Isabella Rossellini plays the female lead, a nun who gets to criticize how the church continues to sideline women.It’s just the latest of many movies made over the years about the papacy, and many of these have to do with the inherently dramatic process of papal succession,

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an implausible storyline.

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the death of Pope Francis, the ranks of armchair Vatican experts have swelled thanks to Hollywood.