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Contact
Why this pick
Like Spielberg’s film, it treats extraterrestrial contact as a profound, awe-filled human experience, balancing intimate obsession with an escalating sense of cosmic possibility.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1977 2h 11m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
DramaScience Fiction
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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Starman
Why this pick
A tender, road-bound encounter with the unknown that shares Close Encounters’ empathy, luminous wonder, and faith that alien contact can transform ordinary people.
03
The Vast of Night
Why this pick
Its slow-building small-town UFO mystery favors patient listening, mounting curiosity, and the uncanny feeling that a larger presence is just beyond everyday life.
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Arrival
Why this pick
A visually controlled, emotionally resonant first-contact story that shares the original’s reverence for communication, mystery, and humanity confronting the incomprehensible.
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The Abyss
Why this pick
It pairs high-pressure spectacle with an earnest belief in contact as revelation, building toward a similarly overwhelming vision of humanity meeting an unknown intelligence.
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01 / THE STORY
We are not alone.
An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Richard Dreyfuss
Roy Neary
François Truffaut
Claude Lacombe
Teri Garr
Ronnie Neary
Melinda Dillon
Jillian Guiler
Bob Balaban
David Laughlin
J. Patrick McNamara
Project Leader
Warren J. Kemmerling
Wild Bill
Roberts Blossom
Farmer