Timur Bekmambetov
Production · Born 1961-06-25 · age 65 · 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.
Titles
Wanted
Searching
9
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Unfriended
Hardcore Henry
Ben-Hur
Unfriended: Dark Web
The Darkest Hour
Mercy
Missing
The Current War
Apollo 18
War of the Worlds
Night Watch
Day Watch
Persian Lessons
I Am Dragon
The Spacewalker
Black Lightning
The Snow Queen
Profile
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Resurrected
Six Degrees of Celebration
Lucky Trouble
Bitterly!
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
Six Degrees of Celebration 2
#Blue_Whale
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
CTRL
The Best Day Ever
Bitterly! 2
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Bloat
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
Kikoriki: Team Invincible
Six Degrees of Celebration 6
R♥️J
The Game of Truth
Gentlemen, Good Luck!
Hacking Bloggers
#FBF
V2. Escape from Hell
The Arena
Projectorparishilton
B-Day!
The Gromovs
Rezo
Tweet-Tweet
LifeHack
Peshawar Waltz
The School for Scandal
Before Love
Fool's Day
Long D
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