jar writes:
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I gotta mention Elmer Gantry.
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Can we include Orfeu Negro?
I love both your choices. Mine would be
The Ruling Class, one of my favorite British comedies. Peter O'Toole plays a member of the nobility who thinks he's Jesus Christ. Alastair Sim plays his bishop, a character torn between his fear of going to hell for treating a noble with disrespect and his fear of going to hell for blaspheming the Christ by playing along with O'Toole's madness. You could call the picture a musical, but the musical numbers always pop up at the most inappropriate times and seldom last more than a minute. The one exception is the hilarious set-piece done to the drinking song from
La Traviata, during which Jesus falls in love with the Lady of the Camilias. Alastair Sim's bishop is later called upon to marry the pair in what has to be one of the funniest weddings ever conceived or filmed.
The OP asked for thrillers, so I thought I'd mention that - very unexpectedly -
The Ruling Class suddenly becomes a thriller toward the end.
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