Timur Bekmambetov
Born: 1961-06-25 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Known For: Production
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.
Filmography
2025
- War of the Worlds ... (Producer)
- Six Till Midnight ... (Producer)
- Bloat ... (Producer)
2024
- #Blue_Whale ... (Producer)
- CTRL ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- Missing ... (Executive Producer)
- Resurrected ... (Producer)
- Long D ... (Producer)
2021
- Nineties
- V2. Escape from Hell ... (Director)
- R♥️J ... (Producer)
2020
- Persian Lessons ... (Producer)
- Locked Up ... (Producer)
- Current Sea ... (Executive Producer)
- Gambler ... (Producer)
- Like in Venice ... (Screenplay)
2019
- Dead Of Night ... (Producer)
- Heroic Deed ... (Producer)
2018
- Searching ... (Producer)
- Unfriended: Dark Web ... (Producer)
- The Current War ... (Producer)
- Rezo ... (Producer)
- Profile ... (Producer)
- B-Day! ... (Production Director)
- Tweet-Tweet ... (Producer)
- The Last Six Degrees of Celebration ... (Producer)
- Unfollowed ... (Producer)
- Alice AI ... (Producer)
2017
- The Spacewalker ... (Producer)
- Six Degrees of Celebration 6 ... (General Manager)
2016
- Ben-Hur ... (Director)
- The Artist's Adventures as Self
- Before Love ... (Executive Producer)
- The Artist's Adventures as Self
- Six Degrees of Celebration 5 ... (Producer)
- Hacking Bloggers ... (Producer)
2015
- Hardcore Henry ... (Producer)
- I Am Dragon ... (Producer)
- Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll ... (General Manager)
- The Best Day Ever ... (Producer)
- Double Trouble ... (Producer)
2014
- Unfriended ... (Producer)
- Six Degrees of Celebration 1914 ... (Director)
- Squirrels ... (Producer)
- Bitterly! 2 ... (Producer)
- Fool's Day ... (Producer)
2013
- Six Degrees of Celebration 3 ... (Producer)
- The Game of Truth ... (Producer)
- Bitterly! ... (Producer)
2012
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ... (Director)
- Evening Urgant as Self
- The Snow Queen ... (Producer)
- Gentlemen, Good Luck! ... (Producer)
2011
- The Darkest Hour ... (Producer)
- Apollo 18 ... (Producer)
- Lucky Trouble ... (Producer)
- Kikoriki: Team Invincible ... (Producer)
- Six Degrees of Celebration 2 ... (Producer)
2010
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga ... (Executive Producer)
- Six Degrees of Celebration ... (Producer)
2009
- 9 ... (Producer)
- Black Lightning ... (Producer)
2008
- Wanted ... (Director)
- Projectorparishilton
2007
- The Irony of Fate: Continuation ... (Writer)
2006
- The Gromovs ... (Producer)
- Day Watch ... (Director)
2004
- Night Watch ... (Director)
2002
- The School for Scandal
- GAZ. Russian Cars ... (Director)
2001
- The Arena ... (Director)
1994
- Peshawar Waltz ... (Director)
1987
- Before the Big Road to War ... (Production Design)