[andrea76]

Contact, recommended movie to watch! (For me much better than Interstellar)

[adastra22]

Way, waaay better than Interstellar. That's a low bar actually. Interstellar was visually stunning, but absolute crap otherwise.

[aurareturn]

I liked contact and I liked interstellar.

[Zardoz84]

The book is far better. They completely removed the "artist signature" from the movie.

[pavel_lishin]

I think both are fine, actually. The movie definitely departed from the book, especially near the end.

[dylan604]

Three Body Problem as well for detecting signal.

Pluribus as well

[whntheduvscry]

Also “Three Body” is the Chinese version of this, which is more in-depth.

[LeoPanthera]

For your kids, “Elio” is basically “Contact” for kids. It didn’t get fantastic reviews, but I suspect it appeals to the HN crowd more.