The Tenant

The Tenant

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

Directed by Roman Polanski

Produced by Marianne Productions

1976126 min7.6 / 10

A claustrophobic descent into psychological disintegration set in a Parisian apartment, where paranoia and identity dissolution consume a man until reality itself becomes unreliable.

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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  • Is The Tenant scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 99% of films.

  • Does The Tenant end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 98% of films.

  • Is The Tenant easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Is The Tenant sad? Yes, very. More sad than 91% of films.

  • Is The Tenant violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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Cinnamon Score

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Rarity76

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Surprise95

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love90

How much audiences actually like it

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