A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on...
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politica...
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to f...
Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a cham...
In 1957, black lawyer John Williams has to defend his nephew Charlie, who is accused of strangling a...
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when ...
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassk...
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. I...
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells...
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against ea...
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famo...
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. I...
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a...
A tense game of chess between two calculated rivals. Who will come out on top?
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with hi...
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not u...