Angsty Male Leads?

izu

Dec 9, 2017 11:33 pm

Bonjour lads

Does anyone know any dramas with an angsty/broody male lead? Maybe with a tragic past to go with it??

Strange question, I know xD

Merci beaucoup, Alfie x

roro

Dec 9, 2017 11:55 pm

Healer is pretty good on the angsty male lead front

zeamays Contributor

Dec 10, 2017 01:24 am

Ah, I was going to say Shut Up Flower Boy Band, but there it is on your watch list already :)

Other possibilities:
Solomon's Perjury
Bridal Mask (both leads have their moments of angst and brooding and their friendship is the center of the drama)
Awl (more silent and kinda traumatized rather than really angsty though)

Things in which it's more the second lead that's broody than the main lead:
Warrior Baek Dong Soo (although it's super, super frustrating as a drama, Woon is the character I liked most)
Baker King Kim Tak Goo (Ma Jun is about the angstiest and broodiest character I can think of right now, but the main lead is a freakin' ray of sunshine who I wanted to punch in the face, in case that's important to know, haha)

For movies, you might try Bleak Night.

Ma Webre

Dec 10, 2017 03:58 am

Here are some k, c and thai dramas with melodramatic or angsty males in them.

Boss and Me perhaps my all time most watched c drama

Mask...real angsty main lead I have re watched this many times.

Bride of the Century

Game Maya 2017 Thai

Hello Monster

Hotel King

Into the Sunlight 1999 very melodramatic

Jam Loey Rak 2008

Lhong Ngao Jun 2006

Mary Stayed Out All Night 2010

My Sunshine c drama 2015

Over The Rainbow 2006

Roy Lae Sanae Luang 2013

Secret 2013

The Day After We Broke Up 2016

The Liar and his Lover 2013 and 2017 earlier is J version and more angsty

Triangle...full of melodramatic males

You're Beautiful 2009

Sandhya

Dec 10, 2017 05:18 am

A love to kill- the male lead is very much angsty

Other dramas like this that ive watched have been already recommended.. i second

The day after we broke up- it has only short no. of eps. Great for a quick watch.

My sunshine c drama

You are beautiful

Czakhareina

Dec 10, 2017 06:54 am

Korean drama: kill me heal me, heartless City, I am sorry i love you, innocent man, A story of a man, princess Man, missing you, scarlet heart, that winter the wind blows

Chinese drama: mars, cruel romance, lady and the liar, love me if you dare

Japanese drama: Hundred thousand stars in the sky, kingyo club, romeo and juliet,

CeeCee

Dec 10, 2017 04:58 pm

BLACK

LEGAL MAVERICKS

MAD DOG

neo

Dec 10, 2017 06:59 pm

I second Hello Monster and Healer too.

Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

Cambrian Period

The K2 (fits the bill for angsty male lead, though I really can't recommend this for the romance or plot haha... only watch for the action scenes, male lead and villainess)

izu

Dec 10, 2017 08:41 pm

Thank you for the replies! :) I'm just looking for an angst fix lol and there doesn't need to be romance in it. I don't mind it but it's not usually my bag unless it's gay lol <3