In Steven Spielberg's iconic film, Roy Neary, a power repairman, has a life-altering encounter with a mysterious spacecraft. His obsession with the experience leads him to neglect his family and join forces with Jillian, a single mother who believes her son has been abducted by aliens. As they search for answers, an international group of scientists, led by Claude Lacombe, work to establish communication with the extraterrestrial visitors. The journey culminates in a remote Wyoming rendezvous where humanity's greatest encounter unfolds. Nominated for eight Academy Awards®, this film is widely regarded as one of the best ever made about alien visitation.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Close Encounters of the Third Kind include The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blade Runner, Stalker, The Brain Machine, The Quatermass Conclusion, The Boys from Brazil.