Alan J. Pakula directed and wrote Sophie's Choice, a 1982 American psychological drama based on William Styron's 1979 novel of the same name. Meryl Streep plays Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant with a tragic background who lives in Brooklyn with her stormy boyfriend Nathan and teenage writer Stingo in a boarding house. Kevin Kline (in his first feature picture), Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman, and Josh Mostel also star.

This brilliant picture of a Polish-Catholic Auschwitz survivor dealing with the scars of the Holocaust while living in a Brooklyn boarding home with her unstable boyfriend Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline, 73, in his feature film debut) and budding writer Stingo earned Streep her second Academy Award (Peter MacNicol, 67). And she deserved it: for the part, Streep mastered both Polish and German, and her Polish-American accent was so convincing that Roger Ebert described it as "the first accent I've ever wanted to embrace".

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Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Release date: December 8, 1982

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084707

Clint Eastwood produced and directed the 1995 American romantic drama film The Bridges of Madison County, which stars Meryl Streep and is based on Robert James Waller's 1992 bestseller novel of the same name. Richard LaGravenese adapted the script. Kathleen Kennedy worked as a co-producer on the film. Warner Bros. released the film, which was produced by Amblin Entertainment and Malpaso Productions. Entertainment.

Streep's acting may be large and operatic at times, but her calm and contained performance in Clint Eastwood's romantic drama is as quiet and constrained as a haiku. The film, which is ranked 90th on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions list, follows an Italian war bride (Streep) and National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood, 90), who has moved to Iowa to photograph covered bridges. In her stolen looks, quiet gestures, and all that is left unsaid, Meryl Streep reveals a great deal.

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Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Release date: June 2, 1995

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579

The Devil Wears Prada is a comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman that was released in 2006. Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the script, which is based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. Meryl Streep plays Miranda Priestly, a formidable fashion magazine editor, and Anne Hathaway plays Andrea "Andy" Sachs, a recent college graduate who moves to New York City and works as Priestly's co-assistant. Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci feature as Emily Charlton's co-assistant and art director, respectively. Adrian Grenier and Simon Baker play pivotal parts in the film's supporting cast.

Based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel, this comedy follows young writer Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), who lands a coveted position as the personal assistant to the formidable and scary editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly at the imaginary fashion magazine Runway. What might have been a dictatorial villain character is given layers upon levels of depth by Streep's performance. What was the quality of the performance? Anna Wintour, the 71-year-old Vogue editor who inspired Streep's portrayal, termed the film "very enjoyable" and singled out Streep's performance in particular.

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Directed by: David Frankel

Release date: June 22, 2006

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352

Robert Benton wrote and directed Kramer vs. Kramer, a 1979 American courtroom drama film based on Avery Corman's 1977 novel of the same name. Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry feature in the picture. It chronicles the narrative of a couple's divorce, how it affected their young son, and how their relationship and parenting beliefs evolved as a result. The film delves into the psychology and consequences of divorce, as well as current and developing societal topics including gender roles, women's rights, fathers' rights, work-life balance, and single parenting.

Disgruntled wife and mother Joanna (Streep) resolves to divorce her workaholic husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman, 83), leaving their kid Billy (Justin Henry) to be reared by his father in this poignant courtroom drama. She returns for Billy fifteen months later, igniting a bitter custody struggle. In less capable hands, the part of Joanna may have come across as unsympathetic, and Streep even referred to the character as "an ogre, a princess, an ass" in the original material and script. She eventually produced a truly flawed and human lady, and she earned her first of three Academy Awards in the process.

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Directed by: Robert Benton

Release date: December 19, 1979

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079417

Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Cher, and Kurt Russell, is a 1983 American biographical drama film. Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen developed the script from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone journalist and activist Howard Kohn, which chronicled Karen Silkwood's life. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and labor organizer who was killed in a vehicle accident while probing suspected malfeasance at the Kerr-McGee plutonium factory where she worked. In actual life, her death prompted attorney Gerry Spence to file Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee in 1979.

This Mike Nichols–directed, Nora Ephron–penned biographical drama about labor organizer and whistleblower Karen Silkwood, who exposed dangerous working conditions in a plutonium manufacturing factory, was the only Streep performance to make AFI's 100 Heroes & Villains list. Karen is an ordinary woman who just wants to make things right, and it's impossible not to root for this compelling crusader. This isn't some morality play with an angelic heroine railing against a corrupt system; Karen is an ordinary woman — often prickly, obsessive, and polarizing — who just wants to make things right, and it's impossible not to root for her.

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Directed by: Mike Nichols

Release date: December 14, 1983

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312

Nora Ephron wrote and directed Julie & Julia, a 2009 American biographical comedy-drama film starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Messina. The film compares the early years of chef Julia Child's culinary career with the lives of Julie Powell, a young New Yorker who intends to cook all 524 dishes in Child's cookbook in 365 days, a goal she documented on her famous blog, which helped her become a published author.

Julia Child (Streep) and her husband (Stanley Tucci, 60) go to Paris in the 1950s, where she attends Le Cordon Bleu and works on a game-changing French cookbook for American women. Half a century later, Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a young New York writer, plans to reproduce every dish in the book over the course of a year. Three years later, Streep won her third Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, but many people think her wonderfully eccentric role in Nora Ephron's final film — which won an AARP Movies for Grownups Award for a finest mature love story — is the more moving picture.

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Directed by: Nora Ephron

Release date: August 7, 2009

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503

Spike Jonze directed and Charlie Kaufman wrote the surreal comedy-drama film Adaptation (stylized Adaptation.) in 2002. Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper appear in the picture, which also features Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Kaufman based Adaptation on his troubles with writer's block when adapting Susan Orlean's nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief in 1998. It includes aspects from the novel as well as fictional features such as Kaufman's twin brother (who is also acknowledged as a screenwriter for the film) and a romance between Orlean and Laroche. Three years after the events of The Orchid Thief, it culminates in wholly imagined components, including versions of Orlean and Laroc.

Nicolas Cage, 57, plays real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, 62 (and his fictional twin brother Donald), who is having writer's block while attempting to adapt a (real) book by (real) New Yorker writer Susan Orlean about orchid poacher John Laroche (Chris Cooper, 69, who won an Oscar for the role) (Streep). Is that clear? With no wigs, dialects, or character tics to fall back on, the resulting picture is full of ludicrous, action-packed fictional turns, yet at its heart, Streep provides one of her most natural and unvarnished performances to date. The real Susan Orlean, 65, was first hesitant about the film, but later praised it as one of Streep's best performances.

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Directed by: Spike Jonze

Release date: December 6, 2002

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268126

Michael Cimino co-wrote and directed The Deer Hunter, a 1978 American epic war drama film about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives were irrevocably transformed after serving in the Vietnam War. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage portray the three soldiers, with John Cazale (in his penultimate performance), Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza providing assistance. Clairton, Pennsylvania, a working-class village on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, and Vietnam are the settings for the novel.

The job that would give Streep her first Academy Award nomination didn't initially capture Streep's attention - in fact, it was the polar opposite. Linda was "basically a man's idea of a woman", she said, with passivity and weakness, but she took the job to spend more time with her lover, actor John Cazale, who was dying of lung cancer at the time. Linda shines out as the emotional center of this devastating three-hour Vietnam War epic, and Streep pulls true emotions from the classic "girl back home" figure. Mike (Robert De Niro, 77) and Nick (Christopher Walken, 78) were both taken with her, and it's easy to understand why.

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Directed by: Michael Cimino

Release date: December 8, 1978

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416

Robert Zemeckis directed and produced Death Becomes Her, a 1992 American satirical black comedic fantasy film. It stars Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as competitors who battle for the love of the same guy (Bruce Willis) and take a magical elixir that promises perpetual youth but has horrible side effects. It was written by David Koepp and Martin Donovan.

Streep and Goldie Hawn play competitors for the affection of cosmetic surgeon Ernest Menville in this humorously macabre cult classic directed by Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis, 69. (Bruce Willis, 66). When both ladies swallow an elixir in the hopes of remaining forever young, they discover that immortality is no stroll in the park, and their zombie rivalry grows progressively ugly. The film's cartoonish body horror won it an Oscar for outstanding visual effects, and both women are clearly having a blast in these gloriously cruel performances.

Death Becomes Her was a commercial triumph when it was released on July 7, 1992, to mixed reviews from critics. It grossed $149 million worldwide on a $55 million budget. The film was a forerunner in the use of computer-generated effects, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in the process. Death Becomes Her has established a considerable cult following in the decades after its debut, particularly within the LGBT community.

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Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Release date: July 31, 1992

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070

Mamma Mia! (also known as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 musical romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, based on her book from the same-named 1999 musical. The film is based on the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA, with extra music created by Benny Andersson, an ABBA member. Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgard, Meryl Streep, and Julie Walters are among the cast members.

The story revolves around a young bride-to-be who invites three men to her approaching wedding, one of whom may be her father. Relativity Media, Playtone, and Littlestar Productions co-produced the picture, which was an international co-production between Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This film, like the ABBA jukebox stage musical from which it was adapted, is a crowd-pleaser — even if reviewers weren't sure what to make of its extremely corny disco vibes. Nonetheless, Streep's quietly lived-in portrayal as Donna, a hotel owner on a Greek island, won over fans right away. Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), Donna's bridesmaid, adds to the fun by inviting three men from Donna's past to her wedding in order to discover out which one is her father. Under the Aegean heat, expect plenty of singing, dancing, and flirting.

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Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd

Release date: June 30, 2008

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795421/quotes/qt1659184