Direction: Timur Bekmambetov

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Wanted

2008 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast James McAvoy · Angelina Jolie · Morgan Freeman · Terence Stamp

Synopsis Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. 25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. Until he met a woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie). After...

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5.4

36K votes

5.4

36K votes

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Konstantin Khabenskiy · Elizaveta Boyarskaya · Sergey Bezrukov · Yuriy Yakovlev

Synopsis It's been thirty years since the New Year's Eve when Zhenya Lukashin (Andrei Miagkov) met his Nadya (Barbara Brylska). Time hasn't been kind to them - they broke up, she went back to Leningrad. Old friends are faithful to the...

5.1

32 votes

5.1

32 votes

Ben-Hur

2016 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Jack Huston · Toby Kebbell · Morgan Freeman · Rodrigo Santoro

Synopsis The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption.

4.8

5K votes

4.8

5K votes

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Night Watch

2004 · Movie · 114 min. · Russia

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Konstantin Khabenskiy · Vladimir Menshov · Valeri Zolotukhin · Mariya Poroshina

Synopsis For as long as humanity has existed, there have been "Others" among us; Witches, Vampires and Shape–Shifters who are soldiers in the eternal war between Light and Dark. Over 1000–years ago a truce was struck between the side, and they...

4.6

24K votes

4.6

24K votes

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

2012 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Benjamin Walker · Mary Elizabeth Winstead · Dominic Cooper · Rufus Sewell

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

4.2

12K votes

4.2

12K votes

Day Watch

2006 · Movie · 140 min. · Russia

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Konstantin Khabenskiy · Aleksey Chadov · Yuriy Kutsenko · Igor Lifanov

Synopsis Day Watch (Russian: Dnevnoi Dozor), a Russian fantasy action blockbuster marketed as "the first film of the year", opened in theatres across Russia on January 1, 2006. It is a sequel to the 2004 film "Night Watch", featuring the same...

4.2

4K votes

4.2

4K votes

The Arena

2001 · Movie · 92 min. · Russia

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Karen McDougal · Lisa Dergan · Olga Sutulova · Yuliya Chicherina

Synopsis 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 cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - glorified in the deadly...

3.2

32 votes

3.2

32 votes

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Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Synopsis Shot in ScreenLife, exclusively from the point of view of the smartphone screen, the Snap Original horror series “Dead of Night” follows a teenage girl who must escape a quarantined city full of zombies, armed with only her phone.

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Khodzha Nasreddin

2024 · Movie · Kazakhstan

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Synopsis 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, cannot raise his head, but meeting with Khodzha will turn his world upside down.

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Yolki 1914

2014 · Movie · 106 min. · Russia

Direction Timur Bekmambetov · Yuriy Bykov · Aleksandr Karpilovskiy · Dmitry Kiselev

Cast Leonid Arkhangelskiy · Dato Bakhtadze · Anton Bogdanov · Ivan Bred

Synopsis A collection of several interlinked stories that happen on the New Year's eve on 1914.

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Mercy

2025 · Movie · United States

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Chris Pratt · Rebecca Ferguson · Annabelle Wallis · Kali Reis

Synopsis After being accused of a crime, a detective must prove his innocence.

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Peshavar Waltz

1994 · Movie · 86 min. · Russia

Direction Timur Bekmambetov · Gennadi Kayumov

Cast Barry Kushner · Viktor Verzhbitskiy · Aleksey Shemes

Synopsis Peshawar Waltz (Peshavarskiy val's), also known as Escape from Afghanistan is a 1994 Russian action film directed and written by Timur Bekmambetov. The film is a compelling depiction of war in Afghanistan, based on actual events: the uprising of Soviet...

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Profile

2018 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Valene Kane · Shazad Latif · Christine Adams · Amir Rahimzadeh

Synopsis British journalist goes undercover and infiltrates the digital propaganda channels of the called Islamic State, which has been mobilizing ever greater numbers of woman from Europe. Her daily internet contacts with an ISIS recruiter gradually pull her in and push...

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V2. Escape from Hell

2021 · Movie · 118 min. · Russia

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Pavel Priluchnyy · Pavel Chinaryov · Aleksey Filimonov · Timofey Tribuntsev

Synopsis A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft and then suffers from communist crimes.

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