Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Contact

If you loved Contact, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#2
ATL

ATL

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskati...

#3
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#4
Terra Nova

Terra Nova

2008★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A story, which takes place in 2013, describes the world overflowing with "dangerous" criminals due to the official termination of death penalty. The UN "blue helmets" under the dir...

#5
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

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