Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov

1961-06-25 Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan] 74 Credits

Biography

Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Russian: Тимур Нуруахитович Бекмамбетов, pronounced [tʲɪˈmur nʊrʊɐˈxʲitəvʲɪt͡ɕ bʲɪkmɐmˈbʲetəf]; Kazakh: Темір Нұрбақытұлы Бекмамбетoв, romanized: Temır Nūrbaqytūly Bekmambetov; born 25 June 1961) is a Kazakh-born Russian film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004) and the action thriller Wanted (2008), as well as for the pioneering screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018) and ...

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Mercy

2026

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

Set in the near future when capital crime has increased, a detective is accused of a violent crime and forced to prove his innocence.

Khodzha Nasreddin

Khodzha Nasreddin

2025

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Khodzha Nasreddin saves the donkey from the heat. Now he is in the service of Khodzha, from which all his adventures begin. Donkey lives, works, canno...

War of the Worlds

2025

Producer

Producing

A 'Screenlife' sci-fi thriller about privacy based on the classic alien invasion novel by H.G. Wells.

LifeHack

LifeHack

2025

Producer

9.0
Producing

Four teenage slackers attempt a multi-million-dollar Bitcoin heist from their bedrooms, only to spiral into the darkest corners of the internet-and a ...

Bloat

Bloat

2025

Producer

5.0
Producing

After a near-death drowning accident, a young boy's family is horrified to discover he has become possessed by a legendary demon from the depths of th...

CTRL

CTRL

2024

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

Nella and Joe are the perfect influencer couple. But when he cheats on her, she turns to an AI app to erase him from her life — until it takes control...

#Blue_Whale

#Blue_Whale

2024

Producer

6.3
Producing

Rebellious schoolgirl Dana grieves for her younger sister, a once-happy kid who suddenly stepped in front of a train. Desperate to learn what happened...

Long D

Long D

2023

Producer

6.0
Producing

As Tae-in moved away suddenly, Do-ha embarked on a long-distance relationship that certainly wasn't planned. Although they talk to each other daily an...

Resurrected

Resurrected

2023

Producer

6.2
Producing

In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to ...

Missing

Missing

2023

Executive Producer

7.4
Producing

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuc...

#FBF

#FBF

2022

Producer

6.2
Producing

Teenage Annie inadvertently takes her mother's laptop instead of her own to visit her father in New Jersey. She quickly realizes that the laptop allow...

V2. Escape from Hell

V2. Escape from Hell

2021

Director, Producer

5.7
Directing Producing

Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.

R♥️J

R♥️J

2021

Producer

6.6
Producing

Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story wit...

Like in Venice

2020

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Short film for the Action! 2020

Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons

2020

Producer

7.6
Producing

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by sw...

Gambler

Gambler

2020

Producer

2.0
Producing

On New Year’s Eve, the father of the family, a research associate, was fired and, in a desperate search for money for New Year presents to his family,...

Current Sea

Current Sea

2020

Executive Producer

Producing

A feature-length, environmental thriller that follows investigative journalist, Matt Blomberg, and ocean activist, Paul Ferber, in their dangerous eff...

Heroic Deed

2019

Producer

Producing

Office employee Vasily is forced to spend the Friday evening before the New Year not in a bar with friends and not at home with his family, but at wor...

The Last Six Degrees of Celebration

The Last Six Degrees of Celebration

2018

Producer, Director

6.0
Producing Directing

"The Last Six Degrees of Celebration" will be the most touching, kind and magical of all, because your favorite characters will say goodbye to the aud...

Alice AI

Alice AI

2018

Producer

1.0
Producing

The protagonist of the story is a workaholic taxi driver who has no one dearer than the voice navigator "Alice". That and support, and joke, and the r...

Searching

Searching

2018

Producer

7.6
Producing

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and w...

B-Day!

B-Day!

2018

Production Director

4.9
Directing

After celebrating his best friend birthday Anton has a terrible headache, doesn't remember anything and in addition must destroy some videos which can...

Unfriended: Dark Web

Unfriended: Dark Web

2018

Producer

6.3
Producing

​When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They ...

Rezo

Rezo

2018

Producer

7.3
Producing

The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he ...

Tweet-Tweet

Tweet-Tweet

2018

Producer

6.3
Producing

Life is like walking on a tightrope. In times we are scared or lost we lose balance. When we are happy and excited, we forget we walk on a rope. We c...

Profile

Profile

2018

Producer, Director, Writer

6.9
Producing Directing Writing

Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an I...

The Current War

The Current War

2018

Producer

6.7
Producing

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Unfollowed

Unfollowed

2018

Producer

5.0
Producing

Social media influencer Maddie, with her three friends, hosts a livestream about the paranormal. When she learns of the urban legend of Jacob Lang, th...

Six Degrees of Celebration 6

Six Degrees of Celebration 6

2017

General Manager

5.4

As the new year celebrations approach, a bunch of characters throughout Russia experience diverse situations that eventually get interconnected toward...

The Spacewalker

The Spacewalker

2017

Producer

7.0
Producing

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to ...

Six Degrees of Celebration 5

Six Degrees of Celebration 5

2016

Producer, Director

5.2
Producing Directing

This time on New Year, the favourite heroes of “Yolki” perform the usual nonsense and hope for a miracle. Borya needs to somehow restore family happin...

Hacking Bloggers

Hacking Bloggers

2016

Producer

1.9
Producing

Popular teen video-bloggers became digital persons after being «hacked» by evil computer virus. They need to find their way back home from this «digit...

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

2016

Director

5.8
Directing

A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.

Before Love

Before Love

2016

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

Melancholy and tender reflections on solitude and misunderstandings, with a profusion of graphic detail. Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of t...

The Best Day Ever

The Best Day Ever

2015

Producer

5.2
Producing

For a successful Road Patrol Service officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his o...

I Am Dragon

I Am Dragon

2015

Producer

7.2
Producing

In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything be...

Hardcore Henry

Hardcore Henry

2015

Producer

6.4
Producing

Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army o...

Double Trouble

Double Trouble

2015

Producer

5.0
Producing

Roman runs a bachelor’s life and hosts his own radio show. As a real psychologist, he gives advices to his listeners by adding them with prickly jokes...

Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll

Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll

2014

General Manager

6.0

A funny story about the adventures of a two hairy friends familiar from the "Six Degrees of Celebration" series.

Squirrels

Squirrels

2014

Producer

Producing

When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the ...

Six Degrees of Celebration 1914

Six Degrees of Celebration 1914

2014

Director, Producer

5.7
Directing Producing

100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinar...

Fool's Day

Fool's Day

2014

Producer

5.7
Producing

Van'ka works as a doorman at the hotel. He hates its wealthy guests, but has dreams to live a luxurious life. Forced to live in a car, he's miserable....

Bitterly! 2

Bitterly! 2

2014

Producer

4.6
Producing

Hoping to break a big jackpot Natasha's stepfather does the financial gamble than substitutes his business partners. The whole family mourns Boris Iva...

Unfriended

Unfriended

2014

Producer

5.5
Producing

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first the...

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

2013

Producer

6.3
Producing

And again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year.

Bitterly!

Bitterly!

2013

Producer

5.8
Producing

Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding by the sea - but Natasha's stepfather procured a different scenario. Rough offic...

The Game of Truth

The Game of Truth

2013

Producer

6.3
Producing

Four old friends decide to have a meeting in order to discover a hidden truth about themselves. Based on Filipp Lelush play.

Gentlemen, Good Luck!‎

Gentlemen, Good Luck!‎

2012

Producer

4.0
Producing

The remake of the soviet classic with a modern setting. Troshkin, a children's party entertainer, uncannily resembles the notorious criminal "Smilik"....

The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen

2012

Producer

5.8
Producing

The Snow Queen creates a world of eternal winter, frosting human souls and emotions. When she turns Kai, the son of a wizard, into an ice statue, his ...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

2012

Director, Producer

5.8
Directing Producing

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

The Darkest Hour

The Darkest Hour

2011

Producer

5.3
Producing

In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.

Kikoriki: Team Invincible

Kikoriki: Team Invincible

2011

Producer

6.4
Producing

But the lives of the Kikoriki are suddenly turned upside-down when they stumble on a strange device they had only heard about - a TV.

Six Degrees of Celebration 2

Six Degrees of Celebration 2

2011

Producer, Writer

6.6
Producing Writing

A lot of things happened in the life of "Yolki" hepes during the last year, but here it's again - the New Year's eve...

Apollo 18

Apollo 18

2011

Producer

5.3
Producing

Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to th...

Lucky Trouble

Lucky Trouble

2011

Producer

5.9
Producing

Who said you have to win to be a champion? Slava Kolotiloff, a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of "Fingers" comes to conquer Mosc...

Six Degrees of Celebration

Six Degrees of Celebration

2010

Director, Producer

6.4
Directing Producing

A collection of several interlinked stories that happen on the New Year's eve...

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

Executive Producer

7.3
Producing

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows ...

Black Lightning

Black Lightning

2009

Producer

6.3
Producing

Black Lightning is a Russian superhero film about a Moscow University student who discovers that his otherwise unremarkable car can fly. After his fat...

9

9

2009

Producer

6.9
Producing

When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small comm...

Wanted

Wanted

2008

Director

6.5
Directing

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered...

The Irony of Fate. The Sequel

The Irony of Fate. The Sequel

2007

Director, Writer, Producer

4.8
Directing Writing Producing

Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married ...

Day Watch

Day Watch

2006

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly d...

Night Watch

Night Watch

2004

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark,...

GAZ. Russian Cars

GAZ. Russian Cars

2002

Director

Directing

The film includes only twelve incredible stories about people and their cars. These are small stories about twelve iconic models produced by the Gorky...

The Arena

The Arena

2001

Director

2.8
Directing

In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the ...

Peshawar Waltz

Peshawar Waltz

1994

Director, Writer

1.4
Directing Writing

During the Russian war with Afghanistan in the 1980s, journalist Charlie Palmer and medic Victor Davis arrive at a P.O.W. camp near the Afghanistan/Pa...

Before the Big Road to War

Before the Big Road to War

1987

Production Design

8.0

The film takes place in the pre-war years. NKVD captain Frolov is investigating a sabotage at a chemical plant. Suspicion falls on circus performer Er...

Petersburg Carousel

N/A

Director

Directing

A collection of short films focusing on different aspects of the city of St. Petersburg.

Blind Love

N/A

Producer

Producing

Some say that love is when two halves of hearts that complement each other meet. But what happens if he is a blind musician, and she is a deaf artist....

Потерянный и возвращенный мир

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

This is the real story of the Soviet lieutenant, who, after being wounded in the head during the war, lost the opportunity to realize the world around...

Он - дракон 2

N/A

Producer

Producing

2015 movie sequel

Substitution

N/A

Producer

Producing

The project of a full-length horror film based on Japanese folklore.

Погребённый

N/A

Director

Directing

Six Till Midnight

N/A

Producer

Producing

Six strangers are lured into a cryptic online game show run by the anonymous “Host” who knows their darkest secrets. If they uncover their hidden conn...