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- Two best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.
- Popularly known by the name of the main character, "Mashadi Ibad" was based on a musical comedy by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and written in the early 1900s. The story is based on the age old-theme of a beautiful young woman (Gulnaz) who falls in love with a young man (Sarvar) but is obliged to marry someone else. Gulnaz' father, Rustam bey, is bankrupt. He decides that the only way to pay off his creditors is to get money by marrying off Gulnaz to the rich, old, widowed bazaar merchant, Mashadi Ibad. But Sarvar contrives a way to foil the plan by disguising himself as the bride hidden under the thick Muslim veil. When Mashadi Ibad lifts the veil to see his bride's face, he discovers Sarvar who holds him at gun point and makes him write a statement that he really wants to marry the maid, not Gulnaz. This is where the work gets its title, "If Not This One, Then That One." The strategy works and Sarvar succeeds in marrying Gulnaz.
- The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.
- In XX century young merchant decides to marry. He wants to see the girl before the wedding. And his friend Suleiman helps him in this regard.
- The struggle of the people against the shakh (king) who seized all of land and water resources.
- When his parents try to marry him to their neighbors' daughter, Ahmad runs away from home and his family try to find him.
- 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
- 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 Tejmur is in love with Farzali bek'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 bek's son, Farzali bek still promises that if Tejmur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Tejmur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help Tejmur to steal Telli during her wedding. All three of them succeed to steal Telli, but San Sanich is jailed in the result. Other three are able to run away and hide for some time. Farzali bek pays a well known bandit Jafar to kill three friends and haunt back Telli. Eventually, Rustam, Telli and Tejmur are trapped in a tower and under a risk of being burned down alive. Jafar is partial to Tejmur's beautiful voice and therefore, asks him to sing one last time. Meanwhile, San Sanich is escaped from jail, and helps his friends to defend Jafar.
- It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martyr-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 9th century.
- It speaks about time when Azerbaijan was invaded by Russian Bolsheviks in the 1920s and how local landlord resists to obey to new Soviet authorities despite they threats to kill him and his siblings
- When Yusif comes back home after World War II, he finds his beloved married to another; father robbed; mother living alone; friend suffering from mental illness. Can he turn things around?
- While there is famine during WW2, a boy with mom far away, tries to stay strong.
- Young Askar wants to get married. He is a rich, successful businessman and has everything he could wish for expert for one thing - a wife. Tradition does not allow him to choose his own bride. But Askar has a modern mentality and wants to choose his bride himself.
- A university rector has always done not what is best but what has been expected of him.
- A movie about the greatest Azerbaijani poet and philosopher who lived at the turn of the XIII century.
- 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 prosesses are shown on the course of the war.
- 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.
- The investigator Seifi Ganiev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds.Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof.Ganiev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.
- Marat meets a girl named Vika in Leningrad. The girl wants Marat to take her to Baku in Soviet Azerbaijan. Marat's love for Vika is growing day by day. The film centers on the relations between Marat, Vika and his friend Mikhail.
- Its about Azerbaijan national epos Dada Gorgud
- Portray the life of the Mehdi Huseynzade, legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the WW2, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia.
- It is about azerbaijani and uzbek cotton-growers who compete each other. Uzbek girl Lala and Azerbaijani boy Kamil's love is the bottom line of the film.
- Too old grandpa is being celebity by news maker who came from centre. But then he recollected something weird things about his missus .
- The animation was based on Abdulla Shaig's "Tig-tig khanum" fairytale.
- In second half of XX century a couple of student who had been called " pioneer" in Azerbaijan USSR try to make a opening after repairing in Shah Palace. Indian wizard shows up and gives a rope to pioneers as a gift for reopenning of palace. Processes starts after that.
- 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.
- The film tells about the formation of a new intelligentia in Azerbaijan in the 19th century, when secular education comes into the masses and drives them out of village to go to secular seminary in Gori. It also speaks about deeply rooted traditions of honor and dignity and how upper landlord class defends their homeland from Russian invasion
- The lyrical-psychological drama is about the lives and work of the people of one of the smaller southern cities. It is still in the minds of the people that the remnants of the past are rooted out, and how the great difficulty of man's moral freedom comes to the fore.
- Imadaddin Nasimi, well-known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society.
- A lonely old woman remember her youth, the days when she worked as a prostitute because of the poverty during the Second World War.
- The rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at head of Gatir Mammad
- Little girl arrives on a reserved island and becomes fascinated by wild nature.
- Schoolmates who loved each other, but didn't say it meet again years later.
- The movie is about the murder of Ahmad Gamarli under mysterious circumstances. Head criminal investigator Gunduz Karimbayli has to make long searches to find the criminal.
- A new teacher arrives in a remote mountain village, where the old traditions still hold sway.