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The Seventh Seal(1957)

NR
| 1h 36min | Fantasy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,365 votes)

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, ...
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Pawn Sacrifice(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Thriller, Drama
3.4/5 (with 397 votes)

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Liev Schreiber, Lily Rabe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaardd, Tobey Maguire, Robin Weigert, ...
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Checkmates(2024)

1h 39min | Comedy

Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.

Searching for Bobby Fischer(1993)

PG
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 238 votes)

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Directed by Steven Zaillian - With Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Stephens, ...
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Mistress America(2015)

R
| 1h 24min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 232 votes)

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes.

Directed by Noah Bauman - With Greta Gerwig, Michael Chernus, Cindy Cheung, Kathryn Erbe, Clare Foley, Rebecca Naomi Jones, ...
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Stalag 17(1953)

NR
| 2h | Comedy, Thriller, War
3.9/5 (with 241 votes)

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Sig Ruman, Robert Strauss, Peter Graves, ...
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Queen of Katwe(2016)

PG
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 188 votes)

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga, Ntare Mwine, Maurice Kirya, Charity Rose Pimer, ...
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Geri's Game(1997)

G
| 4min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 517 votes)

An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just when the game's nearly over, Geri manages to turn the tables.

Directed by Jan Pinkava
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Saturn 3(1980)

R
| 1h 35min | Science Fiction, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 77 votes)

In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.

Directed by Stanley Donen - With Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
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The Coldest Game(2019)

1h 43min | Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 137 votes)

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

Directed by Łukasz Kośmicki - With Bill Pullman, Lotte Verbeek, Robert Więckiewicz, Aleksei Serebryakov, Corey Johnson, Nicholas Farrell, ...
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Night Moves(1975)

R
| 1h 40min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.3/5 (with 122 votes)

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

Directed by Arthur Penn - With Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith, John Crawford, Harris Yulin, ...
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3 Godfathers(1948)

NR
| 1h 46min | Western
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, Jane Darwell, ...
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Chess Story(2021)

1h 52min | History, Drama, War, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

Directed by Philipp Stölzl - With Oliver Masucci, Birgit Minichmayr, Albrecht Schuch, Moritz von Treuenfels, Carl Achleitner, Clemens Berndorff, ...

All the Pretty Horses(2000)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.0/5 (with 92 votes)

The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lured south of the border by the romance of cowboy life and the promise of a fresh start, Cole and his pal embark on an adventure that will test their resilience, define their maturity, and change their lives forever.

Directed by Billy Bob Thornton - With Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Penélope Cruz, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Lucas Black, ...
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Knight Moves(1992)

R
| 1h 56min | Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 89 votes)

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

Directed by Carl Schenkel - With Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin, Katharine Isabelle, Arthur Brauss, ...

Fresh(1994)

R
| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 86 votes)

Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his employers against each other.

Directed by Boaz Yakin - With Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, José Zúñiga
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Europa(1991)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 123 votes)

Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life intersects with the dark and violent path of a mysterious organization opposed to the United States army military occupation.

Directed by Lars von Trier - With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Eddie Constantine, Erik Mørk, ...

Creating The Queen's Gambit(2021)

14min | Documentary, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 42 votes)

A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.

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The Luzhin Defence(2000)

1h 49min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.

Directed by Marleen Gorris - With Emily Watson, John Turturro, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson, Christopher Thompson, Luigi Petrucci, ...

Critical Thinking(2020)

1h 57min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.

Directed by John Leguizamo

Wazir(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 43min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.3/5 (with 53 votes)

'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.

Directed by Bejoy Nambiar - With Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Manav Kaul, Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, ...
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The Chessplayer(2017)

1h 38min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.

Directed by Luis Oliveros

A Little Game(2014)

PG
| 1h 32min | Kids & Family, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.

Directed by Evan Oppenheimer

Night of the Demon(1980)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror
2.3/5 (with 23 votes)

A professor and his students have a grisly encounter with a sasquatchlike creature that prowls the backwoods.

Directed by James C. Wasson - With Joy Allen
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The Dark Horse(2014)

2h 4min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 55 votes)

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

Directed by James Napier Robertson - With Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston
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The Chess Players(1977)

2h 9min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

It is the year 1856. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the king of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British colonialists, intent on controlling this rich land, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either—Court nobles Mir and Mirza, ignoring the situation of their country and all their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless games of chess. The film is based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.

Directed by Satyajit Ray - With Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Richard Attenborough, Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee, ...
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The World Champion(2021)

2h 25min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

Directed by Aleksey Sidorov - With Ivan Yankovsky, Konstantin Khabensky, Fyodor Dobronravov, Larisa Shakhvorostova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Viktor Sukhorukov, ...

Queen to Play(2009)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Hélène, a housekeeper at a ritzy hotel in Corsica, is devoted to her family but lacks any passion in her own life. When she sees a handsome couple play a passionate game of chess, she becomes inspired to play herself. Hélène's working-class husband and spoiled daughter are soon bewildered by her obsession with chess. They also grow suspicious of Hélène's close relationship with Dr. Kröger, her eccentric American expat tutor.

Directed by Caroline Bottaro - With Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Alexandra Gentil, Alice Pol, Élisabeth Vitali, Francis Renaud, ...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass(1998)

1h 23min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, TV Movie
2.7/5 (with 26 votes)

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.

Directed by John Henderson - With Kate Beckinsale
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The Double 0 Kid(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Action
2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

Lance, a teenager, dreams to be a secret agent when he is suddenly in the middle of an hacker intrigue which aims at an international environmental congress. Lance gets in possession of a computer access card one of which the hackers are in urgent need of for their operation. Lance begins to play with the hackers, seeing his dream come true.

Directed by Dee McLachlan - With Corey Haim, Nicole Eggert, John Rhys-Davies, Brigitte Nielsen, Wallace Shawn, Karen Black, ...
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