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- When a father is unexpectedly released from prison after serving ten years for killing his wife, his son wants to find out why he did it.
- «Drongo» is the name of a secret agent, the protagonist of Chingiz Abdullayev's books, three of which formed the basis of the television series.
- An elderly couple confront the ravages of war in their poverty-stricken village.
- An Azerbaijanian veteran of battle for Brest fortress takes gun again 50 years later - to defend Nagorny Karabakh from Armenians.
- "At some point," Rafael tells Arzu, "people walk together ... and then their ways part ... each destined to follow the labyrinth of their own inner city ..." Arzu, a young girl growing up in contemporary Azerbaijan, falls in love with Rafael, her piano teacher's son, a veteran of the Karabakh War. Twice her age and unable to escape from the ravages of war, Rafael is forced to live on the edge of a society that sees him as a 'cripple.' Arzu, desperate to escape from the same repressive society which confines women to a strict, narrow path, chooses Rafael over her family and friends - but threatened by Arzu's mother, and guided by the wisdom born out of his own brokenness, Rafael makes the supreme sacrifice of love ...
- Maryam, an immigrant living in the US returns to her small village in Azerbaijan after discovering that her father is alive and residing in a psychiatric facility. She tries to help recover his mind with her memories but the struggle against the disease turns into a fight with her own conscience.
- The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- A young man tells the dream he had about running away with the daughter of chief of police to his grandma. People spread and exaggerate rumors as if it was a real story until it reaches to the chief himself.
- Gabil returns home to the humble family farmstead, surrounded by an orchard of venerable pomegranate trees; since his sudden departure twelve years ago he was never once in contact. However, the deep emotional scars he left behind cannot be erased from one day to the next.
- Ali coaches a rowing team in a provincial town. The young squad also includes his son Ruslan, who finds it difficult to meet the demands Ali makes on him, and his father's frostiness and continual dissatisfaction are getting him down. Ali is experiencing a crisis of middle age, and only Ruslan is preventing him from leaving his wife Leyla, whom he criticizes for spoiling their son. He finds solace in his Polish lover Sasha, who'd rather have Ali for herself and dreams of starting a new life with him. Just before an important race, in the interests of the team's performance, Ali decides to replace Ruslan, who was originally chosen for the event. But when tragedy strikes that same day, Ali is overcome with emotions he doesn't know how to deal with.
- The film based loosely on the Nagorno-Karabakh War and Khojaly Genocide. The movie also includes scenes from Khojaly Genocide documentary by Chingiz Mustafayev.
- Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished.
- "Buta" is the story of a lonely 7-year old boy (named Buta), who lives in a mountain village with his grandmother. He is befriended by an old man, a liquid soap merchant who once loved (and lost) Buta's grandmother. The old man's friendship and wise advice helps Buta to overcome his difficulties in life. Buta's grandmother, in the meantime, is weaving a special carpet in memory of Buta's mother. The carpet features a special pattern (also called "Buta"), which represents love. The boy is inspired by his grandmother's work, and decides to make his own "buta" made of rocks and stones, high on the top of the mountain...
- The film tells the story of people with lepers being treated in a hospital in the village of Umbaki. The film is based on real events.
- Set in 1990 in the city of Baku, in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, an extended Armenian family headed by a Russian uncle live together in a crowded, crumbling, old apartment as the Soviet Union is collapsing. When the uncle wants the family to add another family member who has been forced to leave Armenia., turmoil ensues.
- Three girls in the their early twenties, each in search of something more in life, practice sport rifle shooting in their spare time. When their love is taken advantage of by three guys (a Thief, a Police officer, and a local Mafia leader), they find that there is only one way to escape from the circle of lies and deceit surrounding a mysterious painting.
- A young filmmaker of Azerbaijani origins decides to fulfill his seven-year obsession to make a docudrama about the short, tragic life of his late mother. Much to his American wife's consternation, the filmmaker decides to travel to Moscow and Azerbaijan to make the film. He casts a young woman to play his mother, who had been forced from her home to live in the artificially created new nation of Azerbaijan. Political and marital problems follow.
- Local healer embarks on the path of revenge against the Russian Bolsheviks who captured his native village, establishing their own rules there.
- The plot is based on the theme of the joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international drug trafficking.
- The film is a logical continuation of the film "Don't be afraid, I'm with you" (1981). Life separates friends Teymur, San Sanich and Rustam. Teymur is now a member of parliament, Rustam is a member of the Red Army, and San Sanich is the owner and teacher of a small Eastern combat school. The events take place during the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic - in 1919. The Romeo and Juliet of the East have a dangerous love affair. The girl's father is a composer and a member of parliament, and the boy's father is a robber. This time, inseparable friends unite to save Teymur's daughter Leyla.
- The Burden is an Azerbaijani film about a day of the 19th-20th century famous tycoons from Baku Aga Musa Nagiyev and Haci Zeynalabdin Tagiyev.
- The plot of the film is based on the investigation by the world famous detective Drongo of a mysterious incident that took place in a settlement in the mountainous region of Azerbaijan.
- During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.
- Sadig, who was convicted of double murder and sentenced to a long term, is released after 17 years. He learns that his relatives have died and homeland had been occupied. Sadig crosses the contact line to his village in Kalbajar with his compatriot to visit the graves of his parents.
- The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
- The film tells the love story of two young people - Azerbaijani Ghafar and Georgian girl Leyla - who lost their lands, loved ones and homes in the war. Ghafar is mistakenly taken to Georgia together with the kiosk. When he wants to buy back his kiosk, he meets Leyla, a Georgian girl who is homeless like him. The film is dedicated to all people who lost their homes in wars. The film was shot in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
- Inspired by true story which is genocid comitted by armenia against unarmed innocent Azerbaijani people who lived in Khojali 1992 25-26 february. Story tells about the refugee life of a kid and his pregnant mother in Baku which is capital of Azerbaijan. Zakir Qasimov following kid has great voice, and life made him grow up at early ages for making money. You can see the hard days of this familiy during the movie, among this hard days the voice of Zakir is only way out. At last he won song contest, but he chose different way to continue his life.
- "Red Garden" tells the story of Abbas - biology teacher, his wife Vafa - piano teacher and Orkhan - orphan, after his granny's death. Vafa wants to adopt Orkhan but Abbas is against of this idea. He wants a son from his own blood.
- Aydin works as a technician at a crane depot. The young man wants to become a crane-operator but fears heights. His colleague, an engineer Samed, bullies him and tries to force Aydin into participating in his corrupt schemes by writing off well-functioning equipment as 'total loss'. But Aydin refuses and tries to keep his integrity.
- Samed is 14-years old refugee, living in Agdam. After getting lost in forest he finds himself on the war in 1994. There he meets Azerbaijani officer Malik and gets patriotic lesson from heroes of the past.
- At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian emperor Alexander I signed an order to relocate 700 Swabian families to Transcaucasia. In 1819, the Germans who came from the Kingdom of Württemberg - the current state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany - founded the first colony in the west of Azerbaijan, near Ganja - the village of Helenendorf (now the city of Goygol). Thus, Azerbaijan has become the second homeland of the Germans who settled here. A few generations passed and those Germans mixed with the local population. In 1941, by order of Stalin, German families living in Goygol were forcibly moved to Central Asia. According to the task, it was necessary to deport the German population from Azerbaijan within 48 hours. The place of exile was mainly the waterless, snake-biting steppes of Kazakhstan. The tragedy that happened to one of these families during the exile and the revenge for that event many years later are the main themes of the film.
- About the fate of the American worker, who found his own in the Soviet Union
- As a result of an unexpected event, a famous sports commentator is forced to spend New Year's Eve with a rock musician, and a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's disease is forced to spend New Year's Eve with a graffiti enthusiast. Is this is a coincidence or a miracle?
- A film about time and timelessness, about personality and facelessness, about the need for change and the desire to get used to what is - The drama of a man whose fate was predetermined at the moment of birth. "Chekist orphan" - he was obliged to go through his terrible path and could not go through it. He became what he became - a KGB colonel.
- The film tells about the life and multifaceted legacy of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh, who left an indelible mark in the history of Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern literature, the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure. The film depicts 3 periods of the playwright's life - childhood, youth and old age. The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Mirza Fatali Akhundov.
- Life, music and legacy of a genius composer Fikret Amirov, told in a rather traditional documentary form, yet emotionally told with an authentic auteur vision of the director Vagif Mustafayev. Includes very exclusive interviews with his family members, colleagues, along with the researchers. Period scenes, starting from early XX century are depicted both in archive footage and reenacted.