Chess Movies

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.

Zur Zeit des Kalten Kriegs findet sich der junge Bobby Fischer, das größte Schachtalent der Vereinigten Staaten, zwischen den Fronten zweier Supermächte und seinem eigenen Widerstand gegen das Sowjetische Imperium.

Ein präpubertäres Schachwunderkind weigert sich, so hart wie der berühmte Schachspieler Bobby Fischer zu spielen.

Tod und Gewalt verärgern einen zwölfjährigen Drogenkurier, der seine Arbeitgeber gegeneinander aufbringt.

'Bobby Fischer Against the World' is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th century.

1997 tritt der Schachweltmeister Garry Kasparov gegen den IBM-Computer Deep Blue an und beschuldigt IBM, sich den Sieg erschlichen zu haben.

In 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.

A chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l'Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.

The Soviet chess player Anatolij meets the American chess player Freddie in Italy where a grand chess championship is held. There, their pasts and love affairs starts to affect the competition, forcing them to face their inner feelings.

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.

In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.

Budapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.

Caring and tough: That's how you could describe the principal, teacher, and parent who combined their efforts to transform a struggling bunch of misfits, otherwise known as D Class, into a united team of national chess contenders.

Während eines Schachturniers wird Großmeister Peter verdächtigt, Debi nach dem Sex ermordet zu haben. Er hilft der Polizei, während die Morde weitergehen.

In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.

Ein Mann sucht nach Antworten auf Fragen zu Leben, Tod und der Existenz Gottes, als er während der Pest eine Partie Schach gegen den Sensenmann spielt.

Follow-up interviews with the original child chess prodigies, nearly 20 years later.

Chess Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov is a highly talented and unusual person, living in the 1970s Soviet Union. His is obsessed with making a beautiful game. But his emotional and irrational way is the reason why he never won a major competition. At last his moment comes and he wins the Tournament of Contenders for the World Championship. Next he has to play against the World Champion...

Südafrika 1985. Nur mit brutaler Polizeigewalt kann die rassistische weiße Regierung des Landes die Unruhen der schwarzen Bevölkerungsmehrheit unterdrücken.

Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.

A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition?

Eine junge Historikerin untersucht ein Gemälde, welches angeblich den entscheidenden Hinweis zu einem Mord von vor 500 Jahren liefern könnte. Während der Untersuchung kommt es allerdings zu weiteren, ähnlichen Morden.

Tracy war unschuldig, verliebt und schwanger von dem Sohn einer wohlhabenden Familie. Sie wird für ein Verbrechen, das sie nicht begangen hat, ins Gefängnis gesteckt.

Eine junge stumme Frau erwartet ein Baby. Ihr Mann schreibt zur gleichen Zeit an einem Roman und nutzt die Dorfbewohner der kleinen Insel als seine Figuren. Im kreativen Prozess sind Realität und Vorstellung ständig miteinander verwoben.

A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.