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Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov

Production · Born 1961-06-25 · Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]

IMDb

9 titles in this catalog with a median Balasaur Score of 57. The 2000s rate best: median 62 across 4 titles. Timur Bekmambetov appears most often alongside Viktor Verzhbitskiy (3 titles).

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.

Acting 7

Production 60

Directing 17

Writing 7

Art 1