Chess movies documentaries and series

Un uomo cerca risposte sulla vita, la morte e l'esistenza di Dio, giocando a scacchi contro la Morte durante la Peste Nera.

Wazed Ali Shah era il sovrano di uno degli ultimi regni indipendenti dell'India. Gli inglesi tramavano un piano per un'annessione. Intanto i nobili Mir e Mirza trascorrevano le loro giornate giocando interminabili partite a scacchi.

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.

CheckMating is a romantic comedy about a woman who tests her dates by playing games of chess with them.

Goren finds himself matching wits with a paranoid chess master suspected of murdering a young woman in town to visit her fiancée.

Fascinating story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.

The girls are collecting clothes for East Priest Aid. Harmsen really appreciates this help from the East, after all, isn't that where the greatest chess masters come from?

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

Durante un torneo di scacchi, il gran maestro Peter è sospettato di aver ucciso Debi dopo aver avuto un rapporto con lei. Collabora con la polizia mentre gli omicidi continuano.

'GB' lives his life according to logic. He tells the story of how he became the best chess player in the world.

Bobby Fischer, un americano prodigio degli scacchi, si ritrova in mezzo a due superpotenze mentre sfida l'impero sovietico sullo sfondo della Guerra fredda.

Anche se Frasier insiste che è l'unico a essere cortese con tutti, finisce per perdere le staffe quando a Cafè Nervosa un cliente gli ruba il posto al tavolino.

The IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.

Richie and Eddie are depressed when their TV set is taken away when they fail to pay the rent and cannot think of anything to keep themselves occupied. Richie decides to challenge Eddie at playing some games, including "How much custard can you put in your underpants" and chess. Richie and Eddie decide to play chess by using various items in the house to replace the missing pieces.

Una cameriera in Corsica è ossessionata dalla partita a scacchi dopo aver visto un espatriato americano giocarci di maniera adorabile e intelligente. Pulisce la sua casa e ora gioca e impara nuove strategie con lui ogni martedì.

'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.

An ordinary chess game between a man and a woman turns into a battle of the sexes.

A bio about the life of Bobby Fischer.

Geri organizza una partita a scacchi contro il suo più grande avversario, sè stesso.

A psychic and a cop track a serial killer who is copying a killer who just got executed.

Un prodigio degli scacchi in età prepuberale rifiuta di indurirsi per diventare un campione come il famoso ma improbabile Bobby Fischer.

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.

Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Germans kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly, advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks, or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.

Aaron Carlson doesn't have the grades, the money, or the connections to realize his dreams of law school. But finally a judge offers him an opportunity: win a chess tournament and win admission to law school.