Movies like The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
24 films close to The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
violence, surrealism, sexuality · Drama, Crime
murder, brutality, cannibalism · Drama, Crime
public humiliation, murder · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime · Film4 Productions
surrealism, murder · Drama, Crime
cannibalism · Drama, Crime
avant-garde, surrealism · Drama
surrealism · Drama, Crime · Film4 Productions
murder, sociopath · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime · Film4 Productions
violence, murder · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime
murder, surrealism · Drama
violence, murder, surrealism · Drama
satire · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime
murder, surrealism · Crime
murder, brutality, surrealism · Drama
murder, brutality · Drama, Crime
Close on feel, same era · Drama, Crime
Close on feel, same era · Drama, Crime
brutality, surrealism · Drama
violence, murder, brutality · Crime
satire, sexuality · Crime
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.