First Contact!

Movies about "first contact" with aliens, both friendly and decidedly not.
Updated September 29, 2022
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Arrival
Adams, Amy.
DVD
Based on Ted Chiang's 1998 short story "Story of Your Life," Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is a mind-bending journey into alien contact, human frailty, grief and comparative linguistics.
Close encounters of the third kind
Spielberg, Steven
DVD
A man becomes obsessed with aliens after having a close encounter, and a woman searches for the visitors who took her son. Their searches eventually lead them to each other and a government project.
Released only two years after Jaws,Close Encounters cemented Steven Spielberg's reputation as a young director with talent and range.
Signs
Marshall, Frank.
DVD
M. Night Shyamalan's charming but spooky masterpiece.
Independence Day
Devlin, Dean.
DVD
Aliens arrive, fireworks ensue.
The day the earth stood still
Wise, Robert
DVD
Classic 1950s science fiction.
2001 : a space odyssey
Kubrick, Stanley.
DVD
A space voyage to Jupiter erupts in disaster when the ship's computer goes mad. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick's imagining of Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel. Features first contact, malevolent artificial intelligence, and one of the most mind-bending ending in film.

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