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Directed by Gus TrikonisOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors Treat Williams,
Sally Kellerman,
Victoria Tennant,
Sam Waterston,
Robert Hardy,
Peter Mark RichmanRating62%
Jack Dempsey starts out fighting in bars for half the take. He wins his first professional fight. After a later bout, he and his manager are held up at gunpoint and robbed of the purse. He sees the thieves later and beats them up to recover the cash. Jack meets Maxine Cates, but goes to New York to box. After a bout with Jack Johnson is a draw, he breaks with his manager and goes back to Salt Lake City and marries Maxine. After money disputes with her Maxine leaves and Dempsey goes to San Francisco. Kerns becomes his manager. He wins fights goes to New York and divorces Maxine. He beats Jess Willard by a TKO and becomes heavyweight champ. He goes to Hollywood to make films and gets sued for non-support by Maxine. He fights Luis Firpo and is knocked out of the ring, but still wins. He is sick (perhaps poisoned), but still fights Gene Tunney and loses in a TKO. On September 22, 1927 he fights Tunney again. Dempsey knocks Tunney down, but the count doesn't start until Dempsey goes to a neutral corner. This gives Tunney time to recover and get up when the count reaches 9. In this famous "long count" fight Tunney wins by decision., 1h54
Directed by Boaz Yakin,
J. Miller TobinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Jeu,
Films about music and musicians,
Sports films,
Hip hop films,
Films about chess,
Gangster filmsActors Giancarlo Esposito,
Sean Nelson,
Samuel L. Jackson,
N'Bushe Wright,
Jean-Claude La Marre,
José ZúñigaRating74%
12-year-old Michael a.k.a. "Fresh" stops at a latina woman's apartment to pick up dime bags of heroin before he goes to school. Fresh notices that she has given him the wrong amount and Fresh tries to warn her that his boss Esteban will be angry with the incorrect amount. He sees the track marks on her arm, indicating that she is a drug addict trying to swindle him out of his delivery. He leaves, disgusted., 1h50
Directed by Steven ZaillianOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Jeu,
Sports films,
Films about chessActors Max Pomeranc,
Joe Mantegna,
Joan Allen,
Ben Kingsley,
Laurence Fishburne,
Robert StephensRating73%
Josh Waitzkin's family discovers that he possesses a gift for chess and they seek to nurture it. They hire a strict instructor, Bruce Pandolfini (played by Ben Kingsley) who aims to teach the boy to be as aggressive as chess legend Bobby Fischer. The title of the film is a metaphor about the character's quest to adopt the ideal of Fischer and his determination to win at any price. Josh is also heavily influenced by Vinnie, a speed chess hustler (Laurence Fishburne) whom he met in Washington Square Park. The two coaches differ greatly in their approaches to chess, and Pandolfini is upset that Josh continues to adopt the methods of Vinnie. The main conflict in the film arises when Josh refuses to accept Fischer's misanthropic frame of reference. Josh then goes on to win on his own terms., 1h49
Directed by Marleen GorrisOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Jeu,
Sports films,
Films about chessActors John Turturro,
Emily Watson,
Geraldine James,
Stuart Wilson,
Christopher Thompson,
Kelly HunterRating67%
It's the early 1920s and Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin (Turturro), a gifted but tormented chess player, arrives in a Northern Italian city to compete in an international chess competition. Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov (Watson) and he falls in love with her almost immediately. She in turn finds his manner to be appealing and they begin to see each other in spite of her mother's disapproval., 1h45
Directed by J. Lee ThompsonOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Sports films,
Films about chessActors Maximilian Schell,
Ingrid Thulin,
Samantha Eggar,
Herbert Lom,
Talitha Getty,
Vladek SheybalRating69%
Shortly before the Nazi invasion of France, Dr. Michele Wulf (Thulin) encounters the younger Stanislaus Pilgrin (Schell) over a game of lightning chess, not being aware that Pilgrin is a chess master. She becomes intrigued with the fortune-hunting Pilgrin and the two begin a liaison. Upon the Nazi invasion, in order to protect Michele, who is Jewish, Stan marries her, to no avail it turns out when the Gestapo arrests her and sends her to a concentration camp. , 1h43
Directed by Wolfgang PetersenGenres DramaThemes Jeu,
Sports films,
Films about chessActors Bruno Ganz,
Ljuba Tadić,
Alexander HegarthRating67%
A scientist, who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that ruthless capitalism is preferable to socialism., 1h54
Directed by Edward ZwickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
BiographyThemes Jeu,
Sports films,
Films about chessActors Lily Rabe,
Liev Schreiber,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Tobey Maguire,
Michael Stuhlbarg,
Sophie NélisseRating69%
American grandmaster Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Union and its greatest player, Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber), for the 1972 World Chess Championship., 1h36
Directed by Ingmar BergmanOrigin SuedeGenres Drama,
FantasyThemes Jeu,
Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
Films about chess,
Films about viral outbreaks,
Films based on playsActors Gunnar Björnstrand,
Bengt Ekerot,
Nils Poppe,
Max von Sydow,
Bibi Andersson,
Inga GillRating81%
Disillusioned knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) and his nihilistic squire Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand) return after fighting in the Crusades and find Sweden being ravaged by the plague. On the beach immediately after their arrival, the knight encounters Death (Bengt Ekerot), personified as a pale, black-cowled figure resembling a monk. The knight, in the middle of a chess game he has been playing alone, challenges Death to a chess match, believing that he can forestall his demise as long as the game continues. Death agrees, and they start a new game., 1h40
Origin USAGenres DramaThemes Sports films,
Films about chessActors Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Dennis Haysbert,
Lisa Gay Hamilton,
Paula Jai Parker,
Richard T. Jones,
Malcolm MaysRating69%
The film tells the true story of Eugene Brown (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), an ex-convict who starts the Big Chair Chess Club for inner-city youths in Washington, D.C..