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

NC-17 (US) | Netherlands, UK, France | English, French, Dutch | 124 min | 1989-09-04
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
7.5
Crime Drama

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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