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10 Best Movies Like Making Contact

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

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#1
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

1983★ 6.8

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

In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he gets entangled in a great bat...

#2
Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

1972★ 6.5

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

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his c...

#3
Lupin the 3rd

Lupin the 3rd

2014★ 6.0

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

Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Arsène Lupin III, who, with his cavalcade of collaborators infiltrate a highly secured fortress-like saf...

#4
Moon 44

Moon 44

1990★ 5.0

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

Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bi...

#5
Totem

Totem

1999★ 4.3

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

Six people find themselves inexplicably transported to a remote cabin that is surrounded by an invisible barrier. In a nearby graveyard, they discover an ancient, carved stone monu...

#6
Out

Out

2010★ 10.0

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

A boy wants to go outside, but his mother won't let him....