Movies like Contact
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Contact (1997)
310K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Style:
inspirational, philosophical, cerebral, emotional, thought provoking, thinking, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, spiritual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
science, nasa, space travel, scientist, alien encounter, astronomy, first contact, religion, space and aliens, intelligence, alien contact, research, benign alien, contact, outer space, space, atheism, atheist, mathematics, extraterrestrial, astronomer, space exploration, radio, telescope, alien abduction ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, distant future, 1990s
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, florida, washington d.c., usa, japan, hokkaido ...
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Most similar movies to Contact
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, weird, suspense and futuristic films with plots about space, outer space, alien, science, first contact, technology and space and aliens mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Contact: Arrival (2016), Interstellar (2014), K-PAX (2001), Sphere (1998), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
852K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Similarity:
92%
2.5M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
Similarity:
87%
202K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
patient, mental institution, extraterrestrial, alien, mysterious character, psychiatry, hypnosis, psychiatrist, planet, space and aliens, investigation, delusion ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, persia, new york, newfoundland, greenland ...
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style:
captivating, cerebral, breathtaking, atmospheric, mysterious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult ...
Plot:
ufo, alien, first contact, alien abduction, technology, alien contact, space and aliens, contact, flying saucer, extraterrestrial, chase, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, near future, future
Place:
wyoming, indiana, india, ohio, north america ...
Similarity:
84%
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118K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style:
scary, breathtaking, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
ocean, underwater, alien, first contact, twists and turns, ufo, time travel, paranoia, psychology, survival, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, mind bending, cerebral, psychedelic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot:
space travel, artificial intelligence, astronaut, outer space, space, moon, computer, scientist, human versus computer, extraterrestrial, deception, spacewalk ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, stone age ...
Place:
persia
Similarity:
69%
13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
Style:
semi documentary, thought provoking, exciting, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
ufo, ufo sighting, conspiracy theory, fbi, alien contact, alien encounter, airport, mathematics, code, uncover truth, agent, theory ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Style:
philosophical, reflective, mindfuck, psychological, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, immortality, atheism, religion, storytelling, immortal, dialogue, professor, society, myth, heart attack, eternal youth ...
Time:
future, medieval times, 2000s, prehistory, 17th century ...
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, teenage girl, flying saucer, radio station, alien, cheerleader, small town, radio, night, extraterrestrial, teenage boy ...
Time:
1950s, future, year 1958, 50s
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
100%
392K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, moon, loneliness, space travel, outer space, astronaut, space, twists and turns, solitude, space and aliens, human clone, cloning ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place:
hawaii, mexico
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, disguise, investigation, ufo, alien, black hole, elevator, supernatural ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1996
Place:
mexico, latin america, central america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style:
cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, philosophical, lovecraft ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
space travel, found footage, astronaut, space exploration, outer space, space, spacecraft, distant planet, alien, survival, spacewalk, moon ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 1972, 1950s, 50s ...
Similarity:
60%
208K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
ocean, ufo, underwater, first contact, disaster, sea, submarine, space and aliens, survival, heroic mission, alien encounter, alien ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.
Style:
mind bending, philosophical, enigmatic, intellectual, clever ...
Plot:
astronomy, first contact, ufo, science, alien civilization, space exploration, scientific discovery, race against time, space and aliens, escapades, telescope, forest ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
997K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style:
futuristic, biting, clever, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
survival, mars, astronaut, stranded, space travel, nasa, isolation, science, outer space, struggle for survival, space, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2030s, year 2016, near future, future ...
Place:
china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, beijing china ...
Similarity:
56%
334K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style:
factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
astronaut, nasa, survival, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, space exploration, race against time, trapped in space, against the odds ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
houston texas, usa, north america, texas, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, intellectual, stylized, spiritual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
astronaut, space travel, nasa, artificial intelligence, space exploration, paranoia, space opera, contact, space, deep space, spaceship, science ...
Time:
future, year 2010, distant future, year 1984, near future ...
Place:
tower bridge london, ussr, soviet union, paris france, london ...
Similarity:
58%
284K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, psychological, cerebral, tense ...
Plot:
space travel, outer space, sun, end of the world, isolation, spaceship, self sacrifice, earth, heroic mission, expedition, space, danger ...
Time:
future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, apocalyptic, visual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ufo, end of the world, alien encounter, alien, alien invasion, alien contact, evil alien, happy ending, first contact, robot, extraterrestrial, apocalypse ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 20th century, 1920s, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
56%
411K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, creepy, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, faith, first contact, survival, loss of faith, death of wife, extraterrestrial, natural disaster ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, mexico ...
Similarity:
47%
692K
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, space horror ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space travel, androids, survival, alien, outer space, space and aliens, distant planet, robot, alien encounter, expedition, creature, alien life-form ...
Time:
future, year 2000, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, seattle
Similarity:
48%
6K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.
Style:
breathtaking, enigmatic, light, romantic, exciting ...
Plot:
astronomer, universe, scientific experiment, space and aliens, professor, alternate universe, scientist, parallel universe, scientific research, romancing partners, romantic relationship, riddles and clues ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
78%
114K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, cerebral, scary, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
conspiracy, ufo, alien, conspiracy theory, first contact, chase, evil alien, twists and turns, alien abduction, fbi, obsession, alien possession ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, future
Place:
london, washington d.c., usa, europe, tunisia ...
Similarity:
56%
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344K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, dystopia, philosophy, society, paraplegic, eugenics, hopes, dystopian future, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 1900s ...
Place:
detroit, riviera, french riviera
Similarity:
50%
261K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, supernatural, catastrophe, cataclysm, prophecy, foreknowledge, metaphysics, professor, prediction, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, usa
Similarity:
40%
278K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, touching, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
space exploration, astronaut, outer space, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, spacecraft, zero gravity, secret mission, trapped in space ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, future, near future
Place:
space western
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Jordan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Style:
futuristic, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot:
mars, space travel, astronaut, space station, alien, escapades, alien encounter, space, spacecraft, trapped in space, space and aliens, mysterious planet ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, 2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style:
surprise ending, philosophical, confusing, clever, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, time paradox, twists and turns, parallel universe, gender, destiny, existentialism, changing the past or future, loner ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place:
usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
Style:
tense, touching, disturbing, futuristic, captivating ...
Plot:
outer space, space mission, space travel, astronaut, alien, space shuttle, space exploration, spacecraft, heroic mission, danger, space station, teamwork ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Style:
surreal, philosophical, thought provoking, offbeat, psychedelic ...
Plot:
loneliness, computers and web, society, computer, computer system, virtual reality, escape from reality, computer genius, dystopian future, uncover truth, hacker, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future
Similarity:
100%
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