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The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover

Set in a plush gourmet restaurant, the film details the various relationships between the title characters ; a parable about love, revenge & greed.

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  • "Koch, der Dieb, seine Frau und ihr Liebhaber"
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"@en
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife & her lover"@en
  • "Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant"
  • "Cocinero, el ladrón, su mujer y su amante"@en
  • "Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"
  • "Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant"
  • "Peter Greenaways' The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"@en
  • "Cocinero, el ladrón, su esposa y su amante"
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover"@en
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover"

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  • "Set in a plush gourmet restaurant, the film details the various relationships between the title characters ; a parable about love, revenge & greed."@en
  • "Vulgaire et violent, le gangster Albert dîne chaque soir dans le restaurant huppé de Richard, cuisinier français émérite. La femme d'Albert, Georgina, qui supporte tant bien que mal ses sautes d'humeur, se sent attirée par un autre client, Michael, amateur de livres rares, qu'elle en vient à rejoindre dans les toilettes ou à la cuisine pour des échanges amoureux. Quand Albert l'apprend, il fait tuer Michael par ses hommes. Avec l'aide de Richard, Georgina conçoit une cruelle vengeance gastronomique."
  • "The cook serves up gourmet masterpieces in a beautiful restaurant, terrorising all around him. His wife has a dangerous and illicit passion. Her lover is having the riskiest affair of his life."@en
  • "A tale of consumption, greed, love and revenge. The story is set in the restaurant Le Hollandais, owned by a pretentious and cruel man whose main target of verbal abuse is his wife. She gradually is drawn into a clandestine love affair with one of the customers. The affair is silently observed by the "cook", who runs the restaurant, soon to be discovered by her husband."
  • "Set in a gourmet restaurant of an indefinite future, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is an outrageous and satirical film about love, sex, food, power, murder and revenge among the title characters."@en
  • ""Richard es el dueño de un restaurante. Su fuerte carácter y las tiránicas formas que aplica en el trabajo, hacen que todos los empleados estén sometidos a un continuo régimen de esclavitud, incluida su esposa a quien ridiculiza""
  • "A coarse gangster holds court in a fashionable restaurant while his wife conducts a passionate affair in the kitchens with a fellow diner. [c.f. Halliwell's, 1997 ed.]."@en
  • "Set in an indefinite future, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is an outrageous and satirical film about love, sex, food, power, murder and revenge."@en
  • "A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence, and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge."@en
  • "A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge."@en
  • "A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge."
  • "Set in an indefinite future, this is an outrageous and satirical film about love, sex, food, power, murder and revenge."@en
  • "Set in a gourmet restaurant, the film details the various relationships between the title characters. A parable about sex, revenge and greed."@en
  • "Een vrouw, die door haar man ontdekt is met haar minnaar, neemt op bizarre manier wraak op haar echtgenoot."
  • "This story is set in a restaurant, and is a tale of consumption, greed, and revenge."@en
  • "The cook serves up gourmet masterpieces in a beautiful restaurant. The thief holds his tyrannical court in the restaurant, terrorising all around him. His wife has a dangerous and illicit passion. Her lover is having the riskiest affair of his life."
  • ""The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, color 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"--Keith Loh, Internet movie database, as viewed November 28, 2005."@en
  • "The cook serves up gourmet meals in a beautiful restaurant. The thief holds his tryannical court in the restaurant, terrorizing all around him. His wife has a dangerous and illicit affair with her lover."@en
  • "In Peter Greenaway's exquisite morality play, the long-suffering wife of a vicious gangster embarks on a torrid affair with a handsome stranger, then elicits a terrible revenge on her boorish husband. (1989)."@en
  • "Set in a restaurant that every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony, it is an outrageous and satirical film about love, sex, food, power, murder and revenge."@en
  • "Une femme qui dine chaque soir au restaurant avec un mari vulgaire entretient une liaison avec un autre client."
  • "Set in a gourmet restaurant, the film details the various relationships between the title characters. The cook serves up gastronomic masterpieces. The thief holds his tyrannical court in the restaurant, terrorising all around him. His wife has a dangerous and illicit passion. Her lover is having the riskiest affair of his life."@en
  • "Story of adultery and revenge."
  • "Comédie dramatique insolite. Le prétentieux, vulgaire et cruel Albert Spica dîne chaque soir avec son épouse Georgina, au restaurant Le Hollandais, dont il est propriétaire. Il prend également plaisir à abuser d'elle verbalement. Georgina de son côté, entretient une passion clandestine ave Michael, un client du restaurant. Le chef observe en silence la liaison secrète, jusqu'à l'arrivée d'un voleur outrageux... Avec Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard."
  • "A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife (Mirren) of a barbaric crime boss (Gambon) engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller (Howard) between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook (Bohringer). This nightly display of opulence, decadence and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge."@en

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  • "Motion pictures"@en
  • "French films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
  • "Erotic films"@en
  • "Erotic films"
  • "Dutch films"@en
  • "Features"@en
  • "Features"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "British films"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Foreign films"@en
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en

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  • "The Cook, the thief, his wife & her lover (Film)"
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife, & her lover"
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover"
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover"@en
  • "The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover"
  • "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"
  • "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"@en
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (Film cinématographique)"
  • "The cook, The thief, his wife and her lover"
  • "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover = Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant"
  • "The Cook The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover"
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (Motion picture)"
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife & her lover"
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife & her lover"@en
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"@en
  • "The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover"
  • "The Cook, the thief, his wife & her lover"
  • "The Cook, the thief, his wife & her lover"@en

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