The Chess Player (1938)
• November 25th, 1938 • 1h 10min
Drama, History
Overview
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Die Grünstein-Variante
Released on: 1985-04-19
Drama
The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they ...
The Hussites
Released on: 2013-11-06
Animation, History, Comedy
What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...
The Chess Player
Released on: 2017-05-05
History, Drama
In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne...
Stalag 17
Released on: 1953-05-29
Comedy, Drama, War
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
The Seventh Seal
Released on: 1957-02-16
Fantasy, Drama
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...
Horse
Released on: 2024-05-18
Drama, Family
At a local chess tournament, estranged brothers Edward and Oliver Abbott reunite after many years ap...
Checkmate!
Released on: 1967-07-01
Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie
Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredi...
5150 Elm's Way
Released on: 2009-10-09
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked ...
The Right to Live
Released on: 1935-01-26
Drama
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
Fresh
Released on: 1994-06-15
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against ea...
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Released on: 1993-08-13
Drama
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famo...
King of Endings
Released on: 1987-01-01
Drama, Crime
Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja ...
All the Pretty Horses
Released on: 2000-12-11
Drama, Romance, Western
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells...
The Mighty Pawns
Released on: 1987-02-14
Drama, TV Movie
Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.
Night Moves
Released on: 1975-06-11
Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard mis...
Keeper of the Flame
Released on: 1943-04-01
Drama, Mystery
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
The Dark Horse
Released on: 2014-07-17
Drama, History
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome p...
Europa
Released on: 1991-06-27
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postw...
Queen to Play
Released on: 2009-08-05
Comedy, Drama
Hélène, a housekeeper at a ritzy hotel in Corsica, is devoted to her family but lacks any passion in...
Queen of Katwe
Released on: 2016-09-23
Drama
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.