Movies like The Candy Snatchers (1973)
The best movies like The Candy Snatchers (1973) are Figures in a Landscape (1970), Jackson County Jail (1976) and The Last House on the Left (1972). If The Candy Snatchers hooked you with its thriller and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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Figures in a Landscape (1970)
Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJackson County Jail (1976)
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
The Last House on the Left (1972)
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and her friend Phyllis set off from the family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs along the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExposé (1976)
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHitch Hike (1977)
A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker with two million dollars who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnd Soon the Darkness (1970)
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Black Windmill (1974)
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaged Heat (1974)
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisBecause of the Cats (1973)
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
The Girl in Room 2A (1974)
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Malibu High (1979)
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
White Line Fever (1975)
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHollywood Boulevard (1976)
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fare, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Mrs Rosie Forrest, aka 'Auntie Roo', has a holiday tradition of inviting orphans to her mansion for a party. But Roo isn't completely sane; she lost her husband and is obsessed with her deceased daughter, whose corpse she still keeps in the house. When Katy Coombs sneaks into the party with her brother, Christopher, the deranged biddy abducts the young girl with the hopes of replacing her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive Women for the Killer (1974)
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
Aimless country girl Bobbie Jo Baker abandons her carhop job to join Wild West outlaw wannabe Lyle Wheeler for an adventure in theft, mayhem, and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sugarland Express (1974)
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAssault (1971)
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Women Behind Bars (1975)
A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
'Gator Bait (1974)
Desirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Foxy Brown (1974)
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRider on the Rain (1970)
Melancolie Mau is a lonely woman on the French seaside who falls victim to a horrific rape, but she manages to turn the tables and kill her attacker. She chooses not to tell anyone and dumps the body, but it comes back to haunt her when a U.S. colonel arrives, mysteriously armed with full knowledge about her ordeal. However, he seems to have his own agenda, and it may concern Melancolie's absent husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrapped (2002)
Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Say a Word (2001)
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Entitled (2011)
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night, Paul and his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children and their money.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night of the Following Day (1969)
A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnimals (2026)
When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Candy Snatchers?
The closest matches to The Candy Snatchers are Figures in a Landscape (1970), Jackson County Jail (1976) and The Last House on the Left (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Candy Snatchers?
People who watched The Candy Snatchers most often go on to Figures in a Landscape (1970), Jackson County Jail (1976) and The Last House on the Left (1972).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Candy Snatchers?
Animals (2026), rated 6.9/10 by 735 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Candy Snatchers?
Animals (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Candy Snatchers?
Yes: Figures in a Landscape (1970), Jackson County Jail (1976) and The Last House on the Left (1972).
How are movies similar to The Candy Snatchers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Candy Snatchers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.