Timur Bekmambetov
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- June 25, 1961, Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
- Movies
- 59
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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2016 | The Artist's Adventures | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | LifeHack | Producer |
| 2026 | Mercy | Producer, Director |
| 2025 | War of the Worlds | Producer |
| 2025 | Six Till Midnight | Producer |
| 2025 | Bloat | Producer |
| 2024 | #Blue_Whale | Producer |
| 2023 | Long D | Producer |
| 2023 | Resurrected | Producer |
| 2022 | #FBF | Producer |
| 2021 | V2. Escape from Hell | Director, Producer |
| 2021 | R♥️J | Producer |
| 2020 | Like in Venice | Screenplay, Director |
| 2020 | Persian Lessons | Producer |
| 2020 | Gambler | Producer |
| 2019 | Heroic Deed | Producer |
| 2018 | The Last Six Degrees of Celebration | Producer, Director |
| 2018 | Alice AI | Producer |
| 2018 | Searching | Producer |
| 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 | The Spacewalker | Producer |
| 2016 | Six Degrees of Celebration 5 | Producer, Director |
| 2016 | Hacking Bloggers | Producer |
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Director |
| 2015 | The Best Day Ever | Producer |
| 2015 | I Am Dragon | Producer |
| 2015 | Hardcore Henry | Producer |
| 2015 | Double Trouble | Producer |
| 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 |
| 2009 | Black Lightning | Producer |
| 2009 | 9 | Producer |
| 2008 | Wanted | Director |
| 2007 | The Irony of Fate: Continuation | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2006 | Day Watch | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Night Watch | Director, Writer |
| 2002 | GAZ. Russian Cars | Director |
| 2001 | The Arena | Director |
| 1994 | Peshawar Waltz | Director, Writer |
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