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Movies that feel likeAmerican Psycho (2000)

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

If you loved American Psycho, the closest films we have are Fargo (1996), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Hannibal (2001). All three share American Psycho's tense and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cop Car (2015).

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Fargo
1996 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 95%★ 8.1crime · drama · thrillerHulu

Ordinary greed curdling into murder, played bone-dry funny

The difference: Snowbound and humane — there is decency here to root for

Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out. Police chief Marge Gunderson discovers a string of violent crimes as Jerry's schemes spiral out of control.

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Natural Born Killers
1994 · dir. Oliver Stone
🍅 52%★ 7.2crime · thriller · drama

Murder as media spectacle, satire swung with a sledgehammer

The difference: Deliberately overwhelming — no deadpan restraint anywhere in it

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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Hannibal
2001 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 39%★ 6.8crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Refined taste worn as camouflage for something monstrous

The difference: Operatic and gruesome — no cold joke about status underneath

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

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Uncut Gems
2019 · dir. Josh Safdie
🍅 91%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeRent or buy

A repellent hustler you cannot look away from, ratcheting tighter

The difference: Loud, sweaty and chaotic — anxiety instead of glassy control

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

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Nightcrawler
2014 · dir. Dan Gilroy
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · thrillerNetflix

A hollow striver who mistakes ambition for a personality

The difference: Sleazier and more plausible — no gloss, no fantasy blur

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

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Panic Room
2002 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 76%★ 6.8crime · drama · thriller

Sleek controlled menace inside expensive Manhattan real estate

The difference: A straight survival thriller — no satire, no queasy comedy

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

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The Call
2013 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 43%★ 6.7crime · thrillerStarz

A predator's pathology drives the terror scene by scene

The difference: Played dead straight — a rescue thriller, no satire in sight

Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

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Cop Car
2015 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 82%★ 6.3crime · thrillerPrime Video

The same mix in both: tension, then grit

The difference: Trades the stillness of American Psycho for an angle of its own

Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

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Joker
2019 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 68%★ 8.3crime · thriller · dramaMax

A man performing normality until the mask slips completely

The difference: Pleads for sympathy — sincere misery instead of icy mockery

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

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Lethal Weapon 3
1992 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 63%★ 6.7action · thriller · crime

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: Easier on the stillness than American Psycho

Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.

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The Chaser
2008 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 82%★ 7.8crime · thriller · action

A serial killer story told from uncomfortably inside the chase

The difference: Grim Korean realism — the darkness lands without any wink

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

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Headhunters
2011 · dir. Morten Tyldum
🍅 93%★ 7.5thriller · crime · actionPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to action than American Psycho does

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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