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A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Bobby Fischer Against the World(2011)

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.

Once Upon a Spy(1980)

Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.

The World Champion(2021)

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

Pawn Sacrifice(2015)

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Evan's Gambit(2019)

Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.

Knight Moves(1992)

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

Brooklyn Castle(2012)

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

Magnus(2016)

From a young age Magnus Carlsen had aspirations of becoming a champion chess player. While many players seek out an intensely rigid environment to hone their skills, Magnus’ brilliance shines brightest when surrounded by his loving and supportive family. Through an extensive amount of archival footage and home movies, director Benjamin Ree reveals this young man’s unusual and rapid trajectory to the pinnacle of the chess world. This film allows the audience to not only peek inside this isolated community but also witness the maturation of a modern genius.

Glory to the Queen(2020)

Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.

Kasparov: Chess Rebel(2024)

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and charismatic, but also rebellious, favorite son of the Soviet Union.

Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin(2018)

The 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.

Mikhail Tal. From a Far(2016)

Mikhail Tal. From a Far is a documentary exploring the unpredictable and tragic life of the genius world chess champion Mikhail Tal, Riga's native son. Mikhail Tal becomes the youngest world chess champion at 23. The same year, he was diagnosed with incurable kidney disease and given only one year to live. Through sheer will and reckless abandon he managed to live another 40 years, filling them with a string of remarkable chess successes, unexplainable failures, amorous conquests and a life-threatening game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

Make Your Move(2018)

Two chess champions have a secret match to decide once and for all which of them is the better player.

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Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a highway patrol officer who is infatuated with a mulatto dancer at a local nightclub. "Drao" : a publicity man and a boutique owner who face a crises in their marriage. "You Are Beautiful" : two homeless teenagers seek love amidst their personal misery. "Samba of the Great Passion" : a book maker who is charmed and captivated by the voice of a female singer coming from a building across the street. Characters in search of love in order to escape from the boredom, loneliness and helplessness of their lives.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Lass es Liebe sein(2009)

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Rosamunde Pilcher: Entscheidung des Herzens(2009)

For the young, talented fashion designer Antonia Winston, the sky seems to be full of violins. But then she discovers that her fiancé Peter is cheating on her. Disappointed and deeply hurt, Antonia burns all bridges in London and travels to her parents in Cornwall. She is followed there by the charming lawyer David Scott, who is commissioned by Peter to try to smooth things over and persuade Antonia to return to London. Meanwhile, the traditional Winston drapery mill, owned by Antonia's parents Helen and George, is facing hard times. They have still kept the difficulties a secret from Antonia. But when the Winstons' biggest buyer of cloth withdraws a major order, George suffers a heart attack and has to be admitted to hospital.