
Movies that feel likeClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
If you loved Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the closest films we have are Tony Takitani (2004), Crumb (1995) and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013). All three share Close Encounters of the Third Kind's contemplative and obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Born in Flames (1983).
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If Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit the spot, these will too

Common ground: obsession
The difference: Lighter on ideas

The same preoccupation in both: obsession
The difference: Leans further into documentary

The same mix in both: stillness, then obsession
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

Cerebral science fiction in both cases
The difference: Played as action first

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

Cerebral drama, and it commits to that

Drama with a pulse of obsession, in both cases

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over


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