Actors: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Joe Grifasi, Nathan Lane, James Gammon

Directors: Hector Babenco

Genres: Drama

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;

Actors: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Jean Smart

Directors: David Frankel

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

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

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Iain Glen, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Michael Culkin

Directors: Phyllida Lloyd

Genres: Drama, Biography

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep

Directors: Greg MacGillivray

Genres: Documentary

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell

Directors: Fred Zinnemann

Genres: Drama

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

Actors: Meryl Streep, David Fabrizio, Reese Witherspoon, J.K. Simmons, Jake Gyllenhaal

Directors: Gavin Hood

Genres: Thriller, Drama

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen, John Gielgud

Directors: Fred Schepisi

Genres: Drama

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane

Directors: Stephen Daldry

Genres: Drama

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 simultaneous

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Vanessa Ferlito, Linda Emond

Directors: Nora Ephron

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Biography

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Allison Janney, Fred Ward, Oni Faida Lampley, Leo Burmester

Directors: Jim Abrahams

Genres: Drama

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 li

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Josef Sommer, Bruce McGill, J.C. Quinn

Directors: Mike Nichols

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, William Lucking, Glenn Morshower, Benjamin Bratt, John C. Reilly

Directors: Curtis Hanson

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

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, an

Actors: Meryl Streep, George C. Wolfe, Kevin Kline, Tony Kushner

Directors: John W. Walter

Genres: Documentary

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Goldie Hawn, Jim Jansen

Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

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

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright, Al Pacino, James Cromwell, Patrick Wilson

Directors: Unknown

Genres: Fantasy, Drama

Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Dan Hedaya, Hume Cronyn, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro

Directors: Jerry Zaks

Genres: Comedy, Drama

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 eccentrici

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Jack Nicholson, Richard Masur

Directors: Mike Nichols

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep, Charles Levin, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Helen Hanft

Directors: Woody Allen

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

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 Emil

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Malick Bowens, Michael Kitchen, Shane Rimmer

Directors: Sydney Pollack

Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography

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.

Actors: Meryl Streep

Directors: Greg MacGillivray

Genres: Documentary, Short

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 t