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Timur Bekmambetov

5 films · 2004 to 2026
Born 25 June 1961, Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]

Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004), the action thriller Wanted (2008), and the historical horror film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), as well as for the screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018), and War of the Worlds (2025).

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Timur Bekmambetov

Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Films

Wanted
Wanted
2008
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur
2016
Night Watch
Night Watch
2004
Mercy
Mercy
2026

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