- $1,000,000 Duck (1971) - Professor Albert dooley (Dean Jones) plays chess
- 3 Godfathers (1948) - Robert Hightower (John Wayne) plays chess with Marshall Sweet (Ward Bond)
- 3 Worlds of Gulliver, The (1960) - the king of Brobdignag (Gregoire Aslan) plays chess with Gulliver (Kerwin Matthews)
- 8x8: A Chess Sonata (1957) - directed by Hans Richter; Marcel Duchamp plays Man Ray
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - chess set in the living room
- 12 Monkeys (1995) - lady with chessmen
- 13 Frightened Girls (1963) - diplomats playing chess
- 13 Rue Madeline (1946) - soldiers playing chess
- 21 Grams (2003) - Sean Penn playing computer chess
- 24 - (2004 TV) - an episode with chess
- 42 Up (1998) - chess is mentioned
- 48 Hours (1988 TV) Episode: Capture the Queen
- 49th Parallel (1941) - chess game played by radio
- 52 Pick Up (1986) - chess set on a table
- 1984 (1955)
- 1984 (1984) - Winston Smith (John Hurt) plays chess
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - astronaut Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) vs. HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain)
- 2010 (1984) - HAL 9000 is rebooted and asks for a game of chess
- 5150, Rue des Ormes (2009)
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) - with Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis; chess set in backround at the warden's (Arthur Byron) house
- A Lovesong for Bobby Long (2004)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
- A Woman's Face (1941) - Joan Crawford playing chess with Melvyn Douglas on a small magetic set
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Professor Allen Hobby (William Hurt) lectures about early artifical beings could play chess
- Aalavandhan (2001) (Abhay) - psychopath Abhay Kumar (Kamal Hassan) is a chess player
- Abandon (2002) - Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) drinks while playing chess
- Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926) - silhouette chess film
- ABC Murders (1992 ITV) - chessboard in a scene
- Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971) - Dr. Vesalius (Joseph Cotton) playing chess with Lem (Sean Bury)
- Above Suspicion (1943) - Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and Francis Myles (Joan Crawford) go to a woodcarver's shop in search of chess pieces
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) - Jim Carrey playing Simon Callow; lots of movie mistakes
- Achtung! Wer kennt diese Frau? (1934 German) - scene with a chess set
- Across the Bridge (1957) - Karl Schaffner (Rod Steiger) plays on a peg set
- Act of Murder, An (1948) - Calvin Cooke (Frederic March) and Jim Wilder (Will Wright) play a game of chess
- Action of the Tiger (1957) - Tracy Malvoisie (Martine Carol) walks into a hotel where they play chess
- Actors, The (2003) - O'Malley (Michael Caine) sitting by his chess set
- Addams Family, The (1991) - The Thing plays Gomez Adams (Raul Julia) and wins hands down, observed by Anjelica Huston
- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1938 French) - Maurice de Saxe (Piere Fresnay) playing chess
- Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The (1990) - Julian Grendel (Wayne Newton) displays a chess set in his apartment
- Adventures of Morph: A Game of Chess (May 1, 1981, BBC) - clay animation
- Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (1926) - animated German film with a princess playing chess
- Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) - Quentin Durwood (Robert Taylor) plays chess with Isabelle (Kay Kendall)
- Affairs of Anatol, The (1921) - Vivian (Gloria Swanson) playing chess
- Against the Wind (1948) - chess is being played in the background of a room
- Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989 TV) Episode: Sad Cypress
- Age Old Friends (1989) - Cooper (Hume Cronyn) plays chess with Aylott (Vincent Gardenia)
- Agency (1981) - with Lee Majors; chess set on the coffee table
- Agent Red (2000) - Russian taxi driver Ziggy (Allan Kolman) has a chess set on his car
- Agnes Escapes From the Nursing Home (1988) - animated movie
- Agon (2003) - two players playing chess
- Ajnabee (2001) - chess pieces in the background
- Aladdin (1992) - Genie (voice by Robin Williams) loses a chess game to the magic carpet
- Alamo, The: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) - chess set in a house
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (180) - chess play in Alcatraz
- Alfie (2004)
- Alfred the Great (1969) - Michael York, David Hemmings, Prunella Ransom
- Algiers (1938) - chess playing in the background
- Alice (1990) - with Mia Farrow; chess set on a coffee table
- Alice in Storageland (2004) - chess guy 1 (Charlie Paine) plays chess guy 2 (Charles Francis Xavier)
- Alice in Wonderland (1933) - Alice (Charlotte Henry) talks to chess pieces
- Alice in Wonderland (1976) - Alice (Kristine De Bell) with chess scenes
- Aliens Are Coming, The (1980) - chess set on a night stand
- All Night Long (1981) - chess set on a coffee table
- All the King's Horses (1991) - computer chess set
- All The President's Men (1976) - radio news about the Fischer-Spassky match in 1972
- All The Pretty Horses (2000) - John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) playing Luisa (Angelina Torres) chess
- Almost Famous (2000) - soundtrack has a song, "Your Move" referencing chess
- Alone in the Dark (1982) - patients in a mental ward playing chess
- Along Came a Spider (1969) - Berkeley Chess Club mentioned
- Along Came Polly (2003) - Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) says Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston) was in the chess club
- Am Ende Der Hochzeitsnacht (Labyrinth of Lies) (2002 German TV) - Karel (Samuel Fritzi) and girl plays chess
- Amanda and the Alien (1999) - chess in a cafe
- Amazing Stories, The Movie VI (1985) - chess club members in a high school
- Ambushers, The (1968) - chess set on table
- Amen (2002) - has a German chess player (Hinnerk Schonemann) in this World War II setting
- American Gambit (1988) - Garry Kasparov's simul against 6 U.S. Juniors
- American Kickboxer 1 (1990) - chess set in B.J. Quinn's (John Barrett) house
- American Kickboxer 2 (1993) - Uncle Francis (Greg Lewis) with a chess set
- American Outlaws (2001) - chess is mentioned
- American Prince: The John F. Kennedy, Jr. Story (2003) - chess play in Central Park
- American Virgin (2000) - chess set on a table during a bedroom scene with Joey (Bob Hoskins) and Katrina (Mena Suvari)
- American Werewolf in London, An (1981) - bald man (Brian Glover) playing chess in a pub with another player (Rik Mayall)
- Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992) - Rusty (Damon Martin) plays chess with Iris Wheeler (Nita Talbot)
- Amour, Delices et Orgues (1946 French) - two players playing chess and two kibitzers
- Anastasia (1997) - Dimitri (voice of John Cusack) and Vladimir (voice of Kelsey Grammer) play chess (animated)
- Anatomie (Anatomy) 2 (2003) - Jo Hauser (Barnaby Metscharut) playing chess
- And Now the Screaming Starts (1973) - Charles Fengriffen (Ian Ogilvy) studies a chess position
- And the Sea Will Tell (1991) - Mac Graham (James Brolin) plays chess
- And Then There Were None (1945) - chess set in the library
- Android Affair (1995) - android plays chess
- Angel Face (1953) - Diane (Jean Simmons) playing Charles (Herbert Marshall)
- Angels (1991) - two recent dead guys playing chess
- Angels and Insects (1996) - chess set
- Angels Don't Sleep Here (2001) - Mayor Harry Porter (Roy Scheider) plays chess
- Angry Red Planet, The (1959) - Theodore Gettel (Les Tremayne) analyses a chess position
- Angus (1995) - Ivan (George C Scott) and Angus Bethune (Charlie Talbert) play chess in a park
- Animal Crackers (1930) - Marx Brothers
- Animal Kingdom, The (1932) - Mr. Collier (Henry Stephenson) plays chess
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) - Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujolrd) plays chess with Henry VIII (Richard Burton)
- Annie (1981) - bodyguards Asp (Roger Minami) and Punjab (Geoffrey Holder) playing chess
- Antelope chess Game (1995)
- Anthony Adverse (1936) - Anthony Adverse (Frederic March) plays chess with Ferdinando (Paul Sotoff)
- Antitrust (2000) - large chess set and chess references
- Any Given Sunday (1999) - chess set in the background
- Apollo 11 (1996) - chess in Mission Control
- Apple Dumpling Gang, The (1975) - chess set in the background of the fire department
- Appointment in Honduras (1953) - Captain McTaggart (Stanley Andrews) playing chess with Harry Shepard (Zachary Scott)
- Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravits, The (1974) - chess game being played at the summer resort
- Arch of Triumph (1948) - Dr. Ravic (Charles Boyer) plays chess with Boris Marozov (Louis Calhern)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - Phineaus Phogg (David Niven) has a chess set in his home
- Around the World Under the Sea (1964) - Hank Stahl (Keenan Wynn) playing chess
- Arthur (1981) - Hobson (John Gielgud) and Arthur Bach (Dudley Moore) play chess
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) - chess sets
- Arzt aus Leidenschaft (1959)
- Ascenseur Pour l'Echafaud (1957)
- Assassination Bureau, the (1969) - chess set
- Assassins (1995) - Robert Rath (Sylvestor Stallone) plays chess
- Assigned Servant, The (1911) - directed by John Gavin; Australian film
- Asylum (1970) - chess set in the office
- At Gunpoint (1955) - Walter Brennan
- At Land (1944) - chess game
- At Sword's Point (1952) - a game of chess being played
- Austin Powers II - The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - Austin Powers (Mike Myers) playing Ivana Humpalot (Kristen Johnsen)
- Autumn Sonata (1978) - chess set
- Avant Garde (2003)
- Avengers, The (1998) - Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman (also TV version)
- Awakenings (1990) - chess being played in a mental ward
- Babes in Arms (1939) - Mickey Rooney refers to a game of chess
- Babette's Feast (1987) - two soldiers play chess
- Babylon A.D. (2008)
- Bach and Broccoli (1986) - Jonathan Barlow (Raymond Legault) says he is good in chess
- Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947) - Thaddeus (Harry Davenport) and Dr. Beemish (Ray Collins) play chess
- Back Against the Wall (2000) - Levey (Martin Shannon) plays chess with Ed (Ernie Frantz)
- Back in the USSR (1992) - Georgi (Ravil Issyanov) studies a chess position
- Back to the Future III (1990) - Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) plays chess with a dog
- Backbeat (1992) - story of the Beatles; a game of chess is disrupted
- Backyard, The (2002) - wrestlers say they used to play chess
- Bad Boys II (2003) - Mike Lowrey's (Will Smith) class photo mentioning chess
- Bad Company (2002) - Kevin Pope (Chris Rock), chess hustler Jake Hayes (Chris Rock) and Gaylord Oaks (Anthony Hopkins) play chess
- Balalaika (1939) - chess being played in a Russian tavern
- Banacek (TV) - several episodes with chess references with George Peppard; he had a chess-playing bookseller friend
- Bandidas (2006)
- Bandits of Corsica (1953) - a chess game mentioned that was played in the past
- Barber of Stamford Hill, The (1963) - Mr. Figg (John Bennett) plays chess with Dober (Maxwell Shaw)
- Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1957) - Henry (Nicholas Hawtrey) and Octave (Kenneth Fortescue) play chess
- Baseball (1994) - PBS documentary with chess references
- Basic (2003) - Hardy (John Travolta) with chess set on the table
- Batman (1989) - chess set can be seen
- Batman Begins (2005) - "Crane was just a pawn"
- Batman Forever (1995) - chess riddle
- Beach, The (2000) - homemade chess set
- Bear Island (1980) - Heddi Lindquist (Vanessa Redgrave) and Thaddeus Lechinski (Christopher Lee) play chess
- Beast, The (1988) - Samad (Erick Avari) and Koverchenko (Jason Patrick) play chess
- Beast Must Die, The (1974) - Bennington (Charles Gray) and Dr. Lundgen (Peter Cushing) play chess
- Beast With Five Fingers (1946) - Composer Conrad Ryler (Robert Alda) plays pianist Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) chess
- Beat the Devil (1953) - Mrs. Gwendolyn Chelm (Jennifer Jones) plays chess with Harry Chelm (Edward Underdown)
- Beau Travail (1999)
- Beautician and the Beast, The (1997) - Boris Pochenko (Timothy Dalton) mentions chessboard
- Beautiful Mind, A (2001) - chess set in background on stone bench
- Beauty and Denise (1989) - chess set in the room of Slade (David Carradine)
- Beauty and the Beast (1946) - chess game being played
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Gaston (voice of Richard White) plays chess with a townsman
- Beavis and Butt-Head do America (1996) - Agent Fleming (voice of Robert Stack) mentions pawns
- Becket (1964) - the French King (John Gielgud) plays a game of chess
- Bedazzled (2000) - the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) plays and angel (Gabriel Casseus)
- Before Winter Comes (1969) - Soviet commander (Gertan Klauber) has a chess set
- Beginning of the End, The (1947) - chess set at the home of Einstein (Ludwig Stossel)
- Behind Enemy Lines (1996) - Hillary Matthews
- Bela (1966)
- Best House in London, The (1969) - harem girls playing chess
- Best Seller (1987) - chess set on a coffee table
- Best Thief in the World, The (2004) - Michael Silverman
- Betty in Blunderland (1934) - Betty Boop meets some chess pieces
- Beverly of Graustark (1926) - Oscar (Marion Davies) plays chess with a military man (Antonio Moreno)
- Beware of Pity (1946) - based on a novel by Stefan Zweig
- Beyond the Stars (1989) - chess set in the room of Paul Andrews (Martin Sheen)
- Beyond the Universe (1981) - Dr. David Tratz (David Ladd) mentions chess
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - Harris Allsworth (David Gurian) plays chess with Kelly MacNamura (Dolly Read)
- Bicentennial Man (1999) - Richard Martin (Sam Neill) plays chess with his wife (Wendy Crewson)
- Big Brass Ring, The (2000) - Blake Pellerin (William Hurt) mentions a chessboard
- Big Fix, The (1978) - Moses Wine (Richard Dreyfuss) mentions he was a member of the chess club
- Big Lebowski, The (1998) - a chess set at the mansion of Leboeski (David Huddleston)
- Big Picture, The (1989) - the father (Vladimir Scomarovsky) plays chess with Joey (C.W. Hemingway)
- Big Red (1962) - chess set in the home of James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon)
- Big Sleep, The (1978) - Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) studies a chess position
- Big Tease, The (1999) - chess set dressed up in hula skirts and decorations
- Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) - chess being played in heaven
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1988) - chess set in background of the White House
- Billion Dollar Brain (1967) - Leo Newbigen (Karl Malden) plays chess with Anya (Francoise Dorleac)
- Bishop Murder Case, The (1930) - Philo Vance (Basil Rathbone) is the chess-playing sleuth
- Bitter Moon (1992) - chess set in the stateroom of Oscar (Peter Coyote)
- Bittersweet Love (1976) - Robert Lansing playing chess with Scott Hylands
- Black and White (1999)
- Black and White Like Day and Night (1978) - Thomas Rosenmund (Bruno Ganz) as an obsessive chess master
- Black Caesar (1973) - Fred Williamson
- Black Cat, The (1934) - Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) checkmates Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) (impossible chess position)
- Black Cat, The (1990) - chess board on the wall
- Black Cat White Cat (1999) - man playing a chess game
- Black Hawk Down (2001) - several chess scenes
- Black Knight (2001) - Lord Percival (Vincent Regan) and Jamal Walker (Martin Lawrence) play chess
- Black Mask, The (1989) - Simon (Jet Li) plays chess with Rock (Matt McKenzie)
- Black Room, The (1935) - Gregor (Boris Karloff) plays chess with Col. Hassel (Thuston Hall)
- Black Rose, The (1950) - William of Gurnie (Tyrone Power) plays chess with General Bayan (Orson Welles)
- Black Roses (1989) - Matthew Moorhouse (John Martin) plays chess with another teacher
- Black Shield of Fallworth (1954) - chess play and chess sets
- Blade (1998) - a chess set in the room of Dr. Karen Jensen (N'Bushe Wright)
- Blade Runner (1982) - J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson) plays chess with Scott Tyrell (Joe Turkel)
- Blazing Saddles (1974) - The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) checkmates sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little)
- Blind Alley (1939)
- Blind Swordsman, The, Episode 12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert, The (1965)
- Bliss of Mrs. Blossom, The (1967) - chess set in the attic of Ambrose Tuttle (James Booth)
- Blitz (1994)
- Blob, The (1958) - Officer Ritchie (George Karas) plays chess
- Blondie's Big Deal (1949) - boys playing chess
- Blood and Sand (1941) - Dona Sol (Rita Hayworth) shows chess to Juan Gallardo (Tyrone Power)
- Blood of Heroes, The (1989) - a chess variant is played at a camp
- Blood of the Innocent (1994) - chess set outside
- Blue Routes (1947 Russian) - a story showing the Soviet Navy disarming minefields laid by the Nazis using a chess knights tour
- Blue Steel (1990) - chess being played in a park
- Bluebeard (1972) - Bluebeard (Richard Burton) plays chess with Anne (Joey Heatherton)
- Bobby (2006) - Anthony Hopkins plays chess with Harry Belafonte
- Body, The (2000) - two players playing chess in Jerusalem
- Bodyguard, The (1992) - Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) plays chess with his dad (Ralph Waite)
- Bogie: A Biography (1980 TV) - Humphrey Bogart (Kevin O'Connor) playing chess
- Boguljubov Blunders (1972) - animated cartoon
- Bone Collector, The (1999) - Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) plays computer chess
- Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990) - chess set in the house of Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks)
- Bonzo Goes to College (1952) - Grandpa Drew (Edmund Gwenn) plays chess
- Boom! (1968) - Flanders (Richard Burton) sees a chess position and says, "Mate in two."
- Border Incident (1949) - chess scene with George Murphy, Henry DeSilva and Charles McGraw
- Boris and Natasha (1988) - reference to just being pawns in the game
- Born American (1986) - living chess
- Bottom (1992 BBC) - Ritchie Richard (Rik Mayall) challenges Eddie Hitler (Abe Edmundson) to a game of chess
- Bourne Identity, The (2002) - Matt Damon; chess set on the ship
- Bowrey Champs (1949) - Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) makes a eference to a chess game
- Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976 TV) - Todd (John Travolta) plays chess with the doctor (Ralph Bellamy)
- Boys' Night Out (1962) - husband is playing chess
- Brainwashed (Die Schachnovelle) (1960) - Dr. B. (Curt Jurgens) plays chess; based on Zweig's The Royal Game
- Breaker! Breaker! (1976) - Judge Trimmings (George Murdock) teaches the barmaid (Miranda Garrison) how to play chess
- Breaking Through (1996)
- Brewster McCloud (1971) - a chess set at Hascal Weeks's (William Windom) house
- Bride Wore Red, The (1937) - Billie Burke playing chess with Reginald Owen
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999) - chess set on a coffee table in the living room
- Brink's Job, The (1978) - chess set in the store
- Brotherhood of War, The (2004) - "you dirty pawn of American imperialism"
- Brothers McMullen (1995)
- Brute Force (1947) - Spencer (John Hoyt) plays chess, observed by Burt Lancaster and Howard Duff
- Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (1992) - chess poster
- Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) - chess being played on a ship
- Bullet for Joey, A (1955) - chess game between a man and a woman
- Bullets Over Broadway (1994) - chess being played in front of a cafe
- Burning Secret (Brennendes Geheimmis) (1988) - several chess scenes; magnetic chess; outdoor chess in the snow
- But Not For Me (1959) - Matt MacDonald (Lee J. Cobb) mentions chess
- Butterfly Effect, The (2004) - prison chess set
- Buvos Vadasz (Magic Hunter) (1994) - Max (Gary Kemp) is assigned to protect Maxim (Alexander Kaidanovsky), a chess master
- By the Sea (2004) - Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) playing chess
- Cabaret (1972) - chess game being played at a picnic table
- Cabin Boy (1993) - chess pieces in the backgorund
- Cacho Room (2002)
- Caddyshack II (1988) - Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) hits a golf ball that fell on some chess pieces
- Calabuig (1956 Spanish) - a parson playing chess with a lighthouse keeper by phone
- Calcium Kid, The (2004) - "an innocent pawn in the whole thing"
- California (1946) - Faro Coffin (Albert Dekker) at his chessboard
- Camelot (1967) - chess set in one of the scenes
- Campo Mamula (1959 Yugoslav) - chess set made of white and brown bread in a Nazi concentration camp
- Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness (1969) - Anthony Newley plays chess
- Canadian Bacon (1995) - Stu Smiley (Kevin Pollak) plays chess with R.J. Hacker (G.D. Spradlin)
- Cannon for Cordoba (1970) - George Peppard
- Capablanca (1987) - story of Jose Capablanca
- Cape Fear (1962) - Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) has a chess set in his study
- Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1973) - Professor Grost (John Cater) plays chess with Dr. Marcus (John Carson)
- Captain Lightfoot (1955) - Regis O'Donnel (Denis O'Dea) plays chess in a bar
- Captain Newman, M.D. (1964) - patients playing chess at a mental ward
- Captain Scarlett (1952)
- Captive Heart (1948) - chess play in a POW camp
- Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987) - chess them of Alice in Wonderland
- Carey Treatment, The (1972) - Joshua Randall (Alex Dreier) asks if someone plays chess
- Casablanca (1942) - Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) studying a chess position
- Casino Royale (2006) - chess prodigy mentioned
- Casper (1995) - chess set in one of the scenes
- Cass Timberlane (1948) - Cass Timberlane (Spencer Tracy) teaches chess to Virginia (Lana Turner)
- Cassandra Crossing (1977) - peg chess set on the bed of Jennifer (Sphia Loren)
- Castle of Death (1988)
- Cat From Outer Space (1978) - Ken Berry and McClean Stevenson
- Catherine the Great (2005) - chess scenes with Emily Bruni and Dan Badarau
- Cats and Dogs (2001) - chess game is mentioned
- Catwoman (2004) - Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) has a glass chess set
- Cellar Dweller (1988) - chess box on a coffee table
- Cellblock Sisters (1995) - April (Annie Wood) plays chess in a prison yard
- Chained (1934) - Neptune plays chess with a bald man on a ship
- Chaindance (1990) - several scenes with chess; board set up wrong (white to the left)
- Chameleon (1995)
- Chaplin (1992) - chess set in one of the scenes
- Charade (1953) - Babcock (James Mason) plays chess
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) - Charlie Chan (Peter Ustinov) references a blind chessplayer
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) - Charles Zaraka (Morgan Wallace) plays chess at his mansion
- Charlie Chan At the Wax Museum (1940) - chess automaton
- Charlie's Angels (TV)
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) - Alex (Lucy Liu) beating a kid (Joshua Miller)
- Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) - chess is mentioned
- Check (2008)
- Checkmate (1995) - x-rated video with chess and mating
- Checkmate (2003) - board set up wrong
- Chemical Wedding (2008)
- Chess Dispute, A (1903) - British silent comedy; two men play chess and a move is disputed; Directed by Robert Paul
- Chess Fever (1925) (Shakmatnaya Goryachka); Russian silent film with Capablanca
- Chess Fundamentals (1950) - chess instructional film
- Chess Game, The (1968) - directed by Eric Wright
- Chess Games (1964) - Marcel Duchamp and chess
- Chess in Pieces: 21st Century Art (2003 TV) - about chess and art
- Chess Kids (1996) - 1990 World Youth Chess Championship documentary in Wisconsin
- Chess-Nuts (1932) - Betty Boop cartoon by Max and David Fleischer
- Chess of Life (1916) - Vera Kholodnaya waltzing on top of a large chess board
- Chess Players, The (Shatranj Ke Khilari) (1977) - film from India
- Chess Queen, The (1916) - silent cartoon
- Chess Set, The (2004)
- Chess Wars - The Execution of a king (1996) - Art Data Interactive short movie
- Chicken Little (2005) - Chicken Little asked to join the chess club
- Children of Dune (2003 cable) - chess scene with Alex Newman and Barbara Kodetova
- Childs Play 2 (1990) - chessboard and chess set in some of the scenes
- China Seas (1935) - chess play on a ship
- Chinese Caper, The (1980) - Everett Madden (Victor Buono) plays chess with Ming (Tsai Hung)
- Chinese Cat, The (1944) - Thomas Manning (Sam Flint) studying a chess position
- Chip vs. the Chessmaster (1991 TV) - NOVA episode on computer chess
- Chisum (1970) - John Chisum (John Wayne) mentions the map is a chessboard
- Chloro Power! (2006 video)
- Christine (1983) - Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) says he was in the chess club
- Christmas Tree, The (1969) - chess scene with William Holden, Virni Lisi, and Brook Fuller
- Chronicles of Riddick (2004) - chess-like game played
- Cincinnati Kid, The (1965) - Edward G. Robinson
- Cinderella (1912) - directed by Colin Campbell
- Clairvoyant (1982) - chess set on the dresser
- Clay Pigeons (1998) - Lester Long (Vince Vaughn) mentions chess
- Clear and Present Danger (1994) - chess set on the coffee table
- Clerks (1994) - Randal (Jeff Anderson) mentions a guy on a chess team
- Clive of India (1935) - a game of living chess
- Cloak and Dagger (1985) - chessboard in one of the scenes
- Clownhouse (1988) - scene with chess pieces
- Cobb (1994) - chess set in a scene
- Cobweb, The (1955) - Dr. McIver (Richard Widmark) and Mark (Tommy Rettig) playing chess
- Coffee and Language (2000) - chess scene with Chopper Bernet and Janis de Lucia Allen
- Cold Heaven (1992) - chess set in the office
- Colditz Story, The (1955) - scnew with small chess set in POW camp
- Collectors, The (2000) - chess scene with Rick Fox
- College Road Trip (2008)
- Color of Money, The (1986) - Felsen (Paul Newman) mentions chess
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969) - Dr. Forbin (Eric Braeden) plays chess with Colossus
- Columbo (TV) - with Peter Falk; several chess references; On March 4, 1973 there was "The Most Dangerous Match" with chessplayers
- Come Blow Your Horn (1963) - chess game being played
- Coming Home (1978) - chess playing in the hospital ward
- Coming-Out Party (1961) - chess set in a POW camp
- Comme Une Image (2004)
- Committed (1990) - chess set in the office
- Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The (1970) - Dexter Reilly (Kurt Russell) identifies a chess painting
- Condemned, The (1948 French) - chess game being played
- Condition Red (1995) - Gidell Ryan (Cynda Williams) plays chess in prison
- Condorman (1981) - chess set in the studio of Woody (Michael Crawford)
- Confidence (2003) - Jake Vig (Edward Burns) mentions how many moves a chessplayer can see
- Confessions - Two Faces of Evil (1994) - several chess scenes
- Conquering Power, The (1921) - chess set in a scene; starring Rudolf Vealentino and Alice Terry
- Contender, The (2000) - Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) mentions chess
- Conversaciones con mama (2004)
- Cookout, The (2004) - checkmate in one move is mentioned
- Cops and Robbers (1973) - chess set on glass table
- Copycat (1995) - Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) plays chess on the Internet
- Cornered (1945) - Manuel Santana (Morris Carnovsky) playing chess at a party
- Corruption (1968) - chess set in the library
- Cosmic Man, The (1959) - stars John Carradine; bedridden boy has a chess set
- Couch, The (1962) - chess set in a hospital room
- Count of Monte Cristo (2002) - Edmund Dantes (James Caviezel) carries a chess king
- Counter Measures (1998) - wooden chess set
- Counterfeit Traitor (1962) - chess play in an air raid shelter
- Countess Dracula (1970) - chess play by Master Fabio (Maurice Denham), Dobi (Nigel Green), and Toth (Sandor Eles)
- Coupling (2000 TV) Episode: Bed Time
- Courageous Mr. Penn (1941) - Mr. Pepys (Henry Oscar) plays chess in a tavern
- Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001) - Radical Edward plays chess
- Craze (1973) - chess set in the showroom of Neal Mottram (Jack Palance)
- Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) - girl (Santo Noemi Gonzalez) plays chess
- Creatures, Les (1966) - Ducasse (Lucien Bodard) plays chess with Edgar (Michel Piccoli)
- Creepers (1984) - chess set in several scenes
- Creeping Flesh (1972) - chess set in the office of Dr. Hilbern (Christopher Lee)
- Creepshow (1982) - Dexter Stanley (Fritz Weaver) plays chess with Henry Northup (Hal Holbrook)
- Cries and Whispers (1973) - Maria (Liv Ullmann) mentions chess
- Criminal Passion (1994) - reference to a chessplayer
- Criss-Cross (1949) - Finchley (Alan Napier) is playing a game of chess
- Crossing, The (1999) - wooden chess set on table
- Crow, The: Salvation (2000) - Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) plays chess with Peter Walsh (Grant Shaud)
- Cruising (1980) - Captain Dave Enelson (Paul Sorvino) is playing a chess computer
- Crusades, The (1935) - Conrad (Joseph Schildkraut) plays chess with Prince John (Ramsay Hill)
- Cry Freedom (1987) - chess set in the office of Donald Woods (Kevin Kline)
- Cry of the Owl (1987) - chess is mentioned by an old man
- Cry of the Weak (1919) - Dexter (Frank Elliott) plays chess with Judge Creighton (Walt Whitman)
- Cube Zero (2004) - Eric Wynn plays blindfold chess against his co-worker, Dodd
- Curse of the Fly (1965) - Ronay (Jeremy Wilkins) has a chess set
- Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) - Alexander King (Fred Clark) wishes his monkey could play chess
- Curse of the Werewolf (1961) - chess set in the home of the Marquis Siniestro (Anthony Dawson)
- D-Tox (2002) - Sylvester Stallone
- Da Vinci Code, The (2006)
- Daisy Miller (1974) - chess set in a pool
- Damn the Defiant! (1962) - chessboard in the home of Admiral Jackson (Walter Fitzgerald)
- Damnation Alley (1977) - Sgt Keegan (Paul Winfield) plays chess with Maj Denton (George Peppard)
- Dances With Wolves (1990) - two soldiers playing chess
- Dangerous Moonlight (1941) - Pete Peters (Percy Parsons) plays chess with Steve Radetsky (Anton Walbrook)
- Dangerous Moves (La Diagonale du fou) (1984) - Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) plays Pavius Fromm (Alexander Arbatt)
- Dangerous Partners (1945) - chess set in the room of Profesor Budlow (Felix Bressart)
- Dante's Peak (1997) - chess set on the coffee table of Dr. Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan)
- Dark Mirror (1946) - Scott Elliot (Lew Ayers) studys a chess position
- Dark Past, The (1948) - starring William Holden and Lee J. Cobb
- Dark Wind (1994) - Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Fred Ward) has a chess set
- Darklings, The (1999 TV) - Chris Jackson (Ryan de Boer) has a chess set
- Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1995) - Peter Rooker (Jeff Fahey) owns a chess set
- Darling Lil (1970) - chess set on a table
- Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (1997)
- Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks) (1924) - Harun al Raschid (Emil Jannings) playing chess
- David and Lisa (1962) - David Clemons (Keir Dullea) plays chess with Simon (Matthew Anden)
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) - Police officer Kenneth (Ving Rhames) plays chess with (Bruce Bohne)
- Day After Tomorrow, The (2004) - Brian Parks (Arjay Smith) says he was president of the chess club
- Day of the Assassin (1979) - chess talk between Mr. Gomez (Henry Silva) and Tom Fleming (Chuck Connors)
- DC Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003 cable) - John Muhammad (Bobby Hosea) plays chess with Lee Malvo (Trent Cameron)
- Dead and Buried (1981) - Dobbs (Jack Albertson) mentions chess
- Dead Beat (1994) - chess set by the the fireplace
- Dead by Sunset (1995 TV) - chess set in several scenes
- Dead Man's Eyes (1944) - chess set in the study
- Dead of Winter (1987) - Dr. Joseph Lewis (Jan Rubet) plays chess with Mr. Murray (Roddy McDowall)
- Dead Poets Society (1989) - chess play in the study room
- Deadbolt (1992) - Alec (Adam Baldwin) plays chess
- Deadlier Than the Male (1967) - huge mechanical chess board; Richard Johnson and Nigel Greene
- Deadly Affair, The (1967) - chessboard by the fireplace
- Deadly and the Beautiful, The (1973) - chess play on an island
- Dear God (1996) - chess is mentioned
- Death Match (1994) - chess and checkers mentioned
- Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990 TV) - Dr. David Banner (Bill Bixby) and Dr. Ronald Pratt (Philip Steling) play chess
- Death Valley (1982) - chess play in the park
- Death Wish IV: The Crackdown (1987) - chess set on the coffee table
- Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell (1988) - bodyguard (Oscar Serafin) plays chess with dwarf (Jesus Juarez)
- Deconstructing Harry (1997) - chessmen in Harry Block's (Woody Allen) apartment
- Deep Dark Secrets (1987) - chess set in a room
- Deepstar Six (1988) - Dr. Diane Norris (Cindy Pickett) studying a chess position
- Def by Temptation (1990) - chess set on the floor
- Demon Seed (1977) - Walter Gabler (Gerit Graham) plays chess with a computer
- Der Henker von London (1963)
- Der Klosterjager (1953) - chess being played in the monastery
- Der Schatz der Azteken (1965)
- Der Schweigende Stern (1959)
- Der Veruntbreute Himmel (1958)
- Der Zarewitsch (1954)
- Deserter, The (Polish film) - SS troop playing chess
- Design for Scandal (1941) - Rosalind Russell
- Desire (1962 Czech) - puppet film with chess players
- Desperate Measures (1998) - Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton) plays chess with a computer
- Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)
- Det sjunde seglet (1957) - with Ingmar Bergman
- Detonator (2003) - chess played outside in the background on a table
- Detective, The (1954) - Alec Guinness
- Deterrence (1999) - Taylor Woods (Michael Mantell) and Lizzie Woods (Kathryn Morris) play chess
- Devil and Max Devlin, The (1981) - Max Devlin (Elliott Gould) plays chess with Penelope Hart (Susan Anspach)
- Devil Times Five (1985) - David (Leif Garrett) plays chess with Dr. Harvey Beckman (Sorrell Booke)
- Devil's Nightmare, The (1971) (Castle of Death) - chess play
- Devotion (1946) - several chess sets in the house
- Dezerter (1958) (The Deserter) - Polsh film; soldier studying a game of chess
- Diary of Anne Frank (1959) - Mr. Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) plays chess with Mrs. Frank (Gusti Huber)
- Die Abenteuer Des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) (1936) - German animated film
- Die Another Day (2002) - chess play outside a Cuban hospital
- Die Buddenbrooks (1959)
- Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953) - Arabs playing chess
- Die Grunstein Variante (1985)
- Die Hard II (1990) - "my little pawn now"
- Die Haupter meiner Lieben (1999)
- Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932) - Heinz Klingenberg playing chess with Brigitte Helm
- Die Schachnovelle (1961 German) - chess played in a prison cell
- Die Spur Fuhrt Nach Berlin (1952)
- Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse
- Diese Nacht Vergess Ich Nie (1949)
- Dirty Dozen, The (1967) - chess set in the upstairs room
- Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - Dr. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) plays chess with Guo Yi (Benedict Wong); board set up wrong
- Disappearance (1977) - chess set in the room
- Disorderlies (1987) - chess set in the house
- Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992) - chess set on the office desk
- Disturbing Behavior (1998) - chess in the cafeteria
- Dobrovoltsky (1958)
- Docteur Petiot (1990) - The doctor (Michel Serrault) plays chess
- Doctor Dolittle (1967) - song includes a line about playing chess with camels
- Doctor, You've Got to be Kidding (1967) - Harlan Wycliff (George Hamilton) plays chess
- Doctor Who (1963 TV) Episode: The Robots of Death: Part 1
- Dogfight (1991) - chess sets on the tables
- Dogma (1999) - reference to pawns and checkmate
- Dogs of War, The (1980) - Jamie Shannon (Christopher Walken) plays computer chess
- Doing Hard Time (2004)
- Dominatrix Chess Gambit (2001 video) - x-rated film with chess references
- Don Juan DeMarco (1995) - chess set in Dr. Jack Mickler's (Marlon Brando) office
- Don't Drink the Water (1969) - Comrade Krojack (Michael Constantine) plays on a pocket chess set
- Don't Go Near the Water (1957) - Lt Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) plays chess with Mr. Alba (Romney Brent)
- Don't Sleep Alone (1997) - chess set in the background
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) - Donald Duck plays chess
- Double Bunk (1961)
- Double Deal (1950) - chess set on the bar
- Double Door (1934)
- Double O Kid, The (1992) - chess sets and computer chess
- Dovolena s Andelem (1952)
- Dr. Blood's Coffin (1961)
- Dr. Who (TV)
- Dracula 2000 (2000) - Abraham Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer) hides vials in his chessboard
- Dracula Rising (1992) - Alec (Doug Weat) plays chess with a corpse
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1996) - chess set in the library of Dr. Seward (Harvey Korman)
- Dragonheart (1996) - chess set
- Dream Trap (1989) - chess club at college campus
- Dreams (1955) - refernece to weekly chess play
- Dropouts (2000) - strip chess
- Drums of Tahati (1954) - Mike Macklin (Dennis O'Keefe) plays chess with Pierre Duvois (Francis L. Sullivan)
- Dry White Season, A (1989) - Mr. McKenzie (Marlon Brando) with a chess set at his desk
- Duchess of Idaho (1950) - chess set in Douglas Morrisssen's (John Lund) home
- Dustin Diamond Teaches Chess (2001 video) - with Senior Master David Glicksmand and Dustin Diamond (Screech)
- Dying on the Edge (2001) - several chess scenes
- Dzhentlmeny udachi (1972)
- Eagle and the Hawk (1933) - chess set in the pilot's quarters
- Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) - chess set knocked over during a scramble
- East of Eden (1955) - chess is mentioned
- East Side, West Side (1949) - Nora Kernan (Gale Sondergaard) plays chess with Brandon Borne (James Mason)
- Echec au Roi (Check to the King) (1931) - board set up wrong
- Edge of Sanity, The (1989) - Dr. Henry Jekyll (Anthony Perkins) plays chess
- Edward II (1992) - chess game being played
- Edward My Son (1949) - chess scene with Spencer Tracy
- Ein Fall fur den Fuchs - Schachmatt (2004)
- Einfach Klasse (1999)
- El Cid (1960) - chess set in one scene
- El Juego de Arcibel (2003)
- El Padrino (2004)
- Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 TV) - chess set in the background
- Electric Dreams (1984) - computer that plays chess
- Elvis (1979 TV) - chess set at Graceland
- Embryo (1976) - Frank Riley (Roddy McDowall) plays chess with Victoria Spencer (Barbara Carrera)
- Emil und die Detektive (2001)
- Empire of the Sun (1987) - chess set in a Japanese camp in China
- Endgame (2000)
- Endless Game, The (1991) - scenes with a chess set
- Enemy Below, The (1954) - chess on a U-boat
- Enigma (2001) - chess played at Bletchley Park
- Entente Cordiale (1939)
- Entr' Acte (1924) - Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Man Ray
- Entrusted (2003) (TV) - the son, Thomas von Gall (Thomas Sangster), is a chess genius
- Ernest Goes to Jail (1990) - Ernest (Jim Varney) mentions a comparison with chess
- Eroticon (1929, Czech) - chess play between husband and wife's lover
- Escape 2000 (1981) - Charles Thatcher (Michael Craig) plays chess with Secretary Mallory (Noel Ferrier)
- Escape From DS-3 (1981) - Andy Lavette (Jackson Bostwick) plays chess with Jesse Michaels
- Escape From Sobibor (1987 TV) - Lt. Sasha Pechersky (Rutger Hauer) plays chess with Leon Feldhemler (Alan Arkin)
- Escape to Athena (1979) - chess set in the POW camp
- Escape Under Pressure (2000) - scene with a small magnetic chess set
- Eternal Evil (1987) - Mick (Ron Lea) plays chess with Bill Pearson (Philip Spensley)
- Europa (1991)
- Europe After the Rain (1978) - cartoon chess
- Evening Guests (1942 French) - scene with a chess game; Arletty plays the she-devil
- Evening Star, The (1996) - Ben Johnson
- Everything Happens at Night (1939) - chess game being played
- Evil of Dracula (1974) - chess is mentioned
- Ex Inferis (2003)
- Exodus (1960) - directed by Otto Preminger; Lakavitch (Gregory Ratoff) plays chess
- Exorcist, The (1973) - chess set on the desk
- Experiment Perilous (1944) - chessmen mentioned
- Experts, The (1988) - computer chess
- Explosive Generation, The (1961)
- Extraordinary Seaman, The (1969) - Admiral Barnwell (Barry Kelly) and Admiral Shimagoshi (Jerry Fujikawa) play chess
- Eye of the Cat (1969)
- F.B.I., The (1972 TV) - The Episode "A Game of Chess" aired November, 1972
- Fabulous Adventures of Marco Polo (1965) - Folco Lulli playing chess
- Faces (1968) - chess painting
- Faculty, The (1998) - two students playing chess
- Fairy Tale - A True Story (1997) - Arthur (Paul McGann) is a chess player; Bill Stewart in the chess MC
- Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985) - chessboard in the apartment of Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton)
- Falcon Strikes Back, The (1943) - Bruno Steffan (Andre Charlot) plays chess with Mr. Wong (Richard Loo)
- Family Ties (1986 TV) - Alex (Michael J. Fox) tries to beat a Russian chess player in the college play-off
- Fanny (1961)
- Fanny and Alexander (1983) - chess players playing chess back stage
- Fanny by Gaslight (1944) - Fanny (Phyllis Calvert) plays chess with Clive Seymour (Stuart Lindsell)
- Far Out Man (1990) - chess mural
- Farewell to Arms, A (1957) - Father Galle (Alberto Sordi) plays chess with Dr. Rinaldi Alessandro (Vittorio De Sica)
- Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid (1986) - chess game between Howard and Mouka (Peter Linari)
- Fate's Chessboard (Fate's Bond) (1916) - silent movie
- Father Brown (1954) - Alex Guinness
- Father's Betrayal, A (1997) (Indefensible: The Truth about Edward Brannigan)
- Fathom (1967) - Sergei Serapkin (Clive Revill) mentions skill at chess
- Favorite Place, A (2008)
- Fearless Vampire Kiilers, The (1967) - chess set in the castle
- Fence, The (1994) - chess in the prison yard
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Jews playing chess on a bench
- Fifth Floor (1980) - a scene with a chess set
- Fight Club (2000) - tables with a chessboard
- Fighting Kentuckian, The (1949) - Willie Payne (Oliver Hardy) playing chess
- Fighting Temptations (2003)
- Final Frolics of Mr. Bean, The (1994 video)
- Finian's Rainbow (1968) - a game of chess
- Finding Neverland (2004) - Johnny Depp playing chess
- Fire and Sword (1982) - Queen Isolde (Antonia Preser) plays chess against King Mark (Leigh Lawson)
- Fire Down Below (1997) - chess scene with Lisa Coles
- Firefox (1982) - chess set on a table
- Firehead (1991) - chess set on the coffee table
- First Daughter (2004)
- Five Fingers (2006) - Ahmat (Laurence Fishburne) interrogates Martijn (Ryan Phillippe) while playing chess
- Five Golden Hours (1961) - Mr. Bing (George Sanders) plays chess with Aldo Bondi (Ernie Kovacs)
- Flaklypa Grand Prix (1975) - puppet animation with chess
- Flashback (1990) - John Buckner (Kiefer Sutherland plays chess with Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper)
- Flesh Eating Mothers (1988) - chess is mentioned
- Flesh + Blood (1985) - chess set on a table
- Flight Command (1940) - chess in the rec room
- Flight of the Navigator (1986) - picture of a chess set
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
- Flood Tide (1958) - David Gordon (George Nader) plays chess with Anne (Cornell Borchers)
- Flubber (1997) - Professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams) has a chess set
- Fly, The (1958) - Francois Delambre (Vincent Price) has a chess set in his study
- Fly Boys (2006) - checkers and chess being played in the bar
- Following Her Heart (1994)
- Fool There Was, A (1915) - directed by Frank Powell starring Theda Bara and Edward Jose
- Fool's Mate (1989)
- Foolproof (2003) - chess scenes with Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet
- For a Few Dollars More (1965) - chess set on the counter
- For Love or Money (1963) - chess in the opening theme credits
- Force 10 From Navarone (1978) - Commandant's office has a chess set
- Foreign Correspondent (1940) - chess game being played at the police station
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
- Forgotten, The (2004) - a chess scene with Julianne Moore and an inlaid chess board on a round table
- Formula, The (1980) - game room has a chessboard; chess is mentioned
- Forrest Gump (1994) - chess set at the VA hospital
- Four Daughters (1938) - Benjamin Crowley (Frank McHugh) plays chess with Ernest (Dick Foran)
- Four Feathers (2002) - chess set in a tent
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970) - chess played at a rooming house
- Frankenstein: The True Story (1974 TV) - Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting) plays chess with his wife
- Frantic (1957) - two players playing chess in a motel room
- Frasier (1996 TV) - episode called chess pains
- Frauen sind keine Engel (1943)
- Free Enterprise (1999) - chess is mentioned
- Fresh (1994) - Sam (Samuel L Jackson) playing Fresh (Sean Nelson) speed chess
- Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981) - Paul (John Furey) plays chess with Ginny (Amy Steel)
- From Russia With Love (1963) - chess game played by Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) and McAdams (Peter Madden); Sean Connery playing Daniela Bianchi
- Front, The (1976) - Howard Prince (Woody Allen) plays chess with Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy)
- Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) - The General (Burgess Meredith) plays chess with Jimmy (Elias Koteas)
- Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Col Stok (Oscar Homolka) asks Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) if he plays chess
- Fury, The (1978) - chess being played
- Futureworld (1976) - Chuck Brown (Peter Fonda) and Traly Ballard (Blythe Danner) play holo-chess
- G.I. Blues (1960) - chess play in Otto's bar
- Game, The (1990) - Leon Hunter (Curtis Brown) plays chess
- Game, The (1997) - chess set appears in a scene
- Game of Death, The (1979) - chess board in a scene
- Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003)
- Games (1967) - several scenes with chess
- Gamma People, The (1955) - Howard Meade (Leslie Phillips) plays Mike Wilson (Paul Douglas)
- Gangsters and Philantropists (Polish) - the boss of the gang plays chess
- Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971) - Alberto (Helmut Berger) plays chess
- Gateway (1938) - Grandpa Hlawek (Maurice Moscovich) plays chess
- Geliebte Diebin (2002)
- General Crack (1930) - Duke of Kurland (John Barrymore) playing chess with Archduchess Maria Luisa (Marian Nixon)
- General Electric Theater (1956 TV) - Episode #5 12, "The Chess Game" with Ronald Colman, Russ Conway, Maxine Cooper
- George of the Jungle (1996) - Ape (John Cleese's voice) playing chess
- Geri's Game (1997) - animation by Jan Pinkava and Pixar
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) (French) - Christian Beloeil (Riton) plays chess
- Getaway, The (1972) - Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) plays chess
- Getting In (1994) - Rupert Grimm (Andrew McCarthy) plays chess
- Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (1999) - Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) plays chess with Raymond (Isaach De Bankole)
- Ghost Fever (1987) - chess set in the game room
- Ghost of Berkeley Square, The (1948)
- Ghost of Flight 401, The (1978) - chess set in one scene
- Ghost in the Palace, The - Polish puppet movie with chess
- Ghost in the Shell (1996) - "just another pawn in this whole thing"
- Ghost Talks, The (1949) - two skeletons playing chess
- Ghost Ship, The (1943)
- Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) - chess set in the judge's study
- Gift Horse, The (1952) - two crewmen playing chess
- Girl from Petrovka, The (1974) - Joe Varney (Hal Holbrook) plays chess
- Girl in Black Stockings, The (1957)
- Girl in the Cafe, The (2005) - chess is mentioned
- Girl in the Kremlin, The (1957) - the Count (Maurice Manson) plays chess
- Gleaming the Cube (1989) - Brian Kelly (Christian Slater) plays chess with Vinh Kelly (Art Chudabala)
- Glimmer Man, The (1996) - Jack Cole (Steven Seagal) talks about chess
- Go-Between, The (1971) - chess set in several scenes
- God Told Me To (1976) - chess set in a scene
- Godzilla vs. Megaguiras (2000) - chess set in several scenes
- Going My Way (1944) - Frank McHugh, Bing Crosby
- Gold (1974) - Dr. Manfred Steyner (Bradford Dillman) plays chess with Stephen Marais (Tony Beckley)
- Golden Boy (1939) - Mr. Bonaparte (Lee J. Cobb) plays chess with Mr. Carp (William Strauss) in the store
- Golden Rendezvous (1977) - Man (Joe Powell) plays chess with a nurse (Lyn Hooker)
- Goodbye Paradise (1983) - large chess set on a beach
- Good Will Hunting (1997) - Will (Matt Damon) plays chess with Skylar (Minnie Driver)
- Good Year, A (2006) - The young Max Skinner (Freddie Highmore) cheats to checkmate his uncle Henry (Albert Finney)
- Goodbye Lover (1999) - chess piece in a scene
- Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988) - Peter Getner (Kai Wulff) plays chess with George (Chris Sarandon)
- Grosstadnacht (1950)
- Grass Arena, The (1991) - John Healy (Mark Rylance) plays chess
- Grave Secrets (1989) - chess set on a table
- Great Chess Movie, The (1983) - documentary about chess
- Great Dictator, The (1940) - directed by Charlie Chaplin; Mr. Jaekel (Marulee Maskovic) plays chess
- Great Escape, The (1963) - James Garner; checkmate reference
- Great Mouse Detective (1991) - animated movie with a chess board and pieces
- Greatest Battle, The (1978) - General Foster (Henry Fonda) by a chess set
- Greedy (1994) - chess set in several scenes
- Greeks had a Word for It, The (1932) - Schatze (Joan Blondell) playing chess with Polaire (Madge Evans)
- Green Man, The (1956)
- Greetings (1968) - chess in Greenwich Village
- Gremlins (1984) - chess set in the Chinatown basement shop
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - chess set in the antique shop
- Grey Owl (1999)
- Gross Anatomy (1989) - chess set in the dorm room
- Grossmeister (1973) - Russian film about chess; with Viktor Korchnoi
- Ground Zero (1988) - Harvey Denton (Colin Friels) plays a chess computer
- Grumpier Old Men (1995) - John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) plays chess with Ariel (Ann-Margaret)
- Grumpy Old Men (1993) - John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) plays chess with Ariel (Ann-Margaret)
- Guadalcanal Diary (1943) - chess play on Guadalcanal
- Guest in the House (1944) - Scott McKay playing chess with Jerome Cowan, observed by Aline MacMahon
- Guilty Hands (1931) - chess set in the trophy room
- Guinquette (1959)
- Gun in Bety Lou's Handbag, The (1992) - chessmen in one scene
- Hackers (1995) - Nikon (Laurence Mason) plays chess in a park
- Hail, Hero! (1969) - chess in a rest home
- Hallelujah Trail, The (1965) - chess pieces in the tent of Col Gearhart (Burt Lancaster)
- Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) - chessmen in the study
- Hamlet (1996) - chess set in the library
- Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (1987)
- Hangmen Also Die (1943)
- Hanna and her Sisters (1986) - chess set in a few scenes
- Happy, Texas (1999) - chess set on a table
- Hard Contact (1969) - James Coburn
- Hard Way, The (1991) - The Party Crasher (Stephen Lang) plays chess
- Hardware (1990) - Lincoln (William Hootins) plays chess with Vernon (Paul Mackenzie)
- Harlem Nights (1989) - Bugsy Calhoun (Michael Lerner) plays chess with Joe Leoni (Joe Pecoraro)
- Harold and Maude (1971) - chess is mentioned
- Harriett the Spy (1996) - the question is asked if the girl plays chess
- Harrison Bergeron (1995) - Harrison Bergeron (Sean Astin) plays chess with Garth (Matthew Ferguson)
- Harry and Tonto (1974) - Harry Coombs (Art Carney) plays chess
- Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (2001) - wizard chess
- Hart to Hart (TV) - several episodes with chess
- Hart's War (2002) - chess set in the barracks
- Harum Scarum (1965) - Princess Shalimar (Mary Ann Mobley) plays chess with King Toranshah (Philip Reed)
- Harvest, The (1993) - chess set on the office desk
- Hatari! (1962) - chess being played in the lobby
- Hatley High (2003) - Tommy Linklater and Melanie play chess; the coach is a Soviet chess defector; US against Russians
- Haunting of Morella, The (1990) - Gideon Locke (David McCallum) plays chess with Dr. Gall (Jonathan Farwell)
- Havana (1990) - chessboard in the country home
- Have Gun - Will Travel (TV)
- Having a Wild Weekend (1965) - chess play by the Dave Clark Five
- He Got Game (1998) - chess is mentioned
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924) - Baron Regnard (Marc McDermott) plays chess
- Head in the Clouds (2004)
- Head of State (2003)
- Headspace (2004) - Alex Borden (Christopher Denham) meets chess player Harry Jellenek (Eric Kastel)
- Heart (1985) - chess set in the cabin
- Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968) - John Singer (Alan Arka) plays chess
- Heaven is a Playground (1991) - glass chess set
- Heaven Sent (1988)
- Hell Bound (1931) - Platinum Reed (Lola Lane) plays chess with Dr. Robert Sanford (Lloyd Hughes)
- Hell is for Heroes (1962) - chess play in a tavern
- Hellraiser V: Inferno (2000) - Joseph Thorne (Craig Sheffer) plays chess
- Hell Unlimited (1936) - animated
- Her Twelve Men (1954) - Homer Curtis (Rex Thompson) plays chess
- Hercules (1997) - chess-like game
- Hercules in New York (1970) - chess set on a coffee table
- Hero (2004) - Nameless defeats Sky (Donnie Yen) at the House of Chess
- Hidden Agenda (1998)
- Hide and Seek (1963) - David Garrett (Ian Carmichael) plays chess with Frank Melnicker (George Pravda)
- High Hopes (1988) - Shirley (Ruth Sheen) pplays chess with Cyril (Philip Davis)
- Hiding Place, The (1975) - chess bing played
- High Wall, The (1947) - Steve Kenet (Robert Taylor) mentions chess
- Highlander (1986) - chess in the visitor's area of a hospital
- Hill, The (1965) - chess set on a desk
- Himmel Ohne Sterne (1955)
- Hindenburg, The (1975) - chess set on the zeppelin
- His Kind of Woman (1951) - Dr. Martin Krafft (John Mylong) plays chess with himself
- HIs Wife's Friend (also known as The White Rook) (1919) - Dorothy de Grasse plays chess with Richard Neill
- History of the World, Part 1 (1985) - King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks) plays living chess
- Hold That Baby! (1949) - Nose Mason (John Kellogg) plays chess
- Hold That Line (1952) - chess play at an Ivy League college
- Holiday (1938) - a scene with a chess set
- Hollywood Sign, The (2001)
- Hoodlum (1997) - Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) plays chess
- Horror of Dracula (1958) - chess set in the castle
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- Hot Millions (1968) - chess being played in the background
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959) - Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) puzzles over a chess move
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1977) - chess set in one scene
- Hour Before Dawn, The (1944)
- House of Frankenstein (1945) - Hussman (Sig Ruman) plays chess with Inspector Arnz (Lionel Atwill)
- House of Strangers (1949) - chess bing played at a bar
- House of Usher (1990) - chess set in the library
- House of Whipcord, The (1974) - Judge Bailey (Patrick Barr) with a chess set
- How to Make a Monster (2001) - a chess move is mentioned
- How to Play Chess (2005 Video) - instructor is Alexandra Kosteniuk
- Howard's End (1992) - chess set in one scene
- Howards of Virginia, The (1940) - starring Cary Grant; chess being played in a pub (thanks to Louis Dorse)
- Hucksters, The (1947) - Deborah Kerr
- Hudson Hawk (1991) - "what a pawn I was"
- Hudson's Bay (1940) - guards playing chess
- Human Chessboard, The (Dangerous Business) (1920) - silent movie
- Human Comedy, The (1943) - soldiers studying a chess position
- Humanoid Woman (1981) - chess set in one scene
- Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - guards and a chess game
- Hunt for Red October, The (1990) - Capt. Mark Ramius (Sean Connery) mentions chess
- Hurricane, The (1937) - chess is mentioned
- Hussite Trilogy (1956, Czech) - Czech king dies while playing chess
- Hustler, The (1961) - chess set on a table
- Hysteria (1996)
- I Have Nothing to Say, and I'm Saying It (1990) - chess game being played
- I Like to Play Games (1995)
- I Love Trouble (1994) - Chess Chemical
- I See You (2002) - chess sets in the rooms
- I Surrender, Dear (1948)
- I'll be There (2003)
- I'm with Lucy (2002)
- I, Monster (1971) - chess set in the drawing room
- Ibraham (2007)
- Ice Cream Man (2000)
- If the Shoe Fits (1991) - chess set in the mansion
- If Tomorrow Comes (1986 TV)
- Il Battellieri del Volga (1958)
- Il Cielo Cade (2000)
- Il Mistero del Tempio Indiano (1963)
- Il Postino (The Postman) (1995) - chess is mentioned
- Illusion (1941 German) - chess play in the living room
- Im Sonderauftrag (1959)
- Imagine (1972) - John Lennon plays chess with Yoko Ono
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988) - chess pieces in background
- Immortal Beloved (1994) - Franz Josef Guicciardi (Luigi Diberti) playing chess on his peg set
- Immortel: ad vitam (2004) - "you're the pawn and I'm the player"
- Impossible Years (1968) - Dr. John Kingsley (David Niven) with his chess set
- Impulse (1990) - Lottie Mason (Theresa Russell) mentions a chessboard
- In Enemy Hands (2004)
- In the Name of the Father (1993) - chess sets in prison
- In the Open (1999) - a chess tournament
- Independence Day (1997) - David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) plays chess with his father (Judd Hirsch) in Manhattan
- Independent, The (2000)
- Innocent Blood (1992) - chess set in the living room
- Innocent Man, An (1989) - Jimmy Rainwood (Tom Selleck) plays chess with Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham)
- Innocent Move (1993)
- Inside Out (1975) - Sly Wells (Robet Culp) plays chess with a kid (Stephen Curtis)
- Insomnia (2002) - Walter Finch (Robin Williams) with a chess set at his house
- Inspector Clouseau (1968) - chess set knocked over
- Instant Karma (1990) - chess set in a scene
- Interpreter, The (2005) - chess game being played
- Intersection (1994) - chess set in a few scenes
- Interview With the Assassin (2003) - chess set on a coffee table
- Invisible Boy, The (1957) - Timmie Merrinoe (Richard Eyer) plays chess with a supercomputer and his father (Philip Abbott)
- Invisible Ghost, The (1941) - Paul Dickson (John McGuire) plays chess with Charles Kessler (Bela Lagosi)
- Ipcress File, The (1965) - chess position being studied
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
- Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1996) - chess board in one scene
- Island of Lost Women (1959) - Urania (Diane Jegens) plays chess with Mercuria (June Blair)
- It Will Soon Rain (1959 Russia) - the Ruler of the World plays chess against the witch Drought
- It! The Terror from Outer Space (1958) - Eric Royce (Dabbs Greer) plays chess with Carruthers (Marshall Thompson)
- It's In the Bag (1945) - chess being played
- Ivan The Terrible (Ivan Groznij) (1944) - large chessboard in one scene
- Ivanhoe (1952) - chess set in a house
- Jack Reed Death and Vengeance (1996 TV) - chess set in several scenes
- Jack the Bear (1993) - Grandpa Glickes (Stefan Geirasch) plays chess with Jack (Robert Steinmiller, Jr)
- Jack's Back (1988) - chess set on a desk
- Jacke wie Hose (1953)
- Jade (1995) - chess set in a room
- Jakob the Liar (1999) - Max Frankfurter (Alan Arkin) plays chess with Rosa (Nina Siemaszko)
- Jamaica Inn (1939) - chess set in the mansion
- Jan Hus (1954)
- Jane Eyre (1995) - chess game in progress
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963) - Zeus (Niall MacGinnis) and Hera (Honor Blackman) play chess with the Argonauts' fates
- Jassy (1947) - Jassy Woodruff (Margaret Lockwood) plays chess with Nick Halmar (Basil Sydney)
- Jayhawkers, The (1959)
- Jedi Who Loved Me, The (2000) - holographic chess
- Jefferson (1997 PBS) - Jefferson's chess set
- Jekyll & Hyde, Together Again (1982) - chess scene with Krista Errickson and Mark Blankfield
- Jericho Mile (1979)
- Jeux d'enfants (2003)
- Jezebel (1938) - General Bogardus (Henry O'Neill) playing chess
- JFK (1991) - scenes with a chess set
- Jigsaw Man, The (1984) - two KGB agents (Matthew Scurfield and Robert Austin) play chess
- Joan of Arcadia (2005 TV) - episode called Game Theory with the chess player god (John Marshall Jones)
- Joanna (1968) - Donald Sutherland
- Johnny Rocco (1958)
- Johnny Yuma (1966)
- Josepha (1982) - Claude Brasseur plays chess with Bruno Cremer as Miou-Miou watches
- Joy Luck Club, The (1993) - Waverly Jong (Vu Mai) is a chess champion
- Judas Kiss (1998) - Lizard Browning (Gil Bellows) plays chess
- Juggernaut (1974) - chess in the captain's cabin
- Julia (1977) - chess play in a cafe
- Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) - Arthur Lincoln (Roscoe Lee Browne) plays chess
- Jurassic Park (1993) - chess on a computer screen
- Just Married (2003)
- Justice (1999) - board set up wrong
- K (1997)
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) - chess play on a sub
- K-911 (1999) - chess play in the park
- K-Pax (2001) - chess play in the day room
- Keep 'em Flying (1941) - Abbott and Costello playing chess
- Keeper of the Flame (1942) - Spencer Tracy
- Kees de Jongen (2003)
- Kermesse heroique (1935)
- Kids (1995) - chess is mentioned
- Kill Reflex, The (1975) - chess set in the apartment
- Killer Elite, The (1975) - chess set on a coffee table
- Killer Inside Me, The (1976) - chess set in the study
- Killers in the House (1998) - chess set in the bedroom
- Killing, The (1956) - Maurice Oboukhoff (Kola Kwariani) kibitzing chess
- King and I, The (1956) - chess being played
- King and the Chorus Girl (1937) - Count Humbert Bruger (Edward Everett) plays chess with Countess Anna (Mary Nash)
- King of Chess (Kei Wong) (1992) - with John Sham Ki and Tony Leung Ka-fai
- King of Hearts (1966) - General Geranium (Pierre Brasseur) plays chess
- Kingdom of Heaven (2004) - King Baldwin (Edward Norton) with a chess set
- King's Little Tragedy, The (1936 German) - the chessmen move by themselves
- King's Thief, The (1955) - chess set in the house
- Kings and Queens (2007)
- Kings Go Forth (1958) - Lt Sam Loggins (Frank Sinatra) plays chess with Blair (Leora Dana)
- Kiss and Kill (1968) - Governor Mexical (Christopher Lee) plays chess with Carl (George Gotz)
- Kiss Before Dying, A (1991) - chess set near a computer
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) - James Cagney
- Kissed (1996)
- Kite, The (2005)
- Klingenhof (2005)
- Knight Moves (1993) - Peter Sanderson (Christopher Lambert) as chess grandmaster playing Arthur Bliss
- Knight to f4 (2005)
- Knights of the Round Table (1953) - Sir Lancelot (Robert Taylor) plays chess with Lady Guenerve (Ava Gardner)
- Knights of the South Bronx (2005 TV) - Richard Mason (Ted Danson) teaches chess to the underprivileged kids in the Bronx; a few mistakes in the movie
- Knock On Any Door (1949) - Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) plays chess with friend (Susan Perry)
- Kona Coast (1968) - Richard Boone and Joan Blondell with a chess set on the table
- Kotch (1971) - chess set in a window display
- Kreutzersonate (1937)
- Kubrick2001: The Space Odyssey Expained - nice Flash movie with chess at http://www.kubrick2001.com
- Kuroshitsuji (2008 TV)
- L'Amant de Lady Chatterley (1955)
- L'Oeil du Main
- La Belle et la Bete (1946)
- La Diagonale du Fou (1984)
- La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965)
- La Fille De Feu (1958)
- La otra cara de la luna (2000)
- La Partie D'Echecs (1994)
- La Provinciale (1953) - Gina Lollobrigida
- La Regina Degli Scacchi (1999)
- La Terza Stella (2005)
- La Verite (1960) - Bridgette Bardot
- Lachine (1939)
- Lady Dragon 2 (1993) - chess is mentioned
- Lady Escapes, The (1937) - Michael Hilton (Michael Whelan) plays chess
- Lady From Shanghai, The (1948) - judge plays chess
- Lady in Cement (1968) - Al Munger (Martin Gabel) plays chess with Paul (Steve Peck)
- Lady Jane (1985) - Lady Jane Grey (Helena Carter) plays chess with Guilford Dudley (Cary Elwes)
- Lady Killer (1996) - chess set in a scene
- Lake House, The (2006)
- Lang Leve De Koningen (Long Live the Queen) (1995)
- Last Action Hero (1993) - chess scene
- Last Castle, The (2001) - Lt. Gen Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford) plays chess
- Last Embrace (1979) - chessboard on a coffee table
- Last of Shiela, The (1973) - scene with a chess set
- Last Piece Standing, The (2005)
- Last Train from Bombay (1952) - chess scene with John Hall and Michael Fox
- Laura (1944) - Gene Tierney
- Laure ou Une sensuelle rencontre (2003)
- Law and Order: Criminal Intent (2005 TV) - detective Goran (Vincent D'Onofrio) plays chess with a one-time chess prodigy who becomes a fugitive
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - British soldiers playing chess
- Le Diable Souffle (1947)
- Le Diagonale de Fou (1985)
- Le Feu Follet (1963)
- Le Joueur D'Echecs (The Chess Player) (1927) - Baron von Kempelen (Charles Dullin) playing the Turk chess automaton
- Le Maitre des Echecs
- Le Miracle des Loups (1924) Bische (Raymond Bernard) playing chess
- Le Monde sans Soleil (The World Without Sun) (1964) - by Jacques Cousteau
- Le Mort en ce Jardin (1956)
- Le patrie (French) - game of chess is played
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003) - chess set in the men's club
- Leading Man, The (1996)
- Leap of Faith (1992) - Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) plays chess with Boyd (Lucas Haas)
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - chess set in the house
- Left Hand of God (1955) - Father O'Shea (Humphrey Bogart) plays chess with Dr. Dave Sigmond (E.G. Marshall)
- Legally Blonde II (2003)
- Lenny Henry Show, The (2004, BBC) - investigating a chess champion
- Les Creatures (1966, French) - Edgar plays chess with a keeper of a lighthouse
- Les Maudits (1947)
- Les Trois Mousquetaires (1953)
- Les Visiteurs du Soir (Visitors of the Night) (1942 French) - chess in the courts of French aristocrats
- Lethal Weapon (1987) - chess set in the background
- Letters from a Killer (1998) - Race Darnell (Patrick Swayze) plays chess with Horton Weaver (Roger Mosley)
- Libido (1973)
- Life as a House (2001) - Kevin Kline; board set up wrong
- Lifechild Chronicles (2004)
- Like Father, Like Son (1987) - chess set on a coffee table
- Like Mike (2002) - chess is mentioned
- Likeness in Stone, A (2000)
- Lion in Winter, The (1968) - King Philip (Timothy Dalton) plays chess with Geoffrey (John Castle)
- Liquidator, The (1965) - chess set on a coffee table
- List of Adrian Messenger (1963) - chess set on a table
- Little, Colonel (1935) - Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore (Colonel Lloyd)
- Little Man Tate (1991) - chess play
- Little Minister, The (1950 TV) - chess position
- Little Rascals, The (1994) - monkey plays chess
- Locura de Amor (1948 Spanish) - Spanish noblemen playing chess
- Lodger, The (1926) - the lodger, Jonathan Drew (Ivor Novello) plays chess with Daisy Bunting (June Tripp); directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Logan's Run (1976) - set set on the coffee table
- Lolita (1962) - Humbert Humbert (James Mason) plays chess with Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters) and mates Lolita (Sue Lyon)
- London by Night (1937) - chess mentioned
- Lonely Guy, The (1984) - a chess machine with arm playing Charles Grodin
- Long Live the Queen (1995) - chess pieces come alive
- Longest Day, The (1962) - chess play in the background
- Longstreet (1972 TV) - episode "Eye of the Storm" about Mike Longstreet (James Franciscus) trying to retrieve a jade chess set
- Lookout, The (2007)
- Lost (2004 TV) - episode "The Beginning of the End"
- Lost and Found (1979) - the English professor (George Segal) plays chess with Eden Marshall (Hollis McLaren)
- Lost Horizon (1937) - Bob Conway (Ronald Colman) plays chess with Chang (H.B. Warner)
- Lost Horizon (1973) - Chang (John Gielgud) plays chess with Richard Conway (Peter Finch)
- Lost Missle, The (1958) - scrambling pilots knock over chessboard
- Lost People, The (1949) - chess in the background
- Lost Souls (2000) - chess set on a coffee table
- Love at Large (1990) - chess king is mentioned
- Love Goddesses, The (1965) - chess is mentioned describing Bridgette Helm
- Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004) - checkmate reference
- Love-Ins, The (1967) - two kids playing chess
- Loverboy (1989) - chess on a coffee table
- Lucky Luke (1991) - Terrence Hill
- Lucky Number Slevin (2006) - Morgan Freeman playing chess
- Luckytown (2000) - James Caan
- Lucrece Borgia (1953)
- Lush Life (1993) - Forest Whitaker
- Luxury Liner (1948) - chess is mentioned
- Luzhin Defence, The (2000) - Alexander Luzhin (John Turturro) playing chess with Turati (Fabio Sartor)
- Lux Video Theater (1952 TV) - "The Game of Chess" Episode #2.25, starring Vincent Price
- M*A*S*H (1970) - chess outside a tent
- MacGyver (1986 TV) - Marvin Kaplan plays a chess master in "A Prisoner of Conscience" episode
- Mackintosh Man, The (1973) - Ronald Slade (Ian Bannen) plays chess with Joseph Reardon (Paul Newman)
- Madamoiselle Fifi (1944) - Jean Cornudee (John Emery) plays chess with a priest (Edmund Glover)
- Magic Sword, The (1962) - Siamese twins (Nick and Paul Bon Tempi) plays chess with a chimnp
- Magic Toys (1953 Soviet) - cartoon film with magic chessmen
- Magnificent Doll (1946) - David Niven, Burgess Meredith
- Magnificent Obsession (1954) - chess in the lounge
- Magnolia (2000) - chess set on a table in the background
- Magnum, P.I. (1986 TV)
- Malcom X (1992) - chess set in the background
- Malina (1993)
- Mame (1974) - chess being played at a party
- Man Called Noon, The (1973) - chess play at the beginning of the movie
- Man for All Seasons, A (1988) - chess set in the house
- Man Hunt (1941) - A German doctor (Ludwig Stossel) plays chess
- Man From U.N.C.L.E, The (TV)
- Man I Married, The (1940) - chess is mentioned
- Man in the Mirror (1968) - Beaumont Sutton (Frederick Jaeger) plays chess
- Man Inside, The (1990) - Gunther Wallrath (Jurgen Prochnow) plays chess with Henry Tabel (Peter Coyote)
- Man of the Year (2006)
- Man on the Moon (1999) - chess is mentioned on the soundtrack
- Man Who Captured Eichmann, The (1996) - Danny (Michael Tucci) and Dr. Klein (Michael Laskin) play chess
- Man With the Golden Gun (1974) - chess pieces in one scene
- Man With the Power, The (1977) - A school teacher (bob Neill) moves chess pieces
- Man Without a Face, The (1993) - chess set in the bedroom
- Man's Past, A (1927) - Lt. Destin (Arthur Carew) plays chess with Dr. Fontaine (Ian Keith)
- Manchrian Candidate, The (1962) - chess set by the bed
- Mandalay (1934) - chess being played
- Mandy (1953) - grandfather of Mandy playing chess by correspondence
- Mansion Mystery (1941) - an elderly man (Bob Hope) drops a pawn underneath the bed
- Marianna Ucria (1996)
- Marathon Man (1976) - chess set knockled over
- Marie Galante (1934) - chessmen in a scene
- Mark of Zorro (1940) - Diego (Tyrone Power) waiting to start a game with the Padre (Eugene Pallette)
- Mask of the Avenger (1951) - Anthony Quinn and John Derek
- Masque of the Red Death (1991) - living chess game
- Masques (Masks) (1987) - Christian Legagneur (Phillipe Noiret) plays chess with Roland Wolf (Robin Renucci)
- Massacre at Central Hight (1976) - chess mentioned in a song
- Massive Retaliation (1984) - chess set in a scene
- Master Spy, The (1964) - Stephan Murray
- Match Point (2005)
- Matchstick Men (2003) - chess on a coffee table
- Matrix Reloaded, The (2002) - chess set in a room
- Mavet (2004)
- Max and Helen (1990) - two Jews playing chess
- Maximum Risk (1996) - chess set in a scene
- Maybe Baby (1988) - chess set above the fireplace
- McGyver (TV)
- McKenzie Break, The (1970) - Lt Hall (Constantin de Goguel) plays chess with Sgt. Major Cox (Patrick O'Connell)
- McLintock! (1963) - McLintock (John Wayne) plays chess
- McMillan and Wife (TV) - episode with chess
- Mean Guns (1997) - Ice-T
- Meet Me in St. Louis - Grandpa (Harry Davenport) mentions chess
- Magaforce (1982) - Col Guerera (Henry Silva) plays chess with Ivan (Michael Kulcsar)
- Melinda (1972) - Frankie Parker (Calvin Lockhart) plays chess with Tank Robinson (Rockne Tarkington)
- Memento (2000) - chess play in the background
- Men in Exile (1937) - Mortimer Jones (Olm Howland) plays chess with Gem Alcatraz (Carlos De Valdez)
- Men of War (1995) - Nicholas Gunner (Dolph Lundgen) examines a chess position
- Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994 TV) - chess is mentioned
- Mephisto Waltz, The (1971) - chess set on a table
- Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1992) - Merlin (Jody David) playing chess with Ambrosius (Robert Powell)
- Merry Andrew (1958) - Andrew Larabee (Danny Kaye) plays chess
- Merton of the Movies (1947) - chess play at the club
- Meteor (1979) - Dr. Duboff (Brian Keith) plays chess
- Metropolitan (1990) - Audrey Roget (Carolyn Farina) plays chess with Charlie Black (Taylor Nichols)
- Michailo Lomonossow (1955)
- Midas Run (1969) - chess is mentioned
- Midnight (1989) - chess set in one scene
- Midnight Clear, A (1991) - Stan Schutzer (Ayre Gross) plays chess with Bud Miller (Peter Berg)
- Midnight in St. Petersburg (1995) - chess is mentioned
- Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) - Professor Leopold (Jose Ferrer) plays chess
- Mighty Pawns, The (1987 PBS) - A teacher (Terence Knox) introduces inner city kids to chess
- Mighty Wind, A (2003) - chess is mentioned
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1955, Soviet) - chess play in the movie about the Soviet physicist
- Milagro Beanfield War, The (1988) - Amarante Cordova (Carlos Riquelme) plays chess with Coyote Angel (Robert Carricut)
- Million Pound Note, The (1953) - Gregory Peck
- Mind Over Mayhem (1974 TV) - robot plays chess with Steve Spelburg (Lee Montgomery)
- Miracle of the Wolves, The (Le Miracle des Loups) (1924) - King Louis XI (Charles Dullin) playing chess
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - chess play in the background
- Mirele Efros (1939)
- Miss V From Moscow (1942) - Henri (Paul Weigel) plays chess with Wolfgang Heinrich (John Vesper)
- Missing (1982) - chess in Washington Square is mentioned
- Mission Impossible (TV)
- Mission Mars (1967) - Nick Adams plays chess while Darren McGavin watches
- Mister Cory (1957) - father (Willis Bouchey) plays chess with mother (Louise Lorimer)
- Mlodosc Chopina (Chopin's Youth) (1952) - chess play in a Warsaw cafe
- Moderne Mitgift (1932)
- Monkey Business (1931) - Harpo and Chico Marx as chess kibitzers
- Monkey Shines (1988) - chess is mentioned
- Monsieur Albert (1932)
- Monster High (1989) - Egbert Hoser (Troy Fromin) plays chess
- Moon and Sixpence (1959) - Lawrence Olivier
- Moon Pilot (1962) - chess set in the hotel room
- Morituri (1965) - Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) has a chess set
- Moron Movies (1985) - chess set
- Mosquito Squadron (1969) - chess game in the background
- Most Dangerous Game, The (1932) - outdoor chess
- Most Dangerous Match (1973 TV) - Emmett Clayton (Laurence Hrvey) plays a grandmaster
- Most Wanted (1997) - chess is mentioned
- Mother Night (1996) - Howard Campbell (Nick Nolte) plays chess with George Kraft (Alan Arkin)
- Motherland (1945, French) - chess play in the background
- Moulin Rouge! (2001) - chess set in the background
- Move 5 (2005)
- Moving Target (1996) - sidwalk chess
- Mr. Ed (1961 TV) - "Ed Cries Wolf" Mr. Ed tries to play a game of chess wil Wilbur
- Mr. Frost (1989) - Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum) plays chess
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) - Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) plays chess with Bill Meister (Jay Thomas)
- Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939) - Prof. Hildebrand (Lionel Atwell) plays chess with Handrick Manderson (Joseph Schildkraut)
- Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) - chess is mentioned at a USO club
- Mrs. Miniver (1942) - chess set in one scene
- Mulholland Falls (1996) - chess play in the background
- Mummy, The (1999) - chess set in the entrance
- Munich (2005)
- Munster, Go Home (1966) - chess set in a bar
- Murder By Death (1976) - chess set in the study
- Murder By Decree (1979) - chess set in the house
- Murder By the Book (1987) - chess is mentioned
- Murder in the First Degree (1995) - chess set in prison
- Murder of Crows, A (1999) - chess set in the judge's chambers
- Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV 2000) - episode: The White Knight Stratagem
- Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986 TV) - Inspector Auguste Dupin (George C. Scott) plays chess
- Muse, The (1999) - chess set on a coffee table
- Mutants in Paradise (1987) - chess is mentioned
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - chess set on the ship
- My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Judge Haller (Fred Gwynne) plays chess
- My Name is Joe (1998)
- Myra Breckenridge (1970) - chess set in one scene
- Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau (1988) - chessplayer in the background
- Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916); Douglas Fairbanks (Coke Ennyday)
- Mystery Men (1999) - Ray (Ben Stiller) mentions chess
- Mystic River (2003) - chess set on a coffee table
- Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (1994) - Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Tanya Peters (Anna Nicole Smith) in a chess scene
- Naked Lunch (1991) - chess is mentioned
- Napoleon (1925) - Napoleon (Albert Dieudonne) plays chess with Gen. Hoche (Pierre Batcheff)
- Napoleon (2002) - Napoleon (Christian Clavier) plays chess with Josephine (Isabella Rossellini)
- Natural Born Killers (1994) - two inmates playing chess
- Natural Enemy (1997)
- Nero Wolfe (1977 TV) - chess set on a coffee table
- Never on Sunday (1960) - chess scene with Melina Mercouri
- Never Say Never Again (1983) - guards playing chess
- New Adventures of Puss-in-Boots, The (1958 Soviet) - decor and costumes with chess motif
- Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Lenin (Michael Bryan) playing chess with Trotsky (Brian Cox)
- Night Before, The (1988) - chess set in the bedroom
- Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, A (1988) - chess sets in a cafe
- Night into Morning (1951) - chess set with Nacy Davis Reagan and Ray Milland
- Night Moves (1975) - Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) plays chess
- Night of the Howling Beast (1976) - chess game played
- Night of the Running Man (1994) - chess set in the foreground
- Nightmare (1981) - chess set on a coffee table
- Nightwsimming (2003)
- Ninja Man (2002) - chess set in a scene
- Ninth Gate, The (1999) - chess engraving
- No Contest (1994) - chess on a beach
- No Man's Land (2001) - Col Soft (Simon Callow) has a chess set
- No Name on the Bullet (1959) - John Gant (Audie Murphy) plays chess
- Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
- North and South - Book II (1986 TV) - chess set in a room
- North Star, The (1943) - Kolya (Dana Andrews) plays chess with Grisha (Eric Roberts)
- Northwest Passage (1940) - chess set in the mansion
- Nothing Personal (1980) - Dr. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland) plays chess with Paxton (Roscoe Lee Browne)
- Nuns on the Run (1990) - chess pieces in a lab
- Nutty Professor, The (1996) - chess set in Dean Richmond's (Larry Miller) office
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) - chess set on a coffee table
- O Lucky Man (1973) - chess play in a van
- Octagon, The (1980) - chess play in a park
- October (1937, Russia) - Kerensky playing chess
- Octopussy (1983) - chess sets in a scene
- Of Kings and Queens (1952) - chess instruction film
- Of Love and Desire (1963)
- Oktyabr (1927) - directed by Sergei Eisenstein
- Old Chess Players, The (1912)
- Oliver! (1968) - Mr. Brownlow (Joseph O'Conor) plays chess
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Omar Khayyam (1957) - chess set in a scene
- Omega Code, The (1999) - "a pawn in something"
- Omega Man, The (1971) - Neville (Charlton Heston) plays chess
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) - chess play in the background
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - Olympe (Virginia North) plays chess with Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti)
- On The Chessboard of Fate (1914)
- Once Bitten (1985) - cabin boy vampire (Stuart Charno) plays chess with another vampire (Jeb Adams)
- One Is A Lonely Number (1972)
- One Night at McCool's (2001) - "just a pawn to manipulate"
- One of Our Spies is Missing (1966)
- One Spy Too Many (1966)
- One That Got Away, The (1958) - chess set in a prisoner's room
- One, Two, Three (1961) - chessboard is mentioned
- Onegin (1999)
- Ordeal by Innocense (1984) - Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) plays chess
- Othello (1995) - chess set in a scene
- Others Will Follow You (1949, Poland) - chess scene of Nazis playing chess
- Our Man in Havana (1960) - Alec Guinness playing Ernie Kovacs
- Out of Africa (1985) - chess play in a men's club
- Out of Reach (2004)
- Out of Sight (1998) - George Clooney
- Out of the Ashes (2003)
- Outpost In Morocco (1949) - chess set in a dingin room
- Outriders, The (1950) - chess by a camp fire
- Owl and the Pussycat, The (1971) - Barbra Streisand and George Segal
- Padosi (1941)
- Pagemaster, The (1994) - chess set in the background of a mansion
- Pallbearer, The (1996) - yearbook mentions chess
- Pals (1987) - Jack Stobbs (George C. Scott) plays chess at a park bench
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) - Geoffrey Fielding (Harrold Warrender) plays chess
- Paperman, The (1971)
- Paradine Case, The (1948) - Sir Simon Flaquer (Charles Coburn) plays chess with Judy (Isobel Elsom)
- Pardosi (1939 India) - chess played in India
- Parent Trap, The (1961) - Charles McKendrick (Charles Ruggles) teaches Sharon (Haley Mills) chess
- Paris Express (1953) - Kees Popinga (Claude Rains), Louis De Koster (Herbert Lom), and Lucas (Marius Goring) play chess
- Passage, The (1979) - Paul (Paul Clemons) and Leia (Kay Lenz) play chess
- Passionate Pastime (1958) - chess history documentary by Hans Richter
- Passport to Danger (1954 TV) Episode: Sofia
- Patrie, La (1946) - chess being played
- Pawn, The (1998) - chess references
- PCU (1994) - a chess club banner in the background
- Peaches (1964)
- Pearl Harbor (2001) - chess being played over the airwaves
- Penelope (2006)
- Penitentiary II (1982) - Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy) plays chess with Ellen Johnson (Peggy Blow)
- Pennies From Heaven (1936) - drifter (Bing Crosby) plays chess with girl (Edith Fellows) (board set up wrong)
- People Under the Stairs, The (1991) - chess set on a table
- Perfect Furlough (1958) - chess game at a radar installation
- Perfect Storm, The (2000) - chess set on the bar at the Crows Nest Inn
- Perfect Weapon, The (1991) - chess set on a table in the background
- Perkins 14 (2009)
- Perry Mason (1987-90 TV) several episodes with chess
- Pet Shop (1994)
- Phantoms (1998) - chess set in one scene
- Phenomenon (1996) - George Malley (John Travolta) playing Doc Brunder (Robert Duvall)
- Phenomenon II (2003)
- Philadelphia (1993) - chess being played on the sidewalk
- Piano Player, The (2002) - chess set on desk
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945) - chess set on a table
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) - chess image on a computer screen
- Planet of the Apes (2001) - "the devil's pawn"
- Play Dirty (1968) - Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is playing chess with a friend
- Play it Again, Sam (1970) - chess set on a table
- Play Misty for Me (1971) - Clint Eastwood
- Pledge, The (2001) - old man playing chess in a nursing home
- Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World (2000) - chess references
- Pocketful of Miracles (1961) - chess set in a room
- Poet, The (2003)
- Pokeman: The Movie 2000 (2000) - chess is mentioned
- Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege (1989) - chess on the sidewalk
- Police Story - The Watch Commander (1988) - Jack Warden
- Poodle Strings (1998)
- Portrait in Black (1960) - Matthew (Lloyd Noland) plays chess
- Possession (2002)
- Postman, The (Il Postino) (1995) - chess is mentioned
- Pote Tin Kyriaki (1960)
- Prelude to a Kiss (1992) - chess set in the background
- Prescription: Murder (1968) - chess set in the apartment
- Pret-a-Porter (1994) - "a pawn in this game"
- Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971) - Tiger (Rock Hudson) plays chess
- Pretty Woman (1990) - Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) plays chess
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) - chess set in several scenes
- Primal Fear (1996) - chess is mentioned and a scene with a chessboard
- Prince and the Pauper, The (1937) - chess played at an inn
- Prince and the Pauper, The (1962) - Tom Canty (Sean Scully) plays chess
- Prince and the Showgirl (1957) - chess set on a table
- Princess Bride, The (1987) - chess set in the castle
- Prison (1988) - Burton Cresus (Lincoln Kilpatrick) plays chess in prison
- Prisoner, The (1967 TV) - episode "Arrival" Live chess in a village
- Prisoner, The (1989 TV) - episode of Matlock with chess being played in prison
- Prisoner Checkmate, The
- Prisoner of Second Avenue, The (1974) - Jack Lemmon
- Prisoner of Zenda, The (1922) - Princess Falvia (Alice Terry) plays chess with Marshall von Strakencz (Edward Connelly)
- Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937) - castle has sculpted bases that look like pawns
- Prisoner of Zenda, The (1952) - Prince Rudolf (Stewart Granger) has a chess set
- Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939) - Lady Penelope Gary (Olivia DeHavilland) defeats Elizabeth (Bette Davis) in chess
- Project Shadowchaser (1992) - chess is mentioned
- Project X (1987) - chess set in the background
- Prospero's Books (1991) - nymphs play chess
- Proud Princess, The (1952, Czech) - king trying to escape mate through his checkerboard court
- Proud Rebel, The (1958) - chess is mentioned
- Psychomania (1971) - chess set on the coffee table
- Public Defender (1931) - John Kirk (Purnell Pratt) and Charles Harmer (Frank Sheridon) play chess
- Punisher, The (2004)
- Pursuit to Algiers (1945) - Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) plays chess
- Python (2000) - Lenny (Keith Coogan) plays chess with Boone (David Bow)
- Queen of the Road (1984)
- Queen Sacrifice (1988) - Davey (Duane Philips) plays chess
- Quentin Durwood (1955) - see the Adventures of Quentin Durwood
- Quest, The (1986) - Mr. Kaufmann (David Ravenswood) plays chess
- Qui Perd Gagne (2004)
- Quick (1993) - bodyguard (Jeff Cadiente) plays chess with Janet Sakamoto (Tia Carere)
- Quo Vadis? (1951) - chess being played in Nero's time
- Race for Life (1954) - Pic (George Couloris) plays chess with Larry (Richard Conte)
- Rachel Papers, The (1989) - Charles Highway (Dexter Fletcher) plays chess with a computer
- Radio Bugs (1944) - chess game in the living room
- Radio Days (1987) - chess is mentioned
- Rage and Honor: Hostile Takeover (1994) - chess pieces on a table
- Rage At Dawn (1955)
- Raging Moon, The (1971)
- Ragtime (1981) - Grandmaster Lubomor Kavalek makes a cameo appearance
- Raiders of Shalimar (1978) - Sir John Locksley (Rex Harrison) plays chess
- Raise the Titanic (1980) - chess and Grandmaster Boleslavsky is mentioned
- Rambo III (1988) - chess set in a scene
- Rapid Fire (1992) - chess is mentioned
- Ratboy (1986) - chess set on a coffee table
- Ravenous (1999) - Major Knox (Stephen Spinella) plays chess with Private Cleaves (David Arquette)
- Ray (2004) - Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) playing chess
- Razor's Edge, The (1946) - Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) plays chess
- Red Heat (1988) - Art Ridzik (Jim Belushi) plays chess with a chess computer
- Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
- Ref, The (1994) - several chess references and chess board
- Remontons les Champs-Elysees (1938)
- Rent-A-Cop (1988) - chess set in the library
- Rent-A-Kid (1995) - Brandon Ward (Amos Crawley) plays chess with Lawrence Cady (Christopher Lloyd)
- Requiem for a Chessplayer (2008)
- Resident Evil (2002) - chess references
- Resurrected, The (1992) - John March (John Terry) has a chess set in his office
- Return From the Ashes (1965) - Maximillian Schell playing Ingrid Thulin
- Return of Mr. Moto, The (1965) - Mr. Moto (Henry Silva) playing chess
- Return of Sherlock Holmes, The - The Abbey Grange (July 16, 1986 ITV and PBS TV) - chessboard in one scene
- Return of the Mod Squad (1979 TV) - Jason (Todd Bridges) plays chess
- Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - chess play in the gym
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) - Booger (Curtis Armstrong) plays chess with Harold (Andrew Cassese)
- Revenge of the Teenage Vixens from Outer Space (1984) - chess is mentioned
- Revolver (2005)
- Richie Rich (1994) - chess set in the room
- Ride With the Wind (1994) - chess being played in a hospital
- Ridicule (1996) - Mathilde (Judith Goldreche) plays chess with Gregoire (Charles Berling)
- Riot (1969) - Indian Joe (Ben Carruthers) plays chess
- Rip Girls (2000)
- Rivals in Love (1993) - chess in Washington Square Park
- Robin Hood (1922) - chess set in the castle background
- Rocky IV (1985) - Duke (Tony Borton) plays chess with KGB agent (Anthony Maffatone)
- Rollercoaster (1977) - chess clock in a scene
- Romeo Must Die (2000)
- Rondo (1966) - Judge Mladen (Stevo Zignon) plays chess with Fedja (Relja Basic)
- Rosamunde Pilcher (2002)
- Rosemary's Baby (1969) - chess set on the coffee table
- Rosentrasse (2002)
- Rot und Blau (2003)
- Rough Cut (1980) - chess set on a coffee table
- Run (1991) - large chess set
- Run for Cover (1955) - Swenson (Jean Hersholt) plays chess with Helga (Viveca Lindfors)
- Run for the Money (2001) - the Karamozov brothers (Boiko Boyanov and Mitko Hristov) plays chess
- Runaway Jury (2003) - Gene Hackman in front of chess set on table
- Russia House, The (1990) - chess is mentioned
- Russians Are Coming!, The Russians Are Coming!, The (1965) - chess play on a sub
- S.F.W. (1994) - chess on a coffee table
- Sabotage (1996) - Michael Bishop plays chess with Prof. Simon Follenfant (John Neville)
- Sabrina (1995) - chess set on a coffee table
- Sacred Flame, The (1935)
- Sadko (The Magic Voyage of Sinbad) (1953, Russia)
- Safe Place, A (1971) - Noah (Orson Welles) plays chess
- Sait-on Jamais (1957)
- Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
- Samson and Delilah (1949) - chess set in a scene
- Sangaree (1953) - chess set in the study
- Santa with Muscles (1996) - chess set on a table
- Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988) - chess set on the TV
- Saturn 3 (1980) - Major Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett) play chess
- Savage Mutiny (1953) - ches is mentioned
- Saved By the Bell (1991 TV) - episode called "Check Your Mate" where Screech Powers (Dustin Diamond) plays in the chess championship
- Saving Silverman (2001) - photos of chess playing
- Scandal (1989) - chess set in a scene
- Scandalous (1984) - Col Wilfred Sayle (John Gielgud) plays chess
- Scapegoat, The (1959) - French count (Alec Guinness) plays chess with his mother (Bette Davis)
- Scaramouche (1952) - chess is mentioned
- Scared Stiff (1945) - about a chess editor (Jack Haley) at a newspaper looking for jade chess pieces
- Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) - aristocrats playing chess
- Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) - two men playing chess in a salon
- Schachnovelle (1960)
- Schatten der Nacht (1949)
- Schindler's List (1993) - chess set on a table
- Schneemann sucht Schneefrau (2002)
- Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
- Schusse aus dem Geigenkasten (1965)
- Schwarz und Weiss wie Tage und Nachte (1978)
- Scream of Fear (1961) - chess is mentioned
- Scream of Stone (1991) - chess game is mentioned
- Sea Chase, The (1955) - Chieff Schmitt (John Qualen) plays chess with Elsa Keller (Lana Turner)
- Sea Hawk, The (1942) - Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba (Claude Rains) plays chess with Dona Maria (Brenda Marshall)
- Sea of Love (1989) - chess set on a coffee table
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) - the story of prodigy Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc) playing chess
- Searching Wind, The (1946) - Sam (Douglas Dick) plays chess with his grandfather
- Sebastian (1968)
- Second Woman, The (1951) - chessmen in the background
- Secret Agent, The (1996) - chess game being played
- Secret Beyond the Door (1948) - chess being played
- Secret War of Harry Frigg, The (1968)
- Secret Window (2004) - Johnny Depp has a chessboard on his table
- Seinfeld (TV)
- Sellout, The (1976) - figurine chess pieces in one scene
- Sender, The (1982) - chessboard in a scene
- Senior Trip (1992) - chess is mentioned and implied
- Sensation (1936)
- Sense and Sensibility (1995) - chess set in the library
- Separate Tables (1958) - hotel has a chess set
- September (1987) - chess set in the summer home
- Serpico (1973) - Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) with a chess set
- Seven (Se7en) (1995) - Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) plays chess
- Seven Days to Noon (1950) - chess is mentioned
- Seven Percent Solution (1976) - chess pieces on a table
- Seventh Seal, The (1956) (Det Sjunde Inseglet) - Antonious Block (Max Von Sydow) playing chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot)
- Shadow, The (1994) - chess is mentioned
- Shadow, The: The Chess Club Murders (1941 radio)
- Shadow Conspiracy (1996) - chess set on a coffee table
- Shadow of China (1991) - Henry Wong (John Lone) plays chess with Burke (Colin George)
- Shadows on the Wall (1986) - sheriff Jim Donner (Michael Loggins) has a chess set
- Shaft (2000) - Mr. P playing chess; board set up wrong in the bar
- Shallow Hal (2001) - chess set in one scene
- Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) - Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) says that chess is a game of kings
- Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) - Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) plays chess with Dr. Watson (Patrick Macnee)
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) - Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) playing chess
- Shine (1996) - David (Alex Ratalowicz) plays chess
- Shining Through (1992) - chess set on the beside table
- Ship of Fools (1965) - Dr. Schumann (Oska Werner) plays chess with Capt. Thiele (Charles Korvin)
- Shot in the Dark, A (1964) - chess set in the mansion
- Siege of Firebase Gloria, The (1989) - two Army recruits are playing chess
- Siesta (1987) - chess is mentioned
- Signals (1959 Polish) - chess play in a hospital room
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Pilcher (Paul Lazar) and Roden (Dan Butler) playing chess
- Silent Fall (1994) - chess set in the living room
- Silent Partner (1978) - Miles Cullen (Eliot Gould) plays chess
- Silent Running (1971) - chess being played on a magnetic chess set
- Silent Star (Milczaca Gwiazda) (1960 Germany-Poland) - An Omega robot master chess player
- Silverado (1985) - Sheriff Tom Langston (John Cleese) plays chess
- Simon Birch (1998) - sign that says chess club
- Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) - Princess Farah (Jane Seymour) plays chess with a monkey
- Sinners (1989) - chess being played in the back room
- Sins of the Mother (1991)
- Siren of Atlantis (1949) - Queen Antinea (Maria Montez) plays chess
- Sgt. Bilko (1996) - chess clock on a table
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) - chess set on a table
- Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) - man plays chess with the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague
- Slacker (1991) - chess play at an outdoor cafe
- Slam Dunk Ernest (1994) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar mentions chess
- Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987) - chessboard is mentioned
- Sleeper (1973) - chess set on a coffee table
- Sleepwalkers (1992) - chess set in the upstairs room
- Sleuth (1972) - chess set in the mansion
- Sling Blade (1996) - chess game in the background
- Slipper and the Rose, The (1976) - chess set in the castle
- Slipstream (1989) - chess is mentioned
- Smilin' Through (1932) - Sir John (Leslie Howard) plays chess with Dr. Owen (O.P. Heggie)
- Smilin' Through (1941) - Reverend Owen Harding (Ian Hunter) plays chess with Sir John (Brian Aherne)
- Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931) - Princess Anna (Miriam Hopkins) sitting at a chessboard with Lt von Preyn (Maurice Chevalier)
- Smog (1962)
- Sneakers (1992) - Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) has a chess set
- Snow Dogs (2002) - chess players (Phillip Beer and George Labelle) in a hardware store
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) - Nels Godmundsson (Max von Sydow) plays chess with Kazzuo Miyamato (Rick Yune)
- Some Came Running (1958) - chess set in the upstairs study
- Some Kind of Nut (1969) - chess being played in the park
- Son of Alibaba (1952) - the caliph (Victor Jory) plays chess with Kareeb (Philip Van Zandt)
- Song of Norway (1970) - Henrik Ibsen (Frederick Jaeger) plays chess with Edvard Grieg (Toralv Maurstad)
- Song of Russia (1943) - chess set in the barracks
- Song of Scheherazade (1947) - Admiral Vladimir Gregorovitch (Brian Donlevy) plays chess
- Sonnenallee (1999)
- Sons of Katie Elder (1965) - Billy Wilson (Paul Fix) plays chess with Harry Evers (Sheldon Allman)
- Sonny & Cher Show (TV) - Jerry Lewis as the chessplayer
- Souls of the Sea (1937) - Cary Cooper
- South Pacific (1958) - chess being played in the hospital ward
- Spartacus (1960) - checkmate is mentioned
- Spectacle Maker, The (1934)
- Spice World (1998) - Ginger (Geri Halliwell) plays chess with Scary (Melanie B)
- Spiderman (2002) - chess is mentioned by the photographer
- Spiderman 2 (2004) - picture of two men playing chess
- Spies Like Us (1985) - scene with a chess set
- Splash! (1984) - chess play in the park
- Spookies (1986) - Kreon (Felix Ward) playing chess
- Spring Reunion (1957) - chess team is mentioned
- Spy Game (2001) - chess game at a Christmas party
- Spy Kids (2001) - chess play in the park
- Spy Kids II: Island if Lost Dreams (2002) - chess set in the tree house
- Spy Who Loved Me, The (1977) - chess play on a sub
- Spy Who Shagged Me, The (1999) - Mike Meyers
- Spylarks (1965) - chess set in the office
- Squaw Man, The (1931) - directed by Cecil B. DeMille; Warner Baxter, Paul Cavenaugh
- St. Ives (1976) - chess set on a coffee table
- Stairway to Heaven (1947) - Peter (David Niven) playing chess with June (Kim Hunter)
- Stalag 17 (1953) - chess set in the hut
- Stalking Hand, The (2005)
- Star! (1968) - two Persian maidens playing chess
- Star Trek (1979) - Leonard Nimoy (and TV version)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) - Data (Brent Spiner) says he plays chess
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - David Marcus (Merritt Butrick) mentions pawns
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) - Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) solves a futuristic chess problem
- Star Wars (1977) - hologrpahic chess
- Starship Troopers 2 - Hero fo the Federation (2004)
- State Secret (1950) - Col Galcon (Jack Hawkins) plays chess with Dr. John Marlowe (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr)
- Stay (2005) - Dr. Leon Patterson (Bob Hoskins) as a blind chess master
- Stealing Heaven (1988) - Count Abelard (Derek de Lint) plays chess with Fulbert (Denholm Elliott)
- Steel (1997) - chess play in the rec room
- Stepford Wives, The (2004) - chess on the coffee table
- Stepmom (1998) - Luke Harrison (Ed Harris) plays chess with Ben (Liam Aiken)
- Stick (1985) - chess set in the high rise
- Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
- Stigmata (1999) - chess set
- Stir Crazy (1980) - two inmates playing chess
- Stitches (1985) - chess set in the hospital
- Stone Cold Dead (1980) - Julian Kurtz (Paul Williams) plays chess with Bernice Carnival (Andree Cousineau)
- Storm in Summer, A (2000) - Peter Falk
- Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) - chess game on a ship
- Story of Three Loves (1953) - box of chessmen
- Storyville (1992) - chess set in the study
- Straw Dogs (1971) - David (Dustin Hoffman) playing chess with Amy Summer (Susan George)
- Streets of Gold (1986) - chess play in the background
- Stripes (1981) - chess set on the coffee table
- Student Teachers, The (1973)
- Stupids, The (1996) - chess game is mentioned
- Submarine X-1 (1968) - Lt Robert Gogen (William Dysart) playing chess with Lt. Davies (David Sumner)
- Substitute, The (1995) - Wellman (Richard Brooks) plays chess with Rem (Luis Guzman)
- Subterraneans, The (1960) - chess set in a room
- Sugar Hill (1994) - Roemello Skuggs (Wesley Snipes) plays chess with Rick (Steve Harris)
- Sum of All Fears (2002) - chess game is mentioned
- Superfly (1972)
- Superman II (1980) - Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) plays chess with his sidekick (Ned Beatty)
- Superman III (1983) - chess set
- Supernova (2000) - Benjamin (Wilson Cruz) plays chess with a computer
- Surviving the Game (1994) - Mr. Wolfe (Murray Abraham) plays chess with Burns (Rutger Hauer)
- Susan and God (1940) - Amos (Sam Harris) plays chess with Hutchie (Nigel Bruce)
- Susie Q (1995) - chess set in a classroom
- Suspense: Cagliostro and the Chess Player (1953 TV)
- Svengali (1931) - chess set in a Paris flat
- Swamp Thing, The (1982) - chessplayer mentioned
- Swan Princess (1994) - chess bing played in this animated movie
- Sweet Charity (1969) - chess on a coffee table
- Sweetener (2007)
- Swept From the Sea (1998) - chess is mentioned
- Swimming with Sharks (1995) - chess on a coffee table
- Sword in the Desert (1949)
- Sworn to Vengeance (1993) - Robert Conrad
- Sygnaly (1959)
- T.R. Sloane (1979) - the Director (Dan O'Herily) plays chess with a computer
- Tailor of Panama, The (2001) - chess set in one scene
- Takeover, The (1995)
- Taking Care of Business (1990) - chess set in the screening room
- Tale of Two Cities, A (1935) - chess being played in the background
- Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) - Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) plays chess with Tom Ripley (Matt Damon)
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) - Maddox (Philip Lenkowsky) plays chess with Jer (Ashton Wise)
- Tales from the Hood (1995) - chess set on the plantation
- Talk of the Town (1942) - Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) plays chess with Prof. Michael Lightcap (Ronald Colman)
- Tammy and the Doctor (1963) - Jason Tripp (Reginald Owen) plays chess with Mrs. Call (Beulah Bondi)
- Taps (1981) - scenes with chess sets
- Tarzan Triumphs (1943) - chess play in a tent
- Teacher's Pet (1958) - chess set in the apartment
- Team America: World Police (2004) - chess being played backstage by the puppets
- Tempest, The (1983) - Miranda (J.e. Taylor) plays chess with Ferdindnad (Nicholas Hammond)
- Temptation (1946) - chess set in the study
- Tennessee's Partner (1955) - chess being played
- Terminal Error (2001) - chess being played at a nuclear power plant
- Terminal Island (1973) - Bobby (Sean Kenney) plays chess
- Terminal Man (1974) - chess being played at a party
- Terra Nova (1998)
- Terror of Frankenstein, The (Victor Frankenstein) (1975)
- Terror of the Tongs (1961) - chess set at a gambling house
- Texas Justice (1995) - chess set at an antique shop
- Thank You Lucky Stars (1943) - song mentions game of chess
- That Night (1992) - Rick (C. Thomas Howell) plays chess
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) - chess game is mentioned
- They Crawl (2001) - chess on a coffee table
- They Might be Giants (1971) - chess set on a table
- Thief of Baghdad, The (1940) - Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) plays chess with the Sultan of Basra (Miles Malleson)
- Thief Who Came to Dinner, The (1973) - Webster McGee (Ryan O'Neal) is the chess burglar
- Thing, The (1951) - scientists Dr. Ambrose (Edmond Breon) and Dr. Redding (George Fenneman) playing chess in the building
- Thing, The (1982) - R.J. McReady (Kurt Russell) plays a chess computer
- Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1978) - chess set by the fireplace
- This Time for Keeps (1947)
- This Time Forever (1980) - patients playing chess at a hospital
- Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) - Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) plays Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway)
- Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999) - checkmate is mentioned
- Those Redheads from Seattle (1953) - chess set in a scene
- Three Musketeers, The (1921) - King Louis XIII (Adolphe Menjou) playing chess with Cardinal Richeliue (Nigel de Brulte)
- Three Musketeers, The (1948) - chess is mentioned
- Three Musketeers, The (1973) - living chess
- Three Musketeers, The (1977) - chess play in this animated film
- Thrill of a Romance (1945) - chess being played in the lobby
- Throw Mama from the Train (1987) - chess set in the middle of the bedroom
- Thunderbird Six (1968) - chess set on an airship
- Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) - Brains examines a chess position
- Thunderbirds in Outer Space (1981) - chess is mentioned
- Timbuktu (1959) - Victor Mature
- Time After Time (1979) - H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) plays chess with Dr. John Stevenson (David Warner)
- Time to Die, A (1983) - chess set blows up
- Time Warp (1981) - a computer can play chess
- Timemaster (1995) - chessboard is mentioned
- Titanic (1953) - two passengers playing chess
- To Be or Not To Be (1942) - chess being played in a basement
- To Kill a King (2003)
- Todo un hombre (1943)
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - scene with a chess set and chess references
- Tony Rome (1967) - chess set in the mansion
- Toronto Stories (2008)
- Torremolinos 73 (2003)
- Torn Curtain (1966) - chess play in a coffeee house
- Touch of Class, A (1973) - chess is mentioned
- Tough Guys (1986) - chess set in the rest home
- Tournament, The (1959) - Polish animated cartoon film
- Towering Inferno, The (1974) - chess set in the office
- Toy Story 2 (1999) - drawer with chessmen
- Toy Tiger (1956) - chess set on a table
- Trading Places (1983) - chess being played at the men's club
- Traffic (2000) - chess set in the office
- Train de Vie (1998)
- Training Day (2001) - chess is mentioned
- Traitor (2008)
- Treasure Planet (2002) - chess set in a scene
- Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 TV) - chess is mentioned as Lee's favorite game
- Triple Cross (1967) - figurine chess set in a scene
- Triplecross (1995) - Teddy Cooper (Michael Pare) plays chess with Biggs (Gene Mack)
- Tripoli (1950) - Humat Karamanly (Philip Reed) plays chess with Countess D'Arneau (Maureen O'Hara)
- Troll (1998) - chess set in the apartment
- Tron (1982) - chess program mentioned
- Truth, The (La Verite) (1960) - chess scene with Brigitte Bardot and Sami Frey
- Tulips (1981) - Gabe Kaplan playing chess
- Twelve Chairs, The (1970) - chess club in Russia
- Twice Around the Daffodils (1962) - a chess whizz in a sanatorium
- Twilight (1998) - scene with a chess set
- Twin Peaks (1990-91 TV) - an episode with chess
- Twins (1988) - Julius Benedict (Arnold Schwarzeneggar) mentions chess
- Two Girls & A Guy (1998) - visible chess set
- Two Hands (1999)
- Two Minute Warning (1976) - chess mentioned and being played
- Two Weeks Notice (2002) - several scenes of chess play and chess sets
- Ulzana's Raid (1972)
- Unbearable Lightness of Being (1987) - chess being played in Prague
- Uncovered (1994) - Chess expert Domenec (Paudge Behan)
- Undercover Kids (2004)
- Unguarded Moment, The (1956) - chess set in the living room
- Unholy Love (1928)
- Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business (1998) - chess set in one scene
- Unmasking the Idol (1986) - chess is mentioned
- Unnameable, The (1992) - chess set in the study
- Unsuspected, The (1947) - Steven Howard (Michael North) plays chess with Althea (Audrey Totter)
- Untamed Heiress (1954) - Judy Canova and Donald Barry
- Untouchables, The (1959-1962) - In 1962, there was an episode called "The Chess Game"
- Up Close and Personal (1996) - Warren Justice (Robert Redford) is playing chess with a hustler (Guillermo Gentile)
- Up From the Depths (1979) - Mr. Holland (Ken Metcalfe) plays chess
- Upside of Anger, The (2005) - "I don't need you using my daughter as a pawn"
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- Valhalla (1986)
- Vampire's Kiss (1988) - chess set on a table
- Vanishing, The (1993) - chess set on a coffee table
- Vasen (1962)
- Vault of Horror (1973) - chess pieces on a coffee table
- Velvet Touch, The (1948) - chess is mentioned
- Victory (1981) - chess set in a POW camp
- Vigilante (1982) - chess play in the background of a prison
- Vigilante Cop (1991)
- Village of the Damned (1960) - children playing chess
- Vinci (2004)
- Virgin Queen, The (1955) - chess is mentioned
- Virtuosity (1995) - futuristic version of chess
- Virus (1999) - chess on a Russian ship
- Visitors, The (Les Visiteurs) (2003) - chess is mentioned
- Vitus (2006)
- Voice of the Whistler (1945) - Richard Dix
- Volga Boatmen, The (French-Italian film) - chess play (board set up wrong)
- Voltaire (1933) - Voltaire (George Arliss) plays chess with Dr. Tronchaut (David Torrence)
- Vows of Deception (1996)
- Vstrechnyj (1932)
- Wag the Dog (1997) - chess is mentioned
- Walk Like a Man (1987) - chess play in the background of a country club
- Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) - scene with a chessboard
- War and Peace (1956) - Col Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine) plays chess
- Wargames (1983) - WOPR contains chess programs
- Warlock: The Armegeddon (1993) - Kenny Travis (Chris Young) plays chess with Will Travis (Steve Kahan)
- Waterdance, The (1992) - chess being played in a hospital
- Waterhole #3 (1967) - chess being played at a bordello
- Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) - room with a chess set
- Waxworks (1924) - Haroun-al-Raschid (Emil Jannings) plays chess
- Way Home, The (2004)
- We're Talking Serious Money (1992)
- Web, The (1947) - Lt. Damico (William Bendix) playing chess
- Wedding with Obstacles (1950 Czech) - main character solves chess problems
- Weekend at Bernie's II (1992) - scene with a chess set
- Weekend Warriors (1986) - chess sets in the rec room
- Weird Science (1985) - chess is mentioned
- Welcome to L.A. (1976) - chess set in a waiting room
- West Wing, The (2002 TV) - The President (Martin Sheen) plays chess with Sam (Rob Lowe) and Toby (Richard Schiff)
- Wharf Rat, The (1916) - directed by Chester Withey; Mae Marsh
- What Dreams May Come (1998) - Dr. Christy Nielsen (Robin Williams) plays chess with Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant)
- What the Peeper Saw (1971) - chess set is mentioned
- What Women Want (2000) - scene where chess is mentioned from a movie on TV
- What's New, Pussycat (1965) - Victor Shakapopolus (Woody Allen) plays chess
- Whatever It Takes (2000)
- Whistle Blower, The (1986) - Col Dodgson (Bill Wallace) playing chess
- White Cliffs of Dover, The (1944) - Hirum Dunn (Frank Morgan) plays chess with Col Forsythe (C. Aubrey Smith)
- White Nights (1985) - chess is mentioned
- White Sands (1992) - chess set on a coffee table
- Willie and Phil (1980) - Ray Sharkey playing chess with Michael Ontkean
- Witness to the Mob (1998)
- White Water Summer (1987) - Alan (Sean Astin) plays chess with Vic (Kevin Bacon)
- Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) - Smitty (Ray Sharkey) plays chess with Danskin (Richard Masur)
- Wild Geese, The (1978) - Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger) plays chess
- Wild Thing (1987) - Laurie (Christine Jones) plays chess with Chopper (Robert Davi)
- Wilson (1944) - chess being played in the press room
- Wind Across the Everglades (1958) - Gypsy Rose Lee playing chess
- Wind and the Lion, The (1975) - Rai-suli (Sean Connery) playing chess with Mrs. Edith Pedecaris (Candice Bergen)
- Windtalkers (2002) - two Marines play chess
- Wing and a Prayer (1944) - chess in the recreation area
- Wing Commander (1999) - chess in the rec room
- Winter Kills (1979) - chessboard at the beginning of the movie
- Wishing Ring, The (1914) - The heroine plays a game of chess.
- Witchboard II: The Devil's Doorway (1993) - folded chess board
- Without a Clue (1988) - Dr. Watson (Bem Kingsley) plays chess
- Wolfen (1981) - chess set on top of a TV
- Woman in the Dark (1951) - Tant Maria (Edit Angold) plays chess with Papa (Martin Garralaga)
- Woman on the Beach, The (1947) - Todd Butler (Charles Bickford) plays chess
- Women In Love (1969)
- World Chess Festival (1988) - documentary on the tournament at St John, New Brunswick, Canada
- World for Ranson, The (1954) - Alexis Pederas (Gene Lockhart) plays chess
- Wrestling Ernest Hemmingway (1993)
- Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1965) - Loreta Venus (Lorena Velazquez) plays chess with a cop
- Write to Kill (1990)
- Wuthering Heights (1939) - Edgar Linten (David Niven) plays chess against his father (Cecil Humphreys)
- X-Men (2000) - Xavier (Patrick Stewart) playing chess with Magneto (Ian McKellen) in the final scene
- X2: X-Men United (2003) - several chess scenes
- X-Men: The Last Stand (X-Men 3) (2006)
- Yankee Pasha (1954) - chess set in a scene
- Yanks (1979)
- Yentl (1983) - father (Nehemiah Persoff) plays chess
- You're in the Army Now (1941) - Homer Smith (Jimmy Durante) plays chess with Breezy Jones (Phil Silvers)
- You've Got Mail (1998) - chess set in the background
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - Elizabeth Hardy (Sophie Ward) plays chess with Watson (Alan Cox)
- Za wami pojda inni (1949)
- Zalobnici (1960)
- Zathura (2005) - meteor shower destroys chess set in house
- Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman and the Chess Expert (1965)
- Zebrahead (1992) - chess is mentioned
- Zivot je Cudo (2004)
- Zoolander (2001) - Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) playing chess in the outake
- Zotz! (1962) - professors playing chess
- Zwolf Stuhle (2004)
- Zugvogel (1998)
- Zugzwang (1988) - Anatoly Karpov
- Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa (1963)
Note: a more thorough list can be found in the book Chess in the Movies by Bob Basalla
