Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 5

The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon (two main protagonist who have lifted the movie on their own through brilliant acting), Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, David Heyman

The fifth movie we are presenting is a historical drama film from world war 2 based on a book with the same name by John Boyne. Even though there have been a lot of historical movies being made (Dunkirk, Fury, Valkyrie, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s list to name a few), most of them have been war films. This is where The boy in Stripped Pyjamas is unique from its counterparts as you won’t see any war scene in this movie yet it also showcases the genocide during world war 2 by Nazis which killed nearly 6 million Jews.

A young boy Bruno lives with his family in Germany during the period of Holocaust. His father part of Nazi army who has just been promoted requires to relocated to a countryside location along with his family. Bruno doesn’t like his new home as he has no friends and is not allowed to go out or explore. They get a private tutor for their studies who is inclined towards teaching Nazi propaganda which doesn’t satisfy Bruno as he finds Jews to be normal people and nothing like his tutor has shown in his teachings.

One day, Bruno sneaks out in the backyard and into the woods where he finds a bob fence wire surrounding a camp. He meets a boy who is his own age (Shmuel). He things that the prisoner clothes all the people are wearing are mere pyajamas. Befriending Shmuel was the best thing happened to Bruno as he meets him regularly and brings him food, plays with him.

After discovering what is the black smoke all about Bruno’s mother gets heartbroken and confronts with his father. When there is a disagreement with the fellow lieutenant results in violence’s, the next day Bruno finds Shmuel working at his home. Bruno offers him some cake which he accepts but when the Lieutenant walks and get furious, Bruno under fear lies that he never offered anything to Shmuel.

Bruno feeling bad about his actions when goes to meet Shmuel and didn’t find him there gets him worried. But he eventually appears behind the fence where Bruno apologizes and rekindle their friendship. The tension arises in the movie when Bruno find difference occurring between his parents has led to them moving to their relative place but also Shmuel not able to find his father in the camp. The next day Bruno decides to help him, and this is where we leave you as we want you to watch one of the most excruciating climax of all times.

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Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 4

                                                                                EXAM

                                Adar Beck , Gemma Chan , Nathalie Cox ( In short a lot of unknown names)

The fourth movie that we want you to watch is again a mystery thriller but with an entirely different concept. It’s a very low budget movie where the entire shoot of the movie has been completed in a single room and the star cast is also not that famous. Still the mere sequence in which movie progresses from the very first scene to the climax and reasoning as to why the things happened in a specific manner is amazing.

This movie is about finding an answer of the exam in which 8 of the top candidates are selected. The catch is they have only 80 minutes to find the answer and they cannot get help from the guard in that room, or can’t go outside or can talk to the invigilator. This exam seems to be employment assessment where only one candidate will be selected by the firm (Name unknown).

As soon as the timer starts you can see the tension building up because the answer that they are suppose to provide in the sheet in front of them doesn’t have any question, its entirely blank. Now, what would you do in such situation, would you start writing based on what you think the question is , if your answer is yes, then its wrong. As soon as, one of the candidate (Chinese) starts writing on the paper, She is disqualified for spoiling the paper.

This is where the rest of the seven candidates start collaborating realizing that its permissible to talk amongst themselves as there were only three rules for this paper. Without getting to know each other names, they assign nicknames based on hair and skin color as Black, White, Brown, Blonde, Brunette, Dark and Deaf (for the candidate who doesn’t speak at all). In the next hour or so , these candidates try everything from lights to fire splinkers in attempts to reveal what is the answer if any to the unknown question.

This is where these 7 candidates come to know that the company is preparing a miracle drug to treat the virus that has affected a large amount of population i.e. it’s an alternate history. They also start knowing about each other and why have they applied for this interview. There are so many hidden secrets that you would find throughout the movie which will keep you at the edge of your seats. Two things that we can tell you which would make movie interesting is one of the candidate is suffering from the same disease and one of the candidate will try to take control of the situation by trying to disqualify each and every candidate one by one , whether he/she succeeds or not is for you to watch and enjoy. The ending like always will make you feel that the 100 Minutes were worth spent.

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Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 3

Accepted

Cast: Justin Long, Blake Lively, Jonah Hill, Lewis Black

Rated PG-13

The third movie that we are going to present is entirely different from the earlier 2 Genre’s that we selected which were more towards Thriller/Suspense. This is a light Comedy movie but surely with a sweet message hidden in it. This movie has been remade in other languages including Hindi due to its sheer dialogues, writing and screenplay.

This story is about a guy who is very smart and likes a girl next door but couldn’t really convey his feelings… Not really 😊. What would happen if you get rejected from every Graduation School you have applied in? You will try next year or will go for community colleges or open college education but that’s not what Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) does. He does the most unimaginable thing that is creating his own fake institution with help of his techie friend but only to shut-down his parents constant nagging of having no future if you don’t go to college. The institution he creates is nothing but an abandoned psychiatric facility only to realize that his college has accepted lot of students like him who were rejected by the other colleges.

In this situation ideally Bartleby should have told everyone the truth but when he sees these students he realizes that they deserve a future like any other college students (also with the million dollars in his pocket to fund anything that may be required) he decides to go ahead with the entire façade of keeping South Harmon Institute of Technology as a real educational body.

Now the comedy of errors starts where Bartleby appoints his friend Sherman’s (Jonah hill) eccentric uncle as dean. Ensuring that the college looks as real as it can be, he creates his college newspaper (the S.H.I.T ) and a mascot (Sandwich) . He goes to an extent where he asks the students to tell what they want to learn on a giant board and gets totally unexpected response from them which range from all sort of activities like meditation, sculpting etc.

With the college running in full force hits a bump when the Harmon institute of technology college Dean appoints one of his best student Hoyt (Travis Wrinkle) to acquire and free-up the nearby college properties to build a big park, but when he realizes that that he will be unable to convince Bartleby to give up his college property, Hoyt decides to expose the college as fake. Hoyt even shame Sherman who was keen to join his group at Harmon institute and obtains the fake file of colleges from him.

Will he be able to run the institution and if yes, who would teach these students?  What would they be taught? Where would all the first-year money be spent? With so much of excitement we would recommend this move as a must watch.

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Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 2

Orphan

Cast: Vera Farmiga; Peter Sarsgaard; Isabelle Furhman

One of the most intriguing movie from the very beginning (alternate endings available) that we have seen. Even though this movie has IMDB rating of 7.0, but it surely deserve more recognition for its plot, drama, story, direction and most importantly its acting, than what it has received.

The movie starts with a dream, a terrible dream where a mother dreamsthat she is giving birth to a still born. When she wakes up, she realizes it was not only a dream, it actually happened. She visit psychiatrist to ease her off the pain. For the same reason she and her husband decides to adopt someone though they already have a baby girl, who is deaf and dumb and a cute boy.

For adoption they visit an orphanage where they meet a little girl, Esther,who is quite a mature for her age. They instantly liked her and decide to adopt and bring her home. But there is something eerie about Esther(little girl) that strikes the mother. Her mother proposes to teach her piano and she accepts, 1st day she makes many mistakes while playing the piano and the very next day she plays Piano like a pro. She keeps her room locked all the time which again made her Foster mother uncomfortable.

Her dressing style was also very different she always used to wear ribbons around her neck and wrist all the time. Her classmates also teased her because of the same thing but one day while playing in the park, she pushed one of her classmate who use to tease her and broke her leg cold blooded. But when asked, she answered that she was playing and it was an accident. Her mother discussed this thing with the sister of the Orphanage from were Esther came. And this is where things starts to shape up.

Hearing from her mother the sister (Nun) also got worried and enquired about Esther, she came to visit the family too. She brought some news regarding Esther unusual character and weird coincidences like she is the only survivor of the last adoptive family of hers. Esther having eavesdropping on all this started planning something big which no-one could have ever expected, she plans to kill the Nun. 

On one side her mother was thinking she is a disturbed child suffering from “Character Disorder” But nobody could have ever imagined the real reason behind her behavior and what she was capable of. 

By reading the above story in a nutshell if you are trying to guess the end, our advice would be not to waste your time in doing so because all your guesses are going to incorrect

If you all are hard core thriller fan and love suspense, being on tenterhooks, then this is one of the best movies for you. So our recommendation for this week would be “ORPHAN” 

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