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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989 2h 4m English 7.5
Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
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

Cast

Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren
as Georgina
Tim Roth
Tim Roth
as Mitchel
Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds
as Cory
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon
as Albert

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