Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, pilot Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself.

A bittersweet romance that makes you smile through the sadness and connect with life via death. In other words, chicken soup for the soul cinema.

That is before Marius Goring’s divine messenger arrives to take the pilot to heaven, as it turns out he shouldn’t have survived the plane crash after all. A Matter of Life and Death is on BBC ...

A British pilot survives a plane crash, meets a US servicewoman and falls in love. In heaven, however, a mistake is discovered. Show more Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945 ...

Obviously experimental in many respects, the designs for the Other World are a matter of taste, but with all their ingenuity Powell, Pressburger, and Alfred Junge could only invent a heaven ...

Magical adaptation captures the otherworldly charm and romanticism of Powell and Pressburger’s classic film One of the great achievements of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved ...