Top 10 Best Meryl Streep Movies

As a Polish concentration camp survivor living with a terrible secret, Streep delivered in this harrowing drama a role widely regarded as one of the greatest film performances ever.

As the ruthless, universally feared fashion editor Miranda Priestly, Streep plays one of the most quoted and imitated roles of her entire career.

As a mother who leaves her family and later returns to reclaim custody of her son, Streep plays a key role in this early, influential divorce drama.

As a strict, suspicious nun who accuses a priest of abuse without hard evidence, Streep faces off with Philip Seymour Hoffman in this tense moral drama.

As an Italian American housewife who reconsiders her entire life during a brief affair, Streep stars opposite Clint Eastwood in this romantic drama.

As a factory worker trying to expose her employer's dangerous practices, Streep leads this drama based on true events.

As newspaper publisher Katharine Graham, who must decide whether to publish secret government documents, Streep leads this historical drama by Steven Spielberg.

As journalist Susan Orlean, whose book about an obsessive orchid collector becomes the center of this self-referential film, Streep plays one of her more unusual roles.

As Danish writer Karen Blixen, who runs a coffee plantation in early twentieth-century Kenya, Streep leads this epic romantic drama.

As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, looking back on her political career in her later years, Streep delivered the role that won her a third Oscar.

In Adam McKay's satirical disaster film, Streep plays a narcissistic American president far too busy with herself and far too little with an approaching comet catastrophe. Streep in full satirical glory.