Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 8

Buried

Cast: Ryan Renolds (one Man Army)

The Eight movie that we are going to applaud and suggest is a Thriller where Ryan Renolds has played a role of his life time… yes its not Deadpool, its this movie. Whosoever things that Ryan Renolds is only suitable for R rated comedy like DP we would request you to watch this movie. It will change your opinion about his acting skills and you would like place him amongst the likes of top Hollywood actors. The entire budget of this movie is USD 2 million as the entire movie is shot in a wooden box i.e. a Coffin and only one actor with 95 minutes of absolute nerve wrecking excitement.

This movie is about a Iraq based American truck driver , who finds himself buried alive in a coffin, with only a lighter, a flask, flashlight , mobile phone and few other accessories. Paul Conroy , when wakes up has no idea what happened to him and how he ended up in this coffin. After putting things together he realizes that his truck was ambushed by some terrorists, and his colleagues were killed and he passed out. He receives a call from the kidnapper, who tells him to pay USD 5 Million by 9PM or he will die in the coffin.

Conroy calls the state department where the government refused to negotiate with the terrorist but assures him of his rescue. The kidnapper negotiates with Conroy and brings the ransom amount to 1 million but ask him to make a video or they will execute his colleague if he doesn’t so he complies but they still kill his colleague. There are some explosions which lead to coffin being damaged and sand started filling the coffin which leaves him very less time to live (other than claustrophobia and less Oxygen). The team trying to rescue Conroy tells him that they have rescued another man Mark white from similar situation 3 weeks back and he is safe and fine to lift his spirits. The Kidnapper again calls him asking him to make a video of himself cutting his finger, threatening him that his family will suffer if he doesn’t. Having lost his job and benefits (receiving a call from his employer), Conroy again complies and shares the video with kidnapper cutting off his finger.

Conroy becomes disillusioned and starts imagining that he is being rescued (The sequences are amazing to watch). After losing all the hope, and sand continues to fill the coffin, giving Conroy minutes to live he receives call again from rescuing team that they have found his location and will soon be reaching out to save him from dying in Coffin. He receives call from his wife as well, who tells him that everything is going to be fine and he will be with his family soon.

Will he be rescued by the team? We leave it to you to watch and enjoy. One thing is for sure that you will not be disappointed.

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Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 7

The CORE

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hillary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Delroy Lindo

The seventh movie that we are going to recommend is a Science Fiction that came in early 2000 when the technology of CGI was not in full force but visionary directors like Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson or James Cameroon were making the movies which were mind boggling considering the evolution of technology was still in progress. This movie came during the same time and is one of those visionary movies regarding Apocalypse that’s going to destroy the earth and entire species living on it.

Then comes a team of high profile scientist who plan to drill a hole in the earth to reach down its very core and perform a series of nuclear explosions to restart its rotations and save humanity. Sounds weird right? But this is what happens where these guys build a shuttle that can reach earth’s very inner core where they can bring their plan to action.

The movie begins with series of incidents happens across globe which let the team of Dr. Josh (Aaron Eckhart) , Dr. Serge (Tcheky Karyo) and Dr. Conrad (Stanley Tucci) realize that Earth’s Magnetic field is becoming instable due to its molten core rotation being halted due to reasons unknown. Due to this , within the year the entire field will collapse and earth will become vulnerable to solar radiation. Team with the help of other scientists create a vessel made of “Unobtanium” a rare element that can withstand earth’s crust. They also built a boring system using laser which will allow them to pass through crust.

These scientists are joined by space shuttle pilots Major Rebecca (Hillary Swank) and Commander Robert (Bruce Iverson) on the expedition. The Army also appoints a high profile hacker Donald “Rat” (DJ Qualis – Who has been brilliant with his acting) to ensure that all the traces of any news of disaster are erased from the internet.

Now comes the expedition where the team of Six people goes down the earth via the deepest trench (Marianas Trench) into the earth crust down to its very core. In comes the series of sacrifices from these scientists / pilots in order to progress in their journey. Meanwhile, no-one is aware that there is also a PLAN B in place called Project “DESTINI” (Deep Earth Seismic Trigger INItiative) which will be deployed if Conrad (Who is aware of it) mission fails in performing nuclear explosions. Project DESTINI will allow to initiate a series of earth quakes in Earth’s core but to restart its rotation.

Will they be able to carry out their plan of nuclear explosions or the PLAN B has to be initiated and if there was another plan, why was not it carried out at the very first place? If they are able to carry out their plan, how will they get out if there ship is destroyed? There is too much excitement that you can expect out of this 135 Minutes full of Masala movie. So grab your popcorn and enjoy this roller coaster.

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Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 6

Idiocracy

Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Justin Long

The sixth movie is again a comedy but a science fiction which is funny in its own way where it tells about a story of a top secret military program where two human beings are selected for hibernation experiment, which was sort of illegal and when no one realizes about the same those two human’s ends up in hibernation mode for around 500 years and once they are awaken, they realized that they are in a sort of dystopian society where human beings have become dumber with zero IQ and more virile.

The story starts in the year 2005, where a Corporal Joe Bauers (an Average person) is selected for the suspended animation experiment (Person is induced to a sleep to a hypometabolic state to try to preserve its mental and physiological capabilities). This experiment is forgotten when the officer who is conducting the experiment is caught for some prostitution racket.

Now starts the prime humor of the movie, as Joe is in hibernation mode along with another women (a prostitute), human population has become more stupid as the intelligent humans are becoming less and less fertile while the lesser intelligent race are becoming more and more reproductive which results in a chain reaction and people become more and more dumber.

Joe and Rita awoke in the year 2505 and Joe’s suspension chamber crashes into the apartment of Frito (Dax Shepard) who tells him that there is a time machine which can help him go back in time. In a funny events of ups and downs Joe gets caught by the police and escapes gets a name “Not Sure” by faulty Tattooed machine, takes IQ test and connects with Rita again. He is finally apprehended and taken to the white house where due to the his IQ test results which makes him the most intelligent person alive on planet earth he is appointed as Secretary of Interior.

In an attempt to fix the word Joe realizes that the crops in this century are irrigated with a sports drink and not water which is treated as a wasted commodity. When Joe tries to replace drink with water, it resulted in the Brawndo (sport drink) losing it stocks and most of the population losing their jobs. This results is riots and Joe being sentenced to death by a unique way of combating in demolition derby.

Will Joe be able to survive this ideocracy (a form of government in which a country or territory is run by fools)? Will he able to get back to his own time with the help of time machine Frito has suggested? You would have to see it for yourself!!!

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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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