Helen Mirren

Michael Gambon

Tim Roth

Ciarán Hinds

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989

Action/ Crime/ Drama/ Romance

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Duration: 124 min

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Language: en

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Plot Summary

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

Top Cast

Helen Mirren as -Georgina

Michael Gambon as -Albert

Tim Roth as -Mitchel

Ciarán Hinds as -Cory

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