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- DirectorBenjamin ReeStarsMagnus CarlsenGarry KasparovViswanathan AnandMagnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
- DirectorAlan ByronStarsMichael AdamsMuhammad AliViswanathan AnandFascinating story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsJohn TurturroEmily WatsonGeraldine JamesTwo worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
- DirectorAllen HughesStarsTed DansonMalcolm David KelleyBrian MarkinsonA business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
- DirectorVikram JayantiStarsMarc GhannoumJoel BenjaminMichael GreengardIn 1997, chess champion Garry Kasparov goes head-to-head against IBM's computer, Deep Blue, and accuses IBM of cheating its way to victory. Interviews with Kasparov, his manager and members of the Deep Blue team illuminate the controversy.
- DirectorJake GoldbergerStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Dennis HaysbertGeorge DickEx-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
- DirectorJames Napier RobertsonStarsCliff CurtisJames RollestonKirk TorranceA brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
- DirectorMira NairStarsMadina NalwangaDavid OyelowoLupita Nyong'oA Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
- DirectorAlf KjellinStarsPeter GravesMartin LandauBarbara BainThe IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.
- StarsEduard Punset
- DirectorCaroline BottaroStarsSandrine BonnaireKevin KlineFrancis RenaudA chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l'Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsBobby FischerDavid EdmondsAnthony Saidy'Bobby Fischer Against the World' is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th century.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsTobey MaguireLiev SchreiberPeter SarsgaardSet during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
- DirectorLuis OliverosStarsMarc ClotetMelina MatthewsAlejo SaurasLeaping from Spain's civil war to German occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison in Paris.
- DirectorLars RudolfssonStarsTommy KörbergHelen SjöholmAnders EkborgThe Soviet chess player Anatolij meets the American chess player Freddie in Italy where a grand chess championship is held. There, their pasts and love affairs starts to affect the competition, forcing them to face their inner feelings.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMykola ShpykovskyiStarsJosé Raúl CapablancaVladimir FogelAnna ZemtsovaWith an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsBruno GanzGila von WeitershausenLjuba TadicA scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that capitalism is preferable to socialism.
- DirectorJesús MonllaóStarsJulio ManriqueJose CoronadoDavid SolansA wealthy Spanish family whose teenage son is very troubled, they hire a psychologist to help him, but nothing is what it seems like in the beginning.
- DirectorJan PinkavaStarsBob PetersonGeri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself.
- DirectorBoaz YakinStarsSean NelsonGiancarlo EspositoSamuel L. JacksonDeath and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.
- CreatorAvrum JacobsonStarsShawn DoylePatrick GallagherKatharine IsabelleThe death of his fiancee has left chess master Arkady Balagan agoraphobic and unwilling to step outside of his hotel. This debilitation, however, doesn't stop him from solving difficult crimes.
- DirectorCarl SchenkelStarsChristopher LambertTom SkerrittCodie Lucas WilbeeDuring a chess tournament, grand master Peter is suspected of murdering Debi after sex. He helps the police as the murders continue.
- DirectorJim McBrideStarsKate BeckinsaleJohn WoodSinéad CusackWhile restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess, Julia discovers the text "Who killed the knight?" underneath the paint. The painting's owner tells her that one of his forefathers was killed and the painting might identify the murderer. When Julia's friend is killed, she understands that there is more to it. She consults Domenec, a chess genius who reconstructs the game from the painting. With any piece he takes, somebody dies.
- DirectorKatie DellamaggioreStarsJe'Daiah BallantyneMichelle BallantyneRochelle BallantyneAmidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team.
- DirectorÉric TessierStarsMarc-André GrondinNormand D'AmourSonia Vachon5150 ELM'S WAY is located at end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick fell off his bike.
- DirectorEsmé LammersStarsMaya van den BroeckeLisa de RooyCas EnklaarA fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
- DirectorAdam TraynorStarsChilly GonzalesTiga SontagPeachesHershell and Thadeus, two chess-playing brothers and their unhealthy rivalry over both the chessboard and a woman. Hershell is a chess purist, the prodigal son, Thadeus a disciplined, ruthless competitor. After 4 nomadic years in Europe, in quixotic pursuit of 'Jazz Chess' (chess for chess' sake, no winner, no loser, only beautiful positions), Hershell returns home.
- DirectorShea SizemoreStarsTony BookerBryan GuidrozHolly MurphyA Chess Player is about what happens when you put all of yourself into one thing and when that one thing is taken away. Who are you... And also about fathers and sons and the redemption that can be found at the end of very toxic relationships. Why Chess... Chess is a game that goes hand in hand with the stereotype about people being obsessed. When telling a story about someone who's entire identity is wrapped up in something, the stereotype fills in all the gaps. Also, it's such an internal game. It demands dark brooding moments that really supports the tone and visuals we were going for.
- DirectorJordan GoldnadelStarsMicheal DeacutisLew GardnerKelley J. JacksonLeonard, a shy and troubled young boy raised in a Antisemitic family in New York, meets a mysterious old chess player in a park, who will teach him a great lesson.
- DirectorMaximilian von VierStarsDavid CaronChristopher Dane1944 Britain, the most brilliant chess player of his time is held captive by the Secret Intelligence Service, on suspicion of detaining secret strategic information about the Allies' Normandy landing. Unwilling to confess, chess genius A. W. McKinloch is held captive by other chess player Colonel Ramsay, who offers him a year-long chess challenge to regain his freedom or confess his involvement in strategic counter-intelligences activities. As time passes and the chess duel goes on, McKinloch's strength slowly turns against him, putting at risk his own sanity as well as the political future of Western Europe.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsCurd JürgensClaire BloomHansjörg FelmyIn 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsMaximilian SchellSamantha EggarIngrid ThulinIn Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
- DirectorJean CocteauHans RichterStarsJean ArpPaul BowlesCeal BrysonIt is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. Partly Sigmund Freud, partly Lewis Carroll.
- DirectorAndrew BujalskiStarsKriss SchludermannTom FletcherWiley WigginsA 1980s-set story centered around a man vs. machine chess tournament.
- DirectorAlexander Armas Kereklidis TurpinStarsSergey KarjakinRuslan PonomariovTatyana KarjakinaWe follow Crimean born chess prodigy Sergey Karjakin on his quest for the world championship title and the struggles of being in the middle of the political conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
- DirectorÉlodie NamerStarsMichelangelo PassanitiLou de LaâgeMagne-Håvard BrekkeBudapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.
- DirectorYuri VyshinskyStarsAleksandr MikhaylovVladimir SamoylovYuriy KayurovIn the center of the story is the fate of the fourth world chess champion Aleksandr Alyokhin in one of the most tragic periods of his life: from 1927 to 1946, that is, from winning the champion title to death. A great chess player, completely fearless at the chessboard and ready to play against any opponent, in real life turns out to be too indecisive and fights with himself, his own fears, prejudices and environmental pressure with varying degrees of success.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsTony ShalhoubTraylor HowardJason Gray-StanfordBrilliant chess grandmaster Patrick Kloster's wife Linda Kloster goes to Monk saying that her husband is planning to murder her, and she wants him caught posthumously.
- DirectorYves HancharStarsOlivier MaesPierre RichardChristian MailletIn 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.
- DirectorRichard DemboStarsMichel PiccoliAlexandre ArbattLiv UllmannDuring the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.