The Seventh Seal (1957), Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003), The Dark Horse (2014), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Queen of Katwe (2016), Magnus (2016), Queen to Play (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chess movies.
Storyline: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Plot Keywords: existential, philosophical, medieval, death, religion, faith, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: documentary, artificial intelligence, psychological warfare, historical event, chess, man vs machine, technology ethics ...
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: biography, drama, true story, new zealand film, inspirational, social issues, mental health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With Dr. John Watson about to marry and end their partnership, a disconsolate Sherlock Holmes occupies his time investigating the schemes of his archenemy, Professor James Moriarty. However, when Moriarty warns that he considers the Watsons a legitimate target for his retaliation against the detective, Holmes must save them and get John involved in one last case. To do so, they join the Roma lady Madam Simza Heron's quest to find her missing brother, Renee, who may be the key to defeating Moriarty. Together, the trio find themselves involved in a dangerous international conspiracy led by the Napoleon of Crime in which the fate of all of Europe hangs in the balance.
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, action, adventure, crime, british, victorian era ...
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: father-son relationship, competition, coming of age, education, pressure, talent, mentor ...
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: biography, sports, inspirational, true story, africa, female protagonist, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
Plot Keywords: documentary, norway, coming of age, biography, competition, psychological warfare, sports ...
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: drama, comedy, french film, female lead, coming of age, midlife crisis, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, action, revenge, police, conspiracy ...
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: biography, history, drama, thriller, psychological, cold war, genius ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, inspirational, based on true story, education, social issues, poverty ...
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: cold war, psychological warfare, soviet union, champion, politics, espionage, betrayal ...
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: biography, drama, true story, education, inspirational, teacher, students ...
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: thriller, mystery, crime, psychological, murder, detective, serial killer ...
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