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Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
"Lovely and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène ... comes upon a couple ... engaged in an intensely sensual chess match and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor ... a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives"--Container.
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a ten year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
4) Chess story
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Description
When an attorney is imprisoned by the Nazis, he turns to the world of chess in order to overcome the psychological torture of the Gestapo.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, return to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. Get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence now and in the future." --
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Richard, recently unemployed, decides to return to his first love, teaching. When he finds a job as an inner-city schoolteacher teaching fourth grade, he discovers a way to reach out to his skeptical students through the game of chess. He inspires his students to become champions, not only at chess, but in life.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fresh (1994): "Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded housing project with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers who Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants out....
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