Stairway to Heaven
Critics have described Stairway to Heaven, also known as A Matter of Life and Death, as a film "bursting with tantalizing ideas, surprising connections, and suggestive flights of fancy." This romantic war film follows British Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven), who survives a plane wreck on his way home to England. The only problem? He wasn't supposed to live.
Vertigo
Based on the novel "The Living on the Dead" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo follows an ex-police officer, John Ferguson (James Stewart), who suffers from an intense fear of heights. Ferguson is hired to prevent an old friend's wife from committing suicide, but all is not as it seems. This compelling masterpiece is widely considered to be one of Hitchcock's best works.
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