Cast: Meryl Streep
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Meryl Streep. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 104
Doubt
2008 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction John Patrick Shanley
Cast Meryl Streep · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Amy Adams · Viola Davis
Plot Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue...
6.8
23K votes
6.8
23K votes
Suffragette
2015 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sarah Gavron
Cast Carey Mulligan · Helena Bonham Carter · Anne-Marie Duff · Brendan Gleeson
Plot The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
6.8
12K votes
6.8
12K votes
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020 · Movie · 36 min. · United States
Direction Philip Hunt · Douglas Carrigan
Cast Meryl Streep
Plot A precocious 7-year-old who, over the course of Earth Day, learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents and from a mysterious exhibit at the aptly titled Museum...
6.8
68 votes
6.8
68 votes
August: Osage County
2013 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction John Wells
Cast Meryl Streep · Julia Roberts · Ewan McGregor · Chris Cooper
Plot A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew...
6.7
20K votes
6.7
20K votes
The Post
2017 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Meryl Streep · Tom Hanks · Bruce Greenwood · Bob Odenkirk
Plot Set in June, 1971, this is a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and...
6.7
20K votes
6.7
20K votes
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Karel Reisz
Cast Meryl Streep · Jeremy Irons · Hilton McRae · Emily Morgan
Plot A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah,...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Daniel Day-Lewis - L'héritier (TV)
2021 · Documentary · 52 min. · France
Direction Jeanne Burel · Nicolas Maupied
Cast Jill Balcon · Michael Balcon Productions · Kenneth Branagh · Marlon Brando
6.6
105 votes
6.6
105 votes
Don't Look Up
2021 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Adam McKay
Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · Jennifer Lawrence · Meryl Streep · Cate Blanchett
Plot Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem...
6.6
38K votes
6.6
38K votes
Silkwood
1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Meryl Streep · Kurt Russell · Cher · Craig T. Nelson
Plot Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood (played by Meryl Streep), the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Falling in Love
1984 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Ulu Grosbard
Cast Meryl Streep · Robert De Niro · Harvey Keitel · Jane Kaczmarek
Plot Two married strangers meet randomly, become friends, and fall in love. They spend time together, riding the train into the city (New York), and begin meeting for coffee or lunch....
6.5
4K votes
6.5
4K votes
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022 · Documentary · 78 min. · France
Direction Clélia Cohen
Cast Clint Eastwood · Michael Cimino · Pauline Kael · Sergio Leone
Plot The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood.
6.4
136 votes
6.4
136 votes
The House of the Spirits
1993 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Bille August
Cast Jeremy Irons · Winona Ryder · Glenn Close · Meryl Streep
Plot A sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America in 1926, when a young man, Esteban (Jeremy Irons), falls...
6.3
12K votes
6.3
12K votes
The Homesman
2014 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Tommy Lee Jones
Cast Hilary Swank · Tommy Lee Jones · Grace Gummer · Miranda Otto
Plot Mary Bee Cuddy, 31, lives a solitary existence in a God-fearing mid-western town. She is designated by members of her church to take back East three women who have lost...
6.3
6K votes
6.3
6K votes
Rendition
2007 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Gavin Hood
Cast Reese Witherspoon · Jake Gyllenhaal · Meryl Streep · Alan Arkin
Plot Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Saarsgaard with Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep head an all-star ensemble cast in Rendition, a compelling thriller from Academy Award-winning director Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi"). Witherspoon...
6.2
6K votes
6.2
6K votes
One True Thing
1998 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Carl Franklin
Cast Meryl Streep · Renée Zellweger · William Hurt · Tom Everett Scott
Plot When a tough New Yorker's mother is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her,...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
2004 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Brad Silberling
Cast Jim Carrey · Liam Aiken · Emily Browning · Kara Hoffman
Plot Jim Carrey stars as Count Olaf, a wily villain with clever disguises and outrageous schemes, who is bent on swindling the Baudelaire orphans out of their family fortune. Featuring the...
6.1
23K votes
6.1
23K votes
Marvin's Room
1996 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Zaks
Cast Meryl Streep · Diane Keaton · Leonardo DiCaprio · Robert De Niro
Plot Two sisters try to set their familial differences aside -- one in hopes of saving her own life -- in this drama with comic accents. Bessie (Diane Keaton) has lived...
6.1
4K votes
6.1
4K votes
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Meryl Streep · Hugh Grant · Simon Helberg · Nina Arianda
Plot Streep stars as a New York heiress determined to become a famous opera singer despite her lack of talent. Grant will play her partner and manager, actor St. Clair Bayfield.
6.1
6K votes
6.1
6K votes
Ironweed
1987 · Movie · 144 min. · United States
Direction Héctor Babenco
Cast Jack Nicholson · Meryl Streep · Carroll Baker · Michael O'Keefe
Plot Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death...
6.1
982 votes
6.1
982 votes
Defending your Life
1991 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Albert Brooks
Cast Meryl Streep · Albert Brooks · Rip Torn · Lee Grant
Plot In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage. Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident...
6.1
731 votes
6.1
731 votes