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

Actors: Peter Greenaway (writer), Daniel Toscan du Plantier (producer), Helen Mirren (actress), Tim Roth (actor), Kees Kasander (producer), Michael Nyman (composer), Ewan Stewart (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Richard Bohringer (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Liz Smith (actress), Marie-Christine Malbert (miscellaneous crew), Peter Greenaway (director),

Plot: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Keywords: 80s, abstract-art, absurdism, abusive-husband, adultery, alienation, all-seeing-eye, allegory, alternative-reality, anti-hero
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!

Quotes:

[In a book depository]::Georgina: Are we safe here?::Michael: Does Albert read?

Georgina: Yes! He's a man. He's Jewish and he's from Ethiopia!::Albert: What?::Georgina: His mother is a Roman Catholic, he's been imprisoned in South Africa, he's as black as the ace of spades and he probably drinks his own pee!

Georgina: Try the cock, Albert. It's a delicacy, and you know where it's been.

Albert: What you've got to realize is that the clever cook puts unlikely things together, like duck and orange, like pineapple and ham. It's called 'artistry'. You know, I am an artist the way I combine my business and my pleasure: Money's my business, eating's my pleasure and Georgie's my pleasure, too, though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together that it just goes to show how eating and sex are related. Georgie's naughty bits are nicely related, aren't they, Georgie?

[speaking of Albert, the thief]::Michael: Where is he now?::Georgina: He's eating avocado vinaigrette and prawns... with his fingers.

Albert: Looks like catfood for constipated French rabbits!

Georgina: Bon apetit. It's French...

Albert: What are you doing in there, Georgie? You playin' with yourself? That's not allowed. That's my property, you're not allowed to fiddle with it. Now come on, open the door, I'll show you how to wipe yourself.

Albert: I think those Ethiopians enjoy starving. Keeps them thin and graceful.

Albert: Circumsized mediocrity is screwing my wife!

Beyond the Reef (1980)

Actors: Robert Rietty (miscellaneous crew), Francis Lai (composer), Raffaella De Laurentiis (producer), Ian Crafford (editor), Brian Gibbs (miscellaneous crew), Flavia Sante Vanin (miscellaneous crew), James Carabatsos (writer), Maren Jensen (actress), Louis LaRusso II (writer), Paula Humphrey (miscellaneous crew), Mareva Mapuhi (miscellaneous crew), Dayton Ka'ne (actor), Martha Gibbs (miscellaneous crew), Clement Richer (writer), Frank C. Clarke (director),

Genres: Adventure,
Taglines: The girl challenged his spirit. The shark challenged his courage. He had to conquer them both. A story of passion. A saga of adventure.

La chanson de Roland (1978)

Actors: Niels Arestrup (actor), Jean-Gabriel Nordmann (actor), Klaus Kinski (actor), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (actor), Alain Cuny (actor), Klaus Kinski (actor), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (actor), Pierre Clémenti (actor), Pierre Clémenti (actor), Niels Arestrup (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (actor), Alain Cuny (actor), Gérard Sergue (actor), Jean-Gabriel Nordmann (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mystery,

The Last Challenge (1967)

Actors: Len Lesser (actor), Richard Thorpe (director), Tina Menard (actress), Richard Thorpe (producer), Glenn Ford (actor), Chad Everett (actor), Angie Dickinson (actress), Bill Walker (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Gary Merrill (actor), Jimmy Horan (actor), Jack Elam (actor), Vaughn Taylor (actor), Frank McGrath (actor), Marian Collier (actress),

Genres: Western,
Taglines: Killer Vs. Killer

Quotes:

Marshal Dan Blaine: Of all the people I know who ain't worth saving, you're the first one to come to my mind.

Marshal Dan Blaine: He was a no good drifter. He'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

Die venezianische Tür (1966)

Actors: Heinz Moog (actor), Walter Rilla (actor), Heinz Weiss (actor), Margot Trooger (actress), J.B. Priestley (writer), Walter Rilla (director), Max Walter Sieg (actor), Dietrich Thoms (actor), Gefion Helmke (actress), Claus Wilcke (actor), Ingrid Resch (actress), Robert Müller (actor), Gisela Hoeter (actress), Willy H. Thiem (writer), Hans Peter Doll (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

A Prize of Arms (1962)

Actors: Patrick Magee (actor), Tom Bell (actor), Stanley Baker (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Geoffrey Palmer (actor), Michael Robbins (actor), John Jympson (editor), Nicolas Roeg (writer), Kay Rawlings (miscellaneous crew), Helmut Schmid (actor), Mark Burns (actor), Jack May (actor), Fulton Mackay (actor), John Phillips (actor), Glynn Edwards (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,