Timur Bekmambetov

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Evening Urgant (2012) — Self
2. Projectorparishilton (2008)
3. The Artist's Adventures (2016) — Self
4. The School for Scandal (2002)
5. The Artist's Adventures (2016) — Self
6. Nineties (2021)
7. 2000s (2022)

Directed

1. Wanted (2008) — Director
2. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) — Director
3. Ben-Hur (2016) — Director
4. Mercy (2026) — Director
5. Night Watch (2004) — Director
6. Day Watch (2006) — Director
7. Profile (2018) — Director
8. Six Degrees of Celebration (2010) — Director
9. The Irony of Fate: Continuation (2007) — Director
10. Six Degrees of Celebration 1914 (2014) — Director
11. The Last Six Degrees of Celebration (2018) — Director
12. Six Degrees of Celebration 5 (2016) — Director
13. V2. Escape from Hell (2021) — Director
14. The Arena (2001) — Director
15. Peshawar Waltz (1994) — Director
16. GAZ. Russian Cars (2002) — Director
17. Petersburg Carousel — Director
18. Hodja Nasreddin — Director
19. Потерянный и возвращенный мир — Director
20. Погребённый — Director
21. Like in Venice (2020) — Director