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10 Best Movies Like Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

If you loved Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the gr...

#2
Sea of Love

Sea of Love

1989★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colle...

#3
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#4
Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob

1988★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer for fans of Crime & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob bo...

#5
Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

#6
A Walk Among the Tombstones

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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

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