10 Best Movies Like Chess
If you loved Chess, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Queen of Katwe
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master....

The Dark Horse
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his famil...

Pawn Sacrifice
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire....

King Lear
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....

Life of a King
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown establishe...

Sleuth
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman ...