Movies starring Meryl Streep

Biography: 
Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 13 times, and has won it twice. Born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera. She became interested in acting while a student at Vassar and upon graduation she enrolled in the Yale School ...  show all 

Rendition (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | USA
Actors: Omar Metwally | Reese Witherspoon | Aramis Knight | Rosie Malek-Yonan | Jake Gyllenhaal | Moa Khouas | Zineb Oukach | Yigal Naor | Laila Mrabti | David Fabrizio | Mounir Margoum | Driss Roukhe | J.K. Simmons | Meryl Streep | Bob Gunton
Directors: Gavin Hood
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When an Egyptian terrorism suspect “disappears” on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Evening (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Claire Danes | Toni Collette | Vanessa Redgrave | Patrick Wilson | Hugh Dancy | Natasha Richardson | Mamie Gummer | Eileen Atkins | Meryl Streep | Glenn Close | Jason Anthony | Barry Bostwick | David Call | Blaise Corrigan | John Currie
Directors: Lajos Koltai
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The love which binds mother and daughter — seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this “Harris,” wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann’s life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila’s irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann’s love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Anne Hathaway | Emily Blunt | Stanley Tucci | Simon Baker | Adrian Grenier | Tracie Thoms | Rich Sommer | Daniel Sunjata | David Marshall Grant | James Naughton | Tibor Feldman | Rebecca Mader | Jimena Hoyos | Gisele Bündchen
Directors: David Frankel
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Miranda Priestley, of “Runway” magazine tears up the landscape as a demanding fashion editor. She is a terror to everyone who is around her as is quickly depicted in the opening scenes of the movie. Her first assistant strives to please her and tries to emulate her, but one can sense that she is not quite as hard as she tries to put on. Into this mix comes a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, has never read the magazine, and doesn’t know who Miranda Priestley is. She only sees this as a stepping stone to another journalism position. Showing no fashion sense and immediately scorned by everyone, Miranda nonetheless hires her as the second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, you can sense that she is trying to force her to quit, but it makes the young woman dig in to please her boss. With the help of one of the magazine’s fashion editors, she gets a complete makeover and a new security. However, with her new appearance and the demands placed on her, she starts to lose her friends, family and her live-in boy friend. As she is whisked away to Paris with Miranda and faces all of the glamor that could be hers, including a flashy if not artificial freelance journalist, she is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.

Prime (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Uma Thurman | Bryan Greenberg | Jon Abrahams | Adriana Biasi | David Younger | Palmer Brown | Zak Orth | Annie Parisse | Aubrey Dollar | Jerry Adler | Doris Belack | Ato Essandoh | David Anzuelo | Naomi Aborn
Directors: Ben Younger
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone’s point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi’s therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love.

Prairie Home Companion, A (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Harrelson | Tommy Lee Jones | Kevin Kline | Lindsay Lohan | Virginia Madsen | Meryl Streep
Directors: Robert Altman
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The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor’s radio show of the same name. The movie takes place during the last live performance of the show as the new radio network owners have sent an axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)to close the show. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor essentially plays himself, even using his own name for the character. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who act as the narrator. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.

The River Wild (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Stephanie Sawyer | Joseph Mazzello | David Strathairn | Elizabeth Hoffman | Victor Galloway | Kevin Bacon | John C. Reilly | William Lucking | Diane Delano | Thomas F. Duffy | Benjamin Bratt | Paul Cantelon | Glenn Morshower
Directors: Curtis Hanson
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Gail (Meryl Streep) is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it’s too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family’s life are risked not only by the 2 men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Liam Aiken | Emily Browning | Kara Hoffman | Shelby Hoffman | Jude Law | Timothy Spall | | Billy Connolly | Meryl Streep | Luis Guzmán | Jamie Harris | Craig Ferguson | Jennifer Coolidge | Jane Adams
Directors: Brad Silberling
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.