The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

(1990)

7.5 /10

44,600 votes

IMDb

Release & Runtime

April 6, 1990 · 2 hr 4 min

Awards

7 wins & 11 nominations total

Languages

English French Dutch

Countries

United Kingdom France Netherlands

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.

Cast: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and others

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