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Movies with Chess Scenes

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Safe Place (1971)

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1996)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Animal Crackers (1930)

Arch of Triumph (1947)

Around the World Under the Sea (1966)

Assassins (1995)

Batman Forever (1995)

Beast Must Die, The (1974)

Bishop Murder Case, The (1930)

Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)

Black Cat, The (1934)

Black Rose, The (1950)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blazing Saddles (1974)
Gene Wilder (aka the Waco Kid) checkmates Cleavon Little (aka Sheriff Bart) in a game in the city jail while both of them are co-miserating.

Bogie: A Biography (1980)

Brainwashed (1961)

Casablanca (1943)

Cass Tamberlane (1948)

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)

Chess Fever (1925)

Chess Game, The (an odd, gothic tale from Europe)

Chess of Life (1916)

Coming Home (1978)

Condemned, The (1948)

Criss-Cross (1949)

Dangerous Moves (1985)

Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

Devil Times Five (1985)

Devil’s Nightmare, The (1971)

Dr. Blood’s Coffin (1961)
Escape from Sobibor prison leaders plan a major escape and discuss how to arrange it while apparently playing chess at least from a distance to fool the guards.

Embryo Entr’ Acte (1924)

Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)

Fresh (1994)

From Russia With Love (1963)
(game from Spassky-Bronstein, Leningrad 1960)

Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Fury, The (1978)

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

Ghost of Flight 401, The (1978)

God Told Me To (1976)

Grumpier Old Men (1996)

Grumpy Old Men (1993)

Hackers (1995)

Harum Scarum (1965)

Heaven Sent (1988)

Hercules in New York (1970)

History of the World, Part 1 (1985)

House of Frankenstein (1945)

House of Whipcord, The (1974)

Humanoid Woman (1980)

I, Monster (1971)

Independence Day (1996)

Ivan The Terrible (1944)

Killing, The (1956)

Knight Moves (1992)

Knights of the Roundtable (1956)

Knock On Any Door (1949)

Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Les Creatures (1966)

Lodger, The (1926)

Lolita (1962)

Lonely Guy, The (1984)

Man With the Power, The (1977)

Mandy (1953)

Massacre at Central Hight (1976)

Merry Widow, The (1934)

Miracle of the Wolves, The (1924)

Monkey Business (1931)

Monkey Shines (1988)

Mr. Holland’s Opus (1996)

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

Murder in the First Degree (1995)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1989)

Nero Wolf (1977)

Night Moves (1975)

Night of the Howling Beast (1976)

No Contest (1995)

Omega Man, The (1971)

One Spy Too Many (1966)

Our Man in Havana (1960)

Paradine Case, The (1948)

Pennies From Heaven (1936)

Play it Again Sam (1970)

Prospero’s Books

Quest, The (1986)

Radio Bugs (1944)

Rambo III (1988)

Rent-A-Kid (1995)

Return From the Ashes (1965)

Rollercoaster (1977)

Scavenger Hunt (1979)

Sea Hawk (1942)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Sensation

Seventh Seal (1957)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1944)

Silent Partner (1978)

Spookies (1986)

Stairway to Heaven (1947)

Stalag 17 (1953)

Star Trek (1979)

Star Wars (1977)

Stitches (1985)

Swamp Thing, The (1982)

Sword in the Desert (1949)

Terror of Frankenstein, The (1975)

The Thing (1951)

Thief of Baghdad, The (1940)

Thief Who Came to Dinner, The (1972)

Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)
McQueen and Faye Dunaway playing a very erotically charged game. The McQueen character lost due to Dunaway’s artful feminine distractions.

Three Musketeers, The (1921)

Three Musketeers, The (1973)
With Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch and Charlton Heston among others, there is a scene near the very beginning where King Louis 13th is playing chess on the lawn using human servants to play the part of the pieces.

Time After Time (1979)
H.G. Wells plays chess with Jack the Ripper. The board is set up wrong, rotated 90 degrees.

Towering Inferno, The (1974)

Tron (1982)

Unguarded Moment, The (1956)

Virtuosity (1995)

War Games (1983)

Warlock, Armegeddon (1993)

Web, the (1947)

What the Peeper Saw (1971)

Wierd Science (1985)

Wind and the Lion, The (1975)

Wishing Ring, The (1914)

Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1965)

Yentl (1983)

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