Timur Bekmambetov
77 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- Jun 25, 1961 (age 65)
- Place of birth
- Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
- Also known as
- Timur Bekmambetov · Timur Bekmambetow · Тимур Бекмамбетов · Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov
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 internet-native thriller and horror filmmaking.
Known for
Timur Bekmambetov: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (80)
- Upcoming Petersburg Carousel
Director
- Upcoming Hodja Nasreddin
Screenplay, Director
- Upcoming Blind Love
Producer
- Upcoming Потерянный и возвращенный мир
Producer, Director
- Upcoming Он - дракон 2
Producer
- Upcoming Substitution
Producer
- Upcoming Погребённый
Director
- Upcoming Liked
Producer
- Upcoming ANSWR
Producer
- Upcoming Don't Get Up!
Producer
- 2026 LifeHack
Producer
- 2026 Mercy
Producer, Director
- 2025 War of the Worlds
Producer
- 2025 Six Till Midnight
Producer
- 2025 Bloat
Producer
- 2024 CTRL
Executive Producer
- 2024 #Blue_Whale
Producer
- 2023 Long D
Producer
- 2023 Resurrected
Producer
- 2023 Missing
Executive Producer
- 2022 #FBF
Producer
- 2021 V2. Escape from Hell
Director, Producer
- 2021 R♥️J
Producer
- 2020 Like in Venice
Screenplay, Director
- 2020
- 2020 Persian Lessons
Producer
- 2020 Gambler
Producer
- 2020 Current Sea
Executive Producer
- 2019 Heroic Deed
Producer
- 2019
- 2018 The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Producer, Director
- 2018 Alice AI
Producer
- 2018 Searching
Producer
- 2018 B-Day!
Production Director
- 2018 Unfriended: Dark Web
Producer
- 2018 Rezo
Producer
- 2018 Tweet-Tweet
Producer
- 2018 Profile
Producer, Director, Writer
- 2018 The Current War
Producer
- 2018 Unfollowed
Producer
- 2017 Six Degrees of Celebration 6
General Manager
- 2017 The Spacewalker
Producer
- 2016 Six Degrees of Celebration 5
Producer, Director
- 2016 Hacking Bloggers
Producer
- 2016 Ben-Hur
Director
- 2016 Before Love
Executive Producer
- 2015 The Best Day Ever
Producer
- 2015 I Am Dragon
Producer
- 2015 Hardcore Henry
Producer
- 2015 Double Trouble
Producer
- 2015 Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
General Manager
- 2014 Squirrels
Producer
- 2014 Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Director, Producer
- 2014 Fool's Day
Producer
- 2014 Bitterly! 2
Producer
- 2014 Unfriended
Producer
- 2013 Six Degrees of Celebration 3
Producer
- 2013 Bitterly!
Producer
- 2013 The Game of Truth
Producer
- 2012 Gentlemen, Good Luck!
Producer
- 2012 The Snow Queen
Producer
- 2012 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Director, Producer
- 2011 The Darkest Hour
Producer
- 2011 Kikoriki: Team Invincible
Producer
- 2011 Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Producer, Writer
- 2011 Apollo 18
Producer
- 2011 Lucky Trouble
Producer
- 2010 Six Degrees of Celebration
Producer, Director
- 2010 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Executive Producer
- 2009 Black Lightning
Producer
- 2009 9
Producer
- 2008 Wanted
Director
- 2007 The Irony of Fate: Continuation
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2006
- 2006 Day Watch
Director, Writer
- 2004 Night Watch
Director, Writer
- 2002 GAZ. Russian Cars
Director
- 2001 The Arena
Director
- 1994 Peshawar Waltz
Director, Writer
- 1987 Before the Big Road to War
Production Design
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 2016
- 2016 The Artist's Adventures
1 episode
- 2012 Evening Urgant
1 episode
- 2008 Projectorparishilton
1 episode
- 2002 The School for Scandal
1 episode