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Contact
Why this pick
Like 2010, it treats cosmic discovery as an intellectually serious, human-scale mystery, balancing procedural investigation, awe, and a hopeful vision of international cooperation.
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MOVIE1984 1h 56m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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2010: The Year We Make Contact
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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The Abyss
Why this pick
Its tense scientific expedition, escalating encounters with the unknown, and sincere belief in communication make it a strong match for 2010’s suspenseful but optimistic grandeur.
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Europa Report
Why this pick
A disciplined multinational mission investigates an alien world with the same patient, credible procedural detail and mounting sense of cosmic consequence.
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Solaris
Why this pick
For the contemplative side of 2010: a measured space investigation where an incomprehensible intelligence turns scientific inquiry into a hauntingly human confrontation.
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Arrival
Why this pick
It shares 2010’s restrained, reverent approach to first contact, finding suspense and wonder in patient attempts to understand a vastly superior intelligence.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Roy Scheider
Dr. Heywood Floyd
John Lithgow
Dr. Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren
Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban
Dr. R. Chandra
Keir Dullea
Dave Bowman
Madolyn Smith Osborne
Caroline Floyd
Dana Elcar
Dimitri Moisevitch
Taliesin Jaffe
Christopher Floyd