# Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

**German title:** Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art


**Genres:** Sci-Fi, Drama

**Duration:** 135 min

**Age rating:** FSK 12

**IMDb:** [7.6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/)

**Letterboxd:** [3.8](https://letterboxd.com/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 91%, Popcornmeter: 85%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/close_encounters_of_the_third_kind)

## Description

An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

## Details

**Premiere:** 06 Mar 1978

**Director:** Steven Spielberg

**Cast:** Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren J. Kemmerling, Roberts Blossom, Phil Dodds, Cary Guffey, Shawn Bishop, Adrienne Campbell

**Countries:** United States

**Languages:** English

**Available versions:** OmU

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvb3geyPC14)

## Showtimes in Munich in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-07-28 (Tuesday)

- **[Rio Filmpalast](/cinemas/226-rio-filmpalast.md) (Au-Haidhausen):** [2026-07-28 20:30](https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/muenchen/rio-filmpalast-muenchen/vorstellung/3554801601)  (OmU)