Top 100 Best Azerbaijani Films

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.

While there is famine during WW2, a boy with mom far away, tries to stay strong.

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

Set in turn of the century Baku at the dawn of the 20th century, a young man wishes to marry. Since he is a rich and successful business man, despite his young age, he feels that he should have his pick of any bride that he fancies, however, Azerbanjani tradition dictates otherwise. He then decides to get stealthy about the matter and disguises himself as a mere cloth peddler. As the peddler, a young woman falls in love with him, but grieves that he father will not marry her to a mere peddler. Young Askar then reveals who his he to her father and asks for he hand in marriage. Seeing that he is indeed a wealthy young man, the father hardly agrees and the two are permitted to marry.

Schoolmates who loved each other, but didn't say it meet again years later.

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

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.

Imadaddin Nasimi, well-known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society.

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.

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 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.

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.

This films consists of two subject lines. In the first , a man(Ali) prepares to organize a birthday party for his little son. So during the birthday (daytime) he works hard to buy as many products as possible in order to make the birthday party amazing (in the evening). As he gets tired he fell asleep during the party which is the culmination point of the movie. In the second a man (Mustafa) comes to captital city(Baku) from the rural with his friend for business purposes and is quite naive. He meets a woman there by accident and he likes her so he asks her for her help in order to get acquainted with the city and the woman accepts. She shows the city to him and in the evening as it was raining , she brings Mustafa to her house but she gets afraid of her brother to come to her house and see Mustafa with him so she makes Mustafa leave the house in the night. As Mustafa doesnt know the city well he goes astray and accidentally meets Ali who was standing in the balcony of his house.

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?

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

Displays lives of people in a village in harsh times of WWII.

It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martyr-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 9th century.

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.

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.

An oil fountain at a factory near the village of Balakhani, Russian Empire, Baku governorate.

Russian documentary, one of the earliest silent films ever made.

The events occur during the Armenian-Azerbaijanian/Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin for identification of a dead soldier they find out that he is not Azerbaijanian but Armenian - former dweller of Baku.