Movies like American Psycho (2000)

Name: American Psycho
Released: 2000

10 films to watch after American Psycho, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

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.

1

The Iceman (2012)

Fit 74%

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The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
2

A Most Violent Year (2014)

Fit 70%

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A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
3

Marathon Man (1976)

Fit 62%

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A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
4

A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Fit 61%

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Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
5

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Fit 59%

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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
6

Blood Ties (2013)

Fit 52%

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Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
7

Wake in Fright (1971)

Fit 50%

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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
8

The Informer (2019)

Fit 49%

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In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones.
9

The Outfit (1973)

Fit 42%

Shares Crime and Drama with American Psycho.

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
10

Force of Evil (1950)

Fit 40%

Shares Crime and Drama with American Psycho.

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.