Chess Movies

  • 1961
    2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

    2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

    2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

    6.71961HD

    2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...

    2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
  • 1985
    Die Grünstein-Variante

    Die Grünstein-Variante

    Die Grünstein-Variante

    81985HD

    The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with...

    Die Grünstein-Variante
  • 1958
    China Doll

    China Doll

    China Doll

    6.81958HD

    American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely...

    China Doll
  • 2009
    Queen to Play

    Queen to Play

    Queen to Play

    6.62009HD

    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...

    Queen to Play
  • 2015
    Sucker

    Sucker

    Sucker

    5.32015HD

    When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the...

    Sucker
  • 1980
    Night of the Demon

    Night of the Demon

    Night of the Demon

    4.8361980HD

    An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even...

    Night of the Demon
  • 2015
    Mistress America

    Mistress America

    Mistress America

    6.52015HD

    A college freshman cures her disappointment and loneliness by allowing herself to be pulled into the wacky schemes of her future stepsister.

    Mistress America
  • 1967
    Checkmate!

    Checkmate!

    Checkmate!

    71967HD

    Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo,...

    Checkmate!
  • 2004
    The King Hunt

    The King Hunt

    The King Hunt

    02004HD

    A world-famous chess grandmaster is led into a game of psychological cat and mouse when he accepts a challenge from an overzealous fan.

    The King Hunt
  • 2022
    Two Knights

    Two Knights

    Two Knights

    02022HD

    After being separated for millennia, Lucifer invites Archangel Michael to a seemingly innocent game of chess, which becomes a deeply personal...

    Two Knights
  • 2020
    Critical Thinking

    Critical Thinking

    Critical Thinking

    6.5692020HD

    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...

    Critical Thinking
  • 2023
    WAR IS OVER!

    WAR IS OVER!

    WAR IS OVER!

    6.42023HD

    Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic...

    WAR IS OVER!
  • 2000
    The Luzhin Defence

    The Luzhin Defence

    The Luzhin Defence

    6.22000HD

    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.

    The Luzhin Defence
  • 2018
    Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

    Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

    Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin

    8.72018HD

    The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector,...

    Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin
  • 1994
    Fresh

    Fresh

    Fresh

    7.21994HD

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

    Fresh
  • 2017
    The Chess Player

    The Chess Player

    The Chess Player

    6.32017HD

    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...

    The Chess Player
  • 2023
    Mastergame

    Mastergame

    Mastergame

    8.62023HD

    A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Based on a novel by the Austrian writer...

    Mastergame
  • 1984
    Dangerous Moves

    Dangerous Moves

    Dangerous Moves

    5.81984HD

    During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.

    Dangerous Moves
  • 1993
    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    7.11993HD

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

    Searching for Bobby Fischer
  • 1966
    Rondo

    Rondo

    Rondo

    61966HD

    Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with...

    Rondo