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A man who has spent 15 years maintaining his father's innocence for a murder conviction — while secretly knowing his father was protecting someone else — becomes a defense attorney…

Like Defendant, it leans hard into wrongly accused. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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Im Hyun-joon is a mild-mannered ordinary citizen whose life is shattered when he is wrongfully accused of a heinous crime. As the machinery of the justice system turns against him,…

Like Defendant, it leans hard into wrongly accused. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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Han Yi-han was once the best thoracic surgeon in Korea — until a powerful pharmaceutical company destroyed his career by framing him for a patient's death. Years later, he returns …

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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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'll recognize the corrupt officials immediately.

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A strict judge who hates juvenile criminals takes on juvenile court cases and confronts the complexities of youth crime.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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A model student secretly runs an illegal escort protection service to fund his college tuition.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. Same gripping and dark energy throughout.

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Twin brothers — a crime novelist and a prosecutor — separately infiltrate the same powerful chaebol family to find the evidence that will prove their stepfather was framed for murd…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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A low-level loan shark with nothing to live for discovers he has a daughter — and she needs a bone marrow transplant that only he can provide. Framed for murder the night he decide…

Like Defendant, it leans hard into wrongly accused. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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Jurors in a murder trial start dying one by one, and a detective, a welfare officer, and an ambitious prosecutor must figure out whether a serial killer is targeting the jury — or …

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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Cha Joo-eun's picture-perfect life shatters when her husband vanishes the night before he was supposed to testify in a high-profile case. As she desperately searches for him, she d…

Like Defendant, it leans hard into race against time. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.