Chess Movies

A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds. The man...

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

A young man prefers to play chess rather than taking a swim. Only by moonlight does he go for a swim alone. Or so he thinks.

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...

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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.

When a beautiful stranger enters the cafe, two men decide to battle it out on a chessboard in order to decide who gets to approach her.

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...

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...

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

Two retired, aging British officers meet in the club of special forces' veterans where they stress their conflicted views about WW2 in the former...

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...

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

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others,...

A chess game between two brothers gets ugly.

An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was...

A documentary about the top Dutch chess players of 1979

In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and...

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,...