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The Tenant
1976
· Movie
· 126 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1277
- IMDb #1141
- Google retired #3637
- Rotten Tomatoes #1005
- Metacritic #1139
- Letterboxd #929
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1598
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #933
- Metacritic Critics #1422
- Metacritic Audience #813
- Criticker #304
- Kinopoisk #748
- AlloCiné #732
- Trakt #1930
Every rating
62–87
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Google on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 87.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A meek man rents an apartment in a strange Parisian building where the previous tenant attempted suicide. He becomes increasingly obsessed with her life and begins to believe his neighbors are conspiring to force him to follow the same tragic path. His sanity unravels as he experiences bizarre occurrences and struggles to determine what is real and what is paranoia.
Details
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Writers
- Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski
- Based on
- The Tenant by Roland Topor
- Studio
- Marianne Productions
- Released
- 26 May 1976
- Country
- France
- Language
- French, English
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $5.1M
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Cast
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Awards
2 nominations total
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