Topic: Chess

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Gunnar Björnstrand · Nils Poppe · Bibi Andersson

Plot Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow), a knight, returns from a 10-year crusade with his squire, Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand), to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. When the black-cloaked figure...

Direction Scott Frank · Allan Scott

Cast Anya Taylor-Joy · Isla Johnston · Annabeth Kelly · Bill Camp

Plot TV Miniseries. 7 one-hour episodios. Kentucky in the 50s. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game...

Direction Jan Pinkava

Plot Geri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself.

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Sanjeev Kumar · Saeed Jaffrey · Amjad Khan · Richard Attenborough

Plot Set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Lucknow, which is in his trading region, seems...

Direction Greg Kohs

Plot With simple rules but a near-infinite number of possible outcomes, the ancient Chinese board game Go has long been considered the holy grail of artificial intelligence. This documentary chronicles Google's...

Direction Boaz Yakin

Cast Sean Nelson · Giancarlo Esposito · Samuel L. Jackson · Ron Brice

Plot There's only one thing making this inner-city delivery boy's job dangerous: the merchandise. 12-year-old Fresh is a drug courier whose morning deliveries make him late for school. Luckily, he's also...

Direction Katie Dellamaggiore

Cast Rochelle Ballantyne · John Galvin · Fred Rubino · Elizabeth Vicary

Plot Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 - an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level -...

Direction Liz Garbus

Cast Bobby Fischer · Anthony Saidy · Harry Benson

Plot 'Bobby Fischer Against the World' is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable,...

Direction Àlex Lora

Cast Saravuth Inn

Plot A gambit is chess opening in which a pawn is sacrificed in order to obtain an advantageous position. Like Odysseus, Saravuth (a Cambodian kidnapped/given refuge by the U.S. in the...

Direction Steven Zaillian

Cast Max Pomeranc · Joe Mantegna · Joan Allen · Ben Kingsley

Plot Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. His father (Joe Mantegna) encourages this, hoping that it won't fundamentally change his...

Direction Vikram Jayanti

Cast Garry Kasparov · Anatoli Karpov · Joel Benjamin · Michael Greengard

Plot Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film...

Direction Atsuko Ishizuka · Takashi Ikehata · Akira Shimizu · Hideki Hosokawa

Plot TV Series (2014). 12 Episodes. Sora and Shiro, a brother and sister whose reputations as brilliant NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) hikikomori (shut-in) gamers have spawned urban legends...

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Curd Jürgens · Claire Bloom · Hansjörg Felmy · Mario Adorf

Plot In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo...

Direction James Napier Robertson

Cast Cliff Curtis · James Rolleston · Kirk Torrance · Miriama McDowell

Plot The Dark Horse is an emotionally-charged and inspiring drama about a man who searches for the courage to lead, despite his own adversities - finding purpose and hope in passing...

Direction Mira Nair

Cast Lupita Nyong'o · David Oyelowo · Madina Nalwanga · Charity Rose Pimer

Plot A young girl from Uganda trains to become a world chess champion.

Direction Benjamin Ree

Cast Magnus Carlsen · Garry Kasparov · Viswanathan Anand

Plot From child prodigy to chess genius.

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Nikolai Shpikovsky

Cast Boris Barnet · José Raúl Capablanca · Zakhar Darevsky · Konstantin Eggert

Plot The hero's (Vladimir Fogel) preoccupation with chess leads to him missing his own wedding ceremony, but the marital peace is restored with the help of the World Chess Champion, José...

Direction Alberto Lecchi

Cast Darío Grandinetti · Juan Echanove · Juan Diego · Diego Torres

Direction Caroline Bottaro

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Kevin Kline · Valerie Lagrange · Francis Renaud

Plot In a small Corsican village, Hélène leads an uneventful but contented life. In her early forties, she is happily married, has a teenage daughter and works as a chambermaid in...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Mikio Narita · Chizu Hayashi · Kaneko Iwasaki