Movies: Chess

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 ...

In a game of Chess, a Knight and a Queen of opposing sides show that, with love, any move is possible....

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....

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...

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

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

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

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...

An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was able to transform a little unknown slum in the outskirts of Kampala, into an internationally recogni...

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

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....

Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess....

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...

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A boy plays a chess game against an unknown opponent that gets stranger as he goes on....

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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....

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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....

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