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Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2024)
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
Style:
psychological thriller
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, husband wife relationship, dancing, fight, agent, winter, cat, writers, hotel, restaurant, book, taxi, singing, caveman, lie, rain, shooting, piano, drunkenness, room, rainstorm, dinner, redheaded woman, pizza ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, slovenia
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Most similar movies to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and psychological thriller films with plots about murder, serial killer, blood, knife, psychopath, chase and deadly mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer: Suspect Zero (2004), The Killing Floor (2007), The Snowman (2017), Trap (2024), Cure (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tricky, detective, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, vigilantism, psychic, police investigation, psychic power, mental illness, fbi, profiler, vigilante, obsession ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
new mexico, usa, arizona, dallas texas, oklahoma ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot:
danger, losing-it hero, home invasion, stalking, obsession, investigation, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, dishonesty, vengeance, gory, serial killer ...
Place:
new york
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Country: UK, USA, Sweden, Norway, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Style:
serious, surprise ending, detective, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, snowman, snow, clue, investigation, police investigation, police detective, winter, blood, missing woman, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2017, 2000s, year 1945, 2010s ...
Place:
oslo norway
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87%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Yemen
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, psychotronic, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, father daughter relationship, concert, female singer, sting operation, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, teenager, teenage daughter, bloodbath, blood, villain as protagonist ...
Time:
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Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, cerebral, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, amnesia, investigation, macabre, hallucination, hypnosis, police detective, interrogation, murder mystery, husband wife relationship, police ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, okinawa japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that ...
Style:
erotic, slasher, suspense, cult classic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
sexual attraction, sex, stripper, secret lover, nudity, sexual desire, voyeurism, lust, voyeur, female nudity, sexual obsession, erotica ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, england, paris france
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, bleak, psychological, black comedy ...
Plot:
male rape, loneliness, rape, widow, age difference, sexual abuse, socially awkward, obsession, mental illness, sociopath, violence, money ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds ...
Style:
intense, twisted, rough, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, internet, investigation, psychopath, fbi, kidnapping, sadism, website, hacker, suicide, technology ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, portland oregon
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three high-school outcasts pursue a savage gang of thugs after one of their girlfriends is raped and murdered.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, slasher, disgusting ...
Plot:
extreme, revenge, exploitation, murder, serial killer, sexual torture, motorcyclist, transgression, cruelty, misogyny, motorcycle, rape victim ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Style:
supernatural thriller, captivating, suspenseful, scary, dread ...
Plot:
robot, security guard, terror, restaurant, supernatural horror, killer robot, abandoned building, night, dinner, job, missing child, ghost ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2000, 2000s, 80s
Place:
north america
Similarity:
49%
46K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Style:
creepy, frightening, scary, sexy, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, violent, sadism, investigation, videotaping, macabre, voyeurism, death, violence, loser, research ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, madrid, europe
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, law enforcement, art, police station, uncover truth, supernatural, life is a bitch, police investigation, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in Los Angeles with two converging plot lines – The first involves an uneasy relationship between a psychologically unstable landlady and her enigmatic lodger – The second is about a troubled detective engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, mental patient, mysterious character, haunted by the past, psychopath, murder investigation, hallucination, husband wife relationship, false accusation, eccentricity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, santa monica california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, hostage, masked killer, woman in danger, gory, criminal heroes, confined, on the run, violence spree, backwoods, kidnapping, old dark house ...
Time:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. ...
Style:
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Plot:
psychopath, hit and run, murder, dark and stormy night, uncover truth, investigation, danger, who done it, chase, stalking, vengeance, serial killer ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
urban legend, supernatural, revenge, husband murders wife, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, murder, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, gory, small town ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, murder, murder mystery, twists and turns, law enforcement, vengeance, psychopath, police investigation, investigation, missing person, hitchhiker ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, colorado, usa, amarillo texas
Similarity:
44%
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543
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When a mysterious groupie joins legendary cursed band, "The Dark Knights", a series of unexplained murders derails their comeback tour.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
sex, psychopath, music band, curses spells and rituals, police, murder, brutality, psycho, femme fatale, musician, serial killer, bad girl ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home by whom most believe to be O.J Simpson. But what role did Glen Rogers, also known as the Casanova Killer play in their death?
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, security system, therapy, divorce, sex scene, psychiatrist, crime scene, serial murder, male nudity, prison, house painter ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
42%
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, noir, cynical, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, twists and turns, uncover truth, dishonesty, divorce, adultery, swimming pool, ransom ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
41%
171K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, freemason, conspiracy, graphic violence, a vision, police investigation, murder of a prostitute, violent, prostitution, who done it, life is a bitch ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, year 2001, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.
Style:
horrifying, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, mentally unstable, confined, twists and turns, woman in danger, isolation, countryside, paranoia, deception, hallucination, husband wife relationship, male nudity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, 2000s, year 2007 ...
Place:
england, europe, london, united kingdom
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.
Style:
scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, violence, brutality, psycho killer, murder, police partner, race against time, death of son, religion, holiday horror, easter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, new orleans, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
39%
78K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, enigmatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
stephen king, farmer, corpse, murder, hallucination, cornfield, husband murders wife, guilt, infection, murder of wife, husband wife relationship, psychosis ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
usa, america, nebraska
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of friends get together in a remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation. Soon they start turning up dead one by one. The group gets together to determine the identity of the killer amongst them.
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, slasher, creepy, cult classic ...
Plot:
desert island, serial killer, murder, exploitation, killer, sexual attraction, hairy chested man, whodunit, macabre, murderer, lost soul, old dark house ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, stylized, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
radio, aids, amateur detective, listener, storytelling, book, adaptation, pedophile, mental illness, snow, illness, hospital ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, wisconsin
Similarity:
36%
540
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A confused misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. An agent promises to make him a TV star if he kills certain people, so he becomes "The Baby Mask Killer."
Style:
psychological thriller, minimal cast, slasher horror, independent film, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, darkness, mental patient, wanted, delusional man, social isolation, axe murder, pact with the devil, addiction, stalking, locked door, manipulative person ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot:
neighbor, jealous boyfriend, spying, murder, troubled relationship, countryside, jealousy, couple relations, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger, home invasion ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
conspiracy, espionage, cia, uncover truth, fighting the system, political conspiracy, life turned upside down, who to trust, hitman, manhunt, politics, photograph ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
new york, middle east, persia, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
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