Bring Them Down vs The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 6.8/10 for Bring Them Down). Bring Them Down is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 1h 59m. The Silence of the Lambs is the older of the two (1991 against 2025). Both are drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bring Them Down posterBring Them Down2025 VS The Silence of the Lambs posterThe Silence of the Lambs1991
Bring Them DownThe Silence of the Lambs
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 8.3/10
Year20251991
Length1h 45m1h 59m
GenresDrama, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country––
DirectorChristopher AndrewsJonathan Demme
Main castColm Meaney, Susan Lynch, Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Conor MacNeillAnthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Brooke Smith, Tracey Walter, Anthony Heald

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 Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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