Chess Movies

When a young man finds himself in an unexpected battle he needs to act fast in order to save what he loves.

Martin wants to reconcile with his son Lucas, however, Lucas blames his father for the accidental death of his mother Julia. The reunion unleashes a...

Two retired, aging British officers meet in the club of special forces' veterans where they stress their conflicted views about WW2 in the former...

Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.

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 an old library, two armies of chess pieces are about to start a war.

Selected for the Cannes 2012 Short Film Corner. A man is standing in the middle of a river when he receives a phone call asking about his current...

Edgar finds himself in the middle of a cafe robbery, but little by little he discovers that there is more to it than meets the eye.

A young chess player earns a rare chance to face a Grandmaster—but when the match ends, the day starts over. Trapped in a relentless time...

A surrealist retelling of Caine and Abel in a black void, where a game of chess is taking place. A boxer uses a punching bag while watching from afar.

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A metaphysical odyssey of the Individua members as they grapple with mysterious masked figures and the imminent waiting for them at the end of the...

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,...

A stop-motion clay-animated chess game, which is about as exciting as watching… a chess game.

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...

Completely risographed frame by frame, ‘Hnefi’ portrays the story of a king trapped in the cyclical nature of war and life.

In the early 1980s, CHESS was poised to be the next big thing. It was a collaboration between two of the world’s most famous pop icons, a...