Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003), The Dark Horse (2014), Queen of Katwe (2016), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Queen to Play (2009), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Dangerous Moves (1985), Critical Thinking (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chess movies.
Storyline: This documentary focuses on the match between chess champion Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, an IBM computer designed to play the game at the highest level. In the years prior to the 1997 match, Kasparov was known as the best talent in chess history, but he grows agitated when Deep Blue opens the contest by playing better than expected. Kasparov argues that IBM is somehow cheating to better its chances of victory, and his contention casts a shadow over the match's dramatic finale.
Plot Keywords: chess player, computer, computer programmer, champion, prodigy, fascinating, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Plot Keywords: maori, chess grandmaster, chess player, teenager, intense, emotional, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Living in Katwe, a slum in Kampala, Uganda, is a constant struggle for 10-year-old Phiona, her mother Nakku Harriet and younger members of her family. She and her younger brother help their mother sell maize in the market. She also helps care for her baby brother. Her world changes one day when she meets Robert Katende at a missionary program. Katende coaches soccer and teaches children to play chess at a local center. Curious, Phiona approaches and learns the game. She becomes fascinated with it and soon becomes a top player in the group under Katende's guidance..
Plot Keywords: young girl, missionary, chess player, parent, rival, chess grandmaster, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in New York City, he quickly makes friends with a hustler named Vinnie who teaches him speed chess. Josh's parents hire a renowned chess coach, Bruce, who teaches Josh the usefulness of measured planning. Along the way Josh becomes tired of Bruce's system and chess in general and purposely throws a match, leaving the prospects of winning a national championship in serious jeopardy.
Plot Keywords: coach, chess player, father, heartwarming, engaging, inspiring, positive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A chambermaid (Sandrine Bonnaire) begs a reclusive employer (Kevin Kline) to teach her chess, then discovers that she has a real talent for the game.
Plot Keywords: housekeeper, doctor, chess player, husband, daughter, expatriate, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Plot Keywords: chess player, prodigy, young man, chess grandmaster, russian, government official, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two masters of chess duel each other not only in their game but also in their different ideologies. The veteran Akiva is a Soviet Jew and ferocious Communist, master of his game but also dealing with a declining health while the young and restless genius Pavius has defected to the West to escape from the Communism tentacles. Their differences will be put to test while they're both competing in the World Chess Championship, with a huge prize at stake just as much as the political ideologies behind those characters.—Rodrigo Amaro
Plot Keywords: chess player, protégé, wife, hypnotist, defector, government official, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miami - 1998. Poverty, broken families, and a prejudiced system push underprivileged youth to the fringes of society. But for a magnetic group of teens, there's a reprieve. A game where it's not about where you come from, but how you play. That equalizer is chess. Mr. "T" Martinez, a chess militant and passionate coach, leads them to a completely foreign field of battle.
Plot Keywords: teacher, student, friend, drug dealer, parent, african-american, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ignored by the rich kids at her new school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10-year-old girl finds an unlikely friend in the form of a feisty chess master, who uses the game to teach her about life.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young girl, rich kid, chess grandmaster, chess player, amusing, charming, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Cisco Kid and Pancho hold up a stagecoach and kidnap Ellen Roth. They take the girl, who is wanted on a murder charge, to the mission where Padre Angelo will look after her. She tells Cisco of a mysterious Doctor Willis who called on an aged woman she had been nursing and gave her an overdose of sleeping pills. Convinced that Ellen is innocent, Cisco sets out to prove it. He goes to Bill Hastings where he makes a deal to turn Ellen in if Cisco gets part of the money Hastings will inherit when she is convicted. With Ellen safely in jail, Cisco and Pancho force the local newspaper to run a story saying that Doc Willis has been apprehended. Hastings makes another deal with Cisco to kill Ellen before she testifies against Doc.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: charlie chan, daughter, chess player, fiancé, son, chauffeur, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: serial killer, chess grandmaster, police detective, psychologist, girlfriend, eerie, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Lewis Carroll's classic novel about a girl's adventures in a magical place called Wonderland.
Plot Keywords: alice, girl, white rabbit, amusing, dark, wonderland, book ...
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