Here are the ten best drama movies of the last 25 years, ranked.

Oppenheimeris relentlessly paced, and so the over three hours of running time never feels like it drags.

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship.

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Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

The importance of12 Years a Slaveis equivalent to its outstanding artistic merit.

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Cillian Murphy standing in front of a bomb in a poster for Oppenheimer

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The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

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Cops holding back a wailing Sean Penn as Jimmy in Mystic River

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The tragic murder of a 19-year-old girl reunites three childhood friends still living in Boston–the victim’s gangster father, a detective, and the disturbed man they both suspect of killing her.

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Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger) have a secret affair in Brokeback Mountain (2005).

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Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

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Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) standing in a desert near an officer in ‘No Country for Old Men’

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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano shaking hands in ‘There Will Be Blood’ (2007)

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A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

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The Fabelmans is a film loosely based on the life of a young Steven Spielberg, with Gabriel Labelle playing the role of 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman. Fictionalizing but treading essential moments in the director’s life, The Fabelmans is set in the 1960s with the titular family moving from New Jersey to California, where a dark secret begins to cause the life of young Sammy to unravel. To escape the reality he’s faced with, he turns to films and reinforces a new dream - the aspiration of becoming a filmmaker. The film allows the director and the audience to look back on the past and try to understand the motivations of family members' various actions by contextualizing them through the lens of film.

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Solomon wears a straw hat as his picks cotton in the field in 12 Years a Slave

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In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

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Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) in ‘The Social Network’

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As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.

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William Costigan Jr. has a tense conversation with mob boss Frank Costello in The Departed

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An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

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Sparks flying around Adrien Brody as László Tóth with a cigarette in his mouth in The Brutalist.

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The Brutalist follows visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet as they flee Europe, aiming to rebuild their legacy in modern America. Their journey takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious and wealthy client alters the course of their lives, intertwining ambition with the challenges of a new world.

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