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Actor: Bob Balaban

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4 November 20003 March 2023

Rating: ★★★★★

UFOs/Alien Contact

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Altered States (1980)

8 December 199927 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Drug Trips & The Meaning of Life/Reversion to Caveman

Director: Ken Russell
Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Category: Science Fiction

2010 (1984)

5 May 200113 May 2025

Rating: ★★★★

2001: A Space Odyssey Sequel

Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, …
Category: Science Fiction

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

17 April 19996 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Writer’s Self-Analysis Comedy

Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Judy Davis, Demi Moore, …
Category: Fantasy

The Mexican (2001)

4 March 20017 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Romantic Comedy/Magical Realism

Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, …
Category: Fantasy

Lady in the Water (2006)

10 November 200620 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Water Nymph, Predestination and Myth

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bob Balaban, M. Night Shyamalan, …
Category: Fantasy

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

26 June 201729 August 2024

Rating: ★★★

Haunted House

Director: Osgood Perkins
Actors: Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Bob Balaban, Lucy Boynton
Category: Horror

Spielberg (2017)

23 October 201721 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Steven Spielberg Documentary

Director: Susan Lacy
Actors: J.J. Abrams, Leah Adler, Bob Balaban, Christian Bale, …
Category: Science Fiction

Isle of Dogs (2018)

17 November 201821 July 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Stop-Motion Animation/Talking Dogs

Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, …
Category: Fantasy

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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