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 46 potentially triggering events.
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Kipar13
Hit by a car at :57
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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weewooweewoo
Various dead animals shown in a slaughterhouse or cooked and served in a restaurant.
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movieman
To the wife throughout. On and Off screen
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A child is harassed by the thief throughout, and later mutilated by him
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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The Thief is shown to be drunk during a few scenes in the film.
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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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movieman
In the beginning, the thief repeatedly slaps his wife in the face with a menu for correcting his french pronunciation.
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Is there pedophilia?
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weewooweewoo
A child is sexually harassed and nearly forced to watch another character being raped (the child is played by an adult actor if that helps)
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Is rape mentioned?
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VeeElle
Rape is implied although not explicitly shown in the first half of the film (the camera is a long way away and we cannot see anything). Sexual assault is discussed in the second half of the film. Technically I don't think there is any mention of the word "rape", but the constant implied sexual violence would be triggering to anybody who finds the topic upsetting.
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Is someone restrained?
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movieman
The thief and his gang hold people down to be beaten and humiliated throughout the movie, all visibly struggling to break free.
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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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Is there shaving/cutting?
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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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At gunpoint.
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Is there body horror?
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weewooweewoo
A character's corpse is cooked. Lots of lingering shots of the "meal"
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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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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Does someone become unconscious?
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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 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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Does a kid die?
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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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Death
Does a major character die?
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Two of the four eponymous characters.
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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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Two scenes when characters are hosed down to wash them.
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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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Is someone eaten?
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movieman
Not alive, but...
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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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briefly mentioned as a joke.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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A boy is hospitalized, and a main character visits him.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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The Thief talks about how he thinks "Ethiopes like to starve themselves to keep their figures slim and graceful"
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Kipar13
Two people are closed in the back of a smallish truck filled with rotting meat.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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weewooweewoo
The most
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Mentions past miscarriages.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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No but a villainous character makes multiple anti-black comments
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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
Are there nude scenes?
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From the word "go"
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Lots of nudity front and back, man and woman, Passionate affairs and abuse shown
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Bittersweet. Ends in revenge.
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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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A gun is pulled at various points, only fired once.
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