The Chess Player (1938)

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

1972年、アイスランドで行われたチェス世界選手権で、ボビー・フィッシャーとボリス・スパスキーが対戦する。長きにわたりソ連がタイトルを持ち続けてきたが、史上初のアメリカ人挑戦者が誕生。若き天才の登場に世界中が注目する中、ボビーは第2局に出現することなく不戦敗となり……。＜トビー・マグワイアが実在の天才チェスプレイヤー、故ボビー・フィッシャーを怪演した白熱の心理ドラマ。米ソの冷戦時代、盤上での代理戦争を死にものぐるいで戦ったアメリカの奇才対ソ連チャンピオンの手に汗握る対戦を活写する。貫録ある世紀のライバルをリーヴ・シュレイバーが熱演。変わり者の奇才の波瀾万丈の人生と、緊張感あふれる頭脳戦に手に汗握る。＞

ペストが流行し終末的様相を呈した中世ヨーロッパ、10年に及ぶ十字軍遠征から帰還し疲弊し切った騎士アントーニウス（マックス・フォン・シドー）の前に死神（ベント・エーケロート）が出現する。死の宣告を悟った彼は、自らの命を懸けチェス対決を申し出るが、夜が明け死神は姿を消す。故郷を目指すアントーニウスの旅には常に死の気配がつきまとい、残酷な現実が待ち受けていた……。 名だたる映画作家たちに多大な影響を与え続けるスウェーデンの巨匠イングマール・ベルイマンが、人間の生と死、神の存在をテーマにした異色作。終末的様相を呈した中世ヨーロッパを舞台に、十字軍遠征から帰還し生きる意味や信仰に懐疑的になり、死神にとりつかれた騎士の姿を幻想的な映像で描く。

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.

A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.

第二次大戦下、スイス国境近くにあるドイツ軍の第１７捕虜収容所。米空軍の軍曹ばかりが集められた第４キャンプでは、地下通路を掘る脱走計画が極秘裏に着々と進行していた。そしてクリスマス直前のある夜、ついに２人の捕虜が脱走を試みる。しかし、情報が事前に洩れたのか、待ち伏せにあった彼らは射殺されてしまう。どうやら仲間内にスパイがいるらしいと囁かれ、何事にも抜け目なく立ち回るセフトンが真っ先に疑われる。

Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house 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 that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.

実在の天才少年チェスプレイヤーのジョシュ・ウェイツキンの父親フレッドが、ジョシュの生活を綴った本の映画化。ジョシュはまだ7歳という年齢ながら、チェスに関して天才的才能を持っていた。父フレッドは息子の秀でた才能を、かつてチェスで世界に名を馳せたアメリカ人天才プレーヤー、ボビー・フィッシャーに重ね合わせ本格的な英才教育を試みる。そして、彼は往年の名プレーヤー、ブルースに会い息子のコーチに雇う。ジョシュは特訓によって更に潜在していた能力を発揮、次々とタイトルを獲得した。だがある日、ジョシュの前に思わぬ強敵ジョナサンが現われる。

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

ジョン・ウェイン主演の異色西部劇。銀行強盗犯として追われる3人のならず者は、逃亡中に、瀕死の母親から赤ん坊を託される。次第に赤ん坊に愛情を感じていく3人だが、母親の叔父である保安官に追い詰められていく。

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes.

The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lured south of the border by the romance of cowboy life and the promise of a fresh start, Cole and his pal embark on an adventure that will test their resilience, define their maturity, and change their lives forever.

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life intersects with the dark and violent path of a mysterious organization opposed to the United States army military occupation.

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.

At the American Computer Chess Convention, enthusiasts gather to pit their programs against other computer chess programs and human players in a tournament for a grand prize of $7500.

Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.