If you loved The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, try Drowning by Numbers
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Drowning by Numbers has roughly 3.7× fewer votes than The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Peter Greenaway, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Drowning by Numbers is
Three generations of Cissie Colpitts take turns refreshing their marital options by drowning their husbands, while a coroner with a weakness for bad decisions keeps the paperwork tidy in increasingly awkward ways. Incrementally grisly math class becomes the family business. One shudders to imagine the staff awards ceremony.
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