movies where the hero plays chess

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bobbyDK

I don't know if exist but I think it would be fun with a list of

movies where the hero plays chess.

Loomis

This thread was also started today, you guys should get together:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/looking-for-good-chess-movies

eddiewsox

The Seventh Seal by Fellini,  the hero plays chess against Death. 

ivandh

Blazing Saddles

artfizz

Consult Bill Wall's list of 1,700 chess-related movies here ... http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/movies.htm.

theoreticalboy
eddiewsox wrote:

The Seventh Seal by Fellini,  the hero plays chess against Death. 


Bergman.

trysts
eddiewsox wrote:

The Seventh Seal by Fellini,  the hero plays chess against Death. 


Ingmar Bergman did The Seventh SealSmile

McClintock

Casablanca

Time after Time

There's a few where specifically, the "hero" plays chessSmile

theoreticalboy
artfizz wrote:

Consult Bill Wall's list of 1,700 chess-related movies here ... http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/movies.htm.


There are some very tenuous links in that there list... "what a pawn I was" counts.

But ah, Europa.

unita_logica

This looks like quite a good list:

http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/chmovies.html

Another movie not mentioned there that I have seen is Traitor (set in the Middle East, about terrorism warfare), where a couple of the main characters play chess. A decent movie.

bobbyDK

I just saw Omega Man and it was quite funny that he suddenly said something about a gambit and I think the non chess playing public wouldn't understand the dialogue. He also talked about discovered chess.
I cannot recommend the movie though but it was quite funny he talked about chess and played chess with a statue.

bobbyDK
Sally_Ubatz wrote:

Why cannot you not recommend the Omega Man?  That's the movie with Charleton Heston from 1971 right?  You know it was a remake of a 1960's film, and the Omega Man was remade again in 2007 with Will Smith in the lead role.  All three movies were quite good.

you may have movies yourself that you can't recommend even though some may find it good or remade a lot of times.
I just felt like this movie could have been good but I don't know what they should have done better or maybe I wasn't i a mood for a zombi movie.

malko

The movie Sherlock Holmes: A game of shadows

Wikinger

The Anime 'Code Geass' the main character plays chess as a major part of the story. Its a brilliant story however one of the chess scenes is extremely annoying for an actual player to watch.