The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

(1989)

A young executive starts an affair with his boss's wife which then escalates into a nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her.

A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.

A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.

Raskolnikov, a struggling law student who believes himself above the law, commits a brutal murder and spirals into a harrowing crisis of guilt and paranoia.

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man's identity.

Inside a Hong Kong prison, two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.

After helping the local police with some horse thieves, a Texas Ranger aims at a drug lord with arms trade as well. They're interested in the same woman and they're both into martial arts.

A young cop finds his loyalties divided after befriending a notorious criminal while undercover in prison.

A Japanese gangster is exiled to Los Angeles where his brother lives with a small but respectable multi-racial gang, who he inspires to expand their influence.