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Movies Like The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

If you liked The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), a crime and drama movie directed by Peter Greenaway, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Funeral

    The Funeral (1996)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

  2. 2Auto Focus

    Auto Focus (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters…

  3. 3Killer Joe

    Killer Joe (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

  4. 4Crash

    Crash (1996)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.

  5. 5Gummo

    Gummo (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

  6. 6Cop

    Cop (1988)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

  7. 7Cruising

    Cruising (1980)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

  8. 8A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    ★ 8.2/10Also crime

    In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to…

  9. 9Sin City

    Sin City (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are…

  10. 10Se7en

    Se7en (1995)

    ★ 8.4/10Also crime

    Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…

  11. 11State of Grace

    State of Grace (1990)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime

    Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.

  12. 12Gangster No. 1

    Gangster No. 1 (2000)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and crime

    An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…

  13. 13Blindfire

    Blindfire (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the…

  14. 14Hannibal

    Hannibal (2001)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He…

  15. 15Hobo with a Shotgun

    Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…

  16. 16Lansky

    Lansky (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth…

  17. 17The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred…

  18. 18The Tenant

    The Tenant (1976)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

  19. 19Kill for Me

    Kill for Me (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however…

  20. 20The Devil's Double

    The Devil's Double (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime

    A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.

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