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The Tenant (1976)

★ 7.6 · 1,229 ratings on TMDB

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

The Tenant poster★ 7.6

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

DirectorRoman Polanski
CastBernard Fresson, Claude Dauphin, Claude Piéplu, Isabelle Adjani, Jo Van Fleet, Lila Kedrova
GenresDrama, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Tenant keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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