The Tenant (1976)
- Original title
- Le locataire
- Directed by
- Roman Polanski
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 1,243 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A quiet man moves into a Paris apartment where the previous tenant tried to kill herself. As he learns about her life and deals with suspicious neighbors, he begins to lose his grip on reality.
paranoidunsettlingtenseclaustrophobicdisturbingslow-burnpsychologicalexistential dread
What happens
The Tenant (French: Le Locataire) is a 1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by and starring Roman Polanski from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gérard Brach, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor. The film also stars Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin and Shelley Winters. It is the final installment in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Death Rite (1976)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.