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fuboTV
82
7.3
/45609/
73
/1177/
70
/620/
3.6
/33234/
98
/44/
85
/753/
89
/23/
cc age 8+

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
poster
The Roku Channel
78
7.4
/6826/
71
/258/
63
/144/
3.8
/3061/
97
/65/
82
/71/
77
/20/
cc age 15+

The Dark Horse (2014)
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
poster
Hoopla
77
7.4
/3735/
72
/149/
70
/77/
3.7
/8170/
96
/89/
85
/21/
73
/18/

Filmworker (2018)
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
poster
FXNow
76
7.1
/165172/
70
/5851/
70
/2887/
3.7
/936358/
75
/320/
76
/313/
75
/57/
cc age 15+

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.5
/3077/
72
/247/
66
/51/
3.2
/3065/
97
/34/
89
/19/
65
/9/
cc age 14+

Critical Thinking (2020)
Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.
poster
77
73
7.4
/7589/
74
/232/
68
/123/
3.7
/4306/
88
/51/
86
/130/
76
/12/

Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)
The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
poster
Kanopy
71
6.9
/3432/
70
/63/
66
/73/
3.3
/706/
70
/40/
72
/72/
70
/17/

Queen to Play (2009)
Hélène, a housekeeper at a ritzy hotel in Corsica, is devoted to her family but lacks any passion in her own life. When she sees a handsome couple play a passionate game of chess, she becomes inspired to play herself. Hélène's working-class husband and spoiled daughter are soon bewildered by her obsession with chess. They also grow suspicious of Hélène's close relationship with Dr. Kröger, her eccentric American expat tutor.
poster
Hoopla
78
67
7.5
/4369/
72
/54/
70
/50/
3.8
/5186/
91
/11/
85
/52/

The Chess Players (1977)
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess.
poster
Kanopy
65
7.0
/53745/
69
/2197/
67
/1035/
3.3
/43149/
73
/119/
66
/347/
65
/29/
cc age 13+

Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
poster
63
6.8
/5013/
65
/52/
61
/43/
3.2
/984/
58
/73/
69
/54/
64
/26/

The Luzhin Defence (2000)
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
poster
Kanopy
80
60
7.4
/1691/
69
/31/
72
/59/
4.1
/5135/
96
/24/
85
/16/
87
/7/

Out 1 (1990)
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
poster
73
60
7.5
/3755/
70
/69/
75
/58/
3.7
/5219/
74
/53/

Cash on Demand (1961)
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.
poster
58
6.2
/13189/
64
/767/
62
/320/
2.8
/6132/
48
/42/
cc age 16+

The Coldest Game (2019)
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
poster
79
58
8.3
/3747/
79
/47/
72
/24/
3.7
/702/
88
/32/
88
/43/
69
/15/

The Other Dream Team (2012)
The incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and – with help from the Grateful Dead – triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
poster
65
55
6.5
/3830/
65
/115/
64
/125/
3.3
/2378/
66
/75/

5150 Elm's Way (2009)
Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.
poster
74
48
8.0
/2599/
78
/27/
80
/23/
3.8
/1768/
60

The High schoolers (1986)
The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.
poster
62
44
6.7
/2771/
62
/34/
61
/44/
3.3
/1374/
58
/182/

Cornered (1945)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
poster
51
43
5.3
/1638/
57
/373/
53
/205/
2.2
/9981/

3 Days Max (2023)
The Grandmother of Ryane was kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and he has three days max to free her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
37
6.6
/1657/
63
/29/
58
/40/
3.4
/876/
67
/6/
67
/15/

Dangerous Moves (1984)
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
poster
Kanopy
66
35
7.1
/1574/
66
/33/
63
/50/
3.7
/2480/
58
/1/

Chess Fever (1925)
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.
poster
MGM Plus
67
32
7.0
/1432/
66
/21/
61
/31/
3.4
/650/
71
/29/

Return from the Ashes (1965)
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
poster
74
27
7.4
/631/
73
/34/
76
/25/
3.8
/844/

The Black Cannon Incident (1985)
A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.
poster
Kanopy
40
25
4.7
/1965/
50
/49/
50
/52/
2.7
/936/
25
/12/
16
/90/

Trapped Ashes (2006)
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
poster
70
24
7.3
/1373/
70
/55/
69
/20/
3.6
/688/
69
/5/

Long Live the Queen (1995)
A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
poster
Hoopla
58
13
6.0
/679/
71
/18/
68
/5/
3.2
/332/
27
/41/

China Doll (1958)
American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.
poster
Plex
45
13
4.5
/491/
35
/16/
42
/13/
2.9
/824/

Double Target (1987)
After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Bob Hope Special (1972)
A Bob Hope television special including guests David Cassidy, Mark Spitz, and The Carpenters.
poster
?
9.4
/37/

Chess History (2011)
Depicts how Bobby Fischer tortuously considers his next move-hands gripping his head and eyes fastened to the board-as his 1972 World Chess Championship opponent, Boris Spassky, looks on.
poster
?
6.9
/19/
40
/2/
77
/3/

A Requiem For Bobby Fischer (2010)
Documentary film about a chess legend Bobby Fischer through the eyes of his Serbian friends, chess opponents and acquaintances.
poster
?
10
/1/

Ten Minutes (1974)
N/A
poster
?
6.8
/23/
23
/3/
60
/1/

Královská hra (1981)
Television play
poster
?
6.4
/62/
47
/4/
60
/1/

The Mighty Pawns (1987)
Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.
poster
?
6.5
/31/
80
/2/

Rich Hall's Red Menace (2019)
2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the USSR in his inimitable fashion.
poster
The Roku Channel
66
?
7.1
/23/
65
/14/
58
/5/
3.5
/401/

El Che (2017)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figure in Cuba's political history.
poster
61
?
6.4
/198/
60
/1/

On the Sunny Side (1942)
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
5.4
/93/
50
/1/
30
/3/

Fighting Mad (1939)
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canada where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly, of the Canadian Mounties, rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan, sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.
poster
57
?
6.1
/481/
40
/1/
54
/5/

Symphony of Six Million (1932)
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
poster
61
?
7.1
/360/
50
/1/
64
/9/

The Chess Player (1927)
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.
poster
47
?
6.1
/476/
41
/8/
42
/5/
45
/3/

Hatley High (2003)
The Canadian teen comedy Hatley High sends up high school sports rituals by placing a most unlikely competitive game at the center of its story: that of chess. Tommy (Nicholas Wright) is a new arrival in his parents' hometown of Hatley, whose mother recently died. He discovers, after the fact, that his mom was once a chess pro and thus a legend in the community. Tommy's chess-fixated peers accept him almost instantly, inferring that he must have inherited his dear mother's skills, but in time Tommy carves out a niche for himself independently of his mom's legacy, and strikes up an enduring romance with Hyacinthe (Rachelle Lefevre) a "chess cheerleader." Two fictional British filmmakers "frame" the tale by filming it for a documentary that they are producing, and thus provide witty, ongoing narration.


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