Chess Movies

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A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds. The man...

A young man prefers to play chess rather than taking a swim. Only by moonlight does he go for a swim alone. Or so he thinks.

A Baker and a Train Driver meet during a festival to play a game of chess. While playing the game, both exchange ideas about Life and Death and their...

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...

Seymour Tahirbekov is an international chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan. Having won the Candidates Tournament, Seymour earns the right to challenge...

A surrealist retelling of Caine and Abel in a black void, where a game of chess is taking place. A boxer uses a punching bag while watching from afar.

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany...

A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Based on a novel by the Austrian writer...

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental...

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...

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist...

Based on the game of Chess that delves into the conflicts and confrontations of people between the rich and poor class and high and low strata of...

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.

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with...

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

A boy plays a chess game against an unknown opponent that gets stranger as he goes on.

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

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