Meryl Streep
Also Known As: ميريل ستريب, Мэрил Стрип, 메릴 스트립, メリル・ストリープ, เมอรีล สตรีป, 梅麗·史翠普, მერილ სტრიპი, Μέριλ Στριπ, 梅丽尔·斯特里普, Mary Louise Streep, 梅里尔·斯特里普, 梅莉·史翠普, مریل استریپ
Biography: Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight. She has also received two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and six Grammy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meryl Streep, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Summit, New Jersey, USA
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Birthday: June 22, 1949
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Female
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Doubt: Stage to Screen
Overview: A look at how the cast and crew brought "Doubt" from the stage to the screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-07
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The Hours
Overview: The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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Out of Africa
Overview: Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Overview: David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-29
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The Bridges of Madison County
Overview: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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Manhattan
Overview: Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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The House of the Spirits
Overview: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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Prime
Overview: A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-21
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Overview: The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-14
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Adaptation.
Overview: Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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Lions for Lambs
Overview: Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-22
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She-Devil
Overview: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Overview: Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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There's Only One Paul McCartney
Overview: An affectionate portrait of the man and the musician in a week that sees the ex-Beatie playing at the Buckingham Palace concert. With contributions from Bono, Mike Myers , Dustin Hoffman , Meryl Streep , Cilia Black, Bob Geldof , Dale Winton , Travis and Richard Branson
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-02
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Rendition
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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It's Complicated
Overview: Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life—just when she thought she had it all figured out.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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Evening
Overview: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-09
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Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Overview: Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-16
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The Deer Hunter
Overview: A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Mamma Mia!
Overview: A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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Julie & Julia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-06
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Overview: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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Still of the Night
Overview: When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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Defending Your Life
Overview: Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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The River Wild
Overview: Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
Overview: In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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A Prairie Home Companion
Overview: A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Silkwood
Overview: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-14
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Death Becomes Her
Overview: Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-30
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Marvin's Room
Overview: A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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Music of the Heart
Overview: Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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...First Do No Harm
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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The Ant Bully
Overview: Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-28
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Heartburn
Overview: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Evil Angels
Overview: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Ironweed
Overview: An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Plenty
Overview: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Julia
Overview: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Doubt
Overview: In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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Before and After
Overview: Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-23
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Stanislavski: Lust for Life
Overview: A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his powerful extraordinary talent he managed to stay a true artist and a free spirit within the harsh Soviet system. In the film contemporary theater and film directors (Kirill Serebrennikov, Katie Mitchell, Lev Dodin and others) show how Stanislavski's method affects their everyday work. Each of the directors finds his or her own reflection in the mirror of his genius. In search of an answer to the question whether modern theatre really needs Stanislavski they discover that art lacks its most essential part – the human being.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-27
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An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
Overview: An introduction to the Ketogenic Diet, a special high-fat diet used to treat seizures, as a treatment for childhood epilepsy narrated by Meryl Streep. The video provides a step-by-step preparation of the meals, available options for the diet and discussions with parents and children about their dealings with the diet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Sophie's Choice
Overview: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Hurricane on the Bayou
Overview: The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katrina.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-29
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Overview: Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missing. She leaves home to discover what that is.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-02
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Voices That Care
Overview: Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Overview: John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Close Up
Overview: More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Overview: Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Stolen Childhoods
Overview: Narrated by Meryl Streep and filmed in eight countries, Stolen Childhoods is the story of 246 million children for whom life is nothing but work. Children are found working in dumps, quarries and brick kilns. One boy has been pressed into forced labor on a fishing platform in the Sea of Sumatra, a fifteen-year-old runaway describes being forced into prostitution on the streets of Mexico City, while a nine-year-old girl picks coffee in Kenya to help her family survive. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words, while placing their stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor, how it contributes to global insecurity, while featuring best practice programs to improve their lives by giving them the chance of making a reasonable living when they grow up. Ultimately, the film challenges the viewer to help break the cycle of poverty for the 246 million children laboring at the bottom of the global economy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-31
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The Living Sea
Overview: The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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Dark Matter
Overview: Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-24
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Falling in Love
Overview: During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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The Iron Lady
Overview: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-26
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One True Thing
Overview: A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Hope Springs
Overview: After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-07
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Wings of Life
Overview: A beautiful love story in danger. Our future depends on an amazing love story between the flowers and fauna consisting of bees, butterflies, birds and bats, which allow these species to reproduce. Delicate and graceful, the flowers are not content to be the ultimate symbol of beauty. On the contrary, their vibrant colors and their exotic flavors are so many wonders that attract pollinators and drunk with desire. All these animals are involved in a complex dance of seduction on which one third of our crops, a dance without which we could survive ... Pollen presents the unsung heroes of the global food chain. Their fantastic worlds are full of stories, drama and beauty. While a fragile and threatened, essential for the balance of the planet, it should now actively protect ...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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A Fierce Green Fire
Overview: It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important - in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-01
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To the Arctic 3D
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Ribbon of Sand
Overview: At once exaltation and elegy, this documentary profiles the natural history of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a seascape of transitory barrier islands doomed to disappear.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-25
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Theater of War
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-28
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August: Osage County
Overview: An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-26
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Alice at the Palace
Overview: Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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Joe Papp in Five Acts
Overview: Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-30
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Girl Rising
Overview: Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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New York at the Movies
Overview: Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-07
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Radioman
Overview: The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Uncommon Women and Others
Overview: While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations against their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-20
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Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Overview: With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with whom he has worked, as well as comments from Clint Eastwood himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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Into the Woods
Overview: In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-24
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The Giver
Overview: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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The Devil Wears Prada
Overview: Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-29
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Suffragette
Overview: Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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The Homesman
Overview: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-18
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Ricki and the Flash
Overview: Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-10
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Birthing Mamma Mia!
Overview: This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Overview: Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-08
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Overview: Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-15
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The Concert for Valor
Overview: A live HBO concert honoring United States veterans in Washington DC.
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-11
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Florence Foster Jenkins
Overview: The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-06
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Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit
Overview: First published in 1922, Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit is a classic of children's literature. This gentle rendition comes alive through Meryl Streep's soothing narration, George Winston's beautiful music score, and David Jorgensen's charming illustrations.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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Auschwitz
Overview: Auschwitz is synonymous with the Holocaust, but it’s also a place on the map with a surprising history preceding World War II. Narrated by Meryl Streep, this short documentary tells the story of Auschwitz, from its construction to its infamy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-27
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Kiss Me, Petruchio
Overview: A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews with Meryl Streep (Kate) and Raul Julia (Petruchio) as well as an introduction by producer Joseph Papp and audience commentary.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-07
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Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait
Overview: Solving the mysteries of Leonardo DA Vinci's first known portrait, the first of only three women he ever painted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-01
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Vermeer Master of Light
Overview: Vermeer: Master of Light, is a visual quest in search of what makes a Vermeer a Vermeer. It is a journey of discovery, guiding the viewer through an exploration of Vermeers paintings and examining the secrets of his technique.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-11
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Secret Service
Overview: Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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Mike Nichols: An American Master
Overview: With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-29
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Shout Gladi Gladi
Overview: Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistula and save mother's lives in Africa. Shot in Malawi and Sierra Leone (just prior to the Ebola crisis) this is an intense portrait of the people suffering from fistula and the struggle of those who are not only trying to fix this condition but curtail it through better maternal health care. In addition, it is about women's empowerment, specifically through a radical device from BBOXX, a solar powered generator that provides the women not only with electricity in a region where there is none but also as a means to make money by charging cell phones.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Everything Is Copy
Overview: A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-29
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The Earth Day Special
Overview: The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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Stuck on You
Overview: In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Escape from Extinction: Rewilding
Overview: The earth is rapidly approaching a sixth mass extinction event, with a quarter of all species under threat. However, there is still hope. Armed with a radical new vision known as ‘rewilding’, follow the world’s top environmental leaders on a spectacular journey across six continents as they work to rebuild ecosystems, restore biodiversity, and even transform lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Overview: Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the creative hotbed of 1960s New York City, to prominence on Broadway and in Hollywood. Filled with passion, determination and joy, Juliá’s brilliant and daring career was tragically cut short by his untimely death at age 54.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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100 Years
Overview: An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-17
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Mary Poppins Returns
Overview: Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-13
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The Music of Regret
Overview: Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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The Post
Overview: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
Overview: The interviews show these extraordinary women sharing their diverse journeys, personal stories, and perspectives, and the effect is both inspiring and empowering. The Female Lead is an initiative founded by data pioneer and entrepreneur Edwina Dunn to make women’s stories more visible, offering alternative role models with the goal of fostering ambition and self-belief in young women.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-05
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Five Came Back
Overview: The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Overview: Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-18
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The Words That Built America
Overview: In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join to read the historic documents which laid the foundation for the United States of America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-04
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The Deadliest Season
Overview: Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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The Laundromat
Overview: When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Little Women
Overview: Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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Starring Austin Pendleton
Overview: A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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This Changes Everything
Overview: An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Every Act of Life
Overview: The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay rights, addiction and recovery, finding true love, and the relentless pursuit of inspiration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-23
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Age 7 in America
Overview: An adaption of the British TV series, this documentary chronicles the lives of a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year olds living throughout America in 1990. The filmmakers will return every seven years to chronicle the children's growth.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-24
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We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
Overview: Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay take a journey to Morocco and Liberia, where they meet young women overcoming incredible odds to change their lives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Overview: Follow the difficult birth and full realization of this beautifully told romance through its many twists and turns. Through interviews with Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and many others, this documentary reveals the commitment, hard work and creativity it took to bring to the screen this classic love story in the style of George Stevens or John Ford.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-06
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Museum Town
Overview: A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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The Prom
Overview: After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-02
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Sky Island
Overview: The desert wilderness of New Mexico's Jemez Mountains
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary
Overview: Through interviews with key AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) stakeholders from over the years coupled with archival video footage culled from AHF's 30 years of advocacy, care and activism, 'Keeping the Promise' tells a compelling story of AHF's history while offering a glimpse of, and road map to its future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Let Them All Talk
Overview: A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-10
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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A Song of Africa
Overview: An impressively done new documentary taking a look back at the making of this picture. Interviews with everyone from director Pollack to composer John Barry take us through the memories of the making of the picture. In between interview segments are looks and thoughts on and at the history of the story and Africa itself. Especially entertaining is when Streep and Pollack talk about working with the animals.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-29
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Overview: Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-21
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Overview: On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents—and a mysterious exhibit at the aptly named Museum of Everything.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-16
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Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen
Overview: Comments from the Farrellys, Thomas, Wessler, Damon, Kinnear, and actors Ray “Rocket” Valliere, Wen Yan Shih, Lawyer Milloy and Tom Brady. They chat about the origins of the film and its slow path to the screen, casting, the story and character development, disabilities in the film, and their use of athletes in cameos.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-20
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Emotional Uncertainties
Overview: In this short documentary, produced in 2015, actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and editor John Bloom discuss director Karel Reisz and their experiences working on The French Lieutenant'Woman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-11
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Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single parent after his wife walks out on him, then is forced to fight for custody of his child in court. Includes interviews with the stars of the film, including Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, giving their views of what it was like to make this picture.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-20
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Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
Overview: This tribute to the dynamic artist Elizabeth Murray, an intrinsic figure in New York's contemporary art landscape from the 1970s until the early 2000s, highlights her struggle to balance personal and family ambition with artistic drive in a male-dominated art world. It also addresses her later battle with cancer, at the peak of her career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis
Overview: Meryl Streep is one of the most versatile and successful actresses of all time and is still considered a superstar after 50 years of career. She fascinates filmmakers and audiences alike with her broad range of expression.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-08-16
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Don't Look Up
Overview: Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-08
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Overview: "Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was unflinching in his commitment to bringing some of the most memorable movies of the last half of the 20th century to the big screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
Overview: Follow Elvira as she searches for the Sanderson Sisters, interviewing various figures who claim to have encountered or been influenced by them, including former classmates, fans, rivals, and descendants.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Chrysanthemum
Overview: A little mouse named Chrysanthemum starts going to school and realizes she is the only kid with the longest name. She gets bullied by everyone but eventually learns that she is special in her own way
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-12
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Dear Elizabeth
Overview: Based on the compiled letters between poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, Dear Elizabeth maps the relationship of the two poets from first meeting to an abbreviated affair—and the turmoil of their lives in between.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Karen Blixen: Out of This World
Overview: This is the story of the incredible life of Karen Blixen/ Isak Dinesen − a story just as dramatic as her own fantastic tales. It is a story about a formidable and extraordinary woman, a vain eccentric, and a very sensitive human being, whose life was characterized by great ups and downs. The documentary takes the viewer on a journey through the author's life as described by many of those who were close to her. A journey that not only documents her extraordinary life, her extensive travels and the people she encountered-but one which also depicts the era in which she lived. A time of adventure, eccentric aristocrats, and of unending possibility and immeasurable hardship. Introduced by actress Meryl Streep, Karen Blixen−Out of this World tells the real story behind the inspiration for the Academy Award winning film, Out of Africa.
Genres: Action Documentary Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-02
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Mamma Mia! 3
Overview: The third installment of the “Mamma Mia!” franchise.
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Original Language: en
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Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem Featuring Meryl Streep
Overview: Rufus Wainwright has composed a requiem in memory of those lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. This ode to life uses the full power of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and features actress Meryl Streep.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Overview: Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-27
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Overview: Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-14
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Schindler Space Architect
Overview: Architect R.M. Schindler, transformed the way we see space and laid the foundation for what is now considered the California lifestyle of indoor-outdoor living. His life story (1887-1953) unfolds in parallel with that of Modern Architecture. The film follows Schindler's journey from Vienna through Chicago to Southern California, observing where possible through the lens of his own camera or listening to his own words. The story is told through narration, interviews, Schindler's theoretical writings, correspondence, photos and renderings of his many works and projects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-20
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