Meryl Streep
Actor
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson
- Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson undergo some engaging marital strife.
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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…