Timur Bekmambetov

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Timur Bekmambetov

Born June 25, 1961 · Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan] (age 65)

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 entirel…

Known For

War of the WorldsWar of the Worlds · 2025
War of the Worlds
★ 4.02025
MovieScience FictionThriller
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world.
Persian LessonsPersian Lessons · 2020
Persian Lessons
★ 7.62020
MovieWarDrama
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 swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
MissingMissing · 2023
Missing
★ 7.42023
MovieDramaMystery
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
MercyMercy · 2026
Mercy
★ 7.12026
MovieScience FictionThriller
In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
Hardcore HenryHardcore Henry · 2015
Hardcore Henry
★ 6.42015
MovieActionAdventure
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 of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.
The Current WarThe Current War · 2018
The Current War
★ 6.72018
MovieDramaHistory
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
WantedWanted · 2008
Wanted
★ 6.52008
MovieActionThriller
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 father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter · 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
★ 5.82012
MovieActionFantasy
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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