The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)

7.5NC-17119 minDirector: Peter Greenaway

The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture, and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed, but brutally uncompromising modern fable.

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Richard Bohringer
Michael Gambon
Helen Mirren
Alan Howard
Tim Roth
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