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The Tenant

1976 · 126 min

A suffocating, queasy descent into paranoia that makes ordinary rooms feel hostile and watches you squirm.

Tagline
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.
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • madness
    • isolation
    • parenthood
    • obsession
    Places
    • big city
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • twist ending
    • unreliable narrator
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror8
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance2
    Tension8
    Darkness9
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    thriller, mystery, drama
    Directed by
    Roman Polanski
    Written by
    Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach
    Starring
    Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin
    Music
    Philippe Sarde
    Cinematography
    Sven Nykvist
    Runtime
    126 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    English, French

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