Meryl Streep films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 57 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Marty, Life Is Short, Little Women and Project Hail Mary.

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Starring Meryl Streep

Project Hail Mary
2026 · Film
8.7/10 · TMDB
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing...
Don't Look Up
2021 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
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The Deer Hunter
1978 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick...
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents—and a mysterious exhibit at the aptly named Museum of Everything. Based on the best-selling children's book by Oliver Jeffers.
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Little Women
2019 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Big Little Lies
2017 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
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Hoppers
2026 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Scientists have discovered how to 'hop' human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals. Animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within...
Manhattan
1979 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
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The Bridges of Madison County
1995 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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Entergalactic
2022 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son...
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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
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Adaptation.
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt...
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Sophie's Choice
1982 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war...
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The Hours
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a...
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Suffragette
2015 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
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Doubt
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and...
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
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Out of Africa
1985 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for...
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Mamma Mia!
2008 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on a Greek island is about to marry off the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But, the daughter has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her...
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The Post
2017 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
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Silkwood
1983 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
August: Osage County
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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 Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
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The House of the Spirits
1993 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily Charlton, now the head of a luxury brand that possesses funding which could ensure...
Music of the Heart
1999 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
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Death Becomes Her
1992 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes...
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Julie & Julia
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and...
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Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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The Homesman
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon...
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Postcards From the Edge
1990 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion...
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Ironweed
1987 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
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 surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the...
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The Giver
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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It's Complicated
2009 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out...
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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
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Rendition
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
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...
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One True Thing
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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Julia
1977 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he...
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The Iron Lady
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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The River Wild
1994 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
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The Prom
2020 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.
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A Prairie Home Companion
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
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Hope Springs
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
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Lions for Lambs
2007 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two...
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The Laundromat
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested...
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Prime
2005 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
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She-Devil
1989 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
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Into the Woods
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
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Ricki and the Flash
2015 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the...
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Let Them All Talk
2020 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
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Evening
2007 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In...
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The Ant Bully
2006 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against...
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Stuck on You
2003 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the...
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Marty, Life Is Short
2026 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Martin Short looks back on a life fueled by joy in this documentary with classic clips, fresh interviews and star-studded, never-before-seen home movies.

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