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

Ciarán Hinds, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Tim Roth

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