Movies Like Psycho Killer

Female law-enforcement protagonist hunts a sadistic occult-tinged serial killer with satanic overtones, mirroring this film's premise almost beat-for-beat.

Definitive religious-iconography serial-killer procedural about cops chasing a depraved, ideologically driven murderer.

Bleak police hunt for a sadistic serial killer terrorizing a small province, matching the procedural-horror tone.

Investigator-versus-psychopath cat-and-mouse with cult/occult flourishes and grim crime-horror atmosphere.

A cop hunts a serial killer whose decapitations and crucifixions weave church, priests, and satanic ritual into the procedural.

Homicide detective tracks a religiously obsessed serial killer leaving Bible-quote-laden mutilated corpses, very on-brand.

Grieving cop hunts a biblically themed serial killer; same churchy serial-killer-procedural lane.

Small-town detective haunted by his past chases a blasphemy-fixated serial killer leaving church-staged murders.

Contemporary detective hunt for a sadistic serial killer with cosmic/occult undercurrents; close tonal sibling.

Cops chasing a real-life serial killer with ritualistic, cult-coded signatures.

Detectives hunt a religiously theatrical copycat serial killer; lower-budget cousin of the same subgenre.

Police psychologist drawn into ritual-sacrifice cult murders; shares the cult/occult-cop thread.

Recent grim portrait of a sadistic real-world serial killer; overlaps the depravity angle but lacks the cop-hunt structure.

Stylish whodunit centered on tracking a sadistic serial killer, though more erotic-thriller than horror.

Opens with a serial-killer encounter before pivoting to supernatural horror; tangentially related.

Sadistic killers pursued by an obsessive lawman; shares depraved-killer DNA from a different angle.

Detective investigation that descends into satanic occult horror; tonal cousin rather than direct match.

Veteran detectives chase a possible serial killer; mainstream procedural without the religious-horror edge.

Grief-driven hunt for a depraved abductor laced with religious symbolism — closer to this movie's emotional register than most candidates.

Two cops obsessively chase a sadistic serial killer in a bleak, dread-soaked procedural.

Female federal officer pursues a depraved serial killer; the genre's gold-standard touchstone for this premise.