Knight Moves

Jan 14, 1992

1h 56m

★ 5.8

In a game of life and death... one wrong move could be his last...

Overview

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

Genres

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

Cineplex Odeon Films

Cinevox Filmproduktion

Ink Slinger Productions

Knight Moves Productions

Lamb Bear Entertainment

Interstar

Knight Moves Trailers

Cast

Peter Sanderson

Christopher Lambert

Kathy Sheppard

Diane Lane

Frank Sedman

Tom Skerritt

Andy Wagner

Daniel Baldwin

Jeremy Edmonds

Ferdy Mayne

Father

Don Thompson

Mother

Megan Leitch

Erica Sanderson

Katharine Isabelle

Viktor Yurillvich

Arthur Brauss

Debi Rutlege

Kehli O'Byrne

Steve Nolan

Blu Mankuma

Christie Eastman

Elizabeth Baldwin

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