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Knights of the South Bronx, 1h30
Directed by Albert et Allen Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Ted Danson, Malcolm David Kelley, Keke Palmer, Clifton Powell, Devon Bostick, Kate Vernon

The movie is based on the true story of David MacEnulty who taught schoolchildren of the Bronx Community Elementary School 70 to play at competition level, eventually winning New York City and the New York State Chess Championships. The screenplay portrays whistle-blowing and a mid-life crisis that combine to remove Richard Mason (played by Ted Danson) from his old life. He becomes a substitute teacher and is assigned to a fourth-grade class in a South Bronx school. In the class are students with parents who are drug addicts or in jail or just scrambling to pay the bills. Few of them see a purpose in school other than meeting society's requirements, and he struggles, mostly in vain, to reach them.
The Chess Players, 2h9
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Richard Attenborough, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan

The film shows in parallel the historical drama of the Indian kingdom Awadh (whose capital is Lucknow) and its Muslim Nawab Wajid Ali Shah who is overthrown by the British, alongside the story of two shatranj (chess) obsessed noblemen.
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine, 1h30
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Films about chess

Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue, a computer designed specifically to beat him, in a match played in 1996. He agreed to offer a rematch the following year. Kasparov won the first game of the rematch easily with the white pieces. In the second game, Kasparov was struggling with the black pieces, but set a trap that most computers fall for. Deep Blue didn't fall for it and won to level the match. At the time it was reported that both Kasparov and Deep Blue missed a perpetual check that could have given Kasparov a draw, but today strongest computer chess engines, for example Stockfish, which are stronger than every human, don't consider the final position as draw, but as having better winning chances for white, contradicting the human analysis at the time that Deep Blue missed a perpetual check. The next three matches ended in draws, with Kasparov appearing to weaken psychologically. Deep Blue went on to win the decisive sixth game, marking the first time in history that a computer defeated the World Champion in a match of several games.
Odysseus' Gambit
Directed by Alex Lora
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about immigration, Sports films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities, Films about chess

Saravuth Inn is a charismatic man living in New York’s Union Square. There, this American of Cambodian origin plays chess with people; losers pay him five dollars, enabling him to survive another day. A caring community of sorts has formed around Saravuth. Sometimes fellow players bring him food or hot drinks. Playing guitar also makes Saravuth’s life on the streets more bearable.
The Chess Player, 2h15
Directed by Raymond Bernard, Jean Hémard
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy
Themes Jeu, Films about chess
Actors Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Camille Bert, Pierre Batcheff, Jackie Monnier

In 1776, a young Polish patriot, Boleslas Vorowski, is wounded in an abortive uprising against the Russian forces in Vilnius. A reward for his capture is offered but he is sheltered by Baron von Kempelen, an inventor of lifelike automata, who plans to smuggle Vorowski, a skilful chess-player, to Germany concealed inside a chess-playing automaton called The Turk. Major Nicolaïeff, a Russian rival of Vorowski, challenges The Turk to a game and is defeated, but he realises that the machine is being secretly operated by Vorowski. He arranges for The Turk to be sent to Moscow to entertain the Empress Catherine II. When The Turk refuses to allow Catherine to cheat, the Empress orders that the automaton is to be executed by firing squad at dawn. During a masked ball, von Kempelen replaces Vorowski inside The Turk, to enable him to escape with his lover Sophie. Nicolaïeff, who has been sent to search von Kempelen's house, is slain by the inventor's sabre-wielding automata.
Computer Chess, 1h32
Directed by Andrew Bujalski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Wiley Wiggins

In 1980, an annual gathering of teams of idiosyncratic nerds compete in a nondescript California hotel to see which of their computer programs can best the others at computer chess. A grandmaster (Gerald Peary) presides as master of ceremonies with a videographer and microphone in tow. Clunky, primitive personal computers are carted from room to room. Bad haircuts, dorky shirts, “birth control glasses”, and other social impedimenta are ubiquitous. Bull sessions on the dystopian possibilities of artificial intelligence are pursued. The Pentagon's interest in the goings-on is intimated. The only female geek (Robin Schwartz) in attendance is repeatedly hailed and “welcomed” by the MC.
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert, 1h27
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Films about chess, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Mikio Narita, Saburo Date, Ryō Horikawa

On a boat trip to Honshu island, Zatoichi (Katsu) makes the acquaintance of Jumonji (Narita), an expert shogi (Japanese chess) player and swordsman. Once on Honshu, a group of men that had tried to cheat Zatoichi at dice try to take revenge upon him- only for Ichi to turn the tables on them in the tussle. However, Miki, the niece of a woman named Otane, is injured in the confusion, compelling Ichi to go to great lengths to procure the medicine needed to cure her injury. When she recovers, the child sincerely thanks him, leaving him overwrought with emotion.
The Tournament, 1h23
Directed by Élodie Namer
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Lou de Laâge, Michelangelo Passaniti, Thomas Solivéres, Aliocha Schneider, Jean-François Cayrey, Magdalena Korpas

Cal, 22 ans, champion de France d'échecs, participe à un tournoi se déroulant sur 7 jours à Budapest. Grand favori, arrogant et immature, robot programmé pour gagner, il mène avec ses acolytes une vie de ludopathe, complètement déconnecté du monde réel.
Black and White Like Day and Night, 1h43
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Bruno Ganz, Ljuba Tadić, Alexander Hegarth

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.
Fahim
Fahim (2019)
, 1h47
Directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Jeu, La provence, Films about chess
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Didier Flamand, Walid Afkir, Fahim Fazli

Le jeune Fahim est contraint de fuir son pays natal, le Bangladesh, avec son père. Ils quittent ainsi le reste de la famille pour venir à Paris. Ils vont alors subir une longue attente pour obtenir l’asile politique. En situation irrégulière, ils sont menacés d'expulsion. Fahim va faire la rencontre de Sylvain, l’un des meilleurs entraîneurs d'échecs (personnage inspiré par Xavier Parmentier). Malgré un peu de méfiance, ils vont apprendre à se connaître et deviennent amis. Fahim souhaite participer au championnat de France mais la menace d’expulsion se fait de plus en plus pressante. Le jeune garçon n’a alors plus qu’une seule solution : devenir champion de France.