Blade Runner (1982), Stairway to Heaven - A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Shine (1996), King of Hearts (1966), Queen of Katwe (2016), The Judge (2014), 13 Hours (2016), The Death of Stalin (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Playing Chess movies.
Storyline: In the 21st century, a corporation develops human clones to be used as slaves in colonies outside the Earth, identified as replicants. In 2019, a former police officer is hired to hunt down a fugitive group of clones living undercover in Los Angeles.
Plot Keywords: tech noir, police detective, cyberpunk, neo noir, megacorporation, existentialism, artificial intelligence ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A British airman escapes death by mistake and resists the messenger who keeps summoning him to the beyond.
Plot Keywords: world war two, brain surgery, alternate world, falling in love, post world war two, royal air force, heaven ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions.
Plot Keywords: piano, pianist, australia, rain, one word title, 1950s, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German Army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans, and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts". Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to leave, and frolic about the streets in gay costumes.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: insanity, drawing, monkey, playing chess, pigeon, singing, dancing ...
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: based on true story, chess, child protagonist, poverty, title directed by female, f rated, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and defend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family.
Plot Keywords: courtroom, dysfunctional family, trial, lawyer, judge, father son estrangement, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to the area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals. The only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors.
Plot Keywords: based on true story, heroism, based on book, city name in title, death of friend, american abroad, year 2012 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage. Inevitably, when his body is discovered the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic spreads like a virus among the senior members of the Council of Ministers as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power. But in the middle of a gut-wrenching roller-coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?
Plot Keywords: satire, black comedy, soviet union, russia, year 1953, moscow russia, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When art student Ben Willis breaks up with his girlfriend Suzy, he develops chronic insomnia after finding out how quickly she moved on. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own 'art' in dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben's art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it - especially Sharon, the pretty and quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben's insomnia.
Plot Keywords: female full frontal nudity, female rear nudity, female nudity, female pubic hair, female frontal nudity, vulva, labia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: based on play, fake identity, radio announcer, husband wife relationship, corpse, tape recorder, finding a dead body ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine. As Stevenson continues his ...
Plot Keywords: time machine, based on novel, london england, san francisco california, altering history, culture clash, bank ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Plot Keywords: male police officer, gunshot, shooting, death by gunshot, death by shooting, death, boy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their ...
Plot Keywords: trailer trash, alien invasion, alien contact, 1990s, alien technology, despair, exotic dancer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This fictional story is set in 13th century medieval India. a Princess of Sinhala(modern-day Sri Lanka) called Padmavati falls in love with already married Maharawal Ratan Singh, King of Chittor. Upon their marriage, Padmavati is crowned queen, taking the place of wife of Ratan Singh and they reside together in joy and splendor. Their perfect life takes an unfortunate turn when a banished royal priest Chetan convinces Sultan of Delhi Allauddin Khilji to attack Chittor and capture Padmavati for her beauty and luck she could bring him. Sultan Allaudin Khilji, convinced by the priest and driven by desire of ultimate power, prepares to attack Chittorgarh.
Plot Keywords: one word title, fire, sword, playing chess, army, elephant, blood ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the shy and reclusive Christian loses his job, he starts to work for a wholesale market. Bruno from the Beverage aisle takes him under his wing and quickly becomes a fatherly friend to him. He shows him the ropes and patiently teaches him how to operate the fork lift. In the aisles he meets "Sweets"-Marion. He is instantly smitten by her mysterious charm. The coffee machine becomes their regular meeting point and the two start to get to know each other. But Marion is married and Christian's feelings for her seem to remain unrequited, especially when Marion does not return to work one day. Christian slowly becomes a member of the wholesale market family and his days of driving fork lifts and stacking shelves mean much more to him than meets the eye.—Beta Film GmbH
Plot Keywords: playing chess, christmas, fish, jigsaw puzzle, taking a bath, ex convict, suicide ...
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