Chess Comedy Movies

List of the best chess comedies selected by our site visitors: Demobbed, Give Me a Complaints Book, Poor Sasha, Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia, Bingo Bongo, Special Features: Handsome, Delicatessen, Ruby & Quentin, The Closet, Rural Detective.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:25

The student, Rifle, has managed to seduce his professor's wife, Bomber, an average working guy, has bought a factory and Bullet, the casino lover, is hiding from creditors. They all share a common path and conscription. In the army they teach you that everything must be smart and in order - cockades, straps and all, otherwise you're not fit to call yourself a person, you're a maggot. For a real man, there's no better place than the army.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy
CountrySoviet Union

A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, adventure, family
CountryRussia
Duration01:35

A young girl wants to rob her mother's bank in order to have her to leave work and come home for a New Year Eve.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountrySoviet Union, Italy
Duration01:44

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, family
CountryItaly, West Germany
Duration01:42

The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly

Forty-something Mattia has every woman in town lusting after him. But every time a woman wants to get hitched, he drags out his 'daughter' (actually the girl next door) to pass judgment on this woman.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:39

This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his next slaughter victim things turn into chaos.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:25

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:24

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, family, crime
CountrySoviet Union

Detective Aniskin lives with his family in a rural village where people call him the "rural detective". Everyone in the village is respectful of Aniskin because of his wisdom and his good disposition. The villagers do not remember having any crime for many years. But one day an accordion is stolen from the manager of the local clubhouse. Detective Aniskin begins the investigation.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:25

This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:32

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, family
CountryFrance
Duration01:44

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountrySweden, Croatia
Duration01:54

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly
Duration01:30

Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the 'final' game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:20

The plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 SUVs, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, crime
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:22

In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the local deceitful governor. All the time Shurik thinks that it is all just a one old Caucasian custom. When he, finally, realizes what he did he goes out in search for the girl of his dreams. Written by Ptah Hoteb

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:53

Suddenly Alyona start talking to a stranger man who lives... inside her head.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy
CountryUkraine
Duration02:10

President Vasily Goloborodko is in power for almost half a year. The economic situation in the country had deteriorated: prices are rising and the national currency has depreciated. People's confidence in the President is rapidly falling. To stabilize the situation in the country Goloborodko needs to get financial assistance from the IMF in the amount of 15 billion euros, which can be provided, if reforms and anti-corruption laws will be introduced in Ukraine.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, adventure
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:29

Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration02:50

In the tradition of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” comes this refreshing comedy about a rebellious prankster with a crafty mind and a heart of gold. Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's sexy daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:34

Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy
CountryKazakhstan

A young major named Azamat, accustomed to a comfortable city life, by coincidence, is sent to work as an akim in a remote village.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family
CountryRussia, Soviet Union
Duration01:18

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia

The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
Duration01:39

All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle. I'm gonna talk cods hit to strangers all night. I'm gonna lose the plot on the dance floor, the free radicals inside me are freaking man! Tonight I'm Jip Travolta, I'm Peter Popper, I'm going to Never Never Land with my chosen family, man. We're going to get more spaced out than Neil Armstrong ever did. Anything could happen tonight, you know? This could be the best night of my life! I've got 73 quid in my back burner. I'm gonna wax the lot, man. The milky bars are on me! Yeah!

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:35

A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountrySouth Africa
Duration01:40

Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryFrance, United Kingdom
Duration01:26

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:42

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:49

The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration03:17

The employees of a radio station in Moscow are forced to organize the elections campaign for a future governor in one of Russia districts.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, family
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:11

A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:38

One (and not the most easy one) day from the life of a big Moscow radio station.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:28

An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryPoland
Duration01:49

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryFrance, Mexico, Malta
Duration01:31

When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, family, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, family
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:31

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:48

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.

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