Movies like Computer Chess
If Computer Chess's mix of hotel, artificial intelligence (a.i.) and computer stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Computer Chess's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Shining
1980 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 144 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: hotel, surrealism
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter.
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Her
2013 · Directed by Spike Jonze · 126 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.), computer · From the same decade (2010s)
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need.
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The Wrong Trousers
1993 · Directed by Nick Park · 30 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: surrealism
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.
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The Grinch
2018 · Directed by Yarrow Cheney · 85 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: surrealism · From the same decade (2010s)
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration. But a certain little who might change things.
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Mistress America
2015 · Directed by Noah Baumbach · 84 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: chess · From the same decade (2010s)
A college freshman cures her disappointment and loneliness by allowing herself to be pulled into the wacky schemes of her future stepsister.
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8-Bit Christmas
2021 · Directed by Michael Dowse · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: 1980s
In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.