
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 Crumb (1995), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) and Avalon (2001). All three share Close Encounters of the Third Kind's obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tony Takitani (2004).
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If Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: obsession
The difference: Less cerebral, more its own thing

The same mix in both: stillness, then obsession
The difference: 36 years apart, and the 2010s show

Both are built on the same subject: obsession
The difference: Played as action first

Both lean on stillness more than on drama
The difference: Leans further into crime

Science fiction with a pulse of obsession, in both cases

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

Obsessive science fiction in both cases


Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Both sit in the same cerebral register
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair
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