Directed credits
13
Active
Regular directing credits.
Director
Timur Bekmambetov
Production
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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 69
TMDB ID: 23430
IMDb ID: nm0067457
Known for: Production
Born: June 25, 1961
Age: 65
Place of birth: Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1987 - 2026
Years active: 40
Average TMDB rating: 6.03
Wikidata: Q344854
Also known as
Timur Bekmambetov • Timur Bekmambetow • Тимур Бекмамбетов • Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov
Frequent jobs
Director (12)Production Director (1)Producer (47)Executive Producer (5)General Manager (2)Production Design (1)Writer (1)
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.
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Timur Bekmambetov.
Mercy
Director
2026 Movie
V2. Escape from Hell
Director
2021 Movie
B-Day!
Production Director
2018 Movie
Ben-Hur
Director
2016 Movie
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Director
2014 Movie
Six Degrees of Celebration
Director
2010 Movie
Wanted
Director
2008 Movie
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
Director
2007 Movie
Night Watch
Director
2004 Movie
GAZ. Russian Cars
Director
2002 Movie
The Arena
Director
2001 Movie
Peshawar Waltz
Director
1994 Movie
Hodja Nasreddin
Director
Movie
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Timur Bekmambetov.
Persian Lessons
Producer
2020 Movie
Searching
Producer
2018 Movie
Missing
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Executive Producer
2010 Movie
I Am Dragon
Producer
2015 Movie
Mercy
Director
2026 Movie
The Spacewalker
Producer
2017 Movie
9
Producer
2009 Movie
Profile
Producer
2018 Movie
The Current War
Producer
2018 Movie
Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Producer
2011 Movie
Wanted
Director
2008 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Timur Bekmambetov.
War of the Worlds
Producer
2025 Movie
Mercy
Director
2026 Movie
Wanted
Director
2008 Movie
9
Producer
2009 Movie
Searching
Producer
2018 Movie
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Producer
2012 Movie
LifeHack
Producer
2026 Movie
Hardcore Henry
Producer
2015 Movie
The Darkest Hour
Producer
2011 Movie
Missing
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
Unfriended: Dark Web
Producer
2018 Movie
Ben-Hur
Director
2016 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Timur Bekmambetov.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Timur Bekmambetov.
LifeHack
Producer
2026 Movie
War of the Worlds
Producer
2025 Movie
Six Till Midnight
Producer
2025 Movie
Bloat
Producer
2025 Movie
CTRL
Executive Producer
2024 Movie
#Blue_Whale
Producer
2024 Movie
Long D
Producer
2023 Movie
Resurrected
Producer
2023 Movie
Missing
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
#FBF
Producer
2022 Movie
R♥️J
Producer
2021 Movie
Persian Lessons
Producer
2020 Movie
Gambler
Producer
2020 Movie
Current Sea
Executive Producer
2020 Movie
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Producer
2018 Movie
Alice AI
Producer
2018 Movie
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Timur Bekmambetov.
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Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Timur Bekmambetov.
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Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Timur Bekmambetov.
