Meryl Streep
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 Julia (1977) Julia (1977)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
 Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.…
- Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
 Deer Hunter, The (1978) Deer Hunter, The (1978) 
- Dir. Michael Cimino
 Feat. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
- A grimly realistic portrait of how the atrocities of the Vietnam war have an effect on a group of friends. Robert De Niro heads a virtuoso cast in…
 Holocaust (TV Mini-series) (1978) Holocaust (TV Mini-series) (1978) 
- Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
 Feat. Meryl Streep, James Woods, Michael Moriaty…
- Captivating saga of a Jewish family shattered by the rise of the Nazis. One of the top–rating and best quality mini–series of the 1970s. 
 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 
- Dir. Robert Benton
 Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
- Well–acted, gripping portrayal of a bitter divorce and custody battle, for which Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep both won Oscars. Also garnered…
 French Lieutenant's Woman, The (1981) French Lieutenant's Woman, The (1981)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons
- Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons star in an elegant portrayal of secretive affairs and social strictures. Screenplay by Harold Pinter.
 Still of the Night (1982) Still of the Night (1982)
- Dir. Robert Benton
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Roy Scheider
- Hitchcock–style thriller about a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman who may have brutally murdered one of his patients. 
 Sophie's Choice (1982) Sophie's Choice (1982)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline
- Master of many accents Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as a European refugee of the Nazi death–camps whose uneasy relationship with…
 Silkwood (1983) Silkwood (1983)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
 Feat. Meryl Streep,  Cher, Kurt Russell
- Fact–based account of a Southern nuclear factory–worker who died mysteriously before exposing unsound trade secrets. Meryl Streep is on a…
 Falling in Love (1984) Falling in Love (1984)
- Dir. Ulu Grosbard
 Feat. Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep
- Star–combination of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, as train–commuters having an affair which puts a wee glow back into their fairly…
 Out of Africa (1985) Out of Africa (1985) 
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
- Epic, elegant retelling of Karen Blixen's African memoirs. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
 Plenty (1985) Plenty (1985)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
 Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…
- Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
 Heartburn (1986) Heartburn (1986)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson
- Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson undergo some engaging marital strife.
 Ironweed (1987) Ironweed (1987)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
 Feat. Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep
- Rich, downbeat story of a guilt–ridden alcoholic hobo and his companion, with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in finest method.
 Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988) Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Sam Neill
- Jack–of–all–accents, Meryl Streep, does wonders as Lindy Chamberlain, the woman accused of murdering her child in the Australian…
 She-Devil (1989) She-Devil (1989)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
 Feat. Meryl Streep,  Roseanne, Ed Jr. Begley…
- A stylised comic treatment of Fay Weldon's dark novel with Rosanne Barr exacting ultimate retribution on husband–stealing rich–bitch…
 Postcards from the Edge (1990) Postcards from the Edge (1990)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine
- Loose adaptation of Carrie Fisher's autobiography with Meryl Streep as the high–strung actress coping with the pitfalls of show–biz.…
 Defending Your Life (1991) Defending Your Life (1991)
- Dir. Albert Brooks
 Feat. Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn…
- Albert Brooks plays a high–flying executive who dies in a car accident, then is shifted off to 'Judgement City' – an otherworldly halfway…
 Death Becomes Her (1992) Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn
- Streep, Willis and Hawn turn in spot–on performances for this hilarious send–up of Tinseltown's obsession with youth. The zany plot…
 House of the Spirits (1993) House of the Spirits (1993)
- Dir. Bille August
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close…
- Alternately ponderous and fascinating screen version of Isabel Allende's acclaimed saga charting the turbulent history of a South American family…
 River Wild, The (1994) River Wild, The (1994)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Joseph Mazzello, David Strathairn…
- Troubled marrieds Meryl Streep and David Strathairn embark on a river–rafting holiday with son and dog in tow, but in true DELIVERANCE style,…
 Bridges of Madison County (1995) Bridges of Madison County (1995) 
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood
- Meryl Streep's exceptional talent finds a worthy vessel in a repressed housewife whose passions become enflamed by a nomadic photographer (Clint…
 Before and After (1996) Before and After (1996)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
 Feat. Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep
- Moral dilemmas loom large for Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep as the distressed parents of a teenager suspected of murdering his girlfriend.
Thrills…
 Marvin's Room (1996) Marvin's Room (1996)
- Dir. Jerry Zaks
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro…
- The cast contribute their customary greatness to this poignant drama about family ties, responsibilities, transpiring over the slow passing of the…
 Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack
- The acclaimed stageplay by Brian Friel is given a top notch cast to embody the passionate Irish dilemmas of its characters. Family and National…
 One True Thing (1998) One True Thing (1998) 
- Dir. Carl Franklin
 Feat. Renee Zellweger, Meryl Streep, William Hurt
- Superlative take on the 'illness' genre, wherein Renee Zellweger returns home after sickness falls upon the family, rediscovering bonds with Mum and…
 Music of the Heart (1999) Music of the Heart (1999)
- Dir. Wes Craven
 Feat. Meryl Streep
- Meryl Streep crafts potentially saccharine material into a credible drama, playing an real–life violin teacher who founded a series of…
 Adaptation (2002) Adaptation (2002) 
- Dir. Spike Jonze
 Feat. Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper…
- Another virtuoso post–modern comedy from the team behind BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, with a miraculously adapted Nicolas Cage – in identical twin…
 Hours, The (2002) Hours, The (2002) 
- Dir. Stephen Daldry
 Feat. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore…
- Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer–prize winning novel is brought to the screen with excellent performances, and though simplified and not for all…
 Angels in America (TV Mini Series) (2004) Angels in America (TV Mini Series) (2004) 
- Dir. Mike Nichols
 Feat. Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson…
- An ambitious, multi–leveled portrait of the fractures, politics and metaphysical crises of 1980s America based on the stageplay by Tony…
 Manchurian Candidate, The (2004) Manchurian Candidate, The (2004) 
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
 Feat. Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber…
- Slickly modernised version of the Cold War classic, tailors its twisted fable of political paranoia into a complex speculation on military, political…
 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) 
- Dir. Brad Silberling
 Feat. Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Billy Connolly…
- Unfolding as a series of beautifully designed events, this Hollywood adaptation of the popular fantasy books fortunately doesn't water down the…
 Prime (2005) Prime (2005) 
- Dir. Ben Younger
 Feat. Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep
- Light yet smart New York City comedy in the Woody Allen mode, proposing the cracked fairytale of 30–something Thurman being wooed by a young…
 Ant Bully, The (2006) Ant Bully, The (2006)
- Dir. John A. Davis
 Feat. Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep…
- Decidedly appealing 3D animation from the makers of JIMMY NEUTRON about a bullied 10–year–old boy who in turn picks on the…
 Devil Wears Prada, The (2006) Devil Wears Prada, The (2006) 
- Dir. David Frankel
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt…
- Fabulous fashion cringe–comedy has a provincial lass (Anne Hathaway) somehow obtain a sought after junior position at high–class magazine…
 Prairie Home Companion, A (2006) Prairie Home Companion, A (2006)
- Dir. Robert Altman
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Lee Jones…
- Reviving the musical scope of his 70s watermark NASHVILLE, Robert Altman’s last film lovingly dramatizes the backstage quandary of a live radio…
 Lions for Lambs (2007) Lions for Lambs (2007) 
- Dir. Robert Redford
 Feat. Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
- A contemporary 'hot potato' issue is tackled from political, academic, militaristic and journalistic viewpoints, drawing an ultimately powerful…
 Evening (2007) Evening (2007)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
 Feat. Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave…
- All–star, womanly melodrama unveils the secret life of an ailing matriarch (Redgrave), whose remembrance of an intense, tragic love fifty years…
 Dark Matter (2007) Dark Matter (2007)
- Dir. Shi-Zheng Chen
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Liu Ye
- Inspired by real events, this dramatisation of a brilliant Chinese science student's psychological downfall at an Iowan university is a mostly…
 Rendition (2007) Rendition (2007)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
 Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard…
- Frenetic thriller by dir. of TSOTSI concerns Witherspoon's desperate search for her husband after he goes missing on an international flight,…
 Mamma Mia! (2008) Mamma Mia! (2008) 
- Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth…
- A knowingly cheesy yet still irresistible movie version of the smash–hit stage musical about a girl trying to find her father before her…
 Doubt (2008) Doubt (2008) 
- Dir. John Patrick Shanley
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams…
- Playwright John Patrick Shanley adapts for the screen his Pulitzer Prize–winner about a nun's suspicion of sexual abuse in a Catholic school,…
 Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 
- Dir. Wes Anderson
 Feat. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman…
- Wes Anderson’s quirky, buttoned–up sensibility is a fantastic match for Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a sly, debonair fox (George…
 Julie And Julia (Julie & Julia) (2009) Julie And Julia (Julie & Julia) (2009) 
- Dir. Nora Ephron
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci…
- The biography of legendary chef Julia Child is puzzingly intertwined with the story of Julie Powell, who in 2002 challenged herself to cook…
 It's Complicated (2009) It's Complicated (2009) 
- Dir. Nancy Meyers
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin…
- A divorcee romantic–comedy, and a pretty good one, sees Meryl Streep in comedic bloom as her unlikely affair with her brazen ex–husband…
 Iron Lady, The (2011) Iron Lady, The (2011) 
- Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Iain Glen…
- Meryl Streep's Oscar–winning incarnation dominates this stylized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the conservative British Prime Minister who…
 Hope Springs (2012) Hope Springs (2012)
- Dir. David Frankel
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell…
- An admirable dramedy of twilight romance, with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones playing a couple of thirty years who attend marriage counseling when…
 August: Osage County (2013) August: Osage County (2013) 
- Dir. John Wells
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper…
- Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and other heavy hitters come out swinging in this fierce, sometimes hysterical, screen adaptation of Tracy Letts'…
 Giver, The (2014) Giver, The (2014)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
 Feat. Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites…
- In the near future, Jonas (Thwaites) is born into a perfect world. There is no pain, disagreement or choice. He is chosen for training under "The…
 Into the Woods (2014) Into the Woods (2014) 
- Dir. Rob Marshall
 Feat. Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine…
- Stephen Sondheim's exuberant musical gets the gleaming big screen treatment from dir. Rob Marshall (CHICAGO, NINE), with Meryl Streep as the witch…
 Homesman, The (2014) Homesman, The (2014) 
- Dir. Tommy Lee Jones
 Feat. Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer…
- Tommy Lee Jones helms this pleasurably off–beat western in which three women living on the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer…
 Ricki and the Flash (2015) Ricki and the Flash (2015)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer…
- Meryl Streep adds 'rock star' to her oeuvre in this pleasing dramedy written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jonathan Demme. Streep stars as a…
 Suffragette (2015) Suffragette (2015) 
- Dir. Sarah Gavron
 Feat. Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Rousing account of the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain seen through the eyes of a working mother who's galvanized into political action by…
 Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) 
- Dir. Stephen Frears
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg…
- Meryl Streep shines in this biopic of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible…
 Post, The (2017) Post, The (2017) 
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
 Feat. Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson…
- The story of The Washington Post's attempt to publish The Pentagon Papers is given the Spielberg treatment. A riveting political thriller with…
 Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Mamma Mia 2) (2018) Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Mamma Mia 2) (2018)
- Dir. Ol Parker
 Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Christine Baranski…
- Everything you adored (or despised) about the first movie is here in spades in this sequel to the impossibly rowdy all–singing,…
 Little Women (2019) Little Women (2019) 
- Dir. Greta Gerwig
 Feat. Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh…
- The director of LADY BIRD turns her attention to a classic text in the coming–of–age genre, the oft–filmed story based on the novel…
 Big Little Lies - Season 2 (TV Mini-series) (2019) Big Little Lies - Season 2 (TV Mini-series) (2019) 
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
 Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley…
- The second chapter of this acclaimed HBO series, this time from the director of FISHTANK and AMERICAN HONEY, throws a grief ridden…