

The Tenant
Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $5.1M
- Language
- English
- suicide
- paris, france
- identity
- psychopath
- paranoia
- hallucination
- identity crisis
- lodger
- neighbor
- tenant
- descent into madness
- cross dressing
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR11 Jun 1976
United KingdomGB
- Physical18DVD8 Mar 2004
CanadaCA
- Theatrical11 Jun 1976
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)18Gent6 Oct 1977
BrazilBR
- Theatrical18IMDB20 Aug 1976
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical2 May 1977
FinlandFI
- Theatrical8 Oct 1976
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival24 May 1976
- Theatrical26 May 1976
GermanyDE
- TheatricalWest Germany8 Oct 1976
- Physical16DVD-Veröffentlichung1 Mar 2019
GreeceGR
- PhysicalDVD11 Dec 2003
- TheatricalRe-Release14 Aug 2025
IcelandIS
- Theatrical18 Aug 1977
IrelandIE
- Theatrical25 Mar 1977
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The Tenant was released on 26 May 1976.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/26/2024
This is probably my favourite Roman Polanski film, as he takes centre stage playing the timid "Trelkovsky". He is looking for an apartment to rent in Paris and despite the rather frosty reception from concierge (Shelley Winters), the inquisition from his landlord "Zy" (Melvyn Douglas) and the fact that it's got no bathroom he decides to live there. He knows from the start that the previous occupant tried to kill hers…
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