Mustafa Mardanov

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.

A historical film about the struggle in the 18th century of the young ruler of the Kuban Khanate, Fatali Khan, who sought to unite the scattered khanates into a single Azerbaijani state.

The film is dedicated to the life and creative work of the great Azerbaijani educator, playwright, and philosopher, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, affectionately known as Sabuhi, meaning “man of the morning.”

The film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them.

When his parents try to marry him to their neighbors' daughter, Ahmad runs away from home and his family try to find him.

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

The film is about Azerbaijanian and Uzbekistan's cotton-growers contest and about two young people's love.

After the play of same name of Jafar Jabbarli. This melodrama is about the woman who had unhappy homelife and tried to free herself from shariat rules.

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

Latif a seven year old boy living during the collectivization policy in USSR.

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

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

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.

The film is about the opposition between working-class people and the certain power.

The film is about the revolution which began bacause of dissemination of Bolshevik ideas among workers.

After the novel of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.