Shows Like Oldboy

A secret agent relentlessly hunts the serial killer who murdered his pregnant fiancée, blurring the line between predator and prey.

Like Oldboy, I Saw the Devil is built around protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do. At its core, it's about a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A loyal crime boss enforcer refuses to kill his boss's girlfriend after discovering her affair — setting off a deadly chain of events.

Like Oldboy, A Bittersweet Life is built around protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do. At its core, it's about a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

After her uncle Jeong Jin-man dies under suspicious circumstances, his niece Ji-an discovers his unassuming online shop is a front for a world-class weapons marketplace — and that …

Both are built around a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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 Oldboy'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. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A quiet pawnshop owner with a mysterious past takes on a drug cartel to protect the one girl who befriended him.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective framed for murdering his own wife by a powerful criminal organization is given a second chance — rebuilt with bionic enhancements by a covert unit — and sent back to de…

Both are built around a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A scholarship student enters an elite high school and disrupts the rigid social hierarchy, uncovering dark secrets.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A stuntman investigates a plane crash that kills his nephew and uncovers a massive government conspiracy.

Both are built around a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs.

A woman tells a small lie to impress someone, and that lie spirals into an entirely fabricated identity — a stolen name, stolen credentials, stolen life. Anna is a slow-burn psycho…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Residents of a luxury penthouse apartment engage in schemes, murder, and betrayal over wealth and status.

Both are built around a revenge plot that's really about grief, identity, and what getting even actually costs. Same shocking energy throughout.