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

Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds
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.—Keith Loh
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