Movies like Arrival

If you loved Arrival (2016), explore 6 similar films and shows. Quiet first contact, language that bends time and an ending that lands in the heart.

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  1. Contact (1997)

    Science meets faith in a search for a signal from the stars.

  2. Interstellar (2014)

    Cosmic scale anchored by a parent and child separated by time.

  3. Annihilation (2018)

    An alien zone that rewrites everything inside it, including people.

  4. Ex Machina (2014)

    Quiet, cerebral sci-fi about the nature of consciousness.

  5. Solaris (1972)

    Lost love and isolation at the edge of human understanding.

  6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

    The obsessive, transcendent pull of cosmic wonder.

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