Movies: Chess

A teenage boy's mother needs money for surgery, but she can't afford it. After he finds a poster for a chess competition with a grand prize of $10k, he enters without knowing anything about the game to win the cash prize....

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the ...

A Baker and a Train Driver meet during a festival to play a game of chess. While playing the game, both exchange ideas about Life and Death and their future destinies....

Beyond the Board draws parallels between life and chess, showing how life is like a game where every move we make can lead to a win, a loss, or a lesson. Through quiet moments and daily struggles, the film connects the strategy of the game to the cho...

A world-famous chess grandmaster is led into a game of psychological cat and mouse when he accepts a challenge from an overzealous fan....

Two retired, aging British officers meet in the club of special forces' veterans where they stress their conflicted views about WW2 in the former Yugoslavia. One of them was delegate with the Chetniks, while the other one was with partisans....

An epic battle between a knight and a pawn is about to start!... Except it doesn't, they're actually chess pieces...

Upon a stay in his grandparent's countryside house, young writer Matt begins to encounter strange happenings as he attempts to write his first novel....

Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and insightful portrait of a freely public, yet effectively anonymous, subculture: a unique and colorful ...

A surrealist retelling of Caine and Abel in a black void, where a game of chess is taking place. A boxer uses a punching bag while watching from afar....

Elliott, a lonely young man with no family, learns of a deceased grandfather he never knew. Feeling robbed of such a connection, he decides to hire an actor, Frank, to play the role of his Grandad in his daily life....

The World Chess Championship is a juicy battle, rife with passion, power and money. Boris Gelfand has spent his entire life getting ready for this moment; he was raised to become a champion since the age of six. His father devoted all his life to cul...

Andor is a young chess player, who even calls his pet turtle Kasparov. “Do you think I will succeed? - the boy asks her before the decisive tournament. "If I win, he will never come back." Who is Andor talking about and why is he either afraid of thi...

In an old library, two armies of chess pieces are about to start a war....

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Two friends steal a crystal ball in an antique store, but the owner takes cruel revenge using a magic chess set....

A stop-motion clay-animated chess game, which is about as exciting as watching… a chess game....

A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds. The man is looking for somebody who is better at playing chess than his dachshund. The gardener is looking for a mysteriou...

In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and boxing was in fact an art performance calling for more balance in a world of extremes, and the audien...

A metaphysical odyssey of the Individua members as they grapple with mysterious masked figures and the imminent waiting for them at the end of the snowy forest....