Does the dog die?
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Movie • 1989 • Crime
ReportThe wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
This movie contains 25 potentially triggering events.
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Kipar13
Hit by a car at :57
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Abuse
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movieman
To the wife throughout. On and Off screen
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movieman
A child is harassed by the thief throughout, and later mutilated by him
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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movieman
The Thief is shown to be drunk during a few scenes in the film.
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Animal
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Kipar13
Not killed on screen, but multiple scenes feature dead birds, pigs, and sea creatures - sometimes being plucked, butchered, descaled, etc.
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Are there bugs?
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Kipar13
Maggots
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Assault
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McKenzieWilkes
Just adding onto that other comment by saying the described past abuse at the end is very long and detailed and heavily triggering. If you're sensitive to this, absolutely skip the entire monologue.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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movieman
The theif stabs a woman in the cheek with a fork. She is seen later with a bandaged face.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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movieman
A death involves choking on book pages forcefully suffed in nose and mouth. Scene goes on for a few minutes
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Is there cannibalism?
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movieman
At gunpoint.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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movieman
Two characters explicitly pass out in the movie. One from torture, the next from shock. Some are seen nodding off at the dinner table a couple of times in the movie, possibly from alcohol consumption.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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movieman
The antagonist knees a man in the groin in a restroom. Also tells one of his thugs he'll "expect him to chew someone's bollocks off on demand". He clarifies later he was speaking metaphorically, when said goon thinks he'll actually have to.
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Is someone tortured?
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Movie opens with the "theif" and his gang stripping a debtor in a back alley and smearing him in/force feeding him dog feces. Later a young boy is force fed the buttons on his shirt, and the thief cuts off his bellybutton before he passes out in agony. A Man is killed choking on book pages forced down his throat and nose by a wooden spindle.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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movieman
Tortured and hospitalized, but lives to feature in the collective revenge in the climax.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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weewooweewoo
All minor characters are played by adults well into their twenties.
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Does someone cheat?
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The plot of the movie is a woman cheating on her gangster husband under his nose.
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Is there a shower scene?
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movieman
Two scenes when characters are hosed down to wash them.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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McKenzieWilkes
Just for more details — at the seafood dinner it's obvious it's happening because Spica tells someone not to vomit and pretty immediately after that they do. There's some gagging beforehand, so once that starts I'd skip about a minute. The second instance near the end is when they're torturing the young singing boy, and after the boy passes out then a man walks towards the camera and throws up. I'd skip about 30 seconds to a minute once the kid passes out to skip it. Final time is at the very end and it's as Spica is bringing a fork of [SPOILER] to his mouth to take a bite and he pukes quickly before taking the bite.
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Does someone spit?
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movieman
References to farting, a character spits out bread after hearing a description of a "prairie oyster"
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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movieman
briefly mentioned as a joke.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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movieman
A boy is hospitalized, and a main character visits him.
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Mental Health
Is there body dysmorphia?
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movieman
The Thief talks about how he thinks "Ethiopes like to starve themselves to keep their figures slim and graceful"
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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Kipar13
Mentions past miscarriages.
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Prejudice
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McKenzieWilkes
The titular Lover (Michael), when formally introduced to Georgina by Spica asks him if he’s Jewish in a way that feels very predatory and anti-Semitic. Michael says he’s not, but later in the film he’s continually referred to as a Jew derogatorily. I’m unclear if Michael was lying or whether he is Jewish or not, but either way the anti-Semitism is still there.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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movieman
Lots of nudity front and back, man and woman, Passionate affairs and abuse shown
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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movieman
Bittersweet. Ends in revenge.
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Vehicular
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Is someone hit by a car?
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A dog
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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movieman
The death by books is extremely bloody, and we linger on the corpse a while. A very bloody is taken out of said character's nostril
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Is there gun violence?
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movieman
A gun is pulled at various points, only fired once.
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