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

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Sex & Nudity

  • Multiple full male nudity scenes, not only sex scenes but violence is also depicted.
  • A bunch of men strip a man butt-nude. His rear is shown as he is covered in dog shit. His pubic hair is shown.
  • A nude man covered in feces gets washed off.
  • A man touches a woman's breast through her clothing. They enter the toilets' and make out. He touches her breast. She takes off her dress showing off her bra, and unzips him, and suck him off. He penetrates her as she quietly moans. They are interrupted by a man.
  • A man kisses a woman while she washes her hands. He aggressively kisses her, and kisses her breast.
  • A man and a woman make love in a food storage. They undress each other as they are shown butt-nude. It lasts under a minute in a few shots.
  • A man talks about cow udders as "tits". He touches his lover's breasts, and checks her dress to realise she is not wearing her bra. A young man asks him if he has tits. He retaliates.
  • A man drags his wife and a child in the car to sexually assault them. The child escapes, but rapes his wife.
  • A man and a woman make love in a food storage room entirely nude.
  • A man and a woman make love in a dark room. Not much love-making. It is mostly chatting, and nudity is present.
  • Michael and Georgina are seen nude throughout the scenes of hiding from Albert, and are kept safe. They are seen walking in a truck full of pig meat. They are seen being showered by a man helping them. The next scene shows them walking around entirely nude. Michael wears a blanker, and Georgina wears a robe.
  • Much strong nudity is present; there are several sex scenes but they are not particularly graphic.

Violence & Gore

  • A dog is run over by a car. It is seen, bloodied and injured in the street.
  • A man stabs a woman in the face with a fork. The fork is seen stuck inside her bloody face as she reacts in stunned horror.
  • The opening shot shows dogs eating meat on the floor. It is clear what kind of meat it is.
  • A man grabs a young man from a table and drags him away.
  • A man grabs a child in the kitchen and forces him to sing. As his wife stops him, he pushes her away. He grabs both of them outside the restaurant, pushes her on the car attempting to sexually assault her. But drags her in the car including the child. They rape both of them in the car. The child escapes, but rapes his wife.
  • A man realises he has taken a bite of a sheep's testicle.
  • A woman is shown with a big bruise on her left cheek.
  • A man drags his wife to another room. After she reveals a lot, he hits her, and drags her outside the restaurant and leave the place. As he reverses the car, a dog is seen whimpering when being run over. The wound is seen.
  • A man gets grabbed by men, stuffs food in him, and throw hot food on him. They force him to get out, and so do the other guests.
  • A man slaps a woman. A heated argument happens, and causes him to stab her in the cheek with a spoon.
  • Many references of cannibalism.
  • One male character commits much violence; a child is beaten and somewhat tortured; a man is beaten and kicked. A female is bullied and humiliated. A character is later killed (the act is unseen).

Profanity

  • Quite moderate. 1 use of "fuck", 5 uses of "shit", 2 uses of "dick" and other milder terms including name calling and sexually charged dialogue.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man sexually assaults a woman in a car whilst forcing a young boy to watch - the scene is shot from a distance so the violence is obscured and the child escapes unharmed, but the sequence is intense and may be difficult to watch.
  • Albert is an abusive and heavily menacing man who mistreats everyone, abuses his wife, and gives insults throughout the film.
  • A man shouts throughout.
  • A dog is seen being wounded after being run over by a car.
  • A woman is seen being abused by her husband.
  • At the beginning, a man is seen being covered in excrement. He is later seen being washed off.
  • Many scenes of intense abuse, dark and twisted moments.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Michael is tortured by men who force-feed him pages from a book with a knife. His face, mouth and body are bloody. Extremely disturbing, and sadistic.
  • Albert gets shot in the head at the end. We see some brain matter and the small wound. Not graphic, but sudden.
  • Albert trashes the whole restaurant after finding out the truth.
  • A boy is seen being assaulted by a group of men. He screams in agony.
  • Michael's corpse is used as a dinner for Albert to eat and is forced to eat his penis by Georgina.
  • One scene which will disturb many is that a previously killed character is cooked, while another character is forced to eat him (a bite is taken from his body and eaten).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Albert rages and bashes down the toilet doors.
  • Michael's corpse is used as dinner surprise for Albert. The body is covered in gravy, and surrounded by vegetables. Georgina forces Albert by a gun to eat the penis part of the dinner, and vomits. He struggles at first, and actually eats it. A few seconds later, Georgina shoots Albert.

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