Wings of Desire

Der Himmel über Berlin is a movie starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, and Otto Sander. An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.