Chess Movies

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 i...

Four blind Indian boys compete to become chess masters.

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

At a local chess tournament, estranged brothers Edward and Oliver Abbott reunite after many years apart, harbouring ill will and eagerness to win.

A chess game between two brothers gets ugly.

In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and b...

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

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

When a beautiful stranger enters the cafe, two men decide to battle it out on a chessboard in order to decide who gets to approach her.

Two men and their charming friendship.

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in a heat...

A guy plays a chess match with his opponent, not realising the only person he's competing with is himself

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.

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

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 A...

A boy plays a game of chess by himself but after looking away for a moment he realizes the pieces on the board have begun to move by themselves.

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...