Timur Bekmambetov
Known for: Production
Born: June 25, 1961
Place of birth: 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 entirely through computer screens, video calls, and mobile devices, influencing a new generation of internet-native thriller and horror filmmaking.
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Filmography
78 movies · 9 TV shows, newest first
7.1
LifeHack
2026
7.1
Mercy
2026
4.0
War of the Worlds
2025
7.0
Six Till Midnight
2025
5.3
Bloat
2025
6.1
CTRL
2024
6.3
#Blue_Whale
2024
6.0
Long D
2023
6.3
Resurrected
2023
7.4
Missing
2023
NR
2000s
2022
6.0
#FBF
2022
5.7
V2. Escape from Hell
2021
6.6
R♥️J
2021
NR
Nineties
2021NR
Like in Venice
2020
NR
Locked Up
2020
7.6
Persian Lessons
2020
2.0
Gambler
2020
NR
Current Sea
2020NR
Heroic Deed
2019
NR
Dead Of Night
2019
6.0
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
2018
1.0
Alice AI
2018
7.6
Searching
2018
5.2
B-Day!
2018
6.3
Unfriended: Dark Web
2018
7.9
Rezo
2018
6.4
Tweet-Tweet
2018
6.9
Profile
2018
6.7
The Current War
2018
5.0
Unfollowed
2018
5.3
Six Degrees of Celebration 6
2017
7.0
The Spacewalker
2017
5.1
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
2016
NR
The Artist's Adventures
2016
8.2
The Artist's Adventures
2016
1.8
Hacking Bloggers
2016
5.8
Ben-Hur
2016
6.3
Before Love
2016
4.9
The Best Day Ever
2015
7.2
I Am Dragon
2015
6.4
Hardcore Henry
2015
5.0
Double Trouble
2015
6.1
Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
2015
NR
Squirrels
2014
5.7
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
2014
5.7
Fool's Day
2014
4.5
Bitterly! 2
2014
5.6
Unfriended
2014
6.1
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
2013
5.6
Bitterly!
2013
6.4
The Game of Truth
2013
3.8
Gentlemen, Good Luck!
2012
5.9
The Snow Queen
2012
5.8
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012
7.1
Evening Urgant
2012
5.3
The Darkest Hour
2011
6.6
Kikoriki: Team Invincible
2011
6.6
Six Degrees of Celebration 2
2011
5.3
Apollo 18
2011
5.9
Lucky Trouble
2011
6.4
Six Degrees of Celebration
2010
7.3
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
6.3
Black Lightning
2009
7.0
9
2009
6.5
Wanted
2008
5.8
Projectorparishilton
2008
4.8
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
2007
7.9
The Gromovs
2006
6.1
Day Watch
2006
6.2
Night Watch
2004
5.8
The School for Scandal
2002
NR
GAZ. Russian Cars
2002
3.2
The Arena
2001
2.7
Peshawar Waltz
1994
8.0
Before the Big Road to War
1987NR
Petersburg Carousel
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NR
Hodja Nasreddin
—NR
Blind Love
—NR
Потерянный и возвращенный мир
—NR
Он - дракон 2
—NR
Substitution
—NR
Погребённый
—NR
Liked
—NR
ANSWR
—NR
Don't Get Up!
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