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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
Take the Lead

Take the Lead

2006★ 6.9

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

A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create ...

#2
The Roses

The Roses

2025★ 6.7

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

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing ...

#3
Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady

1933★ 6.8

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

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musi...

#4
Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park

1967★ 7.1

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

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their m...

#5
Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey

1988★ 5.9

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

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find h...

#6
Top Hat

Top Hat

1935★ 7.2

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

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of slee...

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