Chess Movies

Based on a chess set made of ivory, which came to the Habsburg court in Vienna from China, thoughts of Confucius, taken from the Book of Lun-Yü,...

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

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in...

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

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.

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

International crooks Sylvia, Roy and 'Count Donelli' come to America and cooperate to rob wealthy homes by using a gimmick known as a chess-playing...

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

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...

"The Candidate" is a sports drama about a university chess player (Taishan) defending his spot in the team against a higher rated junior opponent...

In an alternate reality where the decline of nations has given rise to corporatist regimes, any trace of culture or tradition is suppressed by these...

A young chess prodigy is drawn into a dangerous underground circuit where every move carries life-or-death consequences.

Selected for the Cannes 2012 Short Film Corner. A man is standing in the middle of a river when he receives a phone call asking about his current...

Bagus (10) felt disappointed when his friends left him while playing. His sad feelings changed when he met the village head who invited him to play...

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.

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...

Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.