Rencontres du troisième type (1977)
Des faits étranges se produisent un peu partout dans le monde : des avions qui avaient disparu durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale sont retrouvés au Mexique en parfait état de marche, un cargo est découvert échoué au beau milieu du désert de Gobi. Dans l'Indiana, pendant qu'une coupure d'électricité paralyse la banlieue, Roy Neary, un réparateur de câbles, voit une "soucoupe volante" passer au-dessus de sa voiture. D'autres personnes sont également témoins de ce type de phénomène : Barry Guiler, un petit garçon de quatre ans, est réveillé par le bruit de ses jouets qui se mettent en route. Cherchant à savoir d'où proviennent ces ovnis, Roy Neary se heurte aux rigoureuses consignes de silence imposées par le gouvernement fédéral. Obsédé par ce qu'il a vu et hanté par une image de montagne qu'il essaie désespérément de reconstituer, il est abandonné par sa femme Ronnie et ses enfants. Il n'y a que Jillian, la mère de Barry, qui le comprenne.
Directeur: Steven Spielberg
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Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary |
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François Truffaut as Claude Lacombe |
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Teri Garr as Ronnie Neary |
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Melinda Dillon as Jillian Guiler |
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Bob Balaban as David Laughlin |
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J. Patrick McNamara as Project Leader |
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Warren J. Kemmerling as Wild Bill |
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Roberts Blossom as Farmer |
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Phil Dodds as ARP Musician |
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Cary Guffey as Barry Guiler |
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Shawn Bishop as Brad Neary |
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Adrienne Campbell as Sylvia Neary |
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Justin Dreyfuss as Toby Neary |
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Lance Henriksen as Robert |
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Merrill Connally as Team Leader |
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Amy Douglass as Implantee |
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Gene Dynarski as Ike |
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Carl Weathers as Military Policeman |
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Norman Bartold as Norman Bartold |
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F.J. O'Neil as ARP Project Member |
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Hal Barwood as Returnee #2 Flt. 19 |
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Matthew Robbins as Returnee #3 Flt. 19 |
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Gene Rader as Hawker |
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Daniel Nunez as Federale |
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Chuy Franco as Federale |
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Luis Contreras as Federale |
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Galen Thompson as Special Forces |
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John Dennis Johnston as Special Forces |
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Robert Broyles as Dirty Tricks #3 |
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George DiCenzo as Major Benchley |
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Alexander Lockwood as Implantee |
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Josef Sommer as Larry Butler |
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Bill Thurman as Air Traffic |
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James Keane as Radio Telescope Team |
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Philip Dodds as Jean Claude |
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Mary Gafrey as Mrs. Harris |
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Michael J. Dyer as Himself |
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Roger Ernest as Highway Patrolman |
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Randy Herman as Returnee #1 Flt. 19 |
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David Anderson as Air Traffic Controller |
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Richard L. Hawkins as Air Traffic Controller |
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Craig Shreeve as Air Traffic |
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Roy E. Richards as Air East Pilot |
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Eumenio Blanco as Federale |
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Dennis McMullen as Radio Telescope Team |
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Cy Young as Radio Telescope Team |
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Tom Howard as Radio Telescope Team |
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Richard Stuart as Truck Dispatcher |
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Bob Westmoreland as Load Dispatcher |
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Matt Emery as Support Leader |
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John Ewing as Dirty Tricks #1 |
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Kirk Raymond as Dirty Tricks #4 |
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Keith Atkinson as Dirty Tricks #2 |
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Monty Jordan as Special Forces Commander / Helicopter Pilot (uncredited) |
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Basil Hoffman as Longly (uncredited) |
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Stephen Powers as UN Observer (uncredited) |
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J. Allen Hynek as Man Smoking Pipe at Landing Site (uncredited) |
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Howard K. Smith as Howard K. Smith (uncredited) |
| Production | Michael Phillips | Producer |
| Art | Daniel A. Lomino | Art Direction |
| Production | Juliet Taylor | Casting |
| Production | Clark L. Paylow | Producer |
| Production | Shari Rhodes | Casting |
| Editing | Michael Kahn | Editor |
| Art | Joe Alves | Production Design |
| Art | Phil Abramson | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Steven Spielberg | Director |
| Production | Julia Phillips | Producer |
| Writing | Steven Spielberg | Writer |
| Sound | John Williams | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Vilmos Zsigmond | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Charles Myers | Assistant Director |
| Art | Bill Parks | Construction Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bob Westmoreland | Makeup Supervisor |
| Sound | Jack Schrader | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Robert 'Buzz' Knudson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Art | Sam Gordon | Property Master |
| Camera | László Kovács | Additional Director of Photography |
| Directing | Jim Bloom | Second Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edie Panda | Hairdresser |
| Sound | Stephen Katz | Sound Supervisor |
| Camera | Steven Poster | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Camera | John A. Alonzo | Additional Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Richard Yuricich | VFX Director of Photography |
| Production | Carol Bidault de L'Isle | Production Assistant |
| Visual Effects | Robert Swarthe | Animation Supervisor |
| Production | Peggy Rosson | Production Accountant |
| Production | Joyce Goldberg | Production Secretary |
| Production | Gail Siemers | Production Secretary |
| Visual Effects | Harry Moreau | Animation |
| Art | George Jenson | Production Illustrator |
| Sound | Don MacDougall | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Crew | Buddy Joe Hooker | Stunt Coordinator |
| Sound | Kenneth Wannberg | Music Editor |
| Directing | Charlsie Bryant | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | Nick McLean | Camera Operator |
| Lighting | Earl Gilbert | Gaffer |
| Sound | Frank E. Warner | Supervising Sound Effects Editor |
| Camera | Peter Sorel | Still Photographer |
| Production | Murray Weissman | Publicist |
| Production | Joe O'Har | Location Manager |
| Production | Al Ebner | Publicist |
| Camera | Pete Turner | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Jim Coe | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Richard Oswald | Sound |
| Production | J. Allen Hynek | Production Consultant |
| Crew | Henry Kingi | Stunt Driver |
| Crew | Stephen Powers | Stunts |
| Crew | Jeannie Epper | Stunts |
| Crew | Craig R. Baxley | Stunt Driver |
| Crew | Denny Arnold | Stunts |
| Crew | Jerry Brutsche | Stunt Driver |
| Crew | Monty Jordan | Utility Stunts |
| Crew | Bobby Bass | Stunts |
| Crew | Melvin Jones | Stunts |
| Art | Dan Perri | Title Designer |
| Visual Effects | Douglas Trumbull | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Carlo Rambaldi | Visual Effects |