What are some moview where chess is featured?

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stwils

I am wanting to see some good movies where chess is featured.

Now I have seen Searching for Bobby Fischer - and that wonderful movie by Ingmar Bergman : Seventh Seal where the knight plays chess with Death.  Also I have heard about the Luzhin Defence but have not seen it.

Are there others? I don't mean where a chess set is sitting on a table or where there is a small scene showing two people playing chess, but one where playing chess is really important to the movie.

Anyone?

stwils

ghostofmaroczy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076696/

An Indian movie titled: The Chess Players

stwils

Thanks. I'm going to order it next from Netflix.

I noticed from your link that the director, Ray, had something to do with ET!

Are there others?

stwils

Mainline_Novelty

Game over- Kasparov vs Deep Blue '97

gabrielconroy

The Luzhin Defence is good, and worth watching (it's based on a Nabokov novel, and stars John Turturro - what more could you want?).

Also, the original Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway features a famous seductive chess scene.

Shakespeare's The Tempest has a scene in which Miranda and Ferdinand are revealed to be playing chess, symbolising their formal courtship, so it must be included in a film version.

What about Ronan Bennett's Zugzwang, the book? Anyone read that? It's pretty good, and it's also short, for those with attention spans of equal brevity.