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List of Films With Chess Scenes

List of Films With Chess Scenes

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I've always wanted a list like this.
Hopefully people take part and post something.


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Awesome 👍

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I just stumbled upon this today :



edit : It is on your list, but this version has English subtitles.

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Casablanca!!

Google "chess scene movies" for others. Harry Potter. The Wire. The Thomas Crown Affair.



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The Queen’s Gambit

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10048342/


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They sometimes played 3-D chess in some of the TV Star Trek episodes, but that probably does not count.

Does anyone in real life even play that? I looked it up once but it made my head hurt just trying to figure it out. I have enough trouble just trying to play regular chess!

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The OP indicates a "List of Films With Chess Scenes".
The adding of the post-2017 parameter is excessively limiting and nonsensical.

Upon reading this thread's title; Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" (1957) immediately came to mind.




@Duchess64

Have to say, Wolfe's post puzzled me too.

Surely Max Von Sydow playing chess vs Death is THE iconic chess scene in a film.

And was, of course, on the list