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- DirectorBenjamin ReeStarsMagnus CarlsenGarry KasparovViswanathan AnandMagnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
- DirectorAndrew BujalskiStarsKriss SchludermannTom FletcherWiley WigginsA 1980s-set story centered around a man vs. machine chess tournament.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
- DirectorAlexander Armas Kereklidis TurpinStarsSergey KarjakinRuslan PonomariovTatyana KarjakinaWe follow Crimean born chess prodigy Sergey Karjakin on his quest for the world championship title and the struggles of being in the middle of the political conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
- DirectorAleksey SidorovStarsIvan YankovskiyKonstantin KhabenskiyVladimir VdovichenkovIn 1978, young ambitious Soviet chess champion Anatoly Karpov must defend his title against a former mentor and defector to the West Viktor Korchnoi. Their face-off becomes the most dramatic championship match in chess history.
- DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsOliver MasucciDieter BernhardtElias GabeleTo withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
- CreatorScott FrankAllan ScottStarsAnya Taylor-JoyChloe PirrieBill CampOrphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.
- DirectorJohn LeguizamoStarsJohn LeguizamoRachel Bay JonesMichael Kenneth WilliamsThe true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
- DirectorPierre-François Martin-LavalStarsAssad AhmedGérard DepardieuMizanur RahamanThe story of Fahim Mohammad, world junior chess champion, born in Bangladesh in 2000, and currently playing in France.
- DirectorLukasz KosmickiStarsBill PullmanLotte VerbeekJames BloorDuring 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.
- DirectorAlan ByronStarsMichael AdamsMuhammad AliViswanathan AnandFascinating 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.
- DirectorLuis OliverosStarsMarc ClotetMelina MatthewsAlejo SaurasLeaping from Spain's civil war to German occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison in Paris.
- DirectorAlexander Armas Kereklidis TurpinStarsSergey KarjakinRuslan PonomariovTatyana KarjakinaWe follow Crimean born chess prodigy Sergey Karjakin on his quest for the world championship title and the struggles of being in the middle of the political conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
- DirectorBenjamin ReeStarsMagnus CarlsenGarry KasparovViswanathan AnandMagnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.
- DirectorMira NairStarsMadina NalwangaDavid OyelowoLupita Nyong'oA Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
- DirectorArmand AttardStarsStuart ConquestIrina KrushDominic LawsonChess enthusiasts and the worlds leading grand masters battle it out to win this one of a kind open chess tournament in Gibraltar.
- DirectorÉlodie NamerStarsMichelangelo PassanitiLou de LaâgeMagne-Håvard BrekkeBudapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.
- DirectorCarmen MarrónStarsDimitri AgadoCassie BrennanIvan CisnerosHD. A troubled middle-school boy from a poor Texas border town finds himself through his school's chess team.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsTobey MaguireLiev SchreiberPeter SarsgaardSet during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
- DirectorJordan GoldnadelStarsMicheal DeacutisLew GardnerKelley J. JacksonLeonard, a shy and troubled young boy raised in a Antisemitic family in New York, meets a mysterious old chess player in a park, who will teach him a great lesson.
- CreatorAvrum JacobsonStarsShawn DoylePatrick GallagherKatharine IsabelleThe death of his fiancee has left chess master Arkady Balagan agoraphobic and unwilling to step outside of his hotel. This debilitation, however, doesn't stop him from solving difficult crimes.
- DirectorFriðrik GuðmundssonDocumentary about Bobby Fischer's last years as his old friend Saemundur Palsson gets him out of jail in Japan and helps him settle in Iceland.
- DirectorAdam TraynorStarsChilly GonzalesTiga SontagPeachesHershell and Thadeus, two chess-playing brothers and their unhealthy rivalry over both the chessboard and a woman. Hershell is a chess purist, the prodigal son, Thadeus a disciplined, ruthless competitor. After 4 nomadic years in Europe, in quixotic pursuit of 'Jazz Chess' (chess for chess' sake, no winner, no loser, only beautiful positions), Hershell returns home.
- DirectorCaroline BottaroStarsSandrine BonnaireKevin KlineFrancis RenaudA chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l'Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.
- DirectorDamian ChapaStarsDamian ChapaHedo DavisChristine ManoukianA bio about the life of Bobby Fischer.