Timur Bekmambetov
Production
Born: June 25, 1961 (age 65) · Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Highest Rated
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
Wanted
2008
Searching
2018
9
2009
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012
Unfriended
2014
Hardcore Henry
2015
Ben-Hur
2016
Unfriended: Dark Web
2018
The Darkest Hour
2011
Mercy
2026
Missing
2023
The Current War
2018
Photos (4)
TV Shows (4)
Self / Appearances (3)
Upcoming (2)
Directing (16)
Mercy
Director
Wanted
Director
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Director
Ben-Hur
Director
Day Watch
Director
Night Watch
Director
Profile
Director
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Director
The Arena
Director
V2. Escape from Hell
Director
Six Degrees of Celebration
Director
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
Director
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
Director
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Director
GAZ. Russian Cars
Director
Peshawar Waltz
Director
Writing (6)
Producing (60)
War of the Worlds
Producer
Mercy
Producer
LifeHack
Producer
9
Producer
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Producer
Searching
Producer
The Darkest Hour
Producer
Missing
Executive Producer
Hardcore Henry
Producer
The Current War
Producer
Unfriended: Dark Web
Producer
Apollo 18
Producer
Unfriended
Producer
I Am Dragon
Producer
The Spacewalker
Producer
Persian Lessons
Producer
The Snow Queen
Producer
Kikoriki: Team Invincible
Producer
Black Lightning
Producer
Before Love
Executive Producer
Lucky Trouble
Producer
Resurrected
Producer
Profile
Producer
Rezo
Producer
#Blue_Whale
Producer
The Gromovs
Producer
Bloat
Producer
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Producer
V2. Escape from Hell
Producer
CTRL
Executive Producer
Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Producer
Six Degrees of Celebration
Producer
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
Producer
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
Producer
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
Producer
Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
General Manager
Bitterly! 2
Producer
Bitterly!
Producer
#FBF
Producer
Locked Up
Producer
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Producer
Tweet-Tweet
Producer
Dead Of Night
Producer
Gentlemen, Good Luck!
Producer
R♥️J
Producer
Long D
Producer
Gambler
Producer
B-Day!
Production Director
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Executive Producer
Squirrels
Producer
Six Till Midnight
Producer
The Best Day Ever
Producer
The Game of Truth
Producer
Six Degrees of Celebration 6
General Manager
Fool's Day
Producer
Current Sea
Executive Producer
Unfollowed
Producer
Hacking Bloggers
Producer
Alice AI
Producer
Double Trouble
Producer
