"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is sung at the end of the 1936 movie "San Francisco".In the Max Ophüls 1952 film, "Le Plaisir", the French version of the hymn, 'Plus près de toi, mon Dieu,' is sung to the Bethany tune at a first communion service in a country church, causing a group of prostitutes in the congregation to collapse in tears over their lost innocence.