Cast: Meryl Streep

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Meryl Streep. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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