Top 20 movies like The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is of 2 hour(s) and 4 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Allarts, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer, Allarts Cook, Erato Films, Film4 Productions, Erbograph Co.. It was released on 1989-10-13. It has the tagline: Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit! It has an average vote of 7.363 on TMDB.

Genres: CrimeDrama

1. They Live

They Live

A lone drifter stumbles upon a harrowing discovery -- a unique pair of sunglasses that reveals that aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

It has an average vote of 7.294 on TMDB.

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2. Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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3. The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

It has an average vote of 6.443 on TMDB.

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4. Kuso

Kuso

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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5. Mon oncle Antoine (Mon oncle Antoine)

Mon oncle Antoine

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.

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6. Gotham

Gotham

A New York private eye searches for a socialite who supposedly drowned 10 years before.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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7. The Wishing Tree (ნატვრის ხე)

The Wishing Tree

Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

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8. The Babushkas of Chernobyl

The Babushkas of Chernobyl

Some 200 women defiantly cling to their ancestral homeland in Chernobyl’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone.”

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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9. Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

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10. The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance

In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Cornwall with his boisterous shipmates, there are a few surprises in store for him!

It has an average vote of 5.757 on TMDB.

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11. The Basket

The Basket

A young girl who accidentally breaks her father's cherished watch sets out to sell homemade baskets to pay for its repair, but things don't go as planned in this story of mistake and forgiveness.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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12. The Thin Match Man (L'uomo fiammifero)

The Thin Match Man

Simone, an eleven years old, lives in the countryside with his irascible father, who constantly punishes him forbidding him to leave. However, the boy's thirst for adventure is such that just leaking. Then undertakes the search for a mythical being, Man Match, which can fulfill your deepest desires.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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13. Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

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14. Ident

Ident

Explores the nature of man, not only with feet of clay, but with a face of clay as well. Within a colourless city of walls, corridors, and small rooms, a man makes his way from home to work, then to a bar, and then, by a stroke of luck, into an outdoors of space, fresh air, and colour. Along the way, he changes his face to fit his surroundings, interacts with his dog, argues with co-workers, and gossips at a bar. His altering of his visage suggests a two-faced nature, and his stepping into the outdoors provides the ultimate test of his real identity.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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15. Hubert Bals Handshake

Hubert Bals Handshake

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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16. The Kill-Off

The Kill-Off

In a seedy New Jersey nightclub, gossip turns to murder when the owner Pete hires exotic dancer Danny Lee, who starts up an affair with barfly Ralph, much to the chagrin of his bedridden wife, Luane.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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17. The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

It has an average vote of 7.11 on TMDB.

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18. In the Shadow of the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

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19. Selfie (Selfie)

Selfie

Naples, Trajan's district. Initially it was intended for the inhabitants of the shantytowns on the seafront of Naples, who were homeless after the war. But it soon became a kind of ghetto. Alessandro and Pietro are two teenagers who film with an iPhone to tell their difficult neighborhood, their daily life, the friendship that binds them.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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20. Henry & June

Henry & June

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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