Movies: Chess

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....

Several days in the lives, and profiles of, the owners and players of the open air street chess tables in downtown San Francisco. An informative and insightful portrait of a freely public, yet effectively anonymous, subculture: a unique and colorful ...

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess....

Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament....

Two men and their charming friendship....

Documentary about an unlikely youth chess team from Indianapolis who went on surprise the chess world with their success. The team, made up of young African Americans with no previous experience and led by their devoted teacher, went on to win the Un...

Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja and they have a son. Their marriage is weak and Branko feels much closer to his mistress than to his wife. One day Kralj and Visnja travel on a half e...

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally created as an assignment for Werner Herzog's online class on film making (one room, two actors, one ...

Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess....

Selected for the Cannes 2012 Short Film Corner. A man is standing in the middle of a river when he receives a phone call asking about his current whereabouts, and so we see the preceding moments explaining how he got there and why, all played fully i...

Two friends steal a crystal ball in an antique store, but the owner takes cruel revenge using a magic chess set....

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the ...

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Edgar finds himself in the middle of a cafe robbery, but little by little he discovers that there is more to it than meets the eye....

Two adversaries partake in an ancient game, a battle of epic proportions....

When a young man finds himself in an unexpected battle he needs to act fast in order to save what he loves....

A stop-motion clay-animated chess game, which is about as exciting as watching… a chess game....

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Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

Upon a stay in his grandparent's countryside house, young writer Matt begins to encounter strange happenings as he attempts to write his first novel....