Movies Featuring Angels

1. Angel Falls Christmas (2017) Chad Michael Murray and Jessica Lowndes, Beau Bridges

Ally is a workaholic doctor with little time for Christmas and is in desperate need of an intervention. Guardian angel Gabby is sent to the town of Angel Falls to restore the Christmas spirit. She helps Ally and the townspeople revive their traditions and is taught the truth of love from afar by a volunteer fire chief.

2. Angels in Disguise (1948) Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett

This movie addresses questions regarding whether there are angels living among us. It reveals angels in disguise as ordinary people. They witness the killing of a detective during a botched robbery. The movie tells what happens afterwards.

3. Angels in Notting Hill (2015) Christopher Lee, Ryan Mercer, Selma Brook, Tina Gray, Stephanie

Wallis

A dubious angel trainee with a shady past is assigned an unwilling and stubborn client. He tries every trick to force his subject to change.

4. Angels in the Outfield (1994) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christopher Lloyd, Danny Glover, Tony

Danza, Matthew McConaughey

Although a young man named Roger loves the Anaheim Angels baseball team, he is disappointed by their losing record. Roger asks for divine help to boost his favorite team to the World Series. An angel, named Al, appears and turns the team’s fortunes around, putting them on a winning streak.

5. An Unlikely Angel (1996) Dolly Parton (in 1996 movie), Jillian Murray, Robert Amaya, Aaron

Maes, Brittany Goodwin (in 2022 online movie)

Janie, who is about to be a first-time mom, experiences the conflicts of a workaholic. After she prays for help, an angel intervenes and fast forwards her life. The angel puts back the pieces of peoples’ broken lives.

6. City of Angels (1998) Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan

In this story, an angel named Seth wanders Los Angeles. He falls in love with a heart surgeon and desires to become human. As the demise of the surgeon, who is an unbeliever, approaches, Seth becomes visible and prepares the doctor for the hereafter.

7. Date with an Angel (1987) Emmanuelle Beart, Michael Knight, Phoebe Cates

An angel is sent to earth as a human to retrieve an aspiring composer. However, the angel collides with a satellite and crash lands in the composer’s apartment building pool. Jim Sanders, the composer, finds the beautiful broken-winged angel floundering in the water. At the time, he was preparing for an upcoming marriage to a spoiled, wealthy woman. Jim tries to same the angel from being discovered by the media and ends up beginning to fall in love with her, thus complicating his life.

8. Divination (2011) D’angelo Midili, Natasha Sima, Tucker Boggio, Lisa Coronado

This is a spiritual thriller where angels and demons collide. It is loosely based on C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters.” Jason, a young successful artist, shares his wife’s joy about her first pregnancy. However, Jason is also tormented by Fear personified, who continually whispers nightmares to him and transmits disturbing visions. As Jason descends toward madness, the angel Joshua and his assistant David intervene to cause a positive outcome for Jason.

9. Heaven Can Wait (1978) Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason

Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, is accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die. His body has been cremated and another body must be found. He returns to life in the body of a recently-murdered millionaire. His wife and accountant who murdered Joe are confused by the development when Joe buys the LA Rams in order to again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, Joe falls in love with an English environmental scientist with some repercussions.

10. Highway to Heaven (2021 – from 1980 TV series) Michael Landon

Jonathan Smith is a probational angel sent back to earth to earn full angelhood. He appears under the guise of a school counselor to help troubled students in middle school and their families.

11. House of the Fallen (2008) Corbin Bernsen, C. Thomas Howell, Richard Fullerton

The watchers, a group of fallen angels, walk on earth disguised as humans and tormenting mankind. A former priest and his friend and a mysterious group called The Twelve attempt to save humanity. This movie is loosely based on the Book of Enoch.

12. I Am Gabriel (2012) Dean Cain, John Schneider

When dark days hit a Texas family and the town of Promise, Texas, a boy wanders out of the wilderness and points the way to salvation. The boy is the angel Gabriel. He takes the lead characters to heaven and the story tells what happens next.

13. It Happened One Christmas (1977) Cloris Leachman, Marlo Thomas, Orson Wells, Wayne Rogers

A guardian angel grants the wish of a depressed married woman to see what life would be like without her. This movie is similar to the story in the 1946 movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

14. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) James Stewart, Donna Reed

An angel named Clarence is striving to earn his wings. In the process, he encounters George Bailey, a desperately frustrated businessman who wants to escape from his town and end his life. Clarence shows George what life would and wants to live.

15. Legion (2010) Paul Bettany, Lucas Black

Strangers in a roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces. The archangel Michael presents their only chance for survival.

16. Little Nicky (2000) Adam Sandler

This movie is a comedy that shows the dark side of what it is like to be an angel. After two of the devil’s three sons wreak havoc on earth, the devil sends his third son, mild Nicky, to bring them back.

17. On Angel Wings (2014) Reginald ValJohnson, Robin Givins

The coach of the Angels Soccer Team selects the water girl to play in place of an injured star player. However, she is clumsy and her performance is embarrassing. The young girl’s luck changes when she meets an angel who grants her three wishes. She gains faith in herself and becomes a soccer superstar.

18. The Angel Levine (1970) Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte

Morris Meshkin is an elderly Jewish tailor who is unable to work due to a back injury and must care for his ill wife. He prays to God for help. He receives it from a Jewish angel named Alexander Levine, who returned to Morris after Morris saw him die in the street. The movie is a moving examination of the need to believe and to be believed.

19. The Bishop’s Wife (1947) Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

Henry, an ambitious bishop, is striving to build a new cathedral. He beseeches heaven for guidance and is visited by Dudley, an angel. Noticing that Dudley is winning attention from his wife, he decides to challenge heaven but is set straight by Dudley.

20. The Littlest Angel (1969 TV movie and 2011 movie) Caleb Wolfe

A shepherd boy who lives in Biblical times newly arrives in heaven and tries to adjust to the life in the hereafter. He finds it difficult to accept his new role as an angel and tries his best to make it work.

21. Wings of Desire (1980) Bruno Gomez

Daniel is an angel who is perched above Berlin. He decides to relinquish his ethereal life to enjoy the tangible joys of a physical presence on earth after falling in love with a trapeze artist.