From Here Comes Mr Jordan to Heaven Can Wait, there’s plenty of examples of the latter in classic cinema annals, but not much recently.
There’s no shortage of fantasy gems about afterlife bureaucracy conflicting with true love, including “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” (remade into another classic, “Heaven Can Wait”), the wartime Powell-Pressburger masterpiece “A Matter of Life and Death” and Albert Brooks’ “Defending Your Life.”