The Best Movies Like 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', Ranked

The Best Movies Like 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', Ranked

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind did something most science fiction films never attempt: it made alien contact feel like a spiritual experience rather than a threat. Roy Neary was not a hero, not a soldier, and not a scientist. He was just a guy from Indiana who could not shake the feeling that something enormous was trying to reach him, and that ordinary starting point is what made the film resonate so deeply with audiences…