The Family (1998)

(1) based on 1 votes
January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.
Genre
Available in streaming on

January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Garabagh. Rallies of protest, political meetings spring up in Baku. The old patriarch, Ismail gathers under his roof distant relatives, people of different nationalities, beliefs, and ideas. The old man is tortured by everything happening around him: unrest in the city as well as discord and discarder in his own overpopulated apartment. All his efforts to preserve the family are in vain. People want to live separately. Former friends become bitter enemies because of the senseless aggression.

Movies like The Family

In the Fire

Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.
Search similar movies
10.0
In+the+Fire
In the Fire

1978

Search similar movies
The Bay of Happiness

The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.
Search similar movies
8.0
The+Bay+of+Happiness
The Bay of Happiness

1978

Search similar movies
Man Casts an Anchor

The film is about an oilman who took a lost worker's place and won the respect of other oilmen, was also based on this same ideology, depicting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and continued working in oil, generation after generation.
Search similar movies
Man+Casts+an+Anchor
Man Casts an Anchor

1967

Search similar movies
A Country House for One Family

On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gather together. But neither the sons nor the daughter can find time to visit and help their parents. Only the eldest son understands his father and mother...
Search similar movies
A+Country+House+for+One+Family
A Country House for One Family

1978

Search similar movies
Oh, Heart... Heart

The film explores intelligent feelings of harmonious coordination and human problems, as well as psychological issues. The film addresses topical issues of contemporary morality. The protagonist, Murad, has a family and a good job, but on a whim, he suddenly feels compelled to abandon everything. Deep down, he is torn between feelings of love and indifference.
Search similar movies
Oh%2C+Heart...+Heart
Oh, Heart... Heart

1976

Search similar movies
An Ice in a Warm Sea

The old shipyard repairman ust-Nazar returned to work after an illness. They were already preparing to see the old man off to retirement. But Ust-Nazar was able to convince his superiors of his efficiency, and they instructed him to repair the old boat. By spring, the boat was ready for sailing. When a huge ice floe threatened the oil rig during an ice break, the old man, without thinking about his own life, went with a battering ram to the ice block.
Search similar movies
An+Ice+in+a+Warm+Sea
An Ice in a Warm Sea

1983

Search similar movies
The Exam

After the play of the same name of Anar.
Search similar movies
The+Exam
40° Hot in a Shadow

The film is about village people, about their love for their land, their honesty in relations.
Search similar movies
40%C2%B0+Hot+in+a+Shadow
40° Hot in a Shadow

1988

Search similar movies
The Birthday Party

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.
Search similar movies
3.9
The+Birthday+Party
The Birthday Party

1977

Search similar movies
If I Die, Forgive Me

A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.
Search similar movies
3.0
If+I+Die%2C+Forgive+Me
If I Die, Forgive Me

1989

Search similar movies
Strange Time

The film is about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.
Search similar movies
6.0
Strange+Time
Strange Time

1996

Search similar movies
The Burden

The film is about a day of the 19th-20th century famous tycoons from Baku Agha Musa Naghiyev and Hadji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.
Search similar movies
The+Burden
The Burden

1995

Search similar movies
Dada Gorgud

Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.
Search similar movies
3.4
Dada+Gorgud
Dada Gorgud

1975

Search similar movies
Sound of the Pipe

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.
Search similar movies
3.0
Sound+of+the+Pipe
Sound of the Pipe

1975

Search similar movies
The Day Passed

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.
Search similar movies
5.2
The+Day+Passed
The Day Passed

1971

Search similar movies
Good Bye, Southern City

The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
Search similar movies
8.0
Good+Bye%2C+Southern+City
Good Bye, Southern City

2006

Search similar movies
The Day after Tomorrow at Midnight

After the novel of the same name of M. Avdiyev and A. Donets. The film is about first operations of National State Security.
Search similar movies
The+Day+after+Tomorrow+at+Midnight
The Day after Tomorrow at Midnight

1981

Search similar movies
Additional Trace

A young woman has been murdered in one of the apartments. Prosecutor Babaev goes to the scene of the crime. He must find the killer, Nargiz, and investigate the motive for the crime, together with homicide investigator Yagubov.
Search similar movies
8.3
Additional+Trace
Additional Trace

1981

Search similar movies
The Preservation of Secret

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
The+Preservation+of+Secret
The Preservation of Secret

1986

Search similar movies
I Want to Understand

The film is about parents who wanted to build the house and gather together with their children in the house.
Search similar movies
I+Want+to+Understand
I Want to Understand

1980

Search similar movies