Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg’s predecessor to E.T. has as much wonder as the director’s previous film Jaws had terror. Spielberg reportedly wrote the script to the mood of the song “When You Wish Upon a Star,” and its enchanting ending, when humans communicate with the extraterrestrial mothership using the universal languages of light and sound, is very much in the spirit of the launch of the Voyager probes (and their Golden Records), which preceded the release of the film by mere months.