears in front of Barq in various places and enters his dreams. Those around him try to help him as much as they can and to get Barq out of this psychological vortex. After a while, it becomes clear that he really met and knew Feza years ago. Thus, the two reconnect, talk, and this relationship turns into deep love.
Spinoza's God
0.0 2025 • Azerbaijan -
Rena is a victim of rape as a young woman. This trauma becomes a lifelong tragedy for her. Years later, when she meets the man who brought this game upon her, Rena can only talk about what happened to her on a hotline.
Etimad telefonu
0.0 2001 • Azerbaijan -
The film tells the story of a provincial teacher from blue blood, Abbas. The desperate desire of having his own son makes him so indifferent to orphan in his custody and even to deadlock situation of his beloved spouse Vafa. But everything changes, when he himself causes Vafa's death. Now in the otherworld Abbas is craving to have back all the things that he couldn't protect in this world.
Red Garden
4.0 2016 • Azerbaijan -
For a long time, Geray has been made to work under very stressful conditions by his boss. Geray’s main goal is to be promoted to the position of “Assistant Manager” that his boss promised him. However, when the boss does not keep his promise, this leads Geray and his friends to decide to kill their boss.
Iş Vaxtı
0.0 2025 • Azerbaijan -
The sudden death of his father at a dinner party organized on the eve of Alakbar's wedding, which is about to be married, creates an atmosphere of mourning instead of celebration, setting the rest of the film on a family's grieving and reliving emotions.
The Last Supper
0.0 2022 • Azerbaijan -
The anthology consists of 4 short feature films: "Postscriptum", "His Father", "The Gift" and "The Black Garden".
The 40th Parallel
5.0 2016 • Azerbaijan -
The moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.
Junior Lieutenant
0.0 1996 • Azerbaijan -
A terrorist act is being prepared against the state of Azerbaijan and its head by the hands of Armenian special bodies. International terrorist Zorik Babayan, who leads the ethnic cleansing operations against Azerbaijanis in Karabakh, receives an assignment from the Armenian state to kill the head of state of Azerbaijan. Despite the operative operations, Zorik Babayan manages to come to Baku. In addition, a group of traitors is trying to prevent the neutralization of the terrorist. General Ali Talibov is assigned to prevent a terrorist attack.
The Selected One
0.0 2008 • Azerbaijan -
We all have old birthday cassettes at home. But most of the people there are no longer here.
Baku Diaries 2: VHS
0.0 2018 • Azerbaijan -
In the autumn of 1888, Baku is preparing for the visit of His Majesty Alexander III. Millionaire and member of the Baku City Duma, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, is fighting for influence and status in society. The city mayor, Orlovsky, taking advantage of his position, seeks to seize the oil field of Teymurbekov, who has committed suicide. Meanwhile, Ismail, the eldest son of Haji, meets General’s daughter, Nurjahan Arablinskaya, and intends to marry her.
Taghiyev: The Tsar
0.0 2025 • Azerbaijan -
Axırıncı yol
0.0 2016 • Azerbaijan -
Fidan lives in two time periods - the past and the present. In modern times, when entrepreneurship is developing, Fidan, a businessman who has lost his way and thinks that arbitrariness and the possibility of solving everything with money, falls in love with him, so he wants to privatize the "Maiden Tower" and somehow buys the tower. However, just as Fidan protected the tower from foreign usurpers in the past, he also fights against the businessman in the present. In the film, the girl's lover Sabir is also a militant young man who participates in the process of demanding rights at rallies and pickets.
The Maiden Tower
0.0 2000 • Azerbaijan -
The villagers, who think that Hasan is dead, believe that he has mystical powers when he opens his eyes. The subsequent course of events begins to unfold around Hasan, and is based on this mystical atmosphere.
Dead Hasan
0.0 N/A • Azerbaijan -
The documentary sheds light on the lives of children who suffered physical and psychological trauma due to the terrorist attacks by Armenia on the eve of the Second Karabakh War.
Big Red House
0.0 2024 • Azerbaijan -
The film is about a day of the 19th-20th century famous tycoons from Baku Agha Musa Naghiyev and Hadji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.
The Burden
7.5 1995 • Azerbaijan -
Due to the difficult financial situation in the circus, magician Zaman is demoted to a part-time role, while his beautiful assistant Atlaz is laid off. To show the circus director the difficulty of being a part-timer for a day, Zaman uses a magic trick to "divide" him in two.
Part-time
0.0 1995 • Azerbaijan -
A famous botanist, Monsieur Jordan is a guest in Garabagh to Hatamkhan Agha. Hatamkhan Agha's nephew wants to go to France with Jordan in order to study. His family and lover try to discourage him and consult to Darvish Mastali Shah. Mastali Shah decides to use magic and explode Paris.
The Darvish Detonates Paris
5.4 1976 • Azerbaijan -
'Xaş' is a traditional dish. According to custom and tradition, 'Xaş' is eaten between 4 and 5 in the morning. In the film, it is said that people, weary from the pains of life and the exhaustion of work, live more interestingly during the two hours between night and morning, while eating 'Xaş', than during the rest of their lives. Afterward, they are overcome by sweet sleep, and the entire city, the entire republic, falls into slumber. Upon waking, the mundane routine of daily life embraces them once again
Music with Xash
0.0 1984 • Azerbaijan -
Two exorcists are hired to get an evil spirit out of a young girl's body. When they start working, things begin to get worse for them.
Xoxan
0.0 2014 • Azerbaijan -
Eldar, Bakhtiyar, Elnur and Alihuseyn are childhood friends. Eldar is thinking of marrying the girl he loves, Gunay, but he doesn't have the money to have a wedding. While looking for money with his friends, he sees an advertisement for a program called "Lie Detector" with a prize of 10,000 manats and joins the program. As a result of the questions asked throughout the program, Eldar is confronted with his interesting and funny past.
21 Questions
5.0 2017 • Azerbaijan -
The film "Eternal Mission" tells about the tumultuous fate of the delegation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic sent to the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919 under the leadership of Alimardan Bey Topchubashov, the Speaker of the Parliament.
Eternal Mission
0.0 2016 • Azerbaijan -
An angel appears in the life of a young man who is engaged in fraud by seducing lonely women and tells him that he will die if he does not get married within seven days. The young man, who is ready to do anything to survive, encounters unexpected and funny events.
Tahmin and Zaur
0.0 2017 • Azerbaijan -
Two days before his sister’s wedding, Shoshu takes his son-in-law and comes to the capital for a pre-wedding vacation together with the relatives. After drinking and partying all night, they wake up in one of the hotels in the capital the next morning with no memory of the previous night. That’s when everyone starts to get into comical situations.
Bir Xalanin Sirri
0.0 2018 • Azerbaijan -
The film tells the story of two blind men who stand on the side of a road between oil wells and beg, and the conflict between them. The young blind man, who was born blind, sees the old blind man, who later lost his sight, as his rival. Each blind man represents a large crowd in himself.
The Grass Snake
0.0 2009 • Azerbaijan -
Journalist Mubariz, who is threatened by a businessman, should not write an article, or else he will lose his family. How will Mubariz get out of this situation?
Be a Man
0.0 2019 • Azerbaijan -
The film tells the tragic life story of an actor named Farhad, who remains faithful to national values and deeply feels the pain of their loss. Fearing the negative impact of social media, Farhad leaves the theater because of a colleague's dismissal. The story explores his inner world, the traumas he experiences, and the void created by the loss of national values, presenting it all to the audience.
Actor
0.0 2024 • Azerbaijan -
A movie about a detective investigating a series of murders in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Minor Crimes 3
10.0 2025 • Azerbaijan -
Two young people who love each other but cannot be reunited - Tuncay and Aytekin - have an endless love for each other. The reason for their separation is that Aytekin is the daughter of a king, and Tuncay is a simple engraver. Another issue is that Tuncay takes a shaman as his apprentice. As a result of a miracle, Tuncay arrives a thousand years later - in modern Baku and manages to find both the girl he loves and her father. But what has changed in Baku during these thousand years? Will our hero be able to reunite with the woman he loves in conditions that are completely alien to him, in the vortex of time?
The Maiden Tower
0.0 2019 • Azerbaijan -
The film tells the story of the events during the night of January 19 to 20, 1990, when the Soviet Army invaded Baku and its surroundings and killed many civilians.
Black January
5.0 2015 • Azerbaijan -
Sakit, the father of three daughters, cannot accept that they have already grown up and reached the age to start a family. For him, his daughters are still little children. When Sakit finds out that his eldest daughter Lala and his middle daughter Jala have someone they love, he cannot find peace. Instead of accepting the prospective sons-in-law, Sakit begins to put them through increasingly difficult and funny trials, one after another. Caught between being a father and being a father-in-law, Sakit tries both to protect his daughters and not to stand in the way of love. At the same time, he himself is still being tested by his father-in-law, Vidadi.
Son-in-Law VS Father-in-Law
0.0 2026 • Azerbaijan -
In 1989, Yavar, who was serving a sentence in one of the remote prisons of the Soviet Union, returned to his native land, Karabakh - to the village of Yukhari Veysalli in the Fuzuli region. But everything has changed here, and the massacre of peaceful Azerbaijanis by Armenian militants has resulted in the deployment of Soviet peacekeepers in the region. Moreover, there is no news of Garatel, whom Yavar has loved for years and whom he was preparing to marry. Yavar, who takes on the defense of Yukhari Veysalli and the surrounding villages, gathers fighters around him. But when he comes face to face with Alexander Rokhlin, who leads the Soviet peacekeepers, he is astonished and is faced with a choice.
Son nəfəsədək
0.0 2018 • Azerbaijan -
We all have old birthday cassettes at home. But most of the people there are no longer here.
Baku Diaries 2: VHS
0.0 2018 • Azerbaijan -
The documentary sheds light on the lives of children who suffered physical and psychological trauma due to the terrorist attacks by Armenia on the eve of the Second Karabakh War.
Big Red House
0.0 2024 • Azerbaijan -
"Dalan" is a film that tells about dead-end life situations that anyone can get into. In the film, several intertwined stories are built around the main plot line - the betrayal of a young wife to her despotic husband.
Dead End
0.0 2019 • Azerbaijan -
Everything happens in one second. The angel comes to Elhan’s dream after the car crash and gives an unforgettable life lesson. And that lesson changes his life forever.
Kiss of an Angel
0.0 2017 • Azerbaijan -
Residents are slowly leaving the village due to thirst. Only one family, aunt Nakhish and man Rahim, endured a thousand hardships to guard the grave of Allahverdi, their only child who died in the Karabakh war.
Bulaqistan
0.0 2009 • Azerbaijan -
Nazli, despite being very intelligent and educated, prefers whims, luxurious living, night clubs, and an expensive lifestyle. Nazli's father Shamil is a serious businessman, faithful to tradition. He does everything he can to help his daughter start a family life. However, starting a family is not part of Nazli's plans. After Nazli's night out, Shamil's patience runs out. He sets a condition for his daughter: Either Nazli will get married, or Shamil will deprive his daughter of her wealth. After that, Nazli's adventures begin...
Nazlı
0.0 2017 • Azerbaijan