Search

6.9

♡ 19

86%

Carl Franklin Director

Renée Zellweger as Ellen Gulden

Julie Janney as Hospital Nurse

Meryl Streep as Kate Gulden

Marcia Jean Kurtz as Marcia

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Dancing at Lughnasa

1998

6.3

♡ 5

60%

59%

based on play or musical

Pat O'Connor Director

Peter Gowen as Austin Morgan

Catherine McCormack as Christina Mundy

Rhys Ifans as Gerry Evans

Meryl Streep as Kate Mundy

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Becoming Mike Nichols

7.1

♡ 6

70%

69%

Documentary

Douglas McGrath Director

Dustin Hoffman as Ben Braddock

Robert Redford as Self

Mildred Natwick as Self

Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale

This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death. Director Douglas McGrath documents Nichols’s early life, as he opens up to his friend, director Jack O’Brien, about the storied beginnings of his career.

Dark Matter

2007

6.0

♡ 17

41%

Shi-Zheng Chen Director

Aidan Quinn as Jacob Reiser

Meryl Streep as Joanna Silver

Joe Grifasi as Professor Colby

Erick Avari as Professor R.K. Gazda

Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.

The Living Sea

1995

7.1

♡ 3

75%

time lapse photography

wildlife

Greg MacGillivray Director

Meryl Streep as Narrator

James A.R. McFarlane as Self

Bruce Robison as Self

Stephanie K. Martin as Self

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.

We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World

5.2

♡ 3

Documentary

Tony Gerber Director

Michelle Obama as Self

Meryl Streep as Self

Freida Pinto as Self

Isha Sesay as Self

Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay take a journey to Morocco and Liberia, where they meet young women overcoming incredible odds to change their lives.

The Homesman

2014

♡ 30

81%

53%

based on novel or book

Tommy Lee Jones Director

Meryl Streep as Altha Carter

Jesse Plemons as Garn Sours

Hilary Swank as Mary Bee Cuddy

Hailee Steinfeld as Tabitha Hutchinson

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 realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.

Rendition

2007

6.8

♡ 21

46%

62%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Gavin Hood Director

Meryl Streep as Corrine Whitman

Jake Gyllenhaal as Douglas Freeman

Reese Witherspoon as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi

J.K. Simmons as Lee Mayer

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.

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

2010

7.4

♡ 4

Fenton Bailey Director

Richard Dreyfuss as Doctor Frankenthal

Mark Hamill as Self

Harrison Ford as Self

Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale

"Wishful Drinking" is based on Fisher's memoirs of the same title. The stage adaptation had its world premiere in 2006 at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It later played at Berkeley Repertory before opening on Broadway in October at Studio 54. The show takes audiences on a comic tour of Fisher's messy personal life and career. The actress-writer recounts stories about her work on the "Star Wars" series as well as her relationship with her parents Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She also discusses her much-publicized problems with alcohol and drugs.

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

7.9

♡ 14

100%

Fisher Stevens Director

Carrie Fisher as Herself

Eddie Fisher as Himself

Julia Roberts as Self

Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale / Self

An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.

A Cry in the Dark

1988

6.9

♡ 15

94%

Fred Schepisi Director

David Hoflin as Aidan, 8 years

Tony Martin as Lincoln

Meryl Streep as Lindy

Sam Neill as Michael

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

1979

6.1

75%

Jerry Schatzberg Director

Dan Hedaya as Alex Heller

Meryl Streep as Karen Traynor

Peter Henry Schroeder as Ned

Merv Griffin as Self

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

5.8

100%

Kristi Zea Director

Meryl Streep as Journals Performed by

Frida Kahlo as Self

Arne Glimcher as Self

Chuck Close as Self

This tribute to the dynamic artist Elizabeth Murray, an intrinsic figure in New York's contemporary art landscape from the 1970s until the early 2000s, highlights her struggle to balance personal and family ambition with artistic drive in a male-dominated art world. It also addresses her later battle with cancer, at the peak of her career.

Let Them All Talk

2020

6.1

♡ 18

87%

Steven Soderbergh Director

Gemma Chan as

Dianne Wiest as

Lucas Hedges as

Meryl Streep as Alice

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.

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

2020

7.3

♡ 3

92%

Douglas Carrigan Director

Jacob Tremblay as Finn

Chris O'Dowd as Finn's Dad

Ruth Negga as Finn's Mum

Meryl Streep as Narrator

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.

Music of the Heart

1999

6.7

♡ 4

64%

Wes Craven Director

Julie Janney as Flight Attendant

Angela Bassett as Janet

Michael Angarano as Nick at 7

Meryl Streep as Roberta

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

The Prom

2020

5.9

♡ 44

54%

61%

based on play or musical

Ryan Murphy Director

Nicole Kidman as Angie Dickinson

Meryl Streep as Dee Dee Allen

Julia Roberts as Julianne Potter

Dermot Mulroney as Michael O'Neal

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.

Manhattan

1979

7.8

♡ 45

93%

92%