# The best movies about chess

Title matches, child prodigies and even a game against Death: the best chess films as picked by grandmasters (Sport-Express, Rambler) and Chess.com.

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- Aug 15, 2026 · Айгерим Иванова
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## Top 10

1. **The Queen's Gambit (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Miniseries about orphan Beth Harmon conquering the chess world.
2. **The Champion of the World (2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The 1978 Karpov–Korchnoi match in Baguio.
3. **Pawn Sacrifice (2014)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bobby Fischer and the match of the century against Spassky.
4. **Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Young prodigy Josh Waitzkin.
5. **The Luzhin Defence (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A chess genius, from Nabokov's novel.
6. **Chess Fever (1925)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Vsevolod Pudovkin's silent comedy, featuring Capablanca.
7. **Queen of Katwe (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A girl from a Ugandan slum becomes a chess player.
8. **The Seventh Seal (1957)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A knight plays chess with Death, by Ingmar Bergman.
9. **Life of a King (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A former prisoner teaches teenagers chess.
10. **The Chess Players (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two aristocrats in Lucknow, by Satyajit Ray.
11. **Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A German drama about a chess player on the edge of madness.
12. **Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A documentary on Fischer's life.

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