The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais restaurant managed by French chef Richard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behaviour causes frequent confrontations with the staff and other diners, whose patronage he loses but whose money he seems not to miss. Forced to accompany Spica is his reluctant yet elegant wife, Georgina, who soon catches the eye of a quiet regular at the restaurant: bookshop owner Michael. Under her husband's nose, with the help of the restaurant staff, Georgina carries on an affair with Michael. Spica soon learns of the affair, forcing Georgina and Michael to hide at the book depository where Michael works a side job. Borst sends food to them through Pup, a boy soprano who sings while working. Spica tortures Pup before finding the book depository's location written in a book the boy is carrying. Spica's men raid the book depository while Georgina is visiting Pup in the hospital; they torture Michael to death by force-feeding him pages from his books. Georgina discovers his body when she returns. Overcome with rage and grief, Georgina begs Boarst to cook Michael's body, and he eventually complies after Georgina clarifies it is for Spica. At the restaurant, a false invitation was sent to Spica. Together with all the people that Spica wronged throughout the film, Georgina confronts her husband, revealing a whole roast of Michael. Spica retaliates with a pistol but is disarmed immediately. Georgina forces him at gunpoint to eat a mouthful of Michael's cooked body. Spica obeys, gagging. Georgina then shoots him in the head, calling him a cannibal.