# Movie Marathon (Part 2)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801 "2021-03-26T22:06:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 499

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9963 "2023-06-19T15:04:44Z")

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**Movies in which the Roman Catholic Church plays a key role**

1. Spotlight
2. I Confess
3. Dogma
4. The Cardinal
5. Elizabeth
6. The Shoes of the Fisherman
7. Philomena

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9964 "2023-06-19T15:32:34Z")

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**Movies in which the Roman Catholic Church plays a key role**

1. Spotlight
2. I Confess
3. Dogma
4. The Cardinal
5. Elizabeth
6. The Shoes of the Fisherman
7. Philomena
8. Angels & Demons

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9965 "2023-06-19T15:32:59Z")

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**Movies in which the Roman Catholic Church plays a key role**

1. Spotlight
2. I Confess
3. Dogma
4. The Cardinal
5. Elizabeth
6. The Shoes of the Fisherman
7. Philomena
8. Angels & Demons
9. Saint Ralph

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9966 "2023-06-19T19:23:50Z")

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**Movies in which the Roman Catholic Church plays a key role**

1. Spotlight
2. I Confess
3. Dogma
4. The Cardinal
5. Elizabeth
6. The Shoes of the Fisherman
7. Philomena
8. Angels & Demons
9. Saint Ralph
10. Going My Way

**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants

Louis Malle’s WWII film about a Jewish boy hidden at a Catholic school by priests, semi-autobiographical

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9967 "2023-06-19T20:30:24Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith

A rabbi and a priest both love the same woman.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9968 "2023-06-19T20:36:20Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman

An archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is named as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9969 "2023-06-19T20:49:59Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The groom-to-be must convert to Greek Orthodoxy before marrying his bride-to-be.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9970 "2023-06-19T20:55:53Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Lilies of the Field

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9971 "2023-06-19T21:00:32Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Lilies of the Field
6. The Diary of Anne Frank

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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9972 "2023-06-20T01:30:42Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Lilies of the Field
6. The Diary of Anne Frank
7. Goodfellas

Henry tells his eventual in-laws that he’s half-Jewish so he can date Karen.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9973 "2023-06-20T11:00:00Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Lilies of the Field
6. The Diary of Anne Frank
7. Goodfellas
8. Fiddler on the Roof

One of Tevye’s daughters decides to marry a Christian, and Tevye decides he cannot accept it.

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9974 "2023-06-20T11:27:03Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Lilies of the Field
6. The Diary of Anne Frank
7. Goodfellas
8. Fiddler on the Roof
9. The Scarlet and the Black

True story of Hugh O’Flaherty, an Irish priest and Vatican official credited with saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9975 "2023-06-20T16:18:01Z")

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**Movies in which interfaith relations play a key role**

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants
2. Keeping the Faith
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. The Lilies of the Field
6. The Diary of Anne Frank
7. Goodfellas
8. Fiddler on the Roof
9. The Scarlet and the Black
10. Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth I, Protestant head of the Church of England, is the target of Catholic assassination attempts.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9976 "2023-06-20T23:13:17Z")

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@Elendil_s_Heir [Um… hello?](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/441288af-5441-4cab-bc80-61d6b69e180f)

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9977 "2023-06-21T23:02:25Z")

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Sorry.

**Movies in which Judaism plays a major role**

1. Exodus

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9978 "2023-06-21T23:10:45Z")

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**Movies in which Judaism plays a major role**

1. Exodus
2. The Prince of Egypt

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**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9979 "2023-06-21T23:11:59Z")

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**Movies in which Judaism plays a major role**

1. Exodus
2. The Prince of Egypt
3. A Serious Man

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9980 "2023-06-21T23:17:25Z")

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**Movies in which Judaism plays a major role**

1. Exodus
2. The Prince of Egypt
3. A Serious Man
4. The Jazz Singer

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9981 "2023-06-21T23:46:22Z")

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**Movies in which Judaism plays a major role**

1. Exodus
2. The Prince of Egypt
3. A Serious Man
4. The Jazz Singer
5. Fiddler on the Roof

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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9982 "2023-06-21T23:56:36Z")

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**Movies in which Judaism plays a major role**

1. Exodus
2. The Prince of Egypt
3. A Serious Man
4. The Jazz Singer
5. Fiddler on the Roof
6. Yentl

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