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Flag of AzerbaijanMovies: Best Movies shot in Baku(Azerbaijan)

Baku (US:, UK: ; Azerbaijani: Bakı [bɑˈcɯ]) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Baku is 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, on the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, as well as the industrial settlement of Neft Daşları built on oil rigs 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from Baku city in the Caspian Sea. The Old City, containing the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and the Maiden Tower, was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The city is the scientific, cultural, and industrial centre of Azerbaijan. Many sizeable Azerbaijani institutions have their headquarters there. In the 2010s, Baku became a venue for major international events. It hosted the 57th Eurovision... ()

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The World Is Not Enough(1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 8min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 1,339 votes)

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Amphibian Man(1962)

3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.

Ali and Nino(2016)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 32 votes)

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.

Directed by Asif Kapadia - With María Valverde

Asif, Vasif, Ağasif(1983)

A funny adventures of three little brothers.

Directed by Rasim Ismailov - With Leyla Badirbeyli, Şükufə Yusupova

In the Name of God(1925)

57min | Drama
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh - With Mirzaagha Aliyev, Mustafa Mardanov, Ibrahim Azeri

The Oil Gush in Balakhany(1898)

2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

A film directed by the pioneer of cinema in Azerbaijan, Alexandre Michon, it was filmed on August 4, 1898 in Balakhany, Baku and presented at the International Paris Exhibition. The film was shot using a 35mm film on a Lumière cinematograph. Silent movie. (Wikipedia)

Directed by Alexandre Michon

Dolu(2012)

1h 24min | War
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War. The film tells about the heroism of the sons of Azerbaijan, who fought for the Motherland to the last drop of blood in spite of everything in the Karabakh war.

Directed by Elkhan Jafarov - With Şamil Süleymanlı

The Day Passed(1971)

1h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The film is about man and woman who remembered their childhood. The film reflects atmosphere of Baku. It is an adaptation of Anar Rzayev's "Georgian surname" novel.

Directed by Arif Babayev - With Leyla Shikhlinskaya

The Preservation of Secret(1986)

1h 19min | Crime, Mystery, Drama

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Mark Joseph

Latif(1930)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Directed by Mikayil Mikayilov - With Latif Safarov, Hagigat Rzayeva, Mustafa Mardanov, Alasgar Alakbarov

Sevil(1970)

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.

Directed by Vladimir Gorikker - With Valentina Aslanova, Zemfira İsmayılova, Səfurə İbrahimova, Hamlet Qurbanov, Məmmədsadıq Nuriyev, Hasanagha Turabov, ...

Sevil(1929)

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Jafar Jabbarly - With İzzət Oruczadə, Aghasadyg Garaybeyli, Mustafa Mardanov, Latif Safarov, Rüstam Katsımov, ...
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Ismat(1934)

1h 17min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Mikayil Mikayilov - With Juka Mixelson, Hayri Emir-zade, Aziza Mammadova, Mohsun Sanani

The Birthday Party(1977)

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by Rasim Ojagov - With Haji Ismayilov, Shafiga Mammadova, David Uplisaşvili, Şükufə Yusupova, Sədayə Mustafayeva, Hüseynağa Sadıqov, ...

Bakhtiyar(1955)

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.

Directed by Latif Safarov - With Rashid Behbudov, Aghasadyg Garaybeyli, Memmedrza Sheikhzamanov, İsmayıl Əfəndiyev, Tatyana Pelttser, Tamara Chernova, ...

26 Commissioners(1932)

1h 49min | Drama, War, History
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Directed by Nikoloz Shengelaya, Stepan Kevorkov - With Igor Savchenko, Vladimir Gardin, Ivan Klyukvin, Veriko Anjaparidze, Mikhail Zharov, Hayri Emir-zade, ...

Fortress(2008)

1h 23min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion.

Directed by Shamil Nacafzada

In the Kingdom of Oil and Millions(1916)

1h | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Social drama. After the novel of the same name of Ibrahimbay Musabayov.

Directed by Boris Svetlov - With Huseyn Arablinski, Jabbar Garyaghdioglu

House on the Volcano(1929)

1h 3min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An old, boring technician remembers a cruelly suppressed strike of oil industry workers in Baku.

Directed by Hamo Beknazarian - With Hrachia Nersisyan, Tigran Ayvazyan, Tatyana Makhmuryan, Mikayel Garagash, Alasgar Alakbarov

The Game of Love(1935)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.

Directed by Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh - With İsmayıl Əfəndiyev, Macid Samkhalov, Sara Şərifzadə, İzzət Oruczadə, Mirzaagha Aliyev

Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat(1898)

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August 2 of the same year, a demonstration of Alexander Michon's program took place, which included the film "Fire at an oil fountain in Bibiheybat".

Directed by Alexandre Michon

Knyaz Demir Bulat(1916)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Boris Svetlov