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

Cast

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

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Genres & Description

Action Crime Drama Romance

7.6 / 10

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 which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

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Comments on this trailer
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Leon 47DD

hereditary director influence - @Friday, June 8, 2018 4:04 PM

Barbora Holubcová

All the haters are like Albert Sica... you simply don't have the palate to enjoy the exquisite taste of this film. Maybe go back to something a little more tame in flavor for your liking... like transformers or something, I dunno. - @Monday, December 18, 2017 9:15 PM

Xerra Finite

Possibly the worst trailer I've seen, in that it made me not want to watch a movie I thought I might enjoy. Any trailer which consists of people doing nothing but walking for almost the entire trailer, screams: "I really have nothing else". - @Monday, October 2, 2017 4:34 AM

Damon Alexander Lewis

Hands down the most disturbing films I've ever seen. It's doesn't have a lot of gore a violence mind you but just the soundtrack and the actors make it so so disturbing and gut wrenching. Or it could be the fact that a woman's lover is killed by her gangster ass husband so she decides to cook and feed her lover to her husband.... - @Thursday, August 17, 2017 1:23 AM

Addisu Abebe

stupid film - @Monday, June 26, 2017 9:30 AM

Lou Vegas

Greenaway's masterpiece. - @Tuesday, June 20, 2017 2:48 AM

SynthRequests

HD MY ASS - @Thursday, October 27, 2016 3:02 PM

Kath Harding

Please reference the director!!!! - @Friday, July 22, 2016 4:52 AM

JoeTyler85

one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen - @Saturday, March 12, 2016 12:24 PM

Farisori

This trailer doesn't shows anything... i love it! - @Friday, February 12, 2016 5:00 PM

frdforme

I am trying to recall an Asian movie where a intruder (thief) hiding from the law enters house, forces wife into sex and they have an affair and she kills him in the end ! - @Sunday, November 23, 2014 11:54 PM

James Wallace

The film is gross beyond belief. I know it's fiction but I don't approve. Huh. - @Saturday, November 22, 2014 2:39 AM

Givingitashot.

Jesus! I watched this last night and it fucking blew me away!! So well it shot it was stunning! - @Sunday, October 26, 2014 3:25 PM

sequarya jones

This gripped my entire being....incredible - @Saturday, January 18, 2014 5:05 PM

John Blaine

I saw this when it was released ... humbled me and turned me into The Creative director I am today.. - @Saturday, November 16, 2013 9:18 PM

Chrankus

Dumbledore why u so mean? - @Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:01 PM

GenyOreo

The ending is fucked up but SOOOOO worth it >:) - @Wednesday, October 9, 2013 5:04 AM

Tannis

Also the entire movie I just kept saying Someone kill Albert, fucking kill this guy. - @Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:04 AM

Tannis

I agree. He's looking way to hard for something that isn't there. Not everything has a subliminal biblical message. Getting real tired of people doing this. - @Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:58 AM

Johann Schmidt

I concur. - @Monday, September 23, 2013 12:15 AM

Broncojosh88

Starring Professor Dumbledore as the thief - @Wednesday, September 11, 2013 8:29 AM

rai streubel

Best movie ever cccp-american-soviets (dot) com - @Sunday, September 8, 2013 9:02 PM

therealJayRoe

Horrible Definition. - @Saturday, September 7, 2013 9:43 AM

FlowersInHisHair

No, the religious interpretation is trite and facile. Not everything is about that old story. - @Monday, August 19, 2013 1:24 PM

FlowersInHisHair

And the other patrons in the restaurant are the Thatcherite elite, civil servants, cronies and business leaders who tolerate the boorish, thuggish behaviour of the owner of the restaurant because, well, they want to eat there too. - @Monday, August 19, 2013 1:07 PM

Andrew Solomon

I just watched this on Netflix, and it was absolute horse cum. Peter Greenaway fucked me in the eyes, and I'm filing rape charges. - @Friday, August 16, 2013 7:53 AM

hestheman929

Hardly Defined? - @Friday, May 31, 2013 10:03 PM

Alicetheunicorn

I LOVE how the trailer gives so little away while still giving you a flavour of the taste required for the film. I wish more trailers were like this. - @Monday, April 8, 2013 11:33 PM

Bob .Grant

Michael Gambon is superb and creates a memorable monster. Helen Mirren looks breathtakingly beautiful in an underrated classic. - @Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:23 PM

ntube7

Cook represents God, lots of symbolism points to this, the kitchen is like church, big stained glass windows, pup the kitchen boy is Jesus or a saintly figure, Wife and her lover are Adam & Eve, thief is satan - @Sunday, March 17, 2013 8:30 AM

liontiigerbear

And the H's, so rich and pure! - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:24 PM

schink24

Clearly the highest of Ds. - @Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:29 PM

VBK Puruttya

HD you say?? - @Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:00 AM

Honeysucklebommie

Doesnt the crime boss in this movie look like Richard Kuklinski the famous hit man called the iceman! - @Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:02 AM

Ralph Marty Alcos

Yahoo brought me here! O.O - @Sunday, August 5, 2012 4:42 PM

Winston moore

is it porn? - @Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:05 AM

specialdefect

HD? - @Sunday, May 20, 2012 10:24 PM

Professor Firefly

great movie..daring,erotic.violent,great acting... - @Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:44 AM

Alexandra Quigley

excelent film, perfectly done, love the details!! - @Friday, October 14, 2011 6:08 PM

Tec

brilliant music.... exceptional combination of sound and sight.... - @Thursday, October 6, 2011 10:47 AM

Devin Jacob

@tt247jer ...couldn't get passed them force feeding that guy dog shit? - @Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:08 PM

Jerjer B

i turned it off after 10 mins - @Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:38 PM

Erik Estep

A Good Man, The Head of Reference, The Acquistions Librarian, and a smuck in a school in North Carolina - @Sunday, June 6, 2010 5:19 AM