Chess Movies

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...

A Baker and a Train Driver meet during a festival to play a game of chess. While playing the game, both exchange ideas about Life and Death and their...

A documentary about the top Dutch chess players of 1979

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

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.

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...

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,...

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

A chess game between two brothers gets ugly.

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

What starts as a friendly chess game, quickly progresses into a full blown conflict.

Four blind Indian boys compete to become chess masters.

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,...

As death appears at an old man's door, the man has a simple request; One last game of chess.

A boy plays a game of chess by himself but after looking away for a moment he realizes the pieces on the board have begun to move by themselves.

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

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

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...