It is a really famous and very old movie and I’ve only ever seen the beginning. That old black and white movie that takes place in I think what is supposed to be Medieval Europe during a bad outbreak of the plague. The main character is a knight I think that is being stalked by death and he plays chess with him. I’m a little embarassed I can’t remember the name because it is an iconic film.
Bergman’s Seventh Seal?
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This film has had innumerable parodies. Best known is probably the second Bill and Ted movie, but Woody Allen did a parody called “Death Calls” as a playlet in which the guy plays Death at Gin. National Lampoon’s “Death” issue back around 1970 had an ad for the book “Bobby Fisher Teaches You How to Beat Death at Chess”. And the best (and most overlooked) is the film the Dove, which has death being beaten at badminton:
Don’t Bill and Ted beat Death at TwisterTM?
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The Woody Allen piece is actually titled “Death Knocks”–a play on words; when you want to end a hand without actually “ginning”, you “knock” and catch your opponent with a lot of points in his hand.
I’m pretty sure Bill and Ted beat death at a lot of different games and death kept saying, “Okay, two out of three…okay, three out of five…”, and so on. I remember battleship, clue, twister but there may have been more.
And Battleship. And probably Connect-4 too.
And then there’s Terry Pratchett’s Death, who can never remember which way the little horse moves. (IIRC)
Saturday Night Live also did a parody way back when.
I’m pretty sure the Animaniacs did a parody, too. I’d guess way more people have seen one parody or another than have seen the original movie.
I’m ashamed to say I remember this, but Bill and Ted beat Death at Battleship, Clue and Twister.
“Det’s right, Vacko Varner! Von more meatball and yur officially mine!”
They also play that vibration-football board game. Best 4 out of 7.
Even popular internet cartoons have parodied The Seventh Seal.
Was it not the superhero Flaming Carrot who once challenged death by saying “I will play you! But forget chess. My game is wiffle ball!”
OMG - all I could think of was: When Come Back, Bring Pie! 
I think I’m going to buy The Seventh Seal on DVD and watch it all the way through. I love Medieval Europe as a setting.
It’s a good parody, although IMHO it drags a bit (I realize that’s half the point, but still…). It also contains Madeline Kahn’s screen debut!
De Düva: The Dove is downloadable as a ~36MB .WMV file from this Bergman tribute page (which also has parodies from SCTV and French & Saunders).
You seem to know much of this THE SEVENTH SEAL, Antonius Block… and from where did you get such a unique name?
Btw, I talked a decade-younger friend (I was in my 30s, he - an aspiring filmmaker- in his 20s) into seeing it at the local college. I had seen it years before & thought he’d appreciate it. When it concluded, he was stunned silent (a rare happening) at how good it was. So I broke that silence with “Well, that was the feel-good movie of the century.” Much hilarity did ensue.