What are your Top Five Meryl Streep Movies?

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For a complete listing of her movies see Highest Rated Feature Film Actress Titles With Meryl Streep

The first 50 of them are listed here:

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  1. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  2. Sky Island (2010)
  3. Manhattan (1979)
  4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
  5. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  6. Adaptation. (2002)
  7. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
  8. The Hours (2002)
  9. Disneynature: Wings of Life (2011)
  10. Wings of Life (2013)
  11. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
  12. Doubt (I) (2008)
  13. Monet’s Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny (2004)
  14. Julia (1977)
  15. August: Osage County (2013)
  16. Defending Your Life (1991)
  17. Out of Africa (1985)
  18. Silkwood (1983)
  19. Girl Rising (2013)
  20. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  21. Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror (1998)
  22. Julie & Julia (2009)
  23. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
  24. One True Thing (1998)
  25. The House of the Spirits (1993)
  26. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
  27. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
  28. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
  29. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
  30. Rendition (2007)
  31. Ironweed (1987)
  32. A Fierce Green Fire (2012)
  33. Marvin’s Room (1996)
  34. Music of the Heart (1999)
  35. Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975)
  36. The Homesman (2014)
  37. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
  38. It’s Complicated (2009)
  39. Evening (2007)
  40. Postcards from the Edge (1990)
  41. The Giver (2014)
  42. To the Arctic 3D (2012)
  43. Hurricane on the Bayou (2006)
  44. Mamma Mia! (2008)
  45. Death Becomes Her (1992)
  46. The Iron Lady (2011)
  47. Falling in Love (1984)
  48. Hope Springs (2012)
  49. The River Wild (1994)
  50. Prime (2005)

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Pick your own Top Five and post them here.

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I’m sorry, I don’t have a top 5. But because of reasons (studying Al Brooks’ odd C.V.) hubby and I just rewatched “Defending Your Life,” and I thought she did justice to a genteel role in a sweet, subtly satirical film. So that’s my only nomination.

Actually, we ended up talking more about something uncharacteristic for us–she is like the Dick Clark of B-movies. Seriously, she looked about as old in high schoolas she did in that film. In a good way, though.

If I have some movie time this week, and I probably will (though we’re planning on a Paul Muni fest) I’ll try to watch some more of her oeuvre and weigh in again.

3

Ironweed
Julie & Julia
Postcards from the Edge
Sophie’s Choice
Bridges of Madison County

4
  1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
  2. AI: Artificial Intelligence
  3. Adaptation
  4. Silkwood
  5. Manhattan

Obviously, 3 of those she’s barely in, but I’m judging the quality of the movies, not her level of participation.

5

Sophie’s Choice (1982)
Silkwood (1983)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Ironweed (1987)
August: Osage County (2013)

6

Wow… such a great actress, and yet so few really good movies to her credit.

7

Deer Hunter
Silkwood
The Manchurian Candidate
AI
Manhattan

8

Uncommon Women…And Others, (which is really a tv production of a play, not a movie, but I count it because I think it’s the best thing she’s ever done.)

Julie and Julia

Postcards From the Edge

Before and After

Dancing at Lughnasa

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  1. Julie & Julia (2009)
  2. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
  3. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
  4. Mamma Mia! (2008)
  5. Death Becomes Her (1992)
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  1. The Iron Lady (by a mile)
  2. Julie and Julia
  3. Bridges of Madison County

I’ve seen others, but thought they weren’t that good so I’m leaving it at three. I’m surprised more people haven’t chosen The Iron Lady.

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I concur… that is the only one I was going to say also.

so…

Defending Your Life,

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Doubt
The Devil Wears Prada
Adaptation
Postcards from the Edge
Defending Your Life

13

Kramer V.S. Kramer

Sophie’s Choice

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Julie and Julia

The Devil Wears Prada

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I just realized how few of these I’ve seen so I have to vote for ones I’d rewatch for her performance which leaves:

Kramer v. Kramer
Defending Your Life
and a special nod to Holocaust-best miniseries that’s never been rerun and I think one of her best performances

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The first 50 of them are listed here:

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3. Manhattan (1979)
5. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
7. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
14. Julia (1977)
16. Defending Your Life (1991)
17. Out of Africa (1985)
18. Silkwood (1983)
20. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
28. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
34. Music of the Heart (1999)
37. The Manchurian Candidate (2004
46. The Iron Lady (2011)

I liked all these movies. My favorites from this list are:

  1. Music of the Heart
  2. The Iron Lady
  3. Out of Africa
  4. Kramer
  5. This movie where she plYed a reporter, with Robert Redford in it, talking about the morality of war.
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The River Wild, because I’m a whitewater paddler.

After that,
Deerhunter
Silkwood
AI
Death Becomes Her