Ironweed
Genres: Drama
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Hector Babenco
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Joe Grifasi, Nathan Lane, James Gammon, Tom Waits, Michael O'Keefe
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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 cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explore...
Hope Springs
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Jean Smart, Becky Ann Baker, Mimi Rogers
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Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple whose marriage has declined until they are now sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the Doctor's intense week long marriage counseling session. Although Arnold sees nothing wrong with their 30 year long marriage, he reluctantly agrees to go on the expensive excursion. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart and what they can do to reignite their passion. Even with the Doctor's adv...
The Iron Lady
Year: 2011
Country: UK, France
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Iain Glen, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Michael Culkin, Olivia Colman, Susan Brown
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Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.
To the Arctic 3D
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Greg MacGillivray
Starring: Meryl Streep
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A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
Julia (1977)
Genres: Drama
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Cathleen Nesbitt, John Glover
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From "Pentimento," the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play "The Childrens' Hour" on Broadway. Not surprisingly, it centers on Lillian's relationship with her lifelong friend, Julia. It is a relationship that goes beyond mere acquaintance and one for which the word "love" seems appropriate. While Julia attends the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometimes lover Dashiel Hammett at a New England beachhouse. After b...
Rendition
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Meryl Streep, David Fabrizio, Reese Witherspoon, J.K. Simmons, Jake Gyllenhaal, Omar Metwally, Aramis Knight
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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.
Plenty
Genres: Drama
Year: 1985
Country: USA, UK
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen, John Gielgud, Burt Kwouk, Tracey Ullman
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how.
The Hours
Genres: Drama
Year: 2002
Country: USA, UK
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, Linda Bassett
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In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before.
Julie & Julia
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Vanessa Ferlito, Linda Emond, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci
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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 butter, anything is possible.
...First Do No Harm
Genres: Drama
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Meryl Streep, Allison Janney, Fred Ward, Oni Faida Lampley, Leo Burmester, Margo Martindale, Tom Butler
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When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital. This movie is an indictment of those in the medi...
Silkwood
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Josef Sommer, Bruce McGill, J.C. Quinn, Craig T. Nelson, David Strathairn
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Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
The River Wild
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Meryl Streep, William Lucking, Glenn Morshower, Benjamin Bratt, John C. Reilly, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn
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Gail 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 two men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder.
Theater of War
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: John W. Walter
Starring: Meryl Streep, George C. Wolfe, Kevin Kline, Tony Kushner
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A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" that examines the playwright's life and ideas.
Death Becomes Her
Year: 1992
Country: USA
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Goldie Hawn, Jim Jansen, Nancy Fish, Mary Ellen Trainor
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Helen, a writer, and Madeline, an actress, have hated each other for years. Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once Helen's fiance. After she recovers from a mental breakdown, Helen vows revenge by stealing back Ernest and plotting to kill Madeline. Both rivals have secretly drunk a miracle cure for aging; they accidentally discover, when each tries to eliminate the other, that they have become immortal and that "life" will never be the same again.
Angels in America
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright, Al Pacino, James Cromwell, Patrick Wilson, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon
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Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
Heartburn
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Jack Nicholson, Richard Masur, Kenneth Welsh, Steven Hill
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Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves. Very soon they have a daughter, Annie. But one day Rachel learns that Mark was having an affair during her pregnancy.
Marvin's Room
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Jerry Zaks
Starring: Meryl Streep, Dan Hedaya, Hume Cronyn, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwen Verdon
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Estranged since their father's first stroke some 17 years earlier, Lee and Bessie lead separate lives in separate states. Lee's son, Hank, finds himself committed to a mental institution after setting fire to his mother's house. His younger brother, Charlie, seems unfazed by his brother's eccentricities or his mother's seeming disinterest. When Lee comes to the asylum to spring Hank for a week in Florida so that he can be tested as a possible bone marrow donor for Bessie, Hank is incredulous. "I didn't even know you had a sister," he says. "Remember, every Christmas, when I used to say 'Well, looks like Aunt Bessie didn't send us a card again...
Manhattan
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Meryl Streep, Charles Levin, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Helen Hanft, Michael Murphy, Kenny Vance
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Isaac, 42, has divorced Jill. She is now living with another woman, Connie, and is writing a book in which she will reveal some very private points of their relationship. Isaac has a love affair with Tracy, 17, when he meets Mary, the mistress of his best friend Yale. Yale is already married to Emily.
Out of Africa
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Malick Bowens, Michael Kitchen, Shane Rimmer, Leslie Phillips, Graham Crowden
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Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
The Living Sea (IMAX)
Genres: Documentary, Short
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Greg MacGillivray
Starring: Meryl Streep
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A survey of the world's oceans, emphasizing the fact that it's a single interconnected ocean, and the dependence of all life on the ocean. Along the way we spend time with some surfers, with researchers cataloging and tracking whales, a Coast Guard rough weather rescue squad, a deep-ocean research team, and in the Palau Islands, notably at a saltwater lake with an unusual jellyfish variety.