IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind runs on wonder and awe, crowd-pleaser, and fantasy spell. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Contact
1997
This Island Earth
1955
The Abyss
1989
The Mysterians
1957
Mothra
1961
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
Invasion of Astro-Monster
1965
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
Mission to Mars
2000
Forbidden Planet
1956
John Carter
2012
First Men in the Moon
1964
Warning from Space
1956
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
1973
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022
Alienoid
2022
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964
King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1916
Clash of the Titans
1981
Stargate
1994
Warlords of Atlantis
1978
Jason and the Argonauts
1963
Rebirth of Mothra III
1998