Encounter or Encounters may refer to:

Film

  • Encounter, a 1997 Indian film by Nimmala Shankar
  • Encounter (2013 film), an Indian Bengali-language film
  • Encounter (2018 film), an American sci-fi film
  • Encounter (2021 film), a British sci-fi film
  • Encounters, a section of the Berlin International Film Festival
  • Encounters (film), a 1993 Australian thriller
  • Encounter: The Killing, a 2002 Indian film by Ajay Phansekar

Television

  • Encounter (1958 TV series), a 1958 CBC/ABC anthology television series
  • Encounter (1960 TV program), a Canadian talk show television program
  • Encounter (1970 TV program), a Canadian political affairs television program
  • Encounters (TV series), a 1994 American television series
  • Encounter (Indian TV series) (2014)
  • Encounter (South Korean TV series) (2018), starring Song Hye-kyo and Park Bo-gum

Music

  • Encounter!, a 1968 album by Pepper Adams
  • Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster or Encounters, an album by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster
  • Encounter (Mark Holden album) (1977)
  • Encounter (Michael Stearns album) (1988)
  • Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album) or Encounter
  • Encounter (Trio 3 album) (2000)
  • Encounters (album), a 1984 album by Mal Waldron
  • Encounters, an album by Sylvan
  • "Encounter", a 2016 song by Chris Quilala from Split the Sky
  • "Encounter", a song in the video game Metal Gear Solid

Ships

  • HMS Encounter (1846)
  • HMS Encounter (1873), a wooden-screw corvette
  • HMS Encounter (H10), an E-class destroyer launched in 1934
  • HMAS Encounter (1902), a Challenger-class protected cruiser
  • HMAS Encounter (naval base), a former naval depot in South Australia

Other uses

  • Encounter (psychology), an authentic, congruent meeting between individuals
  • Encounter (magazine), a literary magazine
  • Encounter Books, a book publisher in the United States, named after the magazine
  • Encounter (game), an international network of active urban games
  • Encounter! (video game), a 1983 game by Novagen
  • Encounters (anthology), a 2004 anthology of speculative fiction
  • Encounter (sculpture), a bronze sculpture by Bruce Beasley
  • Encounter: Essays, a 2009 essay collection by Milan Kundera

See also

  • Close encounter, a claimed UFO sighting
  • The Encounter (disambiguation)
  • Encounter Bay (disambiguation)
  • Encounter killing, killing in a gun fight with the police in the Indian subcontinent, sometimes an extrajudicial killing
  • HMS Encounter, a list of ships