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The 40th Door

February 2009 •Azerbaijani

Fourteen-year-old Rustam lives with his mother in a village; his father was killed by the Russian mafia. After his father's death, Rustam tries to provide for himself and his mother without resorting to illegal money-making schemes. But his dream is to join a music band. The title of the film refers to an Azerbaijani fairy tale about saving a princess from a house with 40 doors; no one has succeeded in opening the last door, and thus its secret remains hidden. The villagers have named their village the 40th door as well.

Strange Time

January 1996 •Azerbaijani

The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.

The Burden

January 1995 •Azerbaijani

The film is about a day of the 19th-20th century famous tycoons from Baku Agha Musa Naghiyev and Hadji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Business and Pleasure

January 1995 •Azerbaijani

Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and him went there, unexpected processes started to happen.

Park

July 1984 •Azerbaijani

Marat meets a girl named Vika in St. Petersburg.The girl wants Marat to take her to Baku. Marat’s love for Vika is growing day by day. The movie is about relations between Marat, Vika and his friend Mikail.

The Invincible Battalion

December 1965 •Azerbaijani

The film is about events which has happened with the "Potyomkin" ship.

The Knights of Black Lake

August 1984 •Azerbaijani

After the story of the same name of S. Veliyev. It's devoted about life concerns of oil workers and their children.

Müqəddəs Oda Yanaram

January 1991 •Azerbaijani

The Poet

January 1991 •Azerbaijani

The film is dedicated to the memory of the great Azerbaijani poet Muhammad Fuzuli by the relic-gazalakh, and the lyric poet Aliaga Vahid. The poet's life is presented in chronological order. The authors do not clearly indicate the names of the people who covered Vahid. They tried to create a generalized artistic image using some of the master poet's masterpieces from his difficult life.

Why do You Remain Silent?

December 1966 •Azerbaijani

Rasim, a young mechanic, meets Surayya and falls in love with her. But he is dragged into Shirmammad's wrongdoings; Shirmammad is Surayya's father and the leader of a gang of poachers. Realising his fault, Rasim tries to convince Surayya to stop trafficking in stolen fish. After a long period of reflection, Rasim becomes aware that he cannot go against his conscience, even for love's sake.

The Telephone Operator

July 1962 •Azerbaijani

The film is about young girl and her first love.

Garden Season

February 1985 •Azerbaijani

The film tells the story that takes place in one of the gardens of Baku, about an honest bus driver, Agababa, who lives by high moral standards, and his large family.

Dada Gorgud

September 1975 •Azerbaijani

Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.

Xatirələr Sahili

December 1972 •Azerbaijani

The Window

January 1991 •Azerbaijani

The film reveals the contradictions between the "educating" teachers and the "educated" students in the school, which is actually an orphanage and a boarding school, where lawlessness, violence, hypocrisy, and cruelty prevail. Forced to live in such contradictory conditions, but unable to adapt to these conditions, little Ahsan, who misses his native home, finds the only way out - he perishes by throwing himself out of the window. The film was shot on the basis of the motifs of Isi Malikzade's story "Nowruz Holiday of Wanderers".

The Birthday Party

February 1977 •Azerbaijani

This lyrical psychological film is about true friendship. The characters in the film are contemporaries in of late 1970s Azerbaijan SSR with differing visions of the world, yet sharing true and lasting friendship.

The Window of Sadness

June 1986 •Azerbaijani

Film about growing up in a small village in Azerbaijan.

Stepmother

December 1958 •Azerbaijani

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.

Bakhtiyar

December 1955 •Azerbaijani

The film is about oilman who had beautiful voice. He didn't attach great importance to his friends is advice to get special music reward. But he changed his attitude to art under the influence of his friends.

Under the Burning Sun

December 1957 •Azerbaijani

The hero of the film coming to the village for a short while decided to stay there by his medical duty.