Movies Like The Collector (1965)

The Collector is a 1965 thriller film from William Wyler with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Beauty in Rope Hell and Wife to Be Sacrificed.

Thriller

Beauty in Rope Hell

1983

A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.

5.7

MagicScore

Wife to Be Sacrificed

1974

A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.

5.3

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Little Ashes

2008

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

5.9

MagicScore

Peacock

2010

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.

6.1

MagicScore

Birthday Girl

2001

John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.

5.9

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The Lavender Hill Mob

1951

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

7.2

MagicScore

Heroes for Sale

1933

World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.

7.0

MagicScore

Black Butterfly

2017

Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.

6.2

MagicScore

Cube

2021

Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.

5.4

MagicScore

#10

Human Zoo

2020

Contestants on a reality TV show must stay in solitary confinement to win a $1 million prize.

4.4

MagicScore

#11

The Wolfpack

2015

Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

6.8

MagicScore

#12

The Embryo Hunts in Secret

1966

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.

5.9

MagicScore

#13

Demon Seed

1977

A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.

5.8

MagicScore

#14

Branded to Kill

1967

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

7.2

MagicScore

#15

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

6.3

MagicScore

#16

The Clouded Yellow

1950

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.

6.2

MagicScore

#17

Anatomy

2000

Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Gwendoline

1984

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.

4.8

MagicScore

#19

Premam

2015

Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.

7.5

MagicScore

#20

Butterfly

1999

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

7.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Collector?

The top films similar to The Collector by MovieMagicScore are Beauty in Rope Hell (5.7), Wife to Be Sacrificed (5.3), Little Ashes (5.9). Each shares thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Collector worth watching?

The Collector holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 216 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Collector?

The Collector (1965) is a thriller film directed by William Wyler, starring Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Collector?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more thriller recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Collector

This ranked list pairs The Collector (1965), a thriller film from William Wyler, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Terence Stamp take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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