Highest-Rated Movies about 'Heaven'

Stairway to Heaven - A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Green Pastures (1936), After Life (1998), Heaven Can Wait (1943), You Never Can Tell (1951), Defending Your Life (1991), The Little Devil (1988), A Guy Named Joe (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Heaven movies.

#2. The Green Pastures (1936)

Storyline: A preacher in a small African-American church in Louisiana tells his Sunday school class stories from the Bible as if the characters were part of a local fish fry. He starts with the creation of the world by God, known as "De Lawd" (Rex Ingram), and tells how God went on to create heaven, which is just like their farmland, and then created man and woman, followed by their fall and finally the coming of Jesus Christ. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Plot Keywords: religion, race, allegory, african american, bible, fantasy, musical ...

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#3. After Life (1998)

Storyline: A small mid-20th century social-service-style office is a waystation for the souls of the recently deceased, where they are processed before entering their personal heaven - a single happy memory re-experienced for eternity. Every Monday, a new group of recently deceased people check in, and the "social workers" in the lodge explain their situation. Once the newly-dead have identified their happiest memories, workers design and replicate each person's chosen memory, which is staged and filmed. At the end of the week, the recently deceased watch the films of their recreated happiest memories in a screening room. As soon as each person sees his or her own memory, he or she vanishes to whatever state of existence lies beyond and takes only that single memory with them. The story pays most attention to two of the "counselors," Takashi (Arata) and Shiori (Oda). Takashi has been assigned to help an old man, Ichiro (played by Naito Taketoshi), select his memory. Reviewing videotape of Ichiro's life, Takashi learns that Ichiro had married Takashi's former fiancée after Takashi had been killed during World War II. Takashi has Ichiro assigned to another counselor, but is still troubled by his memories, causing both him and his quasi-romantic interest Shiori to re-examine their (after-) lives.—Gaafar

Plot Keywords: life reflection, memory, death, afterlife, soul, choice, emotion ...

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#4. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Storyline: Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. Surprised there is any question on his suitability, he recounts his lively life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, but mainly concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult twenty-five years of marriage to Martha.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, fantasy, love, heaven, hell, soul ...

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#5. You Never Can Tell (1951)

Storyline: An ex-police/army dog (German Shepherd), named King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune, and he gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice, and protect the girl who used to look after him.—Kathy Li

Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, black comedy, detective, murder, mystery, supernatural ...

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#6. Defending Your Life (1991)

Storyline: Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat.

Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, afterlife, reincarnation, humor, supernatural ...

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#7. The Little Devil (1988)

Storyline: Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.—Stefano "SWEEVO" Pavone

Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, religion, humor, supernatural, hell, heaven ...

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#8. A Guy Named Joe (1943)

Storyline: Maj. Pete Sandidge is a very able pilot who seems to have a streak of luck as far as flying goes. World War II is raging and Pete has come out of it pretty so far. He even has a beautiful girlfriend Dorinda Durston, herself a qualified pilot who ferries aircraft to different bases. When Pete is killed however, he finds himself in heaven and learns that every pilot has a guardian angel. He returns to Earth where, unseen by anyone, he coaches a pilot-in-training Ted Randall. Ted is a pretty good kid and is coming along nicely but when he's shipped to New Guinea he runs into Dorinda who has remained faithful to her lost love. As Ted pursues her, Pete will have to decide what he wants to do about it.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: war, romance, fantasy, drama, world war ii, pilot, ghost ...

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#9. What Dreams May Come (1998)

Storyline: During a holidays in Switzerland, a young Chris Nielsen meets by chance Annie Collins in a lake when their boats slightly collide. Sharing a snack when they meet a few hours later, Chris and Annie fall in love each other. Marrying quickly, Chris works as pediatrician and Annie as artist painter and art dealer, and they turn in parents of two children, older Ian and elder Marie. But their happy family life torn apart when being Ian and Marie teenagers, a car accident kills both and the nanny who was driving the van where they were. Four years later, Chris and Annie try to restore their life despite the tragedy and celebrate their anniversary when while he returns to home in his car after to end his daily work, Chris witnesses a car accident in a tunnel during a rainy night. Exiting of the car in an attempt to help people, another car crashes against him, hurting severally. Dying in the hospital, Chris turns in a ghost around his house and his recently widowed Annie, trying tell her ...

Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, drama, supernatural, life and death, heaven, hell ...

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#10. Constantine (2005)

Storyline: John Constantine is approached by Det. Angela Dodson who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel's death was not a suicide. The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. She's asked Constantine for help because he has a reputation for dealing with the mystical. In fact, he is a demon hunter whose sole purpose on Earth is to send demons back to the nether regions. John himself has been to Hell and knows that he is destined to return there on his death - but hopes his good deeds may find him a place in Heaven. As he looks into Isabel's death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into a direct conflict with Satan.

Plot Keywords: supernatural, exorcism, hell, heaven, demons, religion, occult ...

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#11. Rapture (1965)

Storyline: In the French countryside, Agnes (Patricia Gozzi), a withdrawn teenager, lives in relative seclusion with her hermetic ex-judge father, Frederick (Melvyn Douglas). Agnes, who longs for male companionship, falls in love with Joseph (Dean Stockwell), an injured escaped convict her family has taken in and nursed back to health. When Frederick expresses his disapproval of their romance, the two run off to Paris, where the perils of the city soon catch up with both of them.

Plot Keywords: religion, apocalypse, faith, redemption, prophecy, bible, soul ...

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#12. Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Storyline: Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.

Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, sports, reincarnation, heaven, soul ...

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#13. All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Storyline: Charlie B. Barkin (Burt Reynolds), a rascally German Shepherd with a shady past, breaks out of the New Orleans Dog Pound with the help of his faithful friend Itchy (Dom De Luise), a nervously hyperactive dachshund. He then makes tracks to reunite with his gambling casino partner Carface Malone (Vic Tayback), a shifty pitbull who has planned a dastardly, and potentially deadly, double cross. Suddenly, Charlie finds himself at the Pearly Gates, face to face with the Heavenly Whippet (Melba Moore). Charlie weasels his way back to earth and reunites with Itchy. He plots his revenge against Carface and, along the way, acquires help from a little girl named Anne-Marie (who can talk to animals). After a series of fiendish schemes, close scrapes and unexpected adventures, both Charlie and Anne Marie find their lives at stake. Only one can be saved and the outcome is in Charlie's paws...

Plot Keywords: animation, family, fantasy, adventure, comedy, musical, dogs ...

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#14. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Storyline: Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's third trumpeter dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth. But Osidro and Doremus, two fallen angels enjoying the physical pleasures of an earthly existence, try to steal Athanael's trumpet, enlisting the aid of suave jewel thief Archie Dexter. Athanael fumbles his first try when he saves Archie's accomplice, Fran, from suicide. His second chance seems doomed when he's forced to leave his trumpet as security for a meal he can't pay for. But he gets it back just in time for a final confrontation with his desperate adversaries, dangling with them from the roof, only seconds from Midnight.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>

Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, heaven, musicians, black comedy, supernatural, 1940s ...

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#15. Just Like Heaven (2005)

Storyline: Elizabeth Masterson, a dedicated doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When she gets into a tragic car crash and goes into a coma, a landscape architect moves into Elizabeth's apartment for rent - where he meets her amnesiac ethereal form.

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, fantasy, ghost, hospital, san francisco, doctor ...

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