Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "chess-the-game"

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

PG | 152 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris

Votes: 857,428 | Gross: $317.58M

2. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,551,241 | Gross: $130.74M

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Votes: 720,731 | Gross: $56.95M

4. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 467,662 | Gross: $13.78M

5. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron

Votes: 25,007

6. The French Dispatch (2021)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux

Votes: 150,995

7. Morgan (2016)

R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.

Director: Luke Scott | Stars: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Michael Yare

Votes: 46,160 | Gross: $3.91M

8. Surviving the Game (1994)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey

Votes: 13,250 | Gross: $7.73M

9. Tolkien (2019)

PG-13 | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Tolkien's novels were inspired by his mom's storytelling, falling in love with another orphan, Edith, forming a brotherhood with 3 other misfits at school, the trench war of WWI and later telling stories to his own kids.

Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 46,714 | Gross: $4.54M

10. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston

Votes: 28,145

11. Riders of Justice (2020)

Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann

Votes: 63,819

12. Gretel & Hansel (2020)

PG-13 | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw

Votes: 34,114 | Gross: $15.35M

13. The Last Castle (2001)

R | 131 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.

Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Burton

Votes: 85,378 | Gross: $18.21M

14. Stalag 17 (1953)

Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, War

After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss

Votes: 58,868

15. Ship of Fools (1965)

Not Rated | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin

Votes: 6,970

16. Becket (1964)

PG-13 | 148 min | Biography, Drama, History

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.

Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi

Votes: 15,878

17. Lost Horizon (1937)

Approved | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard

Votes: 14,474

18. The Black Cat (1934)

Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Horror, Romance

American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop

Votes: 13,016 | Gross: $0.51M

19. Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.

Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper

Votes: 2,621

20. The Paradine Case (1947)

Approved | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn

Votes: 12,408

21. Lady in Cement (1968)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) finds a woman's body with her feet encased in a concrete block and sets out to solve the murder case.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel

Votes: 2,830

22. Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Thriller, War

UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.

Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: Nigel Lindsay, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 6,042

23. Anastasia (1956)

Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 9,333

24. For Sama (2019)

TV-PG | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, War

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

Directors: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Stars: Waad Al-Kateab, Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Afra

Votes: 12,837 | Gross: $0.04M

25. Algiers (1938)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 3,250

26. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp

Votes: 6,171

27. Absolution (1978)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Two boys try to drive a strict priest mad with their confessed sins at a boarding school in England.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly

Votes: 1,903

28. The Crusades (1935)

Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History

King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 1,293

29. Far From the Tree (V) (2017)

Unrated | 93 min | Documentary

Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.

Directors: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron | Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick, Emily Perl Kingsley

Votes: 642 | Gross: $0.16M

30. Trio (1950)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Harold French | Stars: James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer, Lana Morris

Votes: 905

31. The Strange One (1957)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Students faced with an ethical dilemma about the dehumanization associated with the tradition of hazing, at a military college in the Southern United States, take matters in their own hands.

Director: Jack Garfein | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman, Arthur Storch

Votes: 1,366

32. Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.

Director: Michael Petroni | Stars: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Curtin, Frank Gallacher

Votes: 2,481 | Gross: $0.12M

33. A Way of Life (2022)

27 min | Action, Thriller

After living underground for 100 years, Margaret begins to act up as she is introduced to caregivers who she isn't familiar with.

Stars: Russell Barth, Steve Kasan, Michael Lake, Gracie Mack

34. At Land (1944)

15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.

Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman

Votes: 3,352

35. Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947)

Passed | 56 min | Western

The ranch of Red Ryder and his aunt, The Duchess, is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 75

36. California Gold Rush (1946)

Passed | 56 min | Western

A crooked businessman and his hired outlaws frequently rob Colonel Parker's stagecoaches but The Duchess sends for Red Ryder to assist in catching the gang red-handed.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Bill Elliott, Robert Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart

Votes: 65

37. Yhden yön hinta (1952)

80 min | Crime, Drama

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Sasu Haapanen, Joel Rinne, Eila Peitsalo, Rauha Rentola

Votes: 64

38. The Last Checkmate (2014)

26 min | Short, Drama

A chamber piece about a piece with one in the chamber.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Bob Elkins, Ernie Rowland

39. Certain (2021)

4 min | Short

Caught in an eternal game of chess, 'H' and 'W' muse over whether or not there is validity in playing something else. They are forced to question the intentions of their partner.

Director: Iman Amini | Stars: Zoe Dunay, Aris Federman

Votes: 9

40. Good Sportsmanship (2008)

3 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A chess game gone horribly wrong teaches valuable life lessons.

Director: Evan Pulgino | Star: Jeremy Smith