Timur Bekmambetov
Production · Born Jun 25, 1961 · 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.
Known for
Wanted
20086.5
Searching
20187.6
9
20097.0
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
20125.8
Unfriended
20145.6
Hardcore Henry
20156.4
Ben-Hur
20165.8
Mercy
20267.1
Unfriended: Dark Web
20186.3
The Darkest Hour
20115.3
Missing
20237.4
The Current War
20186.7
War of the Worlds
20254.0
Apollo 18
20115.3
Night Watch
20046.2
Day Watch
20066.1
Persian Lessons
20207.6
I Am Dragon
20157.2
The Spacewalker
20177.0
Black Lightning
20096.3
