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List: Angel Movies

Thursday July 9, 2009

My fellow Beliefnet blogger Susan Gregg, has a new post about her favorite angel characters in movies and a link to a Beliefnet gallery about angels in movies and television in the past 20 years.

These are all good choices but of course I have to add some of my own recommendations, including some films from before 1990 as well. Claude Rains was a dapper angel assisting a boxer who was sent to heaven before his time in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, later remade with James Mason and Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait.

Spencer Tracy was a flier killed in a crash who came back as something between a ghost and an angel to help the woman he loved find love again in A Guy Named Joe, remade with Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter as Always.

The most elegant angel in movie history had to be Cary Grant as Dudley in The Bishop's Wife, gently helping an Episcopalian bishop remember that his priorities were his faith and his family, not the new cathedral. The remake, "The Preacher's Wife," stars Denzel Washington.

In "Wings of Desire," angels observe rather than guide, and one of them finds heaven on earth.

Roy Scheider flirted with a sympathetic angel of death played by Jessica Lange in "All That Jazz." In "A Matter of Life and Death" (sometimes called "Stairway to Heaven") a dashing wartime aviator played by David Niven must argue for his life in a celestial court. In "Death Takes a Holiday," Fredric March plays the Angel of Death who learns what it is that makes humans cling to life so dearly.

And don't forget Clarence getting his wings at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life." George Bailey was not the only one who had a happy ending.

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Nell Minow
September 11, 2009 7:23 AM
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Erika, the only movie I know of with Matt Damon as an angel is "Dogma," a controversial Kevin Smith movie with Ben Affleck and Alan Rickman as angels, Chris Rock as a disciple, and Alanis Morrisette as God. But that does not sound like the one you are thinking of. Could you be thinking of "City of Angels" with Nicolas Cage?

Patrick
October 4, 2009 6:52 AM

hello there im Danish so before i start im sorry for the bad gramma...:D

I dont know if you can help but i really hope so... it's kind a important to me...

i had seen a movie for long time ago know but it just landed in my head i dont know the title and the acters names but its about an Angel theres been but on earth and it started to loose it feathers and then left to die... pleae what's the title of this movie i have to own it...

Nell Minow
October 4, 2009 9:15 AM
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Welcome, Patrick! Can you remember any other details about the movie? Is it an American film? Could it be "Michael" with John Travolta? He plays an angel who loses his feathers.

Your Name
October 4, 2009 3:33 PM

ive also been lookin forr the name of this movie about a boy who goes to a catholic school and at the end he meets his gurdian angel who is in a body of a boy and hes seen him all over school.

BARBARA kramer
October 25, 2009 7:59 PM

would like to know the name of a movie where and old man has a heart attach while driving the bus but steers the bus to safty in just enough time and some young teenage angles come to help

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