Bakhtiyar

Meeting

Komsomol member Mansume Musaeva graduates from university and goes to work in the oil industry in Baku with her husband. The couple engage in cultural and educational work among the backward population, especially among women. They are opposed by old oil workers. At the same time, Efendiev, the head of the militia, approaches Mansume and tries to win her heart. Efendiev tries to subdue the woman by force. During the fight, the woman recognizes in him the commander of the punitive detachment, the Musavat officer who killed her father and burned down the village. The Shinsakhkom organs intervene in the case. In order to save himself, Efendiev sets fire to the oil tower, but he himself dies in the fire.

Hadji Gara

After the comedy of the same name of Mirza Fatali Akhundov.

The New Skyline

Young engineer is fighting against conservatives who don't want to find new oil deposits.

Almas

A new teacher arrives in a remote mountain village, where the old traditions still hold sway.

The Thirteen

The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.

Gilan's Daughter

This drama is about Gilan's downfall in 1920th under onslaught of Iran's shah & English army.

26 Commissioners

Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.

Ulduz

The film is about of village life. After the same name operetta musical comedy.

The Owl

The film is about the class struggle in the village between the various strata of society on the eve of Soviet powerformation.

Sevil

The film takes place in Baku in 1918-19 and then several years later. The film is based on the opera of the same name by Fikret Amirov. Sevil became the first film opera in the history of Azerbaijani cinema.

Why do You Remain Silent?

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.

I wasn't Beautiful then

After the novel of the same name of B.Bayramov. The film is about life during war, about postwoman.

The Son of Native Land

The film is about Kamal Gasimov's heroic fighting at the front.

People without Hands

The Morning

After the novel of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.

Trumbo

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Experimenter

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

The Lost City of Z

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

The Founder

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.