Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  • Rating: (76,929 votes)
  • Taglines:Close Encounter of the First Kind - Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of the Second Kind - Physical Evidence. Close Encounter of the Third Kind - Contact. WE ARE NOT ALONE » We are not alone »
  • Runtime:132 minutes
  • Director: Steven Spielberg
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Roy Neary
    Richard Dreyfuss
    Claude Lacombe (as Francois Truffaut)
    François Truffaut
    Ronnie Neary
    Teri Garr
    Jillian Guiler
    Melinda Dillon
    David Laughlin
    Bob Balaban
    Project Leader
    J. Patrick McNamara
    Wild Bill (as Warren Kemmerling)
    Warren J. Kemmerling
    Farmer
    Roberts Blossom
    Jean Claude
    Philip Dodds
    Barry Guiler
    Cary Guffey
  • Genres:Drama, Sci-Fi
  • Producers:
    Clark L. Paylow
    associate producer (as Clark Paylow) 
    Julia Phillips
    producer  
    Michael Phillips
    producer  
  • Plots: Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls and he is bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions and five musical notes keep running through his mind. Will he find the meaning of the visions, and who - or what - placed them in his mind? Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • User's comment:Great sci-fi by RovingGambler

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the story about a man who has a close encounter with aliens. However, no one seems to believe that it really happened except a woman who's son was abducted. They both have a similar vision apparently put in their minds by the aliens, and they set off together to go meet up with the aliens one more time.

    I've never been a huge Spielberg fan. Sure, he's made some good movies, but I just never saw anything real great about most of his movies. That is, until I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This movie had me so entranced in the story that the 2 hours and 15 minutes flew by. I'm not even a big sci-fi type of guy. The cinematography, acting, music score, and directing are all top-notch. The special effects, although obviously sub-par by today's standards, were phenomenal when released in 1977 and is still good enough to not make the movie look cheesy by today's standards.


  • Quotes: Brad Neary: I don't understand these fractions. Roy Neary: What's one third of sixty? Brad Neary: [bewildered] That's a fraction, I don't understand them.
  • Also known as: Encuentros cercanos del tercer tipo (Argentina), Encuentros cercanos del tercer tipo (Peru), Närkontakt av tredje graden (Finland - Swedish title), Närkontakt av tredje graden (Sweden), Rencontres du troisième type (Canada - French title), Rencontres du troisième type (France), Bliski susreti trece vrste (Serbia - imdb display title), Bliskie spotkania trzeciego stopnia (Poland), Blizka setkani tretiho druhu (Czechoslovakia - Czech title), CE3K (USA - informal short title), Contatos Imediatos de Terceiro Grau (Brazil), Contatos Imediatos do Terceiro Grau (Brazil), Encontres a la tercera fase (Spain - Catalan title), Encontros Imediatos do 3º Grau (Portugal), Encuentros Cercanos del Tercer Tipo (Mexico - imdb display title), Encuentros en la tercera fase (Spain), Encuentros en la tercera fase: Edición especial (Spain - reissue title), Harmadik típusú találkozások (Hungary), Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo (Italy), Kolmannen asteen yhteys (Finland), Michi tono sôgû (Japan), Nærkontakt af tredie grad (Denmark), Nærkontakt av tredje grad (Norway - imdb display title), Nay xanpen laea khn tangdaw (Thailand - dubbed version, Thai title), Stenes epafes tritou typou (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Stenes epafes tritou typou: Special ekdosi (Greece - reissue title), Steven Spielbergs Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art (West Germany - complete title), Tehlikeli iliskiler (Turkey - Turkish title), The Close Encounter of the Third Kind (USA - working title), The Special Edition: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (USA - reissue title), Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art (West Germany), Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art - Die neue Version (West Germany - director's cut), Watch the Skies (USA - working title),

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