K-Dramas like Bad Guys: Vile City

12 shows with a similar feel

• 
  Player (2018)Also crime · action & adventure · drama

  The story about the revenge of four talented individuals in their respective fields who create an elite team to solve crimes.

  3 tracking it here
• 
  Bad and Crazy (2021)Also action & adventure · crime · drama

  A superhero drama about Soo-yeol who has lived his whole life as a materialistic police detective, but changes into a champion for justice and fights against police corruption when a hidden persona called "K" awakens inside him.

  5 tracking it here
• 
  Vagabond (2019)Also drama · action & adventure

  Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a secret ops agent in order to support her mom and younger siblings, although all she wanted to do is to become a civil servant.

  7 tracking it here
• 
  Taxi Driver (2021)Also action & adventure · crime · drama

  A former special forces soldier delivers revenge for victims of injustice while working for a secret organization that fronts as a taxi company.

  16 tracking it here
• 
  I Am Not Your Enemy (2024)Also drama

  After being betrayed by her husband, Su Buxiao, and losing her entire family, Mi Youchu is reborn with a thirst for revenge. She dedicates herself to martial arts, determined to kill Su Buxiao—unaware that he’s now inhabited by a game player tasked with winning her love. In a twist of fate, the two become unlikely allies in a life-or-death journey to protect her family from a mysterious enemy, leading to an unexpected bond as they uncover dark secrets and find happiness together.
• 
  Crescendo (2015)Also drama

  During the late eighties, three good friends, Yi Wei, Chu Fan and Da Wei, formed a band called "Crescendo" out of their passion for music. After graduation, they established "Crescendo" Music Company to realize their dreams. Many years later, "Crescendo" has established itself in the music industry and successfully nurtured many homegrown talents. Chu Fan, Yi Wei and Da Wei have finally realized their dreams. However, the music trend in Singapore has changed in recent years and fewer youths are interested in Xin Yao music. "Crescendo" music school faces operational and financial difficulties. Just then, Chu Fan's ex-wife, Mei Ling returns from overseas. She sees the potential in "Crescendo" and wishes to invest in their business. Da Wei's crush Xue Li returns as well to be a vocal coach at "Crescendo". Since the return of the two, the three friends find themselves embroiled in complicated love affairs. Chu Fan accuses Mei Ling of wrongdoing because of a misunderstanding.
• 
  Babylon (2019)Also action & adventure · crime

  Zen Seizaki is a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles upon a page stained with a mixture of blood, hair and skin, along with the letter "F" scribbled all across the sheet. As he investigates further, the case goes beyond Zen's imagination and becomes vastly complex, challenging his sense of justice and his knowledge of the truth. Digging deeper into the investigation, Zen begins to uncover a concealed plot behind the ongoing mayoral election and ties to many people of interest involved in the election and those closer than he thinks. The case grows more severe and propels Zen into an unforeseen hurricane of corruption and deceit behind the election, the establishment of the Shiniki district, and the mysterious woman associated with it all.
• 
  Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident (2013)Also drama

  Detective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang Tae-ha, he abducted Tae-ha's son and raised him as his own. In the aftermath of revenge, Eun-joong searches for the truth and becomes caught between his two fathers and the woman he loves, Woo Ah-mi.
• 
  SHUT UP (2023)Also drama

  A crime suspense drama that follows four female college students who live in the same dormitory. After discovering one of their friends has fallen unexpectedly pregnant, and that the man who impregnated her is treating her badly, they hatch a plan to steal 1 million yen out of revenge.
• 
  Gorgeous Dream (2025)Also drama

  Labeled as tainted after four years in prison, Shen Wanqing is destroyed by the Liu family to protect their reputation. Reborn with a new face as Lan Mengyan, she marries into the Liu household to seek revenge, drawing both father and son into her trap. But as her plan places her in growing danger, the mysterious Qin Moxiu—who has been watching from the shadows—steps in.
• 
  Here's My Plan (2021)Also drama

  A girl believes her whole life has been miserable. She dreams of revenge on people who are responsible for her misery.
• 
  The Palace Gambit (2025)Also drama

  Two sisters enter the palace and quickly earn the emperor’s favor, but their rise ends in tragedy when the elder sister—pregnant with the heir—is killed in a palace scheme. Left with nothing, the younger sister Lu Jiuning hides her grief and, as a lowly palace maid, carefully plots her revenge. Moving between rival consorts and imperial power, she wages a quiet but ruthless battle to avenge her sister’s death.