The Seventh Seal (1957)
CHESS IN MOVIES
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The Parent Trap (1961)
Blade Runner
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Edit:
It looks like someone beat you to it... there are quite a few listed here:
http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/chmovies.html
Casablanca
A Matter of Life and Death (excellent flick)
The Luzhin Defense (all about chess)
We had a thread just like this but not lately.
Can't believe none of u has mentioned "The Thomas Crown Affair" !!!!! - the original - with Steve McQueen an' Faye Dunaway - jeez u makes me feel old 
Here's a free movie for everyone, it's a old Russian movie and stars one of the chessplayers of their day, he's shown at 17 seconds. You'd recognize him!
http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=3727820471573567512&q=chess#
I was trying to remember if the new Sherlock Holmes Movie had chess in it. Does anyone remember?
Well, I got my answer. This is the master Chess Movie List. It's sorta from EightEyes, but that was an old list. This one is updated to 2008 and includes 1700 of them, still created by billwall : CHESS-MOVIES.
I went to Bill Wall's list of over 1700 movies with Chess in them, and it's really uhm...well, I guess it emphasizes quantity over quality. Anyway, I picked out recent movies that actually have chess being played in them, about 200. So the reason is just if you want a movie and have to vote in your family, the most recent ones can scoot by, but the older ones will prolly get voted down. So I'll post the list, maybe in bits, cause I don't know if Chess has a limit on words in your post type of thign.
Just ignore any wierd computer gibberish type stuff cause I can't get rid of it and keep the list looking right.
update: I figured out how to get rid of ti finally cause it looked like too much of SPAM.
- 21 Grams (2003) - Sean Penn plays computer chess
- Aalavandhan (2001) (Abhay) - psychopath Abhay Kmar (Kamal Hassan) is a chess player
- Age Old Friends (1989) - Cooper (Hume Cronyn) plays chess with Aylott (Vincent Gardenia)
- Agon (2003) - two players playing chess
- Aladdin (1992) - Genie (voice by Robin Williams) loses a chess game to the magic carpet
- Alice in Storageland (2004) - chess guy 1 (Charlie Paine) plays chess guy 2 (Charles Francis Xavier)
- All The Pretty Horses (2000) - John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) playing Luisa (Angelina Torres) chess
- American Prince: The John F. Kennedy, Jr. Story (2003) - chess play in Central Park
- Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992) - Rusty (Damon Martin) plays chess with Iris Wheeler (Nita Talbot)
- Anastasia (1997) - Dimitri (voice of John Cusack) and Vladimir (voice of Kelsey Grammer) play chess (animated)
- Anatomie (Anatomy) 2 (2003) - Jo Hauser (Barnaby Metscharut) playing chess
- And the Sea Will Tell (1991) - Mac Graham (James Brolin) plays chess
- Android Affair (1995) - android plays chess
- Angels (1991) - two recent dead guys playing chess
- Angels Don't Sleep Here (2001) - Mayor Harry Porter (Roy Scheider) plays chess
- Angus (1995) - Ivan (George C Scott) and Angus Bethune (Charlie Talbert) play chess in a park
- Annie (1981) - bodyguards Asp (Roger Minami) and Punjab (Geoffrey Holder) playing chess
- Apollo 11 (1996) - chess in Mission Control
- Assassins (1995) - Robert Rath (Sylvestor Stallone) plays chess
- Austin Powers II - The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - Austin Powers (Mike Myers) playing Ivana Humpalot (Kristen Johnsen)
- Awakenings (1990) - chess being played in a mental ward
- Babette's Feast (1987) - two soldiers play chess
- Back Against the Wall (2000) - Levey (Martin Shannon) plays chess with Ed (Ernie Frantz)
- Back to the Future III (1990) - Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) plays chess with a dog
- Bad Company (2002) - Kevin Pope (Chris Rock), chess hustler Jake Hayes (Chris Rock) and Gaylord Oaks (Anthony Hopkins) play chess
- Beast, The (1988) - Samad (Erick Avari) and Koverchenko (Jason Patrick) play chess
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Gaston (voice of Richard White) plays chess with a townsman
- Bedazzled (2000) - the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) plays and angel (Gabriel Casseus)
- Bicentennial Man (1999) - Richard Martin (Sam Neill) plays chess with his wife (Wendy Crewson)
- Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) - chess being played in heaven
- Black Cat White Cat (1999) - man playing a chess game
- Black Hawk Down (2001) - several chess scenes
- Black Knight (2001) - Lord Percival (Vincent Regan) and Jamal Walker (Martin Lawrence) play chess
- Black Mask, The (1989) - Simon (Jet Li) plays chess with Rock (Matt McKenzie)
- Black Roses (1989) - Matthew Moorhouse (John Martin) plays chess with another teacher
- Blue Steel (1990) - chess being played in a park
- Bobby (2006) - Anthony Hopkins plays chess with Harry Belafonte
- Body, The (2000) - two players playing chess in Jerusalem
- Bodyguard, The (1992) - Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) plays chess with his dad (Ralph Waite)
- Boguljubov Blunders (1972) - animated cartoon
- Bone Collector, The (1999) - Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) plays computer chess
- Bourne Identity, The (2002) - Matt Damon; chess set on the ship
- Bullets Over Broadway (1994) - chess being played in front of a cafe
- Burning Secret (Brennendes Geheimmis) (1988) - several chess scenes; magnetic chess; outdoor chess in the snow
- Buvos Vadasz (Magic Hunter) (1994) - Max (Gary Kemp) is assigned to protect Maxim (Alexander Kaidanovsky), a chess master
- By the Sea (2004) - Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) playing chess
- Canadian Bacon (1995) - Stu Smiley (Kevin Pollak) plays chess with R.J. Hacker (G.D. Spradlin)
- Catherine the Great (2005) - chess scenes with Emily Bruni and Dan Badarau
- Cellblock Sisters (1995) - April (Annie Wood) plays chess in a prison yard
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) - Alex (Lucy Liu) beating a kid (Joshua Miller) at chess
- Chess Kids (1996) - 1990 World Youth Chess Championship documentary in Wisconsin
- Chess Set, The (2004)
- Chess Wars - The Execution of a king (1996) - Art Data Interactive short movie
- Coffee and Language (2000) - chess scene with Chopper Bernet and Janis de Lucia Allen
- Collectors, The (2000) - chess scene with Rick Fox
- Condition Red (1995) - Gidell Ryan (Cynda Williams) plays chess in prison
- Copycat (1995) - Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) plays chess on the Internet
- Count of Monte Cristo (2002) - Edmund Dantes (James Caviezel) carries a chess king
- Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001) - Radical Edward plays chess
- Crow, The: Salvation (2000) - Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) plays chess with Peter Walsh (Grant Shaud)
- Cube Zero (2004) - Eric Wynn plays blindfold chess against his co-worker, Dodd
- Dances With Wolves (1990) - two soldiers playing chess
- Dangerous Moves (La Diagonale du fou) (1984) - Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) plays Pavius Fromm (Alexander Arbatt)
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) - Police officer Kenneth (Ving Rhames) plays chess with (Bruce Bohne)
- Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell (1988) - bodyguard (Oscar Serafin) plays chess with dwarf (Jesus Juarez)
- Desire (1962 Czech) - puppet film with chess players
- Desperate Measures (1998) - Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton) plays chess with a computer
- Detonator (2003) - chess played outside in the background on a table
- Deterrence (1999) - Taylor Woods (Michael Mantell) and Lizzie Woods (Kathryn Morris) play chess
- Die Another Day (2002) - chess play outside a Cuban hospital
- Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - Dr. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) plays chess with Guo Yi (Benedict Wong); board set up wrong
- Docteur Petiot (1990) - The doctor (Michel Serrault) plays chess
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) - Donald Duck plays chess
- Double O Kid, The (1992) - chess sets and computer chess play
- Dracula Rising (1992) - Alec (Doug Weat) plays chess with a corpse
- Dying on the Edge (2001) - several chess scenes
- Edge of Sanity, The (1989) - Dr. Henry Jekyll (Anthony Perkins) plays chess
- Edward II (1992) - chess game being played
- Exodus (1960) - directed by Otto Preminger; Lakavitch (Gregory Ratoff) plays chess
- Faculty, The (1998) - two students playing chess
- Finding Neverland (2004) - Johnny Depp playing chess
- Fire and Sword (1982) - Queen Isolde (Antonia Preser) plays chess against King Mark (Leigh Lawson)
- Fire Down Below (1997) - chess scene with Lisa Coles
- Five Fingers (2006) - Ahmat (Laurence Fishburne) interrogates Martijn (Ryan Phillippe) while playing chess
- Fly Boys (2006) - checkers and chess being played in the bar
- Foolproof (2003) - chess scenes with Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet
- Forgotten, The (2004) - a chess scene with Julianne Moore and an inlaid chess board on a round table
- Fresh (1994) - Sam (Samuel L Jackson) playing Fresh (Sean Nelson) speed chess
- Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) - The General (Burgess Meredith) plays chess with Jimmy (Elias Koteas)
- Game, The (1990) - Leon Hunter (Curtis Brown) plays chess
- Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003)
- George of the Jungle (1996) - Ape (John Cleese's voice) playing chess
- Geri's Game (1997) - animation by Jan Pinkava and Pixar. plays chess
- Getting In (1994) - Rupert Grimm (Andrew McCarthy) plays chess
- Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (1999) - Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) plays chess with Raymond (Isaach De Bankole)
- Good Will Hunting (1997) - Will (Matt Damon) plays chess with Skylar (Minnie Driver)
- Good Year, A (2006) - The young Max Skinner (Freddie Highmore) cheats to checkmate his uncle Henry (Albert Finney)
- Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988) - Peter Getner (Kai Wulff) plays chess with George (Chris Sarandon)
- Great Chess Movie, The (1983) - documentary about chess
- Great Mouse Detective (1991) - animated movie with a chess board and pieces
- Grumpier Old Men (1995) - John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) plays chess with Ariel (Ann-Margaret)
- Grumpy Old Men (1993) - John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) plays chess with Ariel (Ann-Margaret)
- Hard Way, The (1991) - The Party Crasher (Stephen Lang) plays chess
- Hardware (1990) - Lincoln (William Hootins) plays chess with Vernon (Paul Mackenzie)
- Harlem Nights (1989) - Bugsy Calhoun (Michael Lerner) plays chess with Joe Leoni (Joe Pecoraro)
- Harrison Bergeron (1995) - Harrison Bergeron (Sean Astin) plays chess with Garth (Matthew Ferguson)
- Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (2001) - wizard chess
- Hatley High (2003) - Tommy Linklater and Melanie play chess; the coach is a Soviet chess defector; US against Russians
- Haunting of Morella, The (1990) - Gideon Locke (David McCallum) plays chess with Dr. Gall (Jonathan Farwell)
- Headspace (2004) - Alex Borden (Christopher Denham) meets chess player Harry Jellenek (Eric Kastel)
- High Hopes (1988) - Shirley (Ruth Sheen) plays chess with Cyril (Philip Davis)
- History of the World, Part 1 (1985) - King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks) plays living chess
- Hoodlum (1997) - Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) plays chess
- I Have Nothing to Say, and I'm Saying It (1990) - chess game being played
- Immortal Beloved (1994) - Franz Josef Guicciardi (Luigi Diberti) playing chess on his peg set
- Independence Day (1997) - David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) plays chess with his father (Judd Hirsch) in Manhattan
- Innocent Man, An (1989) - Jimmy Rainwood (Tom Selleck) plays chess with Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham)
- Insomnia (2002) - Walter Finch (Robin Williams) with a chess set at his house
- Jack the Bear (1993) - Grandpa Glickes (Stefan Geirasch) plays chess with Jack (Robert Steinmiller, Jr)
- Jakob the Liar (1999) - Max Frankfurter (Alan Arkin) plays chess with Rosa (Nina Siemaszko)
- Joy Luck Club, The (1993) - Waverly Jong (Vu Mai) is a chess champion
- Judas Kiss (1998) - Lizard Browning (Gil Bellows) plays chess
- Jurassic Park (1993) - chess on a computer screen
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) - chess play on a sub
- K-911 (1999) - chess play in the park
- K-Pax (2001) - chess play in the day room
- King of Chess (Kei Wong) (1992) - with John Sham Ki and Tony Leung Ka-fai
- Knight Moves (1993) - Peter Sanderson (Christopher Lambert) as chess grandmaster playing Arthur Bliss
- Knight to f4 (2005)
- Last Castle, The (2001) - Lt. Gen Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford) plays chess
- Leap of Faith (1992) - Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) plays chess with Boyd (Lucas Haas)
- Letters from a Killer (1998) - Race Darnell (Patrick Swayze) plays chess with Horton Weaver (Roger Mosley)
- Little Man Tate (1991) - chess play
- Little Rascals, The (1994) - monkey plays chess
- Long Live the Queen (1995) - chess pieces come alive
- Lucky Number Slevin (2006) - Morgan Freeman playing chess
- Luzhin Defence, The (2000) - Alexander Luzhin (John Turturro) playing chess with Turati (Fabio Sartor)
- Man Inside, The (1990) - Gunther Wallrath (Jurgen Prochnow) plays chess with Henry Tabel (Peter Coyote)
- Man Who Captured Eichmann, The (1996) - Danny (Michael Tucci) and Dr. Klein (Michael Laskin) play chess
- Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1992) - Merlin (Jody David) playing chess with Ambrosius (Robert Powell)
- Metropolitan (1990) - Audrey Roget (Carolyn Farina) plays chess with Charlie Black (Taylor Nichols)
- Midnight Clear, A (1991) - Stan Schutzer (Ayre Gross) plays chess with Bud Miller (Peter Berg)
- Milagro Beanfield War, The (1988) - Amarante Cordova (Carlos Riquelme) plays chess with Coyote Angel (Robert Carricut)
- Mother Night (1996) - Howard Campbell (Nick Nolte) plays chess with George Kraft (Alan Arkin)
- Mr. Frost (1989) - Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum) plays chess
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) - Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) plays chess with Bill Meister (Jay Thomas)
- Mulholland Falls (1996) - chess play in the background
- My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Judge Haller (Fred Gwynne) plays chess
- Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (1994) - Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Tanya Peters (Anna Nicole Smith) in a chess scene
- Napoleon (2002) - Napoleon (Christian Clavier) plays chess with Josephine (Isabella Rossellini)
- Natural Born Killers (1994) - two inmates playing chess
- Once Bitten (1985) - cabin boy vampire (Stuart Charno) plays chess with another vampire (Jeb Adams)
- Pearl Harbor (2001) - chess being played over the airwaves
- Phenomenon (1996) - George Malley (John Travolta) playing Doc Brunder (Robert Duvall)
- Phenomenon II (2003) plays chess?
- Philadelphia (1993) - chess being played on the sidewalk
- Pledge, The (2001) - old man playing chess in a nursing home
- Pretty Woman (1990) - Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) plays chess
- Prison (1988) - Burton Cresus (Lincoln Kilpatrick) plays chess in prison
- Prospero's Books (1991) - nymphs play chess
- Queen Sacrifice (1988) - Davey (Duane Philips) plays chess
- Quick (1993) - bodyguard (Jeff Cadiente) plays chess with Janet Sakamoto (Tia Carere)
- Rachel Papers, The (1989) - Charles Highway (Dexter Fletcher) plays chess with a computer
- Ravenous (1999) - Major Knox (Stephen Spinella) plays chess with Private Cleaves (David Arquette)
- Ray (2004) - Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) playing chess
- Red Heat (1988) - Art Ridzik (Jim Belushi) plays chess with a chess computer
- Rent-A-Kid (1995) - Brandon Ward (Amos Crawley) plays chess with Lawrence Cady (Christopher Lloyd)
- Ride With the Wind (1994) - chess being played in a hospital
- Ridicule (1996) - Mathilde (Judith Goldreche) plays chess with Gregoire (Charles Berling)
- Rivals in Love (1993) - chess in Washington Square Park
- Run for the Money (2001) - the Karamozov brothers (Boiko Boyanov and Mitko Hristov) plays chess
- Sabotage (1996) - Michael Bishop plays chess with Prof. Simon Follenfant (John Neville)
- Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) - two men playing chess in a salon
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) - the story of prodigy Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc) playing chess
- Secret Agent, The (1996) - chess game being played
- Seven (Se7en) (1995) - Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) plays chess
- Seventh Seal, The (1956) (Det Sjunde Inseglet) - Antonious Block (Max Von Sydow) playing chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot)
- Shadow of China (1991) - Henry Wong (John Lone) plays chess with Burke (Colin George)
- Shaft (2000) - Mr. P playing chess; board set up wrong in the bar
- Shine (1996) - David (Alex Ratalowicz) plays chess
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Pilcher (Paul Lazar) and Roden (Dan Butler) playing chess
- Sinners (1989) - chess being played in the back room
- Slacker (1991) - chess play at an outdoor cafe
- Snow Dogs (2002) - chess players (Phillip Beer and George Labelle) in a hardware store
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) - Nels Godmundsson (Max von Sydow) plays chess with Kazzuo Miyamato (Rick Yune)
- Spice World (1998) - Ginger (Geri Halliwell) plays chess with Scary (Melanie B)
- Spy Game (2001) - chess game at a Christmas party
- Spy Kids (2001) - chess play in the park
- Stay (2005) - Dr. Leon Patterson (Bob Hoskins) as a blind chess master
- Stealing Heaven (1988) - Count Abelard (Derek de Lint) plays chess with Fulbert (Denholm Elliott)
- Steel (1997) - chess play in the rec room
- Stepmom (1998) - Luke Harrison (Ed Harris) plays chess with Ben (Liam Aiken)
- Straw Dogs (1971) - David (Dustin Hoffman) playing chess with Amy Summer (Susan George)
- Substitute, The (1995) - Wellman (Richard Brooks) plays chess with Rem (Luis Guzman)
- Supernova (2000) - Benjamin (Wilson Cruz) plays chess with a computer
- Surviving the Game (1994) - Mr. Wolfe (Murray Abraham) plays chess with Burns (Rutger Hauer)
- Swan Princess (1994) - chess being played in this animated movie
- Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) - Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) plays chess with Tom Ripley (Matt Damon)
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) - Maddox (Philip Lenkowsky) plays chess with Jer (Ashton Wise)
- Team America: World Police (2004) - chess being played backstage by the puppets
- Terminal Error (2001) - chess being played at a nuclear power plant
- That Night (1992) - Rick (C. Thomas Howell) plays chess
- Thing, The (1982) - R.J. McReady (Kurt Russell) plays a chess computer
- This Time Forever (1980) - patients playing chess at a hospital
- Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) - Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) plays Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway)
- Traitor (2008) – several scenes play chess
- Triplecross (1995) - Teddy Cooper (Michael Pare) plays chess with Biggs (Gene Mack)
- Two Weeks Notice (2002) - several scenes of chess play and chess sets
- Up Close and Personal (1996) - Warren Justice (Robert Redford) is playing chess with a hustler (Guillermo Gentile)
- Virtuosity (1995) - futuristic version of chess
- Virus (1999) - chess on a Russian ship
- Warlock: The Armegeddon (1993) - Kenny Travis (Chris Young) plays chess with Will Travis (Steve Kahan)
- Waterdance, The (1992) - chess being played in a hospital
- What Dreams May Come (1998) - Dr. Christy Nielsen (Robin Williams) plays chess with Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant)
- Whistle Blower, The (1986) - Col Dodgson (Bill Wallace) playing chess
- Willie and Phil (1980) - Ray Sharkey playing chess with Michael Ontkean
- Windtalkers (2002) - two Marines play chess
- Without a Clue (1988) - Dr. Watson (Ben Kingsley) plays chess
- World Chess Festival (1988) - documentary on the tournament at St John, New Brunswick, Canada
- X-Men (2000) - Xavier (Patrick Stewart) playing chess with Magneto (Ian McKellen) in the final scene
- X2: X-Men United (2003) - several chess scenes
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - Elizabeth Hardy (Sophie Ward) plays chess with Watson (Alan Cox)
- Zoolander (2001) - Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) playing chess in the outake
- Zugzwang (1988) - Anatoly Karpov
OK, maybe this should be a different thread, but movies with chess references (the more oblique the better) in their titles, again I submit:
The Parent Trap (1961)
Chess Fever.
Sigmoid-Flexure, how about the movie Carrier (2008). That's about as oblique as I can get.
Wow, too deep for me but I'm sure it's good!
I have no idea, but one of the production assistants is named Jason Skewers.
Heh heh, that was good. How about this Aussie film
The Castle (1997)
That sounds a lot better than:
The Rookie (2002)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
This thread is to collect all the movies that feature at least one scene where Chess is played. So here comes the list, hopefully:
1. Traitor (2008).
2. any more??