chess in the movies ...

... other than Searching for B. Fischer

Jeremy Silman lists (and evaluates) a few at his site

Bladerunner (replay of a very famous game, which one 🙂 )

Bedazzled, 2000, and (from memory)

The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968

Revenge of The Nerds 2 (when they were in jail)

the luzin defence

Knight Moves

Homo Faber aka Voyager

the classic bergman film, the seventh seal, and the james bond film, from russia with love.

they played chess in independence day

Blazing Saddles (rather than "screwing"😉.

Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart is playing chess by himself in the first scene he appears ... Bogart was actually a reasonably player in real life

Originally posted by Siskin
Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart is playing chess by himself in the first scene he appears ... Bogart was actually a reasonably player in real life

Originally posted by arrakis
Really? What was his rating?

2001: A Space Odyssey.

The position shown is one that has occured in play (Roesch - Schlage 1910 0-1). HAL also makes a notation error when he says 'Queen to Bishop three' when playing Qf6 (It should be 'Queen to Bishop six'😉.

Season 2 of "Twin Peaks," ... Wyndham Earl and Coop play chess by mail. When Earl captures a rook, he finds some poor schmuck, traps him in a lifesize rook piece, kills him with a crossbow and leaves him for the police to find.

Stalag 17, one of the chessmen is used to pass information from a snitch in the barracks to the gaurds.

Fortress 2 w/ Christopher Lambert, the Russians touch the queen when they want to give "special meaning" to a word or phrase in a conversation.