Movies: Chess

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 chess champion and a poker hustler find themselves in a battle of wits after discovering a box full of money in a dumpster....

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Two chess champions have a secret match to decide once and for all which of them is the better player....

A delusional young boy explains a day in his life and his passion for Chess....

He wears a red beret to make it easy for folks to find him on a busy New Orleans French Quarter street, where he's set up a folding table and a couple of chessboards since 1981. He takes on all comers for $5 a game. He's probably the most famous ches...

In the gripping drama "God Help Us", a desperate man stands on the edge of self-destruction caught in a supernatural game of life and death. An Angel and a Demon engage in an otherworldly game of chess to determine the man's fate. Tension rises as th...

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally created as an assignment for Werner Herzog's online class on film making (one room, two actors, one ...

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....

A documentary about the top Dutch chess players of 1979...

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

An intense chess match between two men who become increasingly judgmental on the inside....

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

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

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A Grim Reaper forms an unlikely friendship with a young girl....

Martin wants to reconcile with his son Lucas, however, Lucas blames his father for the accidental death of his mother Julia. The reunion unleashes a tense exploration of their emotions and wounds that have yet to heal....

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