you watch
2024
14 eps
JTBC
Thriller Action Crime
Undercover Agent Against All Odds
A police detective becomes addicted to drugs after being unknowingly exposed, and investigates a drug cartel from the inside while battling his own dependency.
Both are built around a redemption arc that actually earns it through real consequence. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you watch
you'll love
2019
8 eps
BBC Two / Netflix
Crime Drama Thriller
Detective Seeking Family Foreign Country Mystery
A Tokyo detective travels to London to find his brother — a suspected yakuza killer who vanished after a gangland murder. What follows is a bilingual, genre-bending crime drama tha…
Both are built around a redemption arc that actually earns it through real consequence.
you watch
you'll love
2019
8 eps
BBC Two / Netflix
Crime Drama Thriller
Detective Seeking Family Foreign Country Mystery
A Tokyo detective travels to London to find his brother — a suspected yakuza killer who vanished after a gangland murder. What follows is a bilingual, genre-bending crime drama tha…
Both are built around a redemption arc that actually earns it through real consequence.
you watch
you'll love
2024
8 eps
Netflix
Thriller Dark Comedy Crime
Vigilante Dark Anti Hero
An ordinary college student accidentally kills a criminal and develops a disturbing ability to identify wrongdoers.
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you watch
you'll love
2022
8 eps
Kakao TV
Crime Thriller Drama
Falsely Accused Buddy Cop
A veteran detective is framed for murder and must uncover the truth while working with a young detective who distrusts him.
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you watch
you'll love
2025
12 eps
tvN
Crime Comedy Drama
Con Artist Family Heist
After a legendary con artist is released from prison, he discovers his estranged daughter has built her own criminal enterprise — one that threatens to eclipse everything he ever p…
Both are built around a redemption arc that actually earns it through real consequence. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you watch
you'll love
2023
39 eps
iQiyi / CCTV
Crime Drama Thriller
Cat And Mouse Parallel Lives
A meticulous police officer and a street-born kingpin cross paths across two decades of Chinese social transformation. One climbs through the law; the other climbs through crime. T…
If you loved Barry's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, The Knockout delivers exactly that.
you watch
you'll love
2023
8 eps
Disney+
Thriller Action Crime
Vigilante Hero Double Life
By day, Kim Ji-yong is a top police academy cadet. By night, he tracks down criminals who escaped justice through legal loopholes — and kills them. When a tenacious journalist begi…
If you loved Barry's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vigilante delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.
you watch
you'll love
2022
12 eps
Netflix
Action Crime Thriller
Heist Cat And Mouse
An audacious heist of the newly formed Unified Korea Mint: a masked crew of desperate people, each with nothing left to lose, takes hundreds of hostages and demands the impossible …
If you loved Barry's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area delivers exactly that. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you watch
you'll love
2023
10 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Mystery
Brilliant Detective Puzzle Mystery
A former genius detective, now a reclusive puzzle constructor, is pulled back into an active case when a series of murders with perfectly crafted puzzles left at each scene seems d…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.