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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
The Vast of Night

The Vast of Night

2019★ 6.6

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

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...

#2
Arrival

Arrival

2016★ 7.6

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

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....

#3
Cosmos

Cosmos

2019★ 6.0

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

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 imagi...

#4
The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

1971★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an...

#5
The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World

1951★ 6.7

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

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost....

#6
The Arrival

The Arrival

1996★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contact for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

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 t...

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