Bring Them Down vs The Departed

The Departed has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Bring Them Down). Bring Them Down is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 2h 31m. The Departed is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bring Them Down posterBring Them Down2025 VS The Departed posterThe Departed2006
Bring Them DownThe Departed
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 8.2/10
Year20252006
Length1h 45m2h 31m
GenresDrama, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country–Hong Kong
DirectorChristopher AndrewsMartin Scorsese
Main castColm Meaney, Susan Lynch, Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Conor MacNeillAnthony Anderson, James Badge Dale, Vera Farmiga, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio

Synopsis

Bring Them Down

When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael and Jack suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devastating turns, leaving both families permanently altered.

The Departed

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

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