The Tenant (1976)

05/26/1976 (FR) • 2h 6m

Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Drama

Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.

Overview

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

Top Billed Cast

Roman Polanski

Trelkovsky

Melvyn Douglas

Monsieur Zy

Jo Van Fleet

Madame Dioz

Lila Kedrova

Madame Gaderian

Claude Dauphin

Husband at accident


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

$5,100,000.00

Keywords

suicide

paris, france

identity

psychopath

paranoia

hallucination

identity crisis

lodger

neighbor

tenant

descent into madness

cross dressing

psychological thriller

apartment building

noisy neighbor

handjob

death of neighbor

next door neighbor

nosy neighbor

tooth extraction

jumping from height

creepy neighbor

jumping from a window

psychological disintegration

paranoid thriller

rented rooms

personality change

psychological horror

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