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.

Stalag 17
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an infor...

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....

The Lucky One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chess for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war....

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....