Jarryd's Episodes
The Apartment
(1960)
Billy Wilder
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BY JARRYD
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he’s left with a major problem to solve.
April 2024
Jarryd's 5-Star Movies
Jarryd's Movie Pool
| Title | Year | Director | Stars | Genres | Synopsis | Runtime | Letterboxd | Submitter | |
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Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas | Comedy, Drama | A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. | 130 | 4.1 | Jarryd |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden | Comedy, War, Drama | After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike. | 95 | 4.3 | Jarryd |
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JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman | Drama, History, Thriller | This acclaimed Oliver Stone drama presents the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. When Garrison begins to doubt conventional thinking on the murder, he faces government resistance, and, after the killing of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, he closes the case. Later, however, Garrison reopens the investigation, finding evidence of an extensive conspiracy behind Kennedy’s death. | 189 | 4.0 | Jarryd |
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Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval | Drama, Crime | A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob. | 111 | 3.7 | Jarryd |
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The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan | Crime, Drama | Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge. | 175 | 4.6 | Jarryd |
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The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards | Crime, Thriller | Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own. | 85 | 4.0 | Jarryd |
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The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula | Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels | Drama, Thriller, Crime | An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator’s assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins. | 102 | 3.8 | Jarryd |
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The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles | Western | As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable. | 119 | 3.9 | Jarryd |
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Thief | 1981 | Michael Mann | James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky | Thriller, Crime, Action | Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score. | 123 | 4.1 | Jarryd |
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Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes | Romance, Thriller, Mystery | A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. | 129 | 4.2 | Jarryd |