The Chess Player (2017)
• May 5th, 2017 • 1h 38min
History, Drama
Overview
In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Germany, Year Zero
Released on: 1948-12-01
Drama
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help ...
Train of Life
Released on: 1998-09-16
Drama, Comedy, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation tra...
Surviving with Wolves
Released on: 2007-11-21
Drama
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide f...
Europa Europa
Released on: 1990-11-14
History, Drama, War
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
Amen.
Released on: 2002-02-27
Drama, History
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in...
Before the Fall
Released on: 2004-07-04
Drama
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (Na...
The Harmonists
Released on: 1997-12-25
Music, Drama
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Com...
Walk on Water
Released on: 2004-02-05
Drama
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...
American History X
Released on: 1998-07-01
Drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...
The Bridge
Released on: 1959-10-21
Drama, History, War
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Released on: 2005-04-07
Documentary, Drama
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
Released on: 1982-05-16
Drama, War
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...
Teheran '43
Released on: 1981-07-08
Action, Drama, Thriller
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the actio...
The Mortal Storm
Released on: 1940-06-20
Drama
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
The Remains of the Day
Released on: 1993-11-05
Drama, Romance
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
Gloomy Sunday
Released on: 1999-10-21
Drama, Romance
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restau...
And the Violins Stopped Playing
Released on: 1988-01-01
War, Drama
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as t...
Mujer de cabaret
Released on: 1991-04-11
Drama, Crime
Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. ...
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Released on: 1943-05-14
Mystery, Drama
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and h...
Schtonk!
Released on: 1992-03-12
Comedy, History
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with grea...