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1. Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 49,306 | Gross: $2.44M
2. Queen of Katwe (2016)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Kabanza
Votes: 18,694 | Gross: $8.81M
3. Knight Moves (1992)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During a chess tournament, grand master Peter is suspected of murdering Debi after sex. He helps the police as the murders continue.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Tom Skerritt, Codie Lucas Wilbee, Joshua Murray
Votes: 9,170 | Gross: $0.92M
4. Critical Thinking (2020)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
Director: John Leguizamo | Stars: John Leguizamo, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams, Corwin C. Tuggles
Votes: 2,752
5. The Dark Horse (2014)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Director: James Napier Robertson | Stars: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, James Napier Robertson
Votes: 6,586 | Gross: $0.06M
6. Chempion mira (2021)
145 min | Drama, History, Sport
In 1978, young ambitious Soviet chess champion Anatoly Karpov must defend his title against a former mentor and defector to the West Viktor Korchnoi. Their face-off becomes the most dramatic championship match in chess history.
Director: Aleksey Sidorov | Stars: Ivan Yankovskiy, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Fyodor Dobronravov
Votes: 722
7. Dangerous Moves (1984)
100 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Director: Richard Dembo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron
Votes: 1,489
8. Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)
TV-14 | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
'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, ... See full summary »
Director: Liz Garbus | Stars: Bobby Fischer, David Edmonds, Anthony Saidy, Susan Polgar
Votes: 7,403
9. Computer Chess (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
A 1980s-set story centered around a man vs. machine chess tournament.
Director: Andrew Bujalski | Stars: Kriss Schludermann, Tom Fletcher, Wiley Wiggins, Patrick Riester
Votes: 4,851 | Gross: $0.10M
10. Daddy or Mommy (2015)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Florence and Vincent Leroy are successful in business, marriage, and children. Today they want to succeed in getting a divorce.
Director: Martin Bourboulon | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Marina Foïs, Alexandre Desrousseaux, Anna Lemarchand
Votes: 4,822
11. Queen to Play (2009)
Unrated | 101 min | Drama
A chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l'Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.
Director: Caroline Bottaro | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Francis Renaud, Jennifer Beals
Votes: 3,191 | Gross: $0.48M
12. Lang leve de koningin (1995)
118 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
Director: Esmé Lammers | Stars: Maya van den Broecke, Lisa de Rooy, Cas Enklaar, Derek de Lint
Votes: 1,264
13. Chess (2003 Video)
127 min | Musical
The Soviet chess player Anatolij meets the American chess player Freddie in Italy where a grand chess championship is held. There, their pasts and love affairs starts to affect the competition, forcing them to face their inner feelings.
Director: Lars Rudolfsson | Stars: Tommy Körberg, Helen Sjöholm, Anders Ekborg, Josefin Nilsson
Votes: 177
14. The Tournament (2015)
83 min | Drama, Sport
Budapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-... See full summary »
Director: Élodie Namer | Stars: Michelangelo Passaniti, Lou de Laâge, Magne-Håvard Brekke, Viktoria Kozlova
Votes: 500
15. Knights of the South Bronx (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Director: Allen Hughes | Stars: Ted Danson, Malcolm David Kelley, Brian Markinson, Kate Vernon
Votes: 1,118
16. Hatley High (2003)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Tommy Linklater is an eighteen-year old magician. The magic he performs is often minor - re-directing croquet balls, making cards appear in closed purses - it is always genuine; he actually... See full summary »
Director: Phil Price | Stars: Nicolas Wright, Rachelle Lefevre, Nwamiko Madden, James A. Woods
Votes: 464
17. Júpiter (2022)
99 min | Drama
Mario is a private detective going through a mid-life crisis. When he finds out that he has a 17-year-old son from an extramarital relationship, his life changes drastically. Trying ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Abujamra | Stars: Orã Figueiredo, Bruce Gomlevsky, Mauricio Piancó, Marcelo Rodrigues
Votes: 59
18. Hide and Seek (1964)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Cambridge astrophysicist on routine business in London finds it frustratingly difficult to return a wallet of money to an Eastern European friend, a task complicated by a puzzling if scatterbrained society girl.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Curd Jürgens, Janet Munro, George Pravda
Votes: 195
19. Son of Cain (2013)
90 min | Thriller
A wealthy Spanish family whose teenage son is very troubled, they hire a psychologist to help him, but nothing is what it seems like in the beginning.
Director: Jesús Monllaó | Stars: Julio Manrique, Jose Coronado, David Solans, Maria Molins
Votes: 857
20. Murray Head: One Night in Bangkok (1985 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Murray Head performs in the music video "One Night in Bangkok" from the album "Chess" recorded for RCA Records. The video begins with an animated chessboard breaking down. It features ... See full summary »
Director: David G. Hillier | Star: Murray Head
Votes: 154
21. Chess Fever (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his ... See full summary »
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi | Stars: José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan
Votes: 1,478
22. Bullet (2023)
70 min | Thriller
Thirty-two chess players are invited to an elite secret tournament where the ultimate prize has the potential to change their lives forever. Yet with each round, a lethal dose of deadly consequences unexpectedly escalates the stakes.
Director: Alexander Kane | Stars: JRMichael, Matt Gulbranson, Chaz Riddle, Renee Gelinas
Votes: 7
23. The Mighty Pawns (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 57 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Caring and tough: That's how you could describe the principal, teacher, and parent who combined their efforts to transform a struggling bunch of misfits, otherwise known as D Class, into a united team of national chess contenders.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Paul Winfield, Alfonso Ribeiro, Terence Knox, Rosalind Cash
Votes: 55
24. The Chess Game (1994)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.
Director: Yves Hanchar | Stars: Olivier Maes, Pierre Richard, Christian Maillet, Yves Hanchar
Votes: 255
25. Salah (I) (2021)
2 min | Short, Comedy
Pierre and Salah, from opposing social backgrounds, play a game of chess. Only, certain injustices will have repercussions on the game.
Directors: Maxime Sibué, Eliot Vincent | Stars: Eliot Vincent, Luca Colucci, Aliette Dussine, Cricknowle
26. Chess Kids: Special Edition (2011)
Unrated | 81 min | Documentary
Follow-up interviews with the original child chess prodigies, nearly 20 years later.
Director: Lynn Hamrick | Stars: Bruce Pandolfini, Morgan Pehme, Judit Polgár, Josh Waitzkin
Votes: 31
27. All the Right Moves (2015)
Documentary
Chess enthusiasts and the worlds leading grand masters battle it out to win this one of a kind open chess tournament in Gibraltar.
Director: Armand Attard | Stars: Stuart Conquest, Irina Krush, Dominic Lawson, Hikaru Nakamura
28. Checkmate (IV) (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Guy Ali, betrayed by his wife and business partner, returns from prison to find that his sister has fallen behind on the home mortgage and faces foreclosure. Motivated by a ten million ... See full summary »
Directors: Ross Lee, Brian Michaels, Kewin Muhammad, Mary Redmon | Stars: Kewin Muhammad, Terence V. Steele, Herrari Hamilton, B. Breezy
29. Chess Grandmaster Rates 7 Chess Scenes in Movies and TV (2021 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar reacts to seven memorable movie and TV scenes featuring chess games and rates them based on their technical accuracy. She looks at various scenes from "The ... See full summary »
Star: Susan Polgar
31. Karpov igrayet s Karpovym (1980)
48 min | Documentary
An interview documentary about the world chess champion Anatoliy Karpov. The film tells about the social activities of Karpov, his scientific work and hobbies, about the preparation for the... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Semenyuk | Stars: Anatoli Karpov, Mikhail Botvinnik, Leonid Brezhnev, Semyon Furman
32.
The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode:
Dekalog, jeden
(1989)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama
A woman worries about her nephew's spiritual education, whose life and his father's are run on their home computer.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska, Artur Barcis
Votes: 7,548
33.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The End
(1998)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A government assassin is caught trying to kill child chess prodigy Gibson Praise during an international chess tournament. Mulder's old flame Agent Diana Fowley arrives to help on the case but Scully is suspicious of her.
Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Nicholas Lea
Votes: 3,852
34.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode:
Exchanges
(2020)
TV-MA | 65 min | Drama
Suddenly plunged into a confusing new life in suburbia, teenage Beth studies her high school classmates and hatches a plan to enter a chess tournament.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Moses Ingram
Votes: 11,532
35.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode:
Doubled Pawns
(2020)
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama
The trip to Cincinnati launches Beth and her mother into a whirlwind of travel and press coverage. Beth sets her sights on the U.S. open in Las Vegas.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Votes: 10,457
36.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode:
Middle Game
(2020)
TV-MA | 49 min | Drama
Russian class opens the door to a new social scene. In Mexico City, Beth meets the intimidating Borgov, while her mother cozies up with a pen pal.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Isla Johnston
Votes: 10,141
37.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode:
Fork
(2020)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama
Back home in Kentucky, a shaken Beth reconnects with a former opponent who offers to help sharpen her game ahead of the U.S. Championship.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Harry Melling
Votes: 9,829
38.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode:
Adjournment
(2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
After training with Benny in New York, Beth heads to Paris for her rematch with Borgov. But a wild night sends her into a self-destructive spiral.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling
Votes: 9,907
39.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Episode:
End Game
(2020)
TV-MA | 68 min | Drama
A visit from an old friend forces Beth to reckon with her past and rethink her priorities, just in time for the biggest match of her life.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Votes: 13,423
40.
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010–2012)
Episode:
Checkmate
(2010)
TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A genius chess player gets his hands on the book and forms a bizarre cult in the chessnasium, convinced that Todd is the Pure Evil One come to bring about the apocalypse. The cult tries to lure Todd into a trap to destroy him.
Director: James Genn | Stars: Alex House, Maggie Castle, Bill Turnbull, Melanie Leishman
Votes: 82
41.
Leverage (2008–2012)
Episode:
The Queen's Gambit Job
(2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sterling asks Nate to steal a nuclear reactor component which someone intends to use to produce uranium which will then be sold to terrorists. Nate thinks Sterling is holding something back... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf
Votes: 630
42.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
CWSA 05/03/24
(2024 Podcast Episode)
News
Scott joins Matt Walsh in going hard against the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, while puzzling out what Marxists want, praising Chris Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz, mocking "menopause brain," and more.
Star: Scott Adams
43.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Killer Moves
(2014)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
CSI searches for a killer whose victims and locations resemble moves on a chess board, and Greg is forced to turn to an old mentor to search for clues about the next victims.
Director: Alec Smight | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox
Votes: 396
44.
Myyntimies Jethro (2014)
Episode:
Shakkimestari Jethro
(2014)
60 min | Reality-TV
Director: Sanna-Sisko Tohka | Stars: Jethro Rostedt, Heikki Hilander, Ali Jahangiri, Mikko Kouki
45.
Gotham (2014–2019)
Episode:
Heroes Rise: How the Riddler Got His Name
(2017)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ed finally gets Penguin to pay for his terrible actions, then finds himself with a new dilemma regarding which path to take.
Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Morena Baccarin
Votes: 2,193
46.
This Is Us (2016–2022)
Episode:
I Call Marriage
(2017)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jack and Rebecca receive shocking news, Randall feels pressure both at work and at home, Kate's plans are thrown off kilter, and Kevin tries to win over Sophie.
Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz
Votes: 2,538