Chess Movies

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.

A documentary about the top Dutch chess players of 1979

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 chess game between two brothers gets ugly.

In the backdrop of a receding summer, with the aid of some brilliant chess moves, the life of a woman and the different men in her lives take centre...

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

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

It would be chess that brought nightmares and hell to a dreamlike, fairy-tale universe. Chess was trying to manipulate the universe and humanity. It...

Charismatic compulsive gambler Dima, having racked up debts, returns home and faces unpredictable consequences.

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

An unusual game of chess between two rivals.

In the streets of Hanoi, the fiercest battles are fought neither with weapons nor in the shadows, but in broad daylight. Here, gray-haired...

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

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