Timur Bekmambetov

DirectorProducerActorWriterProduction Jun 25 (age 64) Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan] 1987–2026 (39 year career)

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Biography

Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing Night Watch and Wanted, as well as pioneering the modern screenlife format. Through films including Unfriended, Searching, Profile, and Missing, Bekmambetov helped establish screenlife storytelling as a major evolution of found footage and digital-era horror. His work popularized films told entirely through computer screens, video calls, and mobile devices, influencing a new generation of interne…

Known For

Film

Searching

Producer

Film

Wanted

Director

Film

9

Producer

Film

Missing

Executive Producer

Film

Hardcore Henry

Producer

Film

Mercy

Director

Film

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Director

Film

The Current War

Producer

Filmography

Acting (8)

Movies (1)

The Artist's Adventures

2016

as Self

Television (7)

2000s

Nineties

vDud

as Self - Guest

The Artist's Adventures

as Self

Evening Urgant

as Self

Projectorparishilton

The School for Scandal

2002

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Crew (93)

Movies (91)

Mercy

Director

Mercy

Producer

LifeHack

Producer

War of the Worlds

Producer

Bloat

Producer

CTRL

Executive Producer

#Blue_Whale

Producer

Missing

Executive Producer

Resurrected

Producer

Long D

Producer

#FBF

Producer

V2. Escape from Hell

Director

V2. Escape from Hell

Producer

R♥️J

Producer

Persian Lessons

Producer

Gambler

Producer

Like in Venice

Screenplay

Current Sea

2020

Executive Producer

Heroic Deed

2019

Producer

Searching

Producer

Unfriended: Dark Web

Producer

The Current War

Producer

The Last Six Degrees of Celebration

2018

Director

6.0

The Last Six Degrees of Celebration

Producer

Alice AI

Producer

Profile

Director

Profile

Producer

Profile

Writer

B-Day!

Production Director

Tweet-Tweet

Producer

Rezo

Producer

Unfollowed

Producer

The Spacewalker

Producer

Six Degrees of Celebration 6

General Manager

Ben-Hur

Director

Six Degrees of Celebration 5

2016

Director

5.2

Six Degrees of Celebration 5

Producer

Hacking Bloggers

Producer

Before Love

Executive Producer

Hardcore Henry

Producer

I Am Dragon

Producer

The Best Day Ever

Producer

Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll

General Manager

Double Trouble

Producer

Unfriended

Producer

Bitterly! 2

Producer

Six Degrees of Celebration 1914

Director

Fool's Day

Producer

Squirrels

Producer

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

Producer

The Game of Truth

Producer

Bitterly!

Producer

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

2012

Director

5.8

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Producer

The Snow Queen

Producer

Gentlemen, Good Luck!‎

Producer

The Darkest Hour

Producer

Lucky Trouble

Producer

Apollo 18

Producer

Six Degrees of Celebration 2

2011

Producer

6.6

Six Degrees of Celebration 2

2011

Writer

6.6

Kikoriki: Team Invincible

2011

Producer

6.6

Six Degrees of Celebration

2010

Director

6.4

Six Degrees of Celebration

2010

Producer

6.4

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Executive Producer

Producer

Black Lightning

Producer

Wanted

Director

The Irony of Fate: Continuation

2007

Director

4.8

The Irony of Fate: Continuation

2007

Producer

4.8

The Irony of Fate: Continuation

Writer

Day Watch

Director

Day Watch

Writer

Night Watch

Director

Night Watch

Writer

GAZ. Russian Cars

Director

The Arena

Director

Peshawar Waltz

Director

Before the Big Road to War

1987

Production Design

8.0

Liked

Producer

Blind Love

Producer

Hodja Nasreddin

Director

Hodja Nasreddin

Screenplay

Petersburg Carousel

Director

Потерянный и возвращенный мир

Director

Погребённый

Director

ANSWR

Producer

Six Till Midnight

Producer

Substitution

Producer

Он - дракон 2

Producer

Don't Get Up!

Producer

Television (2)

Locked Up

2020

Producer

The Gromovs

2006

Producer

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