CHESS IN MOVIES

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??

The Seventh Seal (1957)

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.

1. 21 Grams (2003) - Sean Penn plays computer chess
   
2. Aalavandhan (2001) (Abhay) - psychopath Abhay Kmar (Kamal Hassan) is a chess player
3. Age Old Friends (1989) - Cooper (Hume Cronyn) plays chess with Aylott (Vincent Gardenia)
4. Agon (2003) - two players playing chess
5. Aladdin (1992) - Genie (voice by Robin Williams) loses a chess game to the magic carpet
6. Alice in Storageland (2004) - chess guy 1 (Charlie Paine) plays chess guy 2 (Charles Francis Xavier)
7. All The Pretty Horses (2000) - John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) playing Luisa (Angelina Torres) chess
8. American Prince: The John F. Kennedy, Jr. Story (2003) - chess play in Central Park
9. Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992) - Rusty (Damon Martin) plays chess with Iris Wheeler (Nita Talbot)
10. Anastasia (1997) - Dimitri (voice of John Cusack) and Vladimir (voice of Kelsey Grammer) play chess (animated)
11. Anatomie (Anatomy) 2 (2003) - Jo Hauser (Barnaby Metscharut) playing chess
12. And the Sea Will Tell (1991) - Mac Graham (James Brolin) plays chess
13. Android Affair (1995) - android plays chess
14. Angels (1991) - two recent dead guys playing chess
15. Angels Don't Sleep Here (2001) - Mayor Harry Porter (Roy Scheider) plays chess
16. Angus (1995) - Ivan (George C Scott) and Angus Bethune (Charlie Talbert) play chess in a park
17. Annie (1981) - bodyguards Asp (Roger Minami) and Punjab (Geoffrey Holder) playing chess
18. Apollo 11 (1996) - chess in Mission Control
19. Assassins (1995) - Robert Rath (Sylvestor Stallone) plays chess
20. Austin Powers II - The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - Austin Powers (Mike Myers) playing Ivana Humpalot (Kristen Johnsen)
21. Awakenings (1990) - chess being played in a mental ward
22. Babette's Feast (1987) - two soldiers play chess
23. Back Against the Wall (2000) - Levey (Martin Shannon) plays chess with Ed (Ernie Frantz)
24. Back to the Future III (1990) - Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) plays chess with a dog
25. Bad Company (2002) - Kevin Pope (Chris Rock), chess hustler Jake Hayes (Chris Rock) and Gaylord Oaks (Anthony Hopkins) play chess
26. Beast, The (1988) - Samad (Erick Avari) and Koverchenko (Jason Patrick) play chess
27. Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Gaston (voice of Richard White) plays chess with a townsman
28. Bedazzled (2000) - the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) plays and angel (Gabriel Casseus)
29. Bicentennial Man (1999) - Richard Martin (Sam Neill) plays chess with his wife (Wendy Crewson)
30. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) - chess being played in heaven
31. Black Cat White Cat (1999) - man playing a chess game
32. Black Hawk Down (2001) - several chess scenes
33. Black Knight (2001) - Lord Percival (Vincent Regan) and Jamal Walker (Martin Lawrence) play chess
34. Black Mask, The (1989) - Simon (Jet Li) plays chess with Rock (Matt McKenzie)
35. Black Roses (1989) - Matthew Moorhouse (John Martin) plays chess with another teacher  
36. Blue Steel (1990) - chess being played in a park
37. Bobby (2006) - Anthony Hopkins plays chess with Harry Belafonte
38. Body, The (2000) - two players playing chess in Jerusalem
39. Bodyguard, The (1992) - Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) plays chess with his dad (Ralph Waite)
40. Boguljubov Blunders (1972) - animated cartoon
41. Bone Collector, The (1999) - Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) plays computer chess
42. Bourne Identity, The (2002) - Matt Damon; chess set on the ship
43. Bullets Over Broadway (1994) - chess being played in front of a cafe
44. Burning Secret (Brennendes Geheimmis) (1988) - several chess scenes; magnetic chess; outdoor chess in the snow
45. Buvos Vadasz (Magic Hunter) (1994) - Max (Gary Kemp) is assigned to protect Maxim (Alexander Kaidanovsky), a chess master
46. By the Sea (2004) - Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) playing chess
47. Canadian Bacon (1995) - Stu Smiley (Kevin Pollak) plays chess with R.J. Hacker (G.D. Spradlin)  
48. Catherine the Great (2005) - chess scenes with Emily Bruni and Dan Badarau
49. Cellblock Sisters (1995) - April (Annie Wood) plays chess in a prison yard
50. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) - Alex (Lucy Liu) beating a kid (Joshua Miller) at chess
51. Chess Kids (1996) - 1990 World Youth Chess Championship documentary in Wisconsin
52. Chess Set, The (2004)
53. Chess Wars - The Execution of a king (1996) - Art Data Interactive short movie
54. Coffee and Language (2000) - chess scene with Chopper Bernet and Janis de Lucia Allen
55. Collectors, The (2000) - chess scene with Rick Fox
56. Condition Red (1995) - Gidell Ryan (Cynda Williams) plays chess in prison
57. Copycat (1995) - Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) plays chess on the Internet
58. Count of Monte Cristo (2002) - Edmund Dantes (James Caviezel) carries a chess king
59. Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001) - Radical Edward plays chess
60. Crow, The: Salvation (2000) - Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) plays chess with Peter Walsh (Grant Shaud)
61. Cube Zero (2004) - Eric Wynn plays blindfold chess against his co-worker, Dodd
62. Dances With Wolves (1990) - two soldiers playing chess
63. Dangerous Moves (La Diagonale du fou) (1984) - Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) plays Pavius Fromm (Alexander Arbatt)
64. Dawn of the Dead (2004) - Police officer Kenneth (Ving Rhames) plays chess with (Bruce Bohne)
65. Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell (1988) - bodyguard (Oscar Serafin) plays chess with dwarf (Jesus Juarez)
66. Desire (1962 Czech) - puppet film with chess players
67. Desperate Measures (1998) - Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton) plays chess with a computer
68. Detonator (2003) - chess played outside in the background on a table
69. Deterrence (1999) - Taylor Woods (Michael Mantell) and Lizzie Woods (Kathryn Morris) play chess
70. Die Another Day (2002) - chess play outside a Cuban hospital
71. Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - Dr. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) plays chess with Guo Yi (Benedict Wong); board set up wrong
72. Docteur Petiot (1990) - The doctor (Michel Serrault) plays chess  
73. Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) - Donald Duck plays chess
74. Double O Kid, The (1992) - chess sets and computer chess play
75. Dracula Rising (1992) - Alec (Doug Weat) plays chess with a corpse
76. Dying on the Edge (2001) - several chess scenes
77. Edge of Sanity, The (1989) - Dr. Henry Jekyll (Anthony Perkins) plays chess
78. Edward II (1992) - chess game being played
79. Exodus (1960) - directed by Otto Preminger; Lakavitch (Gregory Ratoff) plays chess
80. Faculty, The (1998) - two students playing chess
81. Finding Neverland (2004) - Johnny Depp playing chess
82. Fire and Sword (1982) - Queen Isolde (Antonia Preser) plays chess against King Mark (Leigh Lawson)
83. Fire Down Below (1997) - chess scene with Lisa Coles
84. Five Fingers (2006) - Ahmat (Laurence Fishburne) interrogates Martijn (Ryan Phillippe) while playing chess
85. Fly Boys (2006) - checkers and chess being played in the bar
86. Foolproof (2003) - chess scenes with Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet
87. Forgotten, The (2004) - a chess scene with Julianne Moore and an inlaid chess board on a round table
88. Fresh (1994) - Sam (Samuel L Jackson) playing Fresh (Sean Nelson) speed chess
89. Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) - The General (Burgess Meredith) plays chess with Jimmy (Elias Koteas)
90. Game, The (1990) - Leon Hunter (Curtis Brown) plays chess  
91. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003)
92. George of the Jungle (1996) - Ape (John Cleese's voice) playing chess
93. Geri's Game (1997) - animation by Jan Pinkava and Pixar. plays chess
94. Getting In (1994) - Rupert Grimm (Andrew McCarthy) plays chess
95. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (1999) - Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) plays chess with Raymond (Isaach De Bankole)
96. Good Will Hunting (1997) - Will (Matt Damon) plays chess with Skylar (Minnie Driver)
97. Good Year, A (2006) - The young Max Skinner (Freddie Highmore) cheats to checkmate his uncle Henry (Albert Finney)
98. Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988) - Peter Getner (Kai Wulff) plays chess with George (Chris Sarandon)
99. Great Chess Movie, The (1983) - documentary about chess
100. Great Mouse Detective (1991) - animated movie with a chess    board and pieces
101. Grumpier Old Men (1995) - John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) plays       chess with Ariel (Ann-Margaret)
102. Grumpy Old Men (1993) - John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) plays         chess with Ariel (Ann-Margaret)
103. Hard Way, The (1991) - The Party Crasher (Stephen Lang) plays         chess
104. Hardware (1990) - Lincoln (William Hootins) plays chess with   Vernon (Paul Mackenzie)
105. Harlem Nights (1989) - Bugsy Calhoun (Michael Lerner) plays  chess with Joe Leoni (Joe Pecoraro)
106. Harrison Bergeron (1995) - Harrison Bergeron (Sean Astin) plays         chess with Garth (Matthew Ferguson)
107. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (2001) - wizard chess
108. Hatley High (2003) - Tommy Linklater and Melanie play chess;           the coach is a Soviet chess defector; US against Russians
109. Haunting of Morella, The (1990) - Gideon Locke (David McCallum) plays chess with Dr. Gall (Jonathan Farwell)
110. Headspace (2004) - Alex Borden (Christopher Denham) meets   chess player Harry Jellenek (Eric Kastel)
111. High Hopes (1988) - Shirley (Ruth Sheen) plays chess with Cyril         (Philip Davis)
112. History of the World, Part 1 (1985) - King Louis XVI (Mel        Brooks) plays living chess
113. Hoodlum (1997) - Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) plays chess
114. I Have Nothing to Say, and I'm Saying It (1990) - chess game    being played
115. Immortal Beloved (1994) - Franz Josef Guicciardi (Luigi Diberti)         playing chess on his peg set
116. Independence Day (1997) - David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum)      plays chess with his father (Judd Hirsch) in Manhattan
117. Innocent Man, An (1989) - Jimmy Rainwood (Tom Selleck) plays       chess with Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham)
118. Insomnia (2002) - Walter Finch (Robin Williams) with a chess set       at his house
119. Jack the Bear (1993) - Grandpa Glickes (Stefan Geirasch) plays chess with Jack (Robert Steinmiller, Jr)
120. Jakob the Liar (1999) - Max Frankfurter (Alan Arkin) plays chess        with Rosa (Nina Siemaszko)
121. Joy Luck Club, The (1993) - Waverly Jong (Vu Mai) is a chess champion
122. Judas Kiss (1998) - Lizard Browning (Gil Bellows) plays chess
123. Jurassic Park (1993) - chess on a computer screen

1. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) - chess play on a sub
2. K-911 (1999) - chess play in the park
3. K-Pax (2001) - chess play in the day room  
4. King of Chess (Kei Wong) (1992) - with John Sham Ki and Tony        Leung Ka-fai
5. Knight Moves (1993) - Peter Sanderson (Christopher Lambert) as        chess grandmaster playing Arthur Bliss
6. Knight to f4 (2005)
7. Last Castle, The (2001) - Lt. Gen Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford)        plays chess
8. Leap of Faith (1992) - Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) plays   chess with Boyd (Lucas Haas)
9. Letters from a Killer (1998) - Race Darnell (Patrick Swayze)      plays chess with Horton Weaver (Roger Mosley)
10. Little Man Tate (1991) - chess play
11. Little Rascals, The (1994) - monkey plays chess
12. Long Live the Queen (1995) - chess pieces come alive
13. Lucky Number Slevin (2006) - Morgan Freeman playing chess
14. Luzhin Defence, The (2000) - Alexander Luzhin (John Turturro)         playing chess with Turati (Fabio Sartor)
15. Man Inside, The (1990) - Gunther Wallrath (Jurgen Prochnow)  plays chess with Henry Tabel (Peter Coyote)
16. Man Who Captured Eichmann, The (1996) - Danny (Michael    Tucci) and Dr. Klein (Michael Laskin) play chess
17. Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1992) - Merlin (Jody David) playing          chess with Ambrosius (Robert Powell)  
18. Metropolitan (1990) - Audrey Roget (Carolyn Farina) plays chess        with Charlie Black (Taylor Nichols)
19. Midnight Clear, A (1991) - Stan Schutzer (Ayre Gross) plays     chess with Bud Miller (Peter Berg)
20. Milagro Beanfield War, The (1988) - Amarante Cordova (Carlos          Riquelme) plays chess with Coyote Angel (Robert Carricut)
21. Mother Night (1996) - Howard Campbell (Nick Nolte) plays       chess with George Kraft (Alan Arkin)
22. Mr. Frost (1989) - Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum) plays chess  
23. Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) - Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) plays   chess with Bill Meister (Jay Thomas)
24. Mulholland Falls (1996) - chess play in the background
25. My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Judge Haller (Fred Gwynne) plays chess
26. Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (1994) - Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Tanya Peters (Anna Nicole Smith) in a chess scene
27. Napoleon (2002) - Napoleon (Christian Clavier) plays chess with Josephine (Isabella Rossellini)
28. Natural Born Killers (1994) - two inmates playing chess
29. Once Bitten (1985) - cabin boy vampire (Stuart Charno) plays chess with another vampire (Jeb Adams)
30. Pearl Harbor (2001) - chess being played over the airwaves  
31. Phenomenon (1996) - George Malley (John Travolta) playing Doc Brunder (Robert Duvall)
32. Phenomenon II (2003) plays chess?
33. Philadelphia (1993) - chess being played on the sidewalk
34. Pledge, The (2001) - old man playing chess in a nursing home
35. Pretty Woman (1990) - Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) plays chess
36. Prison (1988) - Burton Cresus (Lincoln Kilpatrick) plays chess in prison
37. Prospero's Books (1991) - nymphs play chess
38. Queen Sacrifice (1988) - Davey (Duane Philips) plays chess
39. Quick (1993) - bodyguard (Jeff Cadiente) plays chess with Janet Sakamoto (Tia Carere)
40. Rachel Papers, The (1989) - Charles Highway (Dexter Fletcher) plays chess with a computer
41. Ravenous (1999) - Major Knox (Stephen Spinella) plays chess with Private Cleaves (David Arquette)
42. Ray (2004) - Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) playing chess
43. Red Heat (1988) - Art Ridzik (Jim Belushi) plays chess with a chess computer
44. Rent-A-Kid (1995) - Brandon Ward (Amos Crawley) plays chess with Lawrence Cady (Christopher Lloyd)
45. Ride With the Wind (1994) - chess being played in a hospital
46. Ridicule (1996) - Mathilde (Judith Goldreche) plays chess with Gregoire (Charles Berling)
47. Rivals in Love (1993) - chess in Washington Square Park
48. Run for the Money (2001) - the Karamozov brothers (Boiko Boyanov and Mitko Hristov) plays chess
49. Sabotage (1996) - Michael Bishop plays chess with Prof. Simon Follenfant (John Neville)
50. Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) - two men playing chess in a salon
51. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) - the story of prodigy Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc) playing chess
52. Secret Agent, The (1996) - chess game being played
53. Seven (Se7en) (1995) - Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) plays chess
54. Seventh Seal, The (1956) (Det Sjunde Inseglet) - Antonious Block (Max Von Sydow) playing chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot)
55. Shadow of China (1991) - Henry Wong (John Lone) plays chess with Burke (Colin George)
56. Shaft (2000) - Mr. P playing chess; board set up wrong in the bar
57. Shine (1996) - David (Alex Ratalowicz) plays chess
58. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Pilcher (Paul Lazar) and Roden (Dan Butler) playing chess
59. Sinners (1989) - chess being played in the back room
60. Slacker (1991) - chess play at an outdoor cafe
61. Snow Dogs (2002) - chess players (Phillip Beer and George Labelle) in a hardware store
62. Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) - Nels Godmundsson (Max von Sydow) plays chess with Kazzuo Miyamato (Rick Yune)
63. Spice World (1998) - Ginger (Geri Halliwell) plays chess with Scary (Melanie B)
64. Spy Game (2001) - chess game at a Christmas party
65. Spy Kids (2001) - chess play in the park
66. Stay (2005) - Dr. Leon Patterson (Bob Hoskins) as a blind chess master
67. Stealing Heaven (1988) - Count Abelard (Derek de Lint) plays chess with Fulbert (Denholm Elliott)
68. Steel (1997) - chess play in the rec room
69. Stepmom (1998) - Luke Harrison (Ed Harris) plays chess with Ben (Liam Aiken)  
70. Straw Dogs (1971) - David (Dustin Hoffman) playing chess with Amy Summer (Susan George)
71. Substitute, The (1995) - Wellman (Richard Brooks) plays chess with Rem (Luis Guzman)
72. Supernova (2000) - Benjamin (Wilson Cruz) plays chess with a computer
73. Surviving the Game (1994) - Mr. Wolfe (Murray Abraham) plays chess with Burns (Rutger Hauer)
74. Swan Princess (1994) - chess being played in this animated movie
75. Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) - Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) plays chess with Tom Ripley (Matt Damon)
76. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) - Maddox (Philip Lenkowsky) plays chess with Jer (Ashton Wise)
77. Team America: World Police (2004) - chess being played backstage by the puppets
78. Terminal Error (2001) - chess being played at a nuclear power plant
79. That Night (1992) - Rick (C. Thomas Howell) plays chess
80. Thing, The (1982) - R.J. McReady (Kurt Russell) plays a chess computer
81. This Time Forever (1980) - patients playing chess at a hospital
82. Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) - Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) plays Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway)
83. Traitor (2008) – several scenes play chess
84. Triplecross (1995) - Teddy Cooper (Michael Pare) plays chess with Biggs (Gene Mack)
85. Two Weeks Notice (2002) - several scenes of chess play and chess sets
86. Up Close and Personal (1996) - Warren Justice (Robert Redford) is playing chess with a hustler (Guillermo Gentile)
87. Virtuosity (1995) - futuristic version of chess
88. Virus (1999) - chess on a Russian ship
89. Warlock: The Armegeddon (1993) - Kenny Travis (Chris Young) plays chess with Will Travis (Steve Kahan)
90. Waterdance, The (1992) - chess being played in a hospital
91. What Dreams May Come (1998) - Dr. Christy Nielsen (Robin Williams) plays chess with Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant)
92. Whistle Blower, The (1986) - Col Dodgson (Bill Wallace) playing chess
93. Willie and Phil (1980) - Ray Sharkey playing chess with Michael Ontkean
94. Windtalkers (2002) - two Marines play chess
95. Without a Clue (1988) - Dr. Watson (Ben Kingsley) plays chess
96. World Chess Festival (1988) - documentary on the tournament at St John, New Brunswick, Canada
97. X-Men (2000) - Xavier (Patrick Stewart) playing chess with Magneto (Ian McKellen) in the final scene
98. X2: X-Men United (2003) - several chess scenes
99. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - Elizabeth Hardy (Sophie Ward) plays chess with Watson (Alan Cox)
100. Zoolander (2001) - Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) playing chess in the outake
101. 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)

From Russia With Love (1963).