Timur Bekmambetov

Producer

Born: June 25, 1961 (age 65)
From: Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]

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…

Filmography (22)

Mercy (2026)
Director
V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
Director
Like in Venice
Like in Venice (2020)
Director
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration (2018)
Director
Profile (2018)
Director
Six Degrees of Celebration 5 (2016)
Director
The Artist's Adventures (2016)
Self
Ben-Hur (2016)
Director
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914 (2014)
Director
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Director
Six Degrees of Celebration (2010)
Director
Wanted (2008)
Director
The Irony of Fate: Continuation (2007)
Director
Day Watch (2006)
Director
Night Watch (2004)
Director
GAZ. Russian Cars (2002)
Director
The Arena (2001)
Director
Peshawar Waltz (1994)
Director
Petersburg Carousel
Petersburg Carousel
Director
Hodja Nasreddin
Director
Потерянный и возвращенный мир
Потерянный и возвращенный мир
Director
Погребённый
Погребённый
Director